Tuesday, March 12, 2019

This was a more productive day than yesterday – but then how could it not be?

Pat and I got the living room set up for the concert tonight and then I headed off to the bee. I took four of my Splendid Sampler 2 blocks to work on and came home with one finish; I ran out of time or had problems with the other three. One of them I sewed the pieces together wrong and didn’t have any fabric with me to make the correction; one was using fusible appliqué and I left my appliqué sheet at home; on the third one I ran out of time but I managed to get several pieces cut. Two of those three blocks were using templates – I hate templates!

I brought home the last of the donated door prizes today. I’ll start putting baskets together tomorrow when our guests leave for Texada. I think I may have to purchase some bags or nice boxes to put some of the door prizes in. I had a lot of large wicker baskets donated when I planned to do only one door prize each day but because people have been so generous I think I’ll have to do more than that.

Our house guests are out exploring the town and enjoying the sunshine. One of them is celiac so we thought it might be easier (and safer) to take them out for dinner.

Monday, March 11, 2019

Pat came home last evening and we had a lazy start to the day. It was rainy and dull and neither one of us had anywhere we needed to be. I wasted away the morning by going through some quilting magazines to see if there were any I was ready to pass along to the sale table at the quilt show. I transferred some files from my old iPad to my computer, and played a few rounds of Candy Crush. Before I knew it the morning was gone.

Pat won some prawns at the meat draw yesterday so he cooked them up for lunch. We decided to go to the basement and watch a show while we ate. We started a new series and, to be honest, we didn’t emerge again until supper time. On the plus side I got a lot of knitting done.

Pat is off at a meeting tonight. I’ll get my bags packed for the bee tomorrow and then I’ll do some reading. I really must be more productive tomorrow!

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Due to the time change yesterday the day has passed quickly but I’ve been moving slowly through it.

I spent some time this morning cleaning in preparation for the House Concert on Tuesday. Pat and I chatted about the work I still need to do for the quilt show and decided it was probably better if I didn’t go across to Texada for the House Concert over there. That will allow me to get the door prize baskets ready Wednesday afternoon and I’ll have another task I can cross off the list.

I watched the noon ferry from Texada coming across and thought Pat might be on it but he’s decided to stay another day so he could go to the Trivia Meat Draw this afternoon. We’ll go grocery shopping in the morning; one of the performers is celiac so we’ll have to spend some time figuring out what we’ll do for meals.

I spent the afternoon cutting fabric in preparation for Tuesday’s sewing. The Splendid Sampler 2 is one of my UFO Challenges for this month and I haven’t worked on it yet. I have four blocks cut out and, hopefully, I can get at least a few of them done.

March 9, 2019

I think I need to get back to some sewing. This morning while I wasted time looking at Facebook I found a pattern I really liked. I found the book on Amazon and ordered it.

Again, while on Facebook I saw a book that I had on my To Read list. I checked the library and they had it on the shelf. This afternoon I walked up to the library and picked it up, as well as another Shetland mystery by Ann Cleaves.

And while I was on my iPad I saw a new fabric line called Limoncello. We discovered limoncello when we went to Italy and it is a staple in our booze cupboard. So I ordered a jelly roll of the line, along with a new marking product I learned about at the Guild meeting the other night.

If I had a project that had a deadline I wouldn’t be wasting my time like this.

To make up for a little of that lost time I’m going to start sorting my door prizes into piles and see how many baskets I can put together. Trying to make them of a similar value is going to be tricky.