Thursday, August 16, 2018

I think I made up for my low-energy day yesterday. I had lots of energy today and I got a lot done.

But let me go back to last night. I dug out the bin of fabric I had set aside for my four-seasons tree; they are all batiks and, although I don’t particularly like sewing with them, you can’t beat them for beautiful colours. Sadly though the pattern for the tree wasn’t in the bin. I thought I could find it online but since I couldn’t remember the year of the block or even which Guild hosted Hands Across the Water when the block was chosen I wasn’t able to find it. I looked through a magazine folder of patterns and I looked through a basket of patterns; I found some interesting stuff but no tree pattern. I thought my next step would be to put out a call on Facebook or through the Guild membership but, since I manage the Guild’s blog site I thought I might be able to find it somewhere in those files.

I’ve been trying to archive and clean up some of the old pages and posts from the site over the last couple of years but, fortunately, the Hands Across the Water block still had an active link. I was wrong about the season chosen by your birth month, it was actually chosen by the first initial of your last name. Doesn’t matter to me as I’m going to make all four seasons. In spite of often complaining about having to keep the blog site updated I guess there are some benefits.

I spent all morning at the computer (again) mainly getting Pat’s accounting ready for his year-end later this month. In the breaks I had while he located documents I needed I was able to match the fabric colours for the trees with the right seasons. While I was getting things out and ready I also put together the fabric for last week’s Splendid Sampler block. All of those pieces are paper-pieced and I figure once I get started I may as well do the last two of my Farmer’s Wife blocks (paper-pieced) before I clean my machine and change my needle.

Today was a group sewing day. Since I was finished my Betsy Bag I was able to work on something else while Gail and Jessie finished their bags. I took along a bin of Bloom blocks – these are the ones I’m making with the strips I won at the Texada Retreat last November. If memory serves me I’m supposed to have at least a top finished for this year’s retreat. I have enough blocks done that I could finish up a top but I’ll make it a big bigger – I’ll make up all the blocks I already have cut and then see where I’m at. I’ll have lots of pieces of strips left (and more) for the border. I got two blocks done today; I thought I would be faster but I guess we’re still talking too much!