Sunday, November 25, 2018
It wasn’t my intention to drop my posts, but sometimes that’s just the way my life goes.
Friday and Saturday were Community Quilt days with the Guild. It wasn’t the best timing for me but I feel it is an important aspect of the Guild and I wanted to participate. I’m glad I did because apparently it wasn’t good timing for a lot of our members. I have a half-square triangle project I’m working on as a donation and I spent all weekend on that, without actually getting a lot done to show for myself. The project has two different sizes of HSTs; there are 96 blocks of one size and 384 of the smaller size. Although it didn’t seem like a great accomplishment I have all of the larger blocks finished and all but 100 of the smaller ones done. Of the small ones they just need to be pressed and trimmed so, in hindsight, I didn’t do too bad.
Between the end of sewing on Friday and the 4:30 ferry, I managed to stop in at three different craft fairs. I had friends showing at two of them and the third was right next door to one I was attending so it was easy to stop in. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular and I didn’t find anything of interest. A lot of knitting and simple sewing/quilting but nothing I hadn’t seen before. The woman that took a lot of my cross stitch books had a table – absolutely beautiful work and selling it so cheap (under $25 for large, intricate pieces). Both of my Thursday buddies had tables, and a couple of Guild members were at a different sale.
Although out House Concert wasn’t until Saturday night our guests arrived on the 4:30 ferry. They had a travel day with no place (without paying) to sleep so Pat told them to come an extra day. André and Qiu Xia He (pronounced Chew-Shaw) were lovely. They were so grateful for us inviting them. They didn’t want to be any trouble so planned to go out for dinner but Pat told them he was making a stir fry and they were welcome to join us; before we knew it they had taken over the kitchen and cooked dinner for us.
I was out quilting again on Saturday and Pat had an appointment in the morning so our guests they made themselves breakfast (and cleaned up), helped Pat set up for the concert and then were out exploring the town until it was almost time for supper. The show last night was a sell-out; we had some last minute cancellations but we scrambled and managed to fill all the seats. It wouldn’t have mattered because everyone pays in advance but it is nicer for performers not to be playing to empty chairs. The show was absolutely amazing – I can’t even describe how interesting and entertaining their group (Silk Road) is.
André cooked breakfast for us while Qiu Xia He worked on some video files that Pat took at the show last night. They all left on the noon ferry to do the show on Texada tonight. This will be our first sold out show on Texada and I would have loved to see the show again (and the reaction to them) but after two late nights and a busy week ahead I decided I’d be better staying home; the studio isn’t very big and I thought four people would be pushing the comfort levels (I’m not even sure we have four chairs to sit on in a group).
I’ll be busy today getting ready for my Board meeting tomorrow and, hopefully, I’ll be able to get started organizing some packages for the mail next week. While I do that I have one of André’s CDs playing in the background – apparently today it isn’t too early to start enjoying my Christmas music.