Thursday, April 19, 2012

I should have been doing office work this morning but I was anxious to get the label stitched onto my Mystery Quilt so I could say it was finished. That was about all I accomplished before it was time to head off for my Red Cross shift.

Margaret came along with me but it was so busy that we hardly had a chance to visit. I hadn’t intended to go for coffee today but when Margaret suggested it I said yes. She was really having trouble with her legs and I think it might be that she wasn’t out and about much while I was away.

We were chatting about a number of things, one of them being that she had learned to cook when she was in school. She said her mother knit, but she had never learned. She said something about Jan’s mother (the man she lived with was Jan’s Dad) having made her a pair of mitts. I asked if she and Sheila (Jan’s mother) were friends and she said that they got along okay. Sheila told her once that if she could get along with George she could get along with anyone. Then she went on to explain that she never had any problem getting along with George. She just let him do what he wanted and if it didn’t work out then it was his fault!

It was a demo night at the Guild. There were three tables and three instructors and everyone did a circuit between the tables – a little like speed dating except we were speed learning! The topics were bindings, flying geese and thread tension. I’ve never done any flying geese patterns but I’ll think about them for a community quilt – the sample quilts she had were very nice. I knew most of the information included in the binding session, but I learned a new way of joining the binding pieces that will probably make them more precise. Most of the information in the tension discussion was covered in my free-motion quilting class, but it never hurts to have a refresher.

I am so happy to have my quilt finished that I’m not keen to start on anything else, although I have lots of half-done things to work on. I think quilting the Sudoku quilt will be next – and I know I’ll find lots of ways to procrastinate before I start on that!