Sunday, January 7, 2024

Before Christmas I was looking through the recipe drawer for my Tourtiere recipe – what a mess that drawer was. So I pulled out all the printed sheets and decided it was time to organize them into a binder. Many of the sheets were from Mum’s recipe book and several were print-outs from the internet or recipes I’ve had sent electronically from someone. I’ve been spending a bit of time every week getting the mess sorted out. While I’m at it I should be picking out a recipe or two to try because there are a lot of untested ones in the bunch.

I hadn’t updated my quilting binder for a long time. I printed some of the pages but they hadn’t been inserted into the book. I got my printing done at Staples so I always let the number of pages accumulate before I printed them. Thanks to Elizabeth I have my own colour printer now so it should be easier to keep up with them – particularly at the speed of which I manage a finish. I even found a few things that I hadn’t realized I didn’t have in the binder. I’m all caught up now, except for the projects that are still UFOs.

I’m continuing with my quilting today. I think I’ll be able to get the blocks quilted before supper but I’ll likely only make a start on the sashing and binding. Last night I added two more rounds on my tablecloth but I think I’ll still do another one. I might have been able to quit where I was but I found squares that I had made and tucked away in the bottom of the basket that I use beside my chair. I hate to waste them.

So not really resolutions, and nothing really done!

Saturday, January 6, 2024

I decided I would devote most of the weekend to quilting. I started quilting this Community Quilt before we went to Texada. I left everything set up on my machine so I wouldn’t move on to anything else before it was done. I didn’t put the top together but I brought it home to quilt because I could see an easy quilting pattern to use on it. I’m about half-way done, although there are still some ends to bury and threads to trim off. I pulled out some binding from my stash but I’ll check in the Community Quilt bins first to see if they have something I could use and that might match one of the fabrics in the blocks.

I was hoping I might be done with my tablecloth but when I did the measurement last night I still have a couple more rows of squares to add. I’m still not sure how I’ll add in the squares that I have left from the original tablecloth that Mum started but I won’t worry about that until I have the base done.

I can’t stop thinking about the Stash Buster Challenge I’m doing this year. The photos show the blocks done in a variety of colours; I wanted to use my green scraps but thought it might look odd in one colour. This morning someone posted a few blocks done in green in the Facebook group and I really liked it. So that’s how I’ll be doing mine. I haven’t done any work on it yet other than pull a few green and neutral fabrics. I think this is what I’ll work on during our at-home retreat weekend at the end of the month.

Canucks are playing tonight and it is an early game. I’ll be able to stop quilting before I tire of the whole thing and I just might get another row done for the tablecloth.