Saturday, January 22, 2022

I accomplished several thirty-minute jobs this morning and I’m happy that so far I’m able to keep up with everything. The first reminder today was some Guild work and I spent all of my thirty minutes working on our blog archives. They are almost ready to be proof-read and put on a thumb-drive for keeping in the archive collection. I’m debating about whether to make another copy for the library; if members take the thumb drive out can I be sure it will come back virus free?

A weekly task came up to clean out a drawer. I’m still working on a cabinet in my sewing room so I started on a small one. Then I moved to another small one and by the time my timer went off I was onto a third and larger drawer. I thought I’d find lots to donate but it turned out that a lot of it can be put to use or simply went into the garbage/recycle.

Cleaning out my bin of pre-cuts was an eye-opener – I had no idea I had so many. There are three large-sized fat quarter bundles, a jelly roll, four charm packs and way way too many mini charm packs. There were also a couple of batik collections; I must have won them or was gifted them because I rarely purchase batiks. I organized the individual fat quarters into colours and tied them together. In order to use up some of the pre-cuts I’ve decided that every six months I’ll repeat the process and find a pattern to use up one of the bundles. This time I’ve picked a pattern (that came from Stacia) that will use up the four charm packs. Two of the packs are the same fabric and I have two individual ones but for the pattern I’m using I’m pretty sure they will all go together.

Another task on today’s list was cleaning up the kitchen/living room. While I was wiping down the drawers in the fridge I found some apples that were past their best-before raw-eating date so I made an apple crisp for supper. It was after one before I got to my quilting but I’ve managed to get all the blocks quilted. I’ll wind another bobbin and I think I can get one of the borders done before supper.