Friday, May 13, 2022

I had a good, but busy, day yesterday. Yoga in the morning went fine. It was absolutely pouring rain when I went to the car and still pouring when I went from the car into the Hall. As I was getting unpacked the instructor was taking mats and blocks into the kitchen to dry them off before people placed them on the floor. Mine were wet but they were okay to use. Some people come in with hockey bags containing their equipment and on the way out the door (when it was still pouring rain) another woman told me that the dollar store had large bags like she was using. I picked one up but I haven’t yet tried to load all my stuff into it.

Thursday afternoon sewing went well. I’m more than half-way through my scrappy challenge for the month. I took a photo of the blocks I did yesterday and today, when I wanted to put them with the others, the “others” were nowhere to be found. I’ll have to do a search through the room to see where I put them.

It was sunny but cold this morning and I decided not to go out and work in the yard. On Wednesday I quilted a card top using a new pen for drawing the quilting lines. We were given the pen at the Guild’s scrappy weekend and were told that one of our better quilters only used these pens for marking. The lines went on the card really well and were easy to see but when I sprayed them with water they didn’t disappear as they were supposed to. I let the top sit for awhile but when they still hadn’t even faded I soaked them in water with some Dawn soap and that did the trick. I know I should have done a test but I totally trusted the woman who told us they worked great. I’ll not be using them again and I’m going to tell the folks who got a free pen about my trouble. Thankfully it was just on a card top and not on a quilt.

I’ve been puttering around and not accomplishing much most of the day. I have the cutting all finished for the class I’m taking at the end of the month and I have two more card tops sandwiched; I’ve almost finished quilting one of them. I went up to the fabric shop this afternoon to pick up backing for two quilts – the Guild mystery from this year and a Guild mystery from three years ago. I use flannel so it has to be washed before I’ll be ready to do any sandwiching.

I have to do a Hall orientation this afternoon. I think I have time to finish a bit more quilting before my timer goes off and I have to head out.