Friday, January 11, 2019

I had a busy day yesterday. For most of the morning I was out delivering letters on behalf of the Guild. We are asking some of the local businesses for donations for our door prize table. I’ve never had to do this before but I had a good start when Dave passed me a copy of the letter he uses for his fundraising – and I know how successful he is at his events. In most cases I was well received, in others I was immediately given something, and I had only one No (because it was their corporate policy).

Then I was off to sewing in the afternoon. I’m still working on my Farmer’s Wife Sampler as my project; all the blocks are stitched into rows with sashing between. We spent quite a bit of time helping me sort out fabrics for a Log Cabin quilt. I purchased some purple and green fabric (same pattern) a few years ago. About the same time as I bought that fabric I saw a log cabin online that I really liked. Over time I stashed my greens and purples in the same bag and yesterday I dug them out and we made some choices. Sadly half of the fabrics I had set aside just didn’t work. However, I now have two separate bags of stash – one purple and one green.

I did some tidying up this morning; I wasn’t sure if Pat was coming back from the studio but I thought I should clear up my mess in case he did. I still had more letters to deliver but it was rainy so I put it off until later in the morning. It was a lovely day for a walk down Marine; not such good luck today but I got one more item and another one picked up as a result of yesterday’s work.

I had a lovely stop at the fabric shop to pick up those extra fabrics I need for my Log Cabin. My Thursday ladies said I needed a bling fabric for the centre but Joyce at the shop didn’t agree. She helped me pick a shade of green for the layer I was missing, and three fabrics for the purple logs. It was on sale so the price was right; it doesn’t seem like much fabric but if it isn’t enough I know where the shop is! There were no quantities listed in the pattern (it was free after all) so I used my math to figure it out (and that is always suspect to error).

I had some tidying to do in my sewing room and, while I was at it, I cut out some batting strips for my jelly roll rug class. All of the batting was pieces I trimmed off the edges of Taylor’s quilt. I wanted to move forward with my Farmer’s Wife this afternoon but I had a couple of interruptions with people at the door and now I seem to have lost my momentum.