Friday, January 23, 2015

There is another storm blowing through our town. We expected heavy rain, which hasn’t really materialized, but we had lots of wind during the night and all day today. Sadly I had to go out in it twice; had I thought a bit further ahead one trip would have sufficed.

I’ll be selling Guild raffle tickets at an event all weekend; I picked up the prizes (for display) a week ago. The woman running the raffle also scheduled a sales table in the mall today so I had to get the prizes back for ten this morning. Since I only have half a table for our display I decided not to bother getting them back; I have a photo of the prizes and that will have to do.

I finished up a card today, as well as got the label, sleeve and binding sewn on the My Crazy Life pieces. I did an embroidered label and it took me longer to re-learn how to store and retrieve phrases in memory than it did for Ruby to stitch them. I’m not sure I like the look of the labels, but since the first piece in the series was done that way I thought these two should be the same. I should have more than enough time tomorrow at the event to get all the hand stitching done.

We will have house guests this weekend; they will be here to sleep on Saturday night after the show and we’ll give them breakfast on Sunday. The fridge was looking rather empty so after lunch I made another trip (in the storm) and picked up a few things. I got the bedroom prepared and did a bit of cleaning; I still need to wipe up some spots on the kitchen floor and I’ll probably have to scrub the laundry room floor. I don’t expect our guests will spend any time in there, but it is where we hang our jackets and I should at least try to make a good first impression.

I sandwiched my 12 Days of Christmas project and was just starting the first square of quilting when friends dropped in for tea. The afternoon was gone before our guests were; I doubt I’ll get back to my machine until Wednesday.

I’ve spent quite a few evenings trying to sort out a new knitting pattern for slippers; I’m almost there so maybe tonight I’ll figure it out and be able to start on the “real” thing. I have three orders for them so the pressure is on! But if that doesn’t work out I printed out a crochet pattern that will use up some scrap yarn.