Sunday, June 4, 2017

My morning went fine for the most part. I finished the Splendid Sampler block I was working on yesterday. I’ve been using the tips I picked up at the Precision Piecing workshop and, with the exception of one seam, everything was working out well. I restitched that seam three times and then decided it was going to have to do. It wasn’t until I was marking for the embroidery that I realized one of the blocks was stitched in the wrong way around. It meant taking out quite a few seams and the mistake didn’t really affect the way the block looked so I left it alone. Had it been turned the right way around the seams might have matched better but there is no guarantee of that.

After lunch I made the Rice Krispie Squares for the meeting tonight. Then I sat out on the deck and did the embroidery work on the block I had just completed. I had great plans for the rest of my afternoon – particularly cleaning up my cross stitch table and cleaning up my cutting table.

Somewhere along the way though I ended up fighting with my computer. My e-mail wasn’t working and I changed settings, rebooted and did everything I could think of to correct the problem. I asked Pat to check his mail and it turned out to be a Telus issue. By the time Telus came back online I’d screwed things up enough that I still wasn’t able to send mail; incoming mail was working fine though. Pat helped me sort out the problem and I’m back on track.

While I waited for Telus to correct itself I managed to get three packages ready for the mail tomorrow. I don’t think I have time to get everything on my list finished before dinner and the meeting but I’ll get to some of it.