Wednesday, May 4, 2022

When I was getting organized for yesterday’s bee I didn’t think my two card tops would take all my time so I threw in a bag of 2.5″ strips from the fabric I brought home from the Guild’s scrappy weekend. I’m glad I did because my card tops were done long before lunch.

I spent the rest of the time cutting down those strips into bits for a scrap quilt. I cut almost enough for the 80 blocks I’ll need; I ran out of neutrals to go along with the darker strips. I didn’t think there would be enough time to come home before my next appointment but I was home long enough to throw everything into my sewing room, play a couple of games of Candy Crush and head back out the door.

I finished my Hall orientation with a new renter and then headed to the beach (Mowat Bay). It was a rainy and dreary day but I was warm enough and dry in my car to get a few chapters read in my book. And then I was off again for a Hall Board meeting. I was so tired by the end of the day that I watched a little TV (no knitting) and was in bed by nine.

Today was a day at home and I’ve taken advantage of it to get some things done, all of which I’ve done in my PJs. I have the Hall newsletter ready to go out, I made a post to the Guild blog and I finished cutting those 80 blocks that I need for the Community Quilt. I’ll be presenting some ideas for using the donated fabric to the Guild tomorrow night and I have my samples ready to go. I’m currently in the process of cutting another 80 blocks for the same pattern but most of these ones are coming from my own stash; I’m borrowing a bit from the Guild box but I’m not feeling too guilty about it. These blocks will be my Thursday project and the quilt is my Scrappy Challenge for May.

Tomorrow is looking like as hectic a day as yesterday. I’m starting a yoga class in the morning, stopping at Staples to print off patterns for the Guild meeting and then heading straight to Gail’s for sewing. I have a Guild meeting tomorrow night. Pat suggested today that I should come out of retirement and take a part-time job; he thinks I’d probably have just as much, if not more, free time.

I’ll finish the cutting for my Thursday project and then I have one more large cutting project that needs to be done before a class at the end of the month. And I keep thinking about the cutting that I need to do before my June trip – maybe on the weekend I can get that started.