Sunday, January 6, 2019

I knew for certain yesterday afternoon that I didn’t have the energy to take another stitch on my quilting project. I watched a couple of movies during the evening and was up later than usual – a new, but relaxing, bit of crocheting always makes me want to keep on going.

I’ve been setting my alarm for six every day since the New Year – hoping to get a few more hours (heck, I’d settle for minutes) of quilting time. The heavy rain woke me at around four and, as I lay there, I decided if I was still awake at five I’d get up. When I first heard my radio I was amazed that it was 7:30 already; I was already late getting started.

I did the last bit of straight line quilting before getting set up for some free-motion work. I hadn’t gone very far before it was time to head down to the Hall for a showing, and then waiting for the afternoon renter. While I waited, one of the participants in the event, wandered in early and we started chatting. While most folks think the historic photos we have mounted in the Hall are an asset, this particular woman felt it was too bad that they “change the energy” in the room! On my way home I stopped to drop off a cheque at the home of one of our Board members. When I walked in it was like a mini Board meeting as both Pat and her husband are on the Board, our President was there working with Mike, and another Board member was on the phone with Mike wanting to talk to me.

Needless to say after the Hall visit and the mini-meeting I came home with another list of things to do. Since I was going to have to interrupt myself in a couple of hours to close the Hall I decided to get as much Hall work done as possible. I did quite well; I have to spend a bit more time on the minutes and get a deposit ready but that should be “it” until I pick up mail on Tuesday.

Now that the afternoon is almost over I’m running out of energy to get back to my quilting. But I’m going to force myself to keep at it at least until it is time to change thread colour.

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).