Tuesday, October 17, 2017

I usually take Carola with me when I go to sewing as she doesn’t drive. Last week I was asked if I would contact one of our more senior members who no longer can drive to offer her a ride to all our events. I said I would but when I called her yesterday to see if she wanted to come to the bee today she said she was going to Vancouver for a few days. So I was on my own.

Its a good thing I took several projects with me. I finished off my Row-by-Row block for one of the monthly challenges at the Guild. I had already done the hard part, and the cutting for the rest was done, so it didn’t take long to finish. I’m hoping the rest of the rows will also feature some places around Powell River. The water wheel on the highway advertising their campground is very visible, but it wasn’t until last year on my birthday that we actually investigated the beach.

Once that project was done I started in on my mini for the next Mini Meez meeting. Yesterday, as I was packing up, I cut the strips I needed for the project and read the first page of the tutorial to put it together. It was too long to remember so I saved the pages onto my iPad and intended to take it with me to the bee today. As with many of my good intentions I completely forgot the iPad so didn’t get any further than sewing the strips together. It is a Hallowe’en-themed project so, if I want to use it this year, I’d better get it done quickly.

Luckily I had a third project with me – my hexagon sewing kit. This project was taught on a series of two Tuesday at least two years ago but, like so many of my class projects, it never got done. My attempt this year is to finish off some of those old projects and over another week or two of bees I just may get it done.

I have one ball of yarn left to knit on my baby blanket and then I can move on to something else. Sadly I’m on a reverse knitting pattern just now as somewhere in the pattern I lost a stitch. After that is done I think I’ll call it quits (for this year) on Salvation Army donations because I have two other groups I want to knit for. As soon as I can get the proper yarn for Jennifer McKnight’s Twinkle Star project I want to knit up a few for her. The church where we sew also has a Prayer Shawl ministry and I volunteered to do some work for them; one of our Guild members gave me a few books to pick some patterns from so I’ve copied out three patterns and hope to use up some of my worsted weight yarns.