Friday, April 5, 2019

Thursday seems to be the day I most often miss posting. I always think I’ll have more time between events than I do and then I get rushed and posting gets pushed off the list.

I spent more time than I intended yesterday morning prepping some Splendid Sampler blocks to take to the Spring Retreat. I wrote my reports for the Guild meeting and then headed out to the yard to do a bit of work. I knew rain was coming and there were a few things I wanted done before it started.

I had a good sewing session in the afternoon but before heading off to that I had a few stops to make. I got our tax papers sent to the accountant and stopped at the library to return a book and pick another one up. Much to my surprise there were two books waiting for me.

I was busy packing up for the Guild meeting after supper and took one last look to see that I had everything. I realized I hadn’t bagged my gift for my Secret Pal so everything came out of the bag. I got my gift ready and headed downstairs, only to leave my reports laying on the ironing board. It wasn’t until I went to hand in my quilt show report that I realized what I had done.

There was very little follow-up to do from the meeting last night so I took care of that first thing. Then I spent some more time this morning prepping another project for the retreat. I’m way behind on my Blocks of the Month for the Guild; I’m equally as far behind on the second set of those blocks that I’m making for myself. Hopefully I can catch up at the retreat.

With the library books collecting on my bedside table (there are three of them) I decided I should spend the afternoon reading the book I started at the end of my weekend on Texada. Still a long way to go but I’m enjoying it; it has been raining all day and if it continues over the weekend I may get through it.

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

I’ve been busy all day but almost nothing is completely done. I managed to finish a small card/gift but it didn’t turn out very well. I will consider re-making it at some point, but not today.

I trimmed the blocks that I made yesterday for my community quilt. In order to hang them on my design wall I had to take down my Thursday project. But that’s okay because I had to get things ready for tomorrow anyway.

One of my UFO challenges from last month was laying on the floor in the “other” room so I got that put away in a bin. I’ll take it with me to the Retreat in a couple of weeks. I thought I might get a few more of the clues printed and some fabric cut but that didn’t happen.

I brought back some cross-stitch blocks from Texada; my goal is to have fabric blocks and these cross-stitch blocks incorporated into a quilt. I had more cross stitching done than I remembered, but only one fabric block has been made. I spent some time drafting a couple of other blocks; I’m having trouble finding block patterns that match the cross-stitch patterns so I have to design my own. They won’t be a perfect match but they will be close enough.

I was tempted to sit and knit this afternoon; it’s a rainy day and I felt like relaxing. Instead, I dived in and got our income tax papers ready for the accountant. It took all afternoon but with it done I can cross another task off my list.

I’m going to spend the evening knitting and watching some Father Brown on Netflix.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

I started on the first of my April UFO Challenges at the bee today. It is a community quilt that I started last year. The Guild workshop was meant to teach us the accordion-style for making HSTs (Half-Square Triangles); I missed the workshop and never did figure out the way to do it. I do, however, know how to make HSTs in other ways and I managed to get quite a few of them done at a Community Quilt workshop later that year.

The pattern I was using was from a book that put smaller 2″ HSTs together with larger HSTs to form a pattern. I didn’t particularly like the way my scrappy version was turning out; maybe that is why it was set aside.

Not long ago I saw another setting on one of the blogs I follow. I liked her arrangement and when I saw that this project was my UFO for the month I decided to try it her way.

But I already had the larger HSTs sewn and I wanted to incorporate them into the quilt so I used a combination of the two patterns. I’m quite happy with it and I will enjoy spending a month of Tuesdays with the project.

Sometimes procrastination is a good thing.

Monday, April 1, 2019

I didn’t get caught with any spoofs today, and I didn’t play any on anyone. And I wasn’t on Facebook much so I didn’t even see any of the spoof attempts that might have been made.

We had a great weekend at the studio – the weather was fabulous and I was able to get out for a walk on Friday; Pat and I did a new hike on Saturday and it is one we’ll go back to. I didn’t get a lot of cross stitching done because I took a really good book and a really relaxing knitting project with me. I managed a few stitches though.

I’ve been at my computer since I got home and I still have a lot of work to do. Most of it now involves getting projects sorted out for my Tuesday and Thursday sewing sessions.

My Tuesday project last month was one of my UFO Challenges – Splendid Sampler 2 blocks. I’ll be using these for cards in the future so they may show up in your mailbox sometime.

My Thursday project was also one of my UFO Challenges. This is a mystery quilt so I’m not certain how it all goes together. So far I’m liking it.

I’ve got two new UFOs picked for April; I’ll have to dig the first one out tonight so it’ll be ready to go tomorrow.