Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Last week I was sure that by this week I’d be ready for a day at the Guild bee. But by last evening I had already decided I was going to stay home. I had a couple of things I wanted to make for the Texada house and, to be honest, between the interruptions for photos, chatting, library work and blog posting I really don’t accomplish much at the bee.

But I’ve done well for myself today. I managed to get all of Pat’s accounting finished this morning and his year-end paperwork has been sent to the accountant. Yesterday afternoon I completed one of my Texada projects (a holder for plastic bags) and today I have two placemat tops finished. Later this afternoon I’ll get the placemats sandwiched and my machine ready for quilting tomorrow. I definitely want to get the placemats quilted and the machine stitching for the binding done; I can always do the hand stitching on Texada.

I have a bit of work to do to get ready for the mover on Friday – not nearly as much as Pat does though. There is still a rather long shopping list, even though we’ve made trips out separately and together to pick up things. The cedar chest Dad made is going to Texada; right now it is full of quilting kits and other miscellaneous stuff but I want to clear that out and take over some half-finished hand stitching projects. And Virginia is making the move but there is a pile of stuff that needs to be cleared off it.

In spite of the fact that I am moving things out of some of my studio rooms I don’t feel like I have a lot of extra room and certainly things are no tidier. I’m anxious though to get everything settled on Texada. I think it will be a bit of a science getting things to the point where I’m not packing boxes and a suitcase every time we make the trip (I’ll be asking for ideas from Stacia and Deloise as they do trips to vacation places on a regular basis) but that is my goal.