Tuesday, September 1, 2016

How can it be September already? Although, if I look out my window, I might guess it was January; it has been cloudy and showery all week but today we actually have rain. It won’t be a very nice weekend for the music festival and I’m a fair weather fan so if it isn’t nice out I won’t go.

I’ve been working almost all day getting ready for the Guild meeting tonight. I didn’t do any work on the Library documentation all summer so there were new books to add to various lists, new lists to print, and inventory books to update. My library committee partner will be away for a good portion of the fall so I had to decide what books I’d set out on my display table tonight, as well as write my report on the blog and Facebook page. We have a quilt show meeting before the main meeting tonight and I still have the boutique forms to print off. I’m not heading the committee but the person in charge asked me to print them off so she could review and edit them. That sounds like there will be more computer work for me to do in the future!

I would have liked to get at some Cranberry Hall paper today but I’ve decided I’d rather do my vacuuming – so you know how much I enjoy the Cran Hall work! When that is done I’ll spend some time doing the hand stitching on the latest cards.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

I really wanted to get my stack of cards finished today but I didn’t manage it. I have a stack of hand stitching to do, two tops done and another top that I didn’t even get started. I’m not sure why I didn’t get them all done, but I do know there was a flurry of Cranberry Hall e-mails this morning that distracted me. By the afternoon I was making some really dumb mistakes and, had I called it quits earlier, I might have managed to get closer to meeting my other goal.

My cross stitching goal for August was to have all but the backstitching done on this. I almost made it and I’ll add it to my September goal which was to get this panel finished (I still need to do the charms). On the positive side though I was very pleased that the lines across the bottom and down the right side lined up!

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

I thought about my placemat last night and before I left for the bee today I pulled another fabric to use for the borders. Had I left it as it was last week the placemat would have been square (a small square) rather than a rectangle and I wasn’t happy with that. So I began my day with some reverse stitching. The placemat is ready to be quilted now – a finish-it–up- Friday project perhaps.

I cut out the sashing I need for my Blossoms quilt. I could have done it almost as easy at home but my cutting table is covered in “stuff” so having a clear table to work with was a bonus. I think I’ll have enough of my sashing fabric to use as backing – I ordered the fabric so long ago I don’t know whether I planned it that way or not.

I got one more of my Celtic Crystal blocks done. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I can only get one block done a week. I’m okay with that as I only have two more to do so the end is in sight. Well the end is in sight for the blocks but I still have a centre and pieced borders to do.

It is hard to believe the first business meeting of the new season is on Thursday. I have a bit of Library work to do before then, as well as some quilt show paperwork to get in order. But all that will wait until my “office” day on Thursday.

My new knitting pattern worked out well last night and I got enough done to know (well at least think) the size will be right. I was able to see how the pattern works into it and I’m happy. But tonight I’ll be back to basting some pieces for I’m A Farmer’s Daughter.

Monday, August 29, 2016

I had some cards to get ready for the mail first thing this morning. When I looked at the calendar I’m not sure why I didn’t send them sooner because they may arrive late. In fact very late if the rumours of a postal strike are true. I didn’t go to the main post office today as I had a package to pick up at the postal outlet; one of their mail slots was covered over with a sign “Closed due to postal strike”. The regular red mail boxes didn’t have any signage so maybe they were just getting ready. The package I picked up was the yarn for Christy’s sweater – the same pattern as the one I made for Taylor.

Since I started on cards I continued with the theme. I picked out the binding for two cards, got backing, batting and binding ready for four more cards, and I found patterns and fabric for four new cards. Once I put these together I’ll be done with September’s cards.

I have my Blossoms sashing packed for the bee tomorrow as well as my Leaders and Enders and my Celtic Crystals. I was prepared to fix the placemat I did last week but didn’t have any more of either the focus fabric or the contrasting fabric. Rather than start from scratch I’ll just make this one a bit smaller. I have my camera charging and my camera case in my lunch bag so I won’t forget it tomorrow.

I still have lots of Farmer’s Wife blocks prepped so I skipped them today and did a bit more cutting from my scrap bin. I’ve pulled out everything that I think I want to cut down for myself and filled another bag of bits for Carola. I’ve given up on the knitting project I have been working on (it just didn’t look good) so I found another pattern to make with the same yarn. This one is intended for Gavin and I’m hoping the pattern I picked will be the same size as the one I gave up on. I’ll compare the two measurements before I start.

I finished the basting on one of the pieces (well 96 of the pieces actually) for my I’m a Farmer’s Daughter quilt so I cut 63 cardboard templates and fabric for the next batch to baste. They go quite quickly in the evenings when we’re watching TV.

I’ve managed to get a bit of cross stitch in this afternoon as well as some cleaning. I love a day when all goes according to the plan!