Thursday, July 28, 2022

I was out and about this morning and didn’t get anything done in my sewing room during the cool of the morning. I guess it doesn’t help that Pat and I sat out on the cool of the deck for half of it.

I came upstairs after lunch to see if I could do a bit of cutting and make a few phone calls. The calls have been made but there will be no cutting done. I’m heading to the basement!

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Kathryn contacted me last night to see if I was okay; I hadn’t sent an entry for a couple of days and she wondered if I had gone over to Texada. All is well and I’ve stayed put in Powell River. Due to the heat, I haven’t spent much time in my sewing room or at my computer. As long as there is a breeze it isn’t too bad upstairs in the morning but I’m spending my afternoons and evenings in the basement.

I’ll catch you up a bit here. Monday I got two large boxes sent off to Kathryn – things she wanted from my house and things she left behind from their trip. I was able to send everything Expedited for the same cost as what I sent back to myself (regular mail) after my quilting trip; that says more about my quilting trip than it does about post office prices. I thought it was worth the few extra dollars so she’d get them before the weekend. That was about all I accomplished for Monday.

I skipped my Tuesday Guild day – I wanted to keep the house open as long as it was cool outside and be able to shut it up as soon as the sun came around to the front. I worked upstairs for most of the morning but it was very hot by the time I finished. A friend dropped off a bag of “scraps” last week; from that bag of scraps I was able to cut out 39 four-inch squares to work with on the next step of my Tuesday project. I had to dip into my neutral bin for the other 39 squares I needed.

I haven’t been doing much knitting or stitching in the afternoons and evenings. I’ve got a few more rows done on my knitting project; I’m almost done one panel of my curtains but there are a lot more to go. I thought last night that working on my Sashiko would probably be okay while I watch TV but I was too hot to bother going upstairs to dig it out. Fortunately I have several series of the Doc Martin show to watch so I’m not bored even if I don’t do anything else.

I’m getting this post out early today. I have a bit more desk work to do but then I’ll be heading down to the cool of the basement for the rest of the day. This heat wave (as opposed to last year’s heat dome) will last until the weekend so I’m not expecting to get much accomplished this week.

Sunday, July 24, 2022

I’ve sometimes been able to finish a card in a day but I’m sure I’ve never finished a calendar block in one session.

I left the project yesterday knowing I had done something terribly wrong and gave up on it. But overnight (I sometimes do my best thinking while asleep – what does that say about me?) I thought I figured out the right way to approach the project. It took a lot of work and some seams were done four times but I finally got to where I was at the end of the day yesterday and things were looking okay. Not great, but okay.

I managed to get the quilting finished this afternoon and I’m ready to sit and stitch the binding tonight. My knitting hasn’t been going well – the pattern is a bit too complicated to do while I watch TV. Hopefully this bit of hand stitching can be done while I catch up on a new season of “The Other One”. It is quite a silly series but it’s mindless so it works for me.

Saturday, July 23, 2022

I got an early start to the day’s work and had my first load of laundry on the line before eight. Mind you while the load was washing I was sitting out on the deck with my crossword puzzle book and coffee.

I wanted to set the kitchen and living room to rights today and I’ve almost accomplished that. I packed two boxes that will be mailed to Kathryn on Monday and then I did some vacuuming. I probably should have scrubbed the floor but now that the sand has been collected I can live with a few spots.

I’m pleased that I have the final member for the Guild’s Program Committee. I sent a reminder out yesterday regarding the survey and I’m getting a few more responses. I want to send out one more before we make decisions on what we’ll do for classes and demos during the year. I must get on that tomorrow.

And there is always more Hall work to do. We have a couple of shows booked in August so I had to update our website. The newsletter is due out at the beginning of August so I’ve made a start on that.

When the work was done I came up to my sewing room for some fun. I had a specific pattern in mind for Kathryn’s next calendar block; the one that came in the series I have been following didn’t feel right. I found a different one but I’m struggling with it. The pattern seems a little unclear and the template doesn’t match the size of the strips you are to cut so I went online and found a tutorial for something else that I’m hoping will work for this pattern. Time will tell but if it isn’t the right size I can add borders or cut it down as necessary. I’ve made a start but I hope to get this out in Monday’s mail as well so I’d best keep at it.

I think I’ll spend the evening knitting and watching TV. The house seems cooler today so I think I’ll be able to keep the back door locked, the patio doors open and still have a reasonably cool house when I go to bed. I have a fan if my plan fails.