Monday, December 5, 2016

It has been snowing for most of the day but I think it has stopped now. There is some accumulation on the roofs and grass, but the streets look fine. I guess if the temperature drops low enough they could get icy but I didn’t have anywhere to go today so it didn’t bother me a bit.

I’ve been working all day and I’ve made some good progress. I knew last night that if I could just “get the hang of it” my three projects would go quickly. And that is exactly how it worked out; I had all three ready to have the ends buried by the time supper was ready. I spent some of my evening tying in the knots and couldn’t believe it when I found two mistakes in the first one – that was the one that gave me all the trouble to start with. I was sure I had fixed it all. It was a quick fix this morning as I reverse-stitched the pieces that were wrong before I went to bed last night.

So I have three gifts to finish some hand stitching on and three cards to do the binding on. I finished another project completely and I’m working on a companion piece to go with it. I have another small gift that needs the glue gun but I’m not sure I’ll have time for that this afternoon.

I brought a new book home from the Guild library about quilting with your walking foot. I glanced at it quickly and did a couple of cards using her freezer-paper technique. It ended up being a bit like paper piecing because you still had papers to pull out. For the third card I did a bit more reading and realized I was doing it wrong; card number three worked much better.

Our dishwasher is on the blink. We tried and tried to get it to run last night with no luck; I know if we could just get it started it would work fine. We called the appliance repair this morning but he won’t be able to come until Wednesday. The full load of dishes couldn’t wait that long so my lunch break was spent doing dishes and peeling vegetables for a soup.

So it was work, work, work all day long – no wonder I’ve made progress!