Tuesday, February 19, 2019

I was quilting this morning and the thought was going through my head that my method is a little like hiking a new trail. I need to mark my quilting lines but didn’t want to spend a lot of time doing it so I’m using short lines (almost a dash) along the line where I need to stitch. When I sew, I line up my needle with the marked dash and follow it to the next one and so on. When I hike a new trail I’m always looking ahead to make sure I can see the next marker from the marker I’m currently at so I won’t get lost. It has worked so far for hiking – we’ll see how it works on the quilt.

And speaking of hiking, just when I thought it was safe for Moreen and I to start walking in the woods again we’ve got more snow. It varies between snow and rain and it isn’t sticking on our street yet but that may change as the temperature drops overnight. I managed to get out this afternoon to do some errands and had no issues with the roads.

After getting stuck in the parking lot at the quilting class on Saturday I decided not to even risk going to the bee today. I didn’t have anything in particular that I wanted to get done, although my bee list is quite extensive at the moment – cards, Guild blocks, Challenge bag, and more.

I stopped at Canadian Tire today and picked up ten shoe boxes. I really need to do some tidying up in my sewing room and a lot of projects that are in plastic bags will fit nicely in the bins and they will stack better. I’m a long way from being ready to do any of that tidying but the bins were on sale for less than $2 each so I stocked up.

My prize for the January UFO came in the mail today. The blog writer included an extra pattern that looks very nice. I will make the bag that was my prize; no matter how many times I say “No more bags” they seem to keep popping up.