Saturday, February 10, 2018

My head knows that it is Saturday but I’ve had to keep reminding myself all day that it isn’t Sunday. Perhaps it is because our concert was on Friday and not the usual Saturday evening that things are all off. Most of the things I’ve been doing today have been done in advance and scheduled for sometime further along in the year; my first task was to wap up a couple of knitted projects to take to the mail on Tuesday.

Adding to the overall feeling of not knowing what day it is, I finished up my last Valentine this morning, wrote up a page for my project book, wrote a web post and scheduled it for Valentines Day. I did the same for a couple of other projects with scheduled dates of April and June.

Since we are going to start on a new project next time I decided to finish off my Thursday project. It isn’t really finished, but the main part is done; I’ll add some borders to it. I thought about making another couple of blocks so it would be a decent-sized table runner but since I think it will be donated to the Member Appreciation event I don’t want to take any more time on it. I’ll add a couple of borders so it is big enough to use as “something” and then call it quits.

For the rest of the afternoon (and with what time I have before supper) I’ve been cutting out more blocks for my Strip Quilt. The pattern in the book calls for 20 blocks so I’ll start with that many. The blocks themselves (the two I’ve made) went quite quickly so I may decide to make it a bit larger. It is amazing how different people see different colours – my burgundy strips are anywhere from burgundy through dark blue and the turquoise strips are anywhere from turquoise to green. I have more burgundy strips than turquoise so some of the blocks may have repeated colours. I’m sure it won’t matter in the end. And I think I probably have enough strips for a second quilt of some sort!

Friday, February 9, 2018

I finished up my cleaning this morning before heading out to the stores. I didn’t worry too much about the house because we don’t have a crowd coming in but I made sure I did all my usual cleaning and a little bit extra. We have a House Concert next weekend but we’ll be at Film Festival most of the week so I needed to get a bit of a head start on things. Not that I expect anything will stay clean!

We needed a few groceries and I needed treats for the show tonight; to get everything I wanted I had to shop at both Quality Foods (for their Marble Rye bread) and Safeway (for their English Muffins). Mini doughnuts, mini tarts and Valentine cookies will be on the board tonight. I’ll go to the Hall early to help the “new guys” set up; next time they will be on their own. If there is anything left at the end of the night Pat can take it to the afternoon workshop tomorrow.

It wasn’t until I checked my mail after lunch that I realized today they released Week 2 of my latest quilt-along. I hadn’t done Week 1 yet so I worked on them this afternoon. Both are finished now. The pieces I was using were all 1.5″ or 2″ and it was very handy to have my scrap cabinet right beside my cutting table. It is amazing how many things you can make from scraps and not even see much of a dent in the drawers.

We’ve got some sunny weather today and it is supposed to last. I’m hoping to get at least one quilt sandwiched this weekend. For now though I’m going to do a bit of work on my Thursday project – or maybe my Strip Quilt. Always lots to choose from.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

We have a concert at the Hall this weekend and I said to Pat earlier in the week that if I had to do the Concession I didn’t want to host the performer. Pat’s response was that he was really looking forward to spending time with our guest. So I went into the Board meeting really wanting to find someone else to work the Concession.

Two other Board members volunteered to take on the task on a few conditions. Neither one of the wanted to do the shopping; one flatly refused to shop and the other said he wouldn’t know what to buy. So it ended up that they will man the sales table and I will buy everything we need, do up a price list and provide the float.

I guess it is better than doing it all on my own. I know I’ll have to stay late to do a really good cleaning after the show as we have a QiGong class in the Hall first thing in the morning. Our performer is doing a workshop in the afternoon on Saturday but I won’t be involved in that – except I’ll probably pass along any treats that are left from the concert.

I spent the morning getting a room ready for our guest but there was no way I was going to miss my Thursday sewing session. Gail and I are working on a project but since it is almost done we’ve started looking forward to the next thing. We haven’t decided for sure, but it will either be something with a Twister ruler or something we cut using her Go cutter.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

I spent the morning getting my reports ready for the Cranberry Hall Board meeting tonight. Even though I kept pretty much up to date on the accounting during January there was still a lot of reconciling to do before I wrote my reports. It seems it was a busy month for “things” at the Hall – problems and other issues – and I wanted to be prepared for what I wanted to say on the matters. If I didn’t write it down I’d remember I had something to say but forget exactly what it was.

I made a quick trip to the post office after lunch and picked up a few things at the grocery store. When I got home I finished up a small quilting project (except for the hand stitching).

With what time I have left in the afternoon I’m going to start on a couple of test blocks for the quilt I’m planning to make with all the strips I won at the Texada Retreat last fall. It’s my #9 project (in the monthly Challenge) and I’m anxious to see how it turns out. I found enough neutral colour in my stash so I don’t need to shop for anything.

I finished another knitting project last night – a toque – but after it was done I realized I put a pom-pom on it and that won’t go through the mail very well. I’ll take the pom-pom off, go back and do a bit more decreasing before finishing it again.