Saturday, July 15, 2023

It’s always a good day when I get to use my glue gun. But before I get to that I’ll do a little catching up.

I’ve had a wonderfully relaxing time on Texada but I’m back in Powell River for a week. Pat has some recording sessions booked for early next week and I’d have to be quiet while they were in session. Since I wouldn’t be able to do much of anything (including use the washroom, sew or move around) I decided it would be easier to be at home. I’ll be sewing with Stacia and Deloise on Thursday and the project I’m working on will be very tricky and not one I wanted to do on the sewing machine I have on Texada.

Speaking of sewing … I moved my sewing equipment from the workshop to the studio. It took a few different configurations before I got it arranged so everything was workable and I still had room to move around. I used the design wall to sort out a quilt top; once that was stitched together I put up 154 blocks that will be the centre of another quilt and Pat worked his magic at arranging them. I just barely got those together before we came home. I still have two more quilt tops to put up on the design wall but I may not get to both of them this time.

I spent some time working on a small wool embroidery project. Stacia, Deloise and I are going to be working on a larger project but I wanted to get in some practice before we started. I’ve not done much in the past, although judging from the number of patterns and pieces of wool felt I have I must have planned to do much more. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed the process and can’t wait to get started on the larger one. I was also working on a cross stitch pattern that I started at the Lodge in Vancouver. I didn’t spend as much time in the hammock as I thought I would but I still got a lot of reading done. I’ve posted my books here if you want to see what I was reading.

I’ve had a busy day today at home. I started emptying and sorting out the bins I brought back from Texada and putting things away. I sorted out a bin full of photos when I was on Texada and hoped I was finished but as I was putting things away I found enough more to fill another bin. They will go across with me on my next trip. I’ve done a bit of shredding too as I don’t like the photos to just go into the garbage or recycle, although that would be much quicker.

I was looking for fabrics for a mystery quilt I’m doing this summer and that meant a dive through my fat quarters. I found a few and put everything away. But then I decided I didn’t have enough variety so I dug out some yardage and did another dive through my fat quarters. And to finish off my time I did a third dive to pull some fabrics to send to Emma.

I had a knitting book to put away and that just led me down a big rabbit hole. I sorted through all my knitting and crochet patterns; some I kept but many I will be giving away and some are just throw aways that were copies of patterns I got from the web. There were a couple of magazines that I had marked for knitting patterns but on second look I decided I wouldn’t keep them. There were a couple that had cross stitch patterns that I liked and wanted to keep so they have to go into a separate collection. I found a pattern book with Aunt Almeda’s name on the cover and I’ll send it along to Marlene as she is quite the knitter. I also found a couple of patterns that might have been Grandma McKnight’s that will be making their way to Audrey and Jackie (whether they want them or not!).

Now, back to the glue gun. As I was sorting through the new bins of photos that need to be sorted one rather nice box had the leather binding coming off. I remember getting a set of three stacking boxes at a yard sale a long time ago – one has some small quilt projects in it, and two of them had photos. By fixing the binding I’ll have another bin to put something in but I don’t think it will be photos – maybe my new wool embroidery project?

This is rather a long-winded post but Pat kept urging me to get back to regular posts. Tomorrow I’ll deal with the updates to our yard.