Thursday, February 5, 2015

My plan was to devote today to my final preparation for the House Concert. Since I did a bit of cleaning yesterday I took some time out this morning and finished off my Guild challenge project. It is ready to hand stitch the binding so I’ll take it with me to do at Christy’s. I would have liked to have been completely finished my quilting before leaving for Vancouver, but I’ll settle for being completely finished when I get home. Completely is really not true; I have my large Hubble quilt left. I’m looking for a large star template; my Lego quilt proved that circles were too hard, and my spirals really aren’t good enough yet. I’ll print a few copies of the Hubble photo, doodle a bit while I’m away and maybe come up with a solid plan.

I finished another knitting project last night – a hat for Ray. Ray normally gives himself a very close cropped haircut in the Spring. In a recent photo it looked like he had his “summer” haircut already. Elizabeth said she got new clippers for Christmas and she was testing them out before giving Gavin a haircut. I guess they were set a little too low and, once you start, you sort of have to continue. The hat looks huge. I bought the pattern in Ireland and I’m thinking we Irish have big heads!

Two Guild meetings tonight – one for the quilt show and then the regular monthly meeting. I’d better use the little bit of time I have to start packing.