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.