Saturday, January 5, 2019

I’ve been quilting most of the day and, although I’m making progress, there is still a lot left to do. Before getting too far into it this morning though I had to go up to the fabric shop to get some matching thread. I like my thread to be as close to the fabric colour as possible so the quilting doesn’t show much. One of my favourite quilters was also at the shop so we all had a little visit.

I managed to get all of the Christmas decorations out to the shed. I’ve had everything down for a couple of days waiting for that one thing that I missed. So far I haven’t found it but no doubt it will show up tomorrow. We are taking the trunk that my Christmas decorations were in over to Texada to hold the bedding for the fold-out couch so it took some rearranging before I could even start hauling things down. The shed needs a good cleaning but I won’t do that until the extra trunk is out of there.

I think I’ve quilted myself out for the day so I’ll do a bit of paper shuffling before heading to supper and my knitting.

Friday, January 4, 2019

I think all my mind needed was a clean sewing room because as soon as I finished the vacuuming I was ready to sew. I stitched up a few items that Taylor had sent home with me, and I had time this morning before my ten o’clock meeting to get her card finished. After getting the garbage and recycling to the curb I headed to City Hall to get some information I needed for the Hall.

And then, finally, I started quilting Taylor’s birthday gift. What I thought I was going to do turned out to be something quite different from what I’m doing, but at least I’m making progress.

Thursday, January 3, 2017

I had a plan for today but, as often happens, things don’t go as planned. It was to be a sewing afternoon but I thought I would start on some quilting this morning. There were a few things from last night’s meeting that had to be done first thing and by the time that was done I felt I couldn’t carry on with anything else until I cleaned up my sewing room. I had bags that we brought back from Texada, my Guild meeting bag from last month was still sitting waiting for some cleaning out, and don’t even get me started on my Tuesday bin or my Cranberry Hall bag. I scheduled my clean-up to carry on until it was time to leave for sewing.

But mid-morning (it felt much later because I was up at six) Gail called me to say her power was off. I can’t say I was too disappointed even though I already had my bag packed with a couple of projects. When I went downstairs for lunch I started taking down and packing away the Christmas decorations. We are having a stormy day so I haven’t moved them out to the shed; I’ll do that when the weather calms down a bit. I’m going to miss the tree and Mr. Snowman because I’ve had them on every morning and evening since the beginning of December.

As I was finishing up my packing Gail called to say her power was back on but I decided not to go out. I was able to use the time to organize a few projects and bins in my sewing room; I even vacuumed and now I’m ready to get started on some sewing.

I doubt I’ll get very far with that today though as I have two Guild meetings tonight – a quilt show meeting and our regular business meeting. And before I head out to them I need to stop at Staples to pick up a printing order – all of those donation letters will be ready for our President to sign.

But starting tomorrow I’m going to be quilting non-stop (after I check on a Hall issue at City Hall, get some cheques signed and delivered, and sort out an insurance decision).

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

We came back from Texada yesterday so I could get an early start on my reports for my two meetings this week. I’m so glad we did that as I’ve been at it all day and I’m still not finished. On top of those reports, I was frantic to get started on a birthday quilt that I need for this month.

It took all morning, but I managed to get the backing of the quilt pieced, the quilt sandwiched and I’ll be ready to start quilting tomorrow morning (provided all my Guild work gets done). I picked up some extra bobbins so I can wind several at a time and hopefully see my way through most of the quilting without having to stop too many times.

Most of the afternoon has been spent on Guild business. This is a quilt show year for the Guild and it was decided that we’d start advertising right after the new year. That meant I had (and still have) quite a few things to add to the blog, our Facebook page and several other points that we use for advertising. I also wrote 20 letters asking various businesses in town to donate something to our door prize table. It will be good to be able to report on some “finishes” at the meeting tomorrow.

I needed to meet someone this afternoon to pick up a key from the Hall; I waited at the appointed place for ten minutes and then phoned her home where I was told her shift had changed and she wouldn’t be done until 2:30. So I wandered around the grocery story until about 2:35 and then had her paged. She had completely forgotten she was to meet me (although she confirmed the meeting last night) but, fortunately, she had the key so I was able to close off that task. I stopped at the bank to make the first deposit of the year and then hurried home to work on more Guild business.

I have time to make myself some supper before heading out for the Board meeting at the Hall.