When Elizabeth saw the baking-related fabric in one of my daily blocks she asked if I had any left. I did and asked her what she would like me to make her. She picked microwave bowls.
For years, every time I dug through a particular drawer for something I came across this bargello work that Mum did. The last time I was digging (for elastic for masks) I pulled it out and decided this was the year it needed to be done.
I save trimmings from a lot of different projects and used them for stuffing the pillow case inside; usually my trimmings go to the SPCA for dog pillows so I didn’t see why it wouldn’t work for a pillow for me. I even used some of Mum’s quilt top pieces as the backing for the pillow.
This looks very nice on my futon upstairs, along with the yarn doll Mum made.
I’m back on track today. Yesterday I was so frustrated with my computer and camera and just about everything. I decided I was depressed and, rather than watching meaningless TV in the evening, I sat out on the deck. Then I stirred myself enough to come back upstairs and “deal”.
I think my problem was a lack of routine. Before I go to sleep at night I always plan on what I’ll do the next day – a coping mechanism from years ago when I was on my own. For the past two weeks (at least) my regular routine has been off as I’ve work tirelessly on the Guild’s mystery quilt. Starting tomorrow I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled programming.
Although I didn’t plan it particularly today was the day I usually do a bit of tidying around the sewing room. I have been contemplating a reorganization and today I did it – not the reorganization I had planned but one that I think works even better and involved less work. No less dust though as I was working in a few oft-neglected corners.
I’ve now decided on an accounting program I will use, my “old” hard drive is coming back to me so I can get the final reports from my old accounting package, and today I got my photos to load directly from my iPad to my computer. Not as easy a set-up as I previously had but at least it works in far fewer steps than I had been using. To be honest I’m not sure how I got it to work so I may have the same issue tomorrow.
I went to add a Hall meeting (via Zoom) into our Calendar and the whole calendar was blank. In an attempt to get it working again I managed to get the Cranberry Hall calendar to come up – something I hadn’t even thought about trying. I managed to get our home calendar loaded so I think I’d best quit for the day while I’m still in a good mood.
Maya is a young speech therapist working in the psychiatric hospital where she spent some time as a patient in her teenaged years. When Lucas arrives as a patient he makes a connection to Maya and is enlisted to get him to tell her, and the police, his story. Lucas and his father disappeared into the woods ten years prior after the father is implicated in a suspected murder.
As the story was unfolding I would often think “this is unbelievable” but then the author would bring the story back into reality and carry on.
I’m happy to have my daily blocks caught up. I missed starting my day with something positive but I’ll be back on track tomorrow. I have enough 12″ blocks to make a quilt top; I’ll probably wait until I have a few more and then see which ones go together best.
Bobbin Along
And I’m happy to have the Guild mystery quilt top finished. It is the largest quilt I’ve ever made. Doing this project convinced me that I am not ready to work on one project at a time – I need variety. Each clue took several days out of the week to complete and it took four long days to put the blocks together. Of course there were a few errors on my part but as each clue was finished I was tired of the project.
I’m still struggling with my new computer. I think I may have to say goodbye to the way I was doing a lot of things and find other ways or programs to do them. My camera continues to be a problem but we have been able to get photos downloaded to my machine by going through Pat’s. Not the best solution but a few less steps than downloading photos to my iPad and then back to my machine.
I seems everything I own is obsolete (including me?) with the exception of this new computer.
