Sunday, August 28, 2016

It was cloudy and windy yesterday but we woke up this morning to more wind and … rain! Pat checked the forecast and it is to be rainy all week. Although I don’t like the hot weather I’m not ready for fall yet. Hopefully this is just a glitch and we’ll get the sun back for September.

I watched another water polo match this morning and this time Canada came out on top. They don’t play tomorrow and their next game translates to a time that is very early in the morning or very late at night. Either way, I expect to be sound asleep and miss it. I’m learning a bit more about the game. There are whistles and horns going almost constantly; I think it is because the players are being mean to one another (penalties don’t seem to be called) or that the time for taking a shot has run out.

I finished appliquéing my blossoms to their background squares. I’ll cut the sashing on Tuesday (or maybe tomorrow) but I’m done with sewing for today. I finished filling an old pillow case of scraps and got it stitched together as a dog pillow. The Guild donates them to the SPCA and it is nice that every little bit of fabric has a purpose.

I picked out a fall cross stitch last night so I’ll be joining the SAL. The pattern is one of Mum’s Hummel’s; I had already planned to make it for Emma (a long time ago) but it fits the criteria so it will be a good incentive to get it done. I’m missing a few colours of floss so unless I can find it locally I may be asking for Kathryn’s help.

For now I’m back to my Advent Calendar.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

I came upstairs to my studio just in time for the live feed (from Montenegro) of Brody’s water polo match. Sadly Canada didn’t come out winners but there is another game tomorrow and, if I did the time change right, I’ll be able to watch it as well. The stands from the camera angle looked absolutely empty but I could hear some cheering and I know Kevin and Tracie (and maybe Josh) were in attendance. In fact at one point I’m sure I heard “Go Saskatchewan”!

Because I had such a productive day yesterday I decided to slack off a bit today. Last week I did four Farmer’s Wife blocks so I thought if I did three today I’d be done early. Maybe it was because I was spending too much time watching the game but the first block took the entire morning. The blocks in the afternoon went a bit faster; number two was done just past two and that seemed too early to quit so I moved on to the third one which I’ve just now finished.

I want to continue with these blocks but I’m in no hurry. At one point I hoped to show the quilt in our spring quilt show but now that I’m working on I’m a Farmer’s Daughter I think it would be fun to display them in the same show. I won’t take the Farmer’s Wife out of rotation, but if I have to use my Saturdays to finish other projects it won’t matter.

One of the cross stitch groups I follow on Facebook just announced a new SAL (Stitch-Along); the theme is to be Hallowe’en or Fall. I’m sure in the many, many books and leaflets I have I can come up with something that fits the criteria. I just need to remember to keep it small!

Friday, August 26, 2016

Although I didn’t finish a thing today I’m very happy with my day. I started by emptying my bin onto my table to see what I had to work with; I’m ending the day with five projects ready for quilting, and two more that just need a bit of finishing before they are ready.

This quilt top was finished so I just had to pull out the backing for it. It will be a donation to the Oncology Ward at the hospital when it is done.

I attached the final borders to this Community Quilt; this was my Leader and Ender project from last year. I had another quilt top that needed to have the corners mitred so this was my practice run. The quilters all say to use our donation quilts for practice so that’s what I did.

Next I was off to run some errands and make a stop at the fabric shop to find backings for the projects I made in France. I purchased a couple of fabrics but ended up using one of the new fabrics and one I had in my stash. Pat really likes these so I think they will be staying here.

This Fat Cats and Dogs quilt only needed the borders mitred. Why it took me so long to get at it I’ll never know. I found the mitred corners quite easy; they aren’t perfect but I’m happy with them. This one is rather large and had to be folded in order to get it to lay flat on my floor.

I had quite a bit of work to do on this one but I was happy to get it finished. I was going to add another border but decided with the flange it really didn’t need anything more.

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Today was my “office day” and it has taken me nearly all day to accomplish it. My own paper work took very little time and I just might have made some time to order a new cross stitch pattern for myself! I was happy with the pattern I picked for my Canada 150 project but then someone in one of the Facebook groups I belong to posted this. Since I have a whole year (or a lifetime) to stitch my Canada 150 projects I decided to order it.

The Cranberry Hall accounting took up the remainder of the morning; I have a package of information to take to the accountant tomorrow. I don’t think it is in the shape that he would like it (and I’ll do better at my year end) but I didn’t feel like starting over and organizing the paperwork from a year ago.

Most of the afternoon has been spent working on Pat’s accounts. His year end is at the end of the month so I’m trying to catch up on as much as possible before then.

There isn’t much time left in the afternoon but I’ll use it by shredding a bit of paper, sorting out my Finish-It-Up-Friday bin and then doing some cross stitching.