Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Today was moving day for the Guild. Most of the boxes were packed before our last meeting at the Soccer Club so we were hoping for a quick turnaround today. Lots of people showed up to help – more than I thought there would be. I arrived fully prepared with six crates and our big grocery bags. We had everything packed into the various cars and vans in under an hour and made the three-block trek to the Senior Center.

Unpacking didn’t go as smoothly. The spot that had been designated for one of our cabinets was in front of a heating vent. Until today, the heating vent apparently hadn’t worked for years. But there was clearly heat coming out of it today so we couldn’t block it off. We also had two cabinets rather than the one that the folks at the Senior Center were expecting. With two cabinets and our bookcase we were going to need more room than had been planned for.

During the move one of the cabinets ended up with a break in the side of it so we couldn’t unpack anything into it until it was repaired. I’m not sure what happened to the bookcase, but it was upside down on the floor with only three of the eight castors intact. The men who were helping with all of this went to get tools for the repairs – and I think they abandoned us!

In addition to our regular duties, the Membership Committee is now responsible for collecting the dollar that each member has to pay when they use the Center. And since the other person on the Membership Committee is refusing to join the Senior Center I think I have, by default, become the Membership Committee.

I called for Pat to pick me up as soon as folks started to leave. There were still plenty of boxes of books on the floor but you could see that some of the members were getting a bit testy. I think the meeting on Thursday will be interesting.

The new space is going to be lovely to sew in. It is a very large room (I’ve heard large enough for 16 sewing tables), very well lit, and it has lots of natural light. I never imagined that the Tuesday morning ladies would be sewing, but as all the controversy was happening at one end of the Center the ladies were setting up tables for cutting and sewing at the other end.

I spent the afternoon in my studio cutting out the fabric for my Mystery Quilt. I was smiling this morning as one of the blogs I follow made a comment that she didn’t like Mystery Quilts. She hates the lack of control over what fabrics to use when she doesn’t know what the pattern will be. I feel like that every time I purchase fabric so being out of control feels entirely normal to me!

I did some knitting tonight while we watched the Canada-Russia hockey game. For the first two periods I was only watching because it gave me an excuse to sit and knit. By the end of the third period I was putting my knitting down so I could watch all the action. Too bad Canada lost. It was fun to see Andrev Makarov, the Russian goalie who came into the game for the last few minutes. He plays for the Blades and Dave told us the story about how he ended up in Saskatoon.