Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Today was the first time in three weeks that I’ve been at the Guild’s sewing bee; it was lovely to catch up with everyone. I was hand stitching today – more work to be done on my Farmer’s Daughter quilt. I’m not sure if I feel I’ve accomplished more by saying I’ve done four or by saying I’ve only got eight left. Regardless, the rest of the quilt is waiting for these little bits to be attached before I can say it is done.

I have one edge of my Farmer’s Wife quilt that I want to take apart and fix. For some reason the setting triangles in that spot aren’t fitting properly. I tried to stretch them out enough but when I added the top corner it looks “off”. I’ll recut the triangle, making it a bit bigger, and then it all should work out fine. It is only one block and one row I need to work on and I know I’ll feel better if I do it properly. I asked some opinions today and I think using Mum’s stitched tops for the back will work. I have no idea if the two pieces I have will be large enough, but if not I still have lots of Mum’s fabrics so I can add to them.

I left the bee early today so I could attend a meeting at City Hall. There has been a situation created by the developer or maybe the property owners (the mayor just happens to be one of the developers and a property owner) but the end result is that it could raise our taxes significantly to fix the problem. It was a good presentation by the person who dug up all the information but, of course, no solution was put forward by Council. I stayed beyond that presentation and found it quite interesting. I left about 4:45 thinking Pat might be wondering where I was (he wasn’t) but there were other items on the agenda I would have liked to have stayed for. I may go back again another time.

I might be able to finish my crochet project tonight – provided I ignore the pile of paper on my desk, items in my e-mail and the Guild blog that I should be writing.