What I Did Last Weekend

                                       

I spent some time working on the blue and yellow rail fence quilt. It doesn’t look like much, but it’s getting there. I have an idea of mixing up the blocks but I need to make more of them before I can play with them.

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I spent Friday afternoon with my friend P. We had planned to take a drive up north to look at the fall foliage, but we had to postpone our trip due to Covid concerns. We went out to eat at one of her favorite restaurants and we did some shopping at the same time. I bought a new purse, and because I got a new purse, I made a new lanyard for my work keys.

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I also made a trip to the Apple Store for some instructions on how to use some of the applications (Write, Keynote & Numbers, the equivalent of Word, Excel & PowerPoint). It’s enough to get me going. While at the Mall I bought two sets of bedsheets, because that morning I work up with my lower leg in a hole on my bottom sheet. Sigh.

But the biggest thing I did this last (4 day weekend) was visit a local crematorium and make my own final arrangements. It was one of the things on my list of things I wanted to get done this year.

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The Weekend

I went to the MQX show in Manchester NH on Saturday. This lion was my favorite of the show. It was part of the Cherrywood Challenge. (You may have to look at this a moment or two for the colored blocks to form part of the lion's face.)

This was another of my favorites. Generally I feel these kinds of representational quilts are a "misapplication of the medium" (as Gerald Roy says), but this one is really beautiful. It hung perfectly flat, which gained points in my book. This won a pink ribbon (second place) in Pictorial Quilting. This was made by Andrea  Brokenshire from Texas.

As soon as I saw this I had to have it. A very bright light with a bendable neck. The thing is so light it weighs next to nothing, and because it's wireless you can use it virtually anywhere. I can already see this is going to help me when I do some hand sewing. It was less than twenty bucks, and you can get it on Amazon for even less than that.

And I had a chat with the MQX founder and I'll be submitting a proposal to teach a class there next year! 

Win Some, Lose Some

It's been a couple of crazy weeks. The conference room project at work is moving along

This is the room before all the work started.

and this is the room as it looked just before work stopped on Friday afternoon.

While all this was going on, the Accounting and Information Technology departments (moi) were working on the fiscal month and quarter end closing.  Which means I put in a twelve-hour day on Friday.

I needed a little break from work-work-work, so yesterday I did a little retail therapy, then drove over to a new grocery store in town. I'd been meaning to check it out for a few weeks. The store was awesome.  I did my groceries and then as I was getting out of the parking lot, I accidentally drove over a curb.

I knew I had done something wrong when the low pressure light on my dashboard lit up. I drove to a gas station to put some air in the tire, but when I looked at the tire I knew it was bad. The tire was as flat as a pancake. I was amazed the car had driven so well. I called AAA and when the guy came, he took one look at the tire and said, "Well THAT'S wrecked.  You're gonna need a new one."

Sunday morning I went out to get the few things at my usual grocery store. (The new one hadn't had all the cat food flavors Millie prefers.)  Just down the road is a tire store that advertises good prices.  I had the tire replaced for less money than I had expected.

Today I'll be doing all the housework I've been putting off.  Laundry, dishes, the checkbook, vacuuming, etc. And I've got to watch the Ryder Cup and of course, Millie has to watch her friends, the guys named Pat. No sewing, probably, but an easy day.