Sunday, January 23, 2022

As I’ve been busy decluttering Pat has kept up with the areas I’m going through. We both think we are able to see the results in the house – at least Pat is smart enough to say he can see the results!

Yesterday when I passed the filing cabinet on to Pat he was inspired to clear out one of the many boxes he brought with him from Port Coquitlam and has never unpacked. I gave him some file folders and he gave me back a 4″ pile of papers that need to be shredded. When I suggested we pay to have them shredded he said that was expensive and maybe he should just keep them. I don’t care if I wreck three shredders in the process he is not putting that stuff back in a box or in the filing cabinet!

I spent all morning clearing off my desktop. I reconciled some bank accounts (for myself and the Hall), paid some bills (for the Hall), and did a bit of work on one of the clues for the Guild mystery. Some of the papers I had to deal with needed to be filed and, since I was in the filing cabinet anyway, I sorted out a couple more files. I also wrapped three more packages for the mail and I still have more mail that I need to send out.

This afternoon I’ve been working on the final border of my quilt. I knew I wanted curves in the border but I wasn’t sure how capable of that I would be. I marked the fabric, changed my mind, and marked the fabric again before I finally decided what I was going to do. Once the marking is done the quilting goes quite quickly.

I didn’t want to have too many knots to have to bury but my design didn’t work out that way. I have half of the borders done and one of them has the knots buried. Another criteria for my quilting is that I don’t want it to show much – mission accomplished on that one.

Back to my knots now!