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Choices

Journal

July 4, 2024

I came up to my sewing room this morning without a real plan on what I would do. There are so many choices; most of them don’t require a decision so I don’t know why I don’t pick something and just get it done.

Japanese Maple Tree

I really thought I was finished with this project and washed it in order to remove all the stitching lines. As I was putting away my threads I found a black and white picture of the pattern and realized I had a few spots that needed to be brown that I’d done in green. There were also some spots that were done in brown and should have been green. I worried about how I would make the corrections without the stitching lines; Stacia came to the rescue – stitch beside the wrong colours and once the wrong colours were taken out no one would know. Both she and Deloise said I should leave it but …

Farmhouse

My UFO for June was my Farmhouse quilt. It had been sandwiched for ages so quilting was the plan. I finished the large stars without too much difficulty and moved on to the aprons. Because I used Steam-a-Seam there was no way I could quilt over the top of them. I did a few lines of stitching on each of them; when I quilted the background I had to stop at the edge of each apron and start again on the other side. Now I have the formidable task of tying the ends and burying them. I’ve only shown three of the aprons here, but there are ten in all; each apron has approximately eleven ends (on each side) so I’ll be at this for quite some time. July’s UFO will definitely be delayed!

Block 6 – Here a Chick There a Chick

The pieces for my last two chicken blocks have been traced and cut out. I need to prep the background and then get busy whip stitching them down and adding the “fancy” stitches. My stitches aren’t particularly fancy but done is better than worrying about them. It makes a good project for the evenings when we’re watching TV.

Yo Yo’s

I’m anxious to get these finished so I can start on my “real” yo yo project which will required 365 of them. These are my practice pieces and I’m getting better with each attempt. Eventually these will go on a summer wreath but as I make more and more of them I think the wreath might be quite small! I’m anxious to get going on my temperature quilt. Gail and I are making yo yo’s at our Thursday sewing sessions so I’ll get more done this afternoon. These too are good projects for the evening.

And if those weren’t enough choices I’ve been looking online for a dress for Madison’s engagement party.

Happy Birthday Elizabeth

Cards, Quilting

July 2, 2024

On our trip to Calgary for Asher’s graduation, Elizabeth asked for microwave bowls in a fabric that I used for someone else’s birthday card – the pink daisies obviously. Since her birthday was coming up I decided to make the bowls her “card”.

My original plan was to use the daisy fabric for the outside of the bowl and the sunflower fabric for the inside but the two really didn’t go together so I made one bowl from each fabric. The first set of bowls I made were quite small so I made two more larger ones.

I was in a rush to get the parcel in the mail so I didn’t get a photo of the full sets but Elizabeth sent me a picture.

Tuffet

Quilting

I purchased the pattern and the tuffet kit in 2018 when Stacia, Deloise and I went to the Quilt Canada convention in Vancouver.

I started it in 2022 on a sewing trip to Panorama with Stacia and Deloise. Along the way they helped me pick out the fabric.

It wasn’t until this year that I finally put the whole thing together. I always intended it to go with Virginia on Texada and it fits in perfectly.

The Raven on the Water

Books

Author: Andrew Taylor

I picked this book up from a free shelf in the waiting room at BC Ferries in Comox as we were returning from Asher’s grad. I had started an electronic book but I wasn’t enjoying it so thought I’d switch to this one.

Two young boys have started a club where they imagine a world set in ancient Rome. They reluctantly add two more players to the core team but the power starts to shift and, eventually, a tragic accident kills one of them. But was it an accident? Many years later the past creeps into the present and one of the boys is searching for answers.

I was able to figure out the mystery shortly before the ending. I found the characters and their relationships to one another confusing; there were siblings, step-siblings, parents, husbands and ex-husbands.

Goodreads Rating: * *