Sunday, March 20, 2022

I was so good about staying on track with my task list until after lunch. I got all my computer work done relatively quickly; I even had time to clean out a file and do some shredding. I reconciled my bank accounts and, as I was getting rid of a bunch of receipts, I remembered a sewing project done with cash register receipts. So I saved them from the recycle and set them aside.

I finished the birthday project I was working on. It turned out well enough but I won’t hurry to make another one. It was an easy pattern to follow and except for one place where I had to do some reverse sewing it went together well. And, in truth, the portion I ripped out was actually right in the first place.

I got the top of my cutting table cleared off right after lunch while I waited for Pat’s Sunday Song Circle to start. My next task was supposed to be packing things up for Texada but did I do that? No, I tried out the idea of sewing with those receipts. It is messy but easy to do; another scrap project for the list. I’ll need to do a lot of shopping before I have a quilt done though.

Now, I’ll clean up the mess I’ve made (again) and get started on that packing.

Saturday, March 19, 2022

My paper-pieced card is finished; I’ll take it to Texada to hand stitch the binding. It wasn’t easy but the freezer paper method is so slick. There were six sections to the card and I ended up doing three of them twice – a misplaced colour in two of them and one piece that didn’t give me enough coverage. I was prepared this morning to start taking out my stitching when I realized, with the freezer paper, all I had to do was separate the pattern from my fabric and I was good to start over.

I cleared out one of the lower cupboards in the kitchen and moved the juicer and the mixer into it. That clears up a lot of counter space; I may never bend down to pull the mixer out again but that might be a good thing as we don’t need the baking products. I freed up some good plastic containers; once they were washed we stored a few items from another cupboard in them. I think we needed to contain those things because when Pat took a package out of the cupboard to see if it would fit in the container we had a bit of an avalanche.

I procrastinated as long as I could but I made a start on one of my birthday projects. It involves a zipper and zippers and I don’t get along. I had to check my machine manual to be sure I had the correct foot for sewing in zippers. So far it is going well and I’m on the last page of instructions. Dare I hope I’m over the worst part of it?