Well, this is the weirdest Victoria Day Weekend I have ever spent. Usually, this weekend is a weekend to celebrate the warmer weather, check on the cottage if you have one and enjoy a few days off work. This pandemic has us all so disoriented that one of my neighbours barely knew that it was Saturday today, let alone a long weekend. I knew that it was Victoria Day because my work calendar told me that I am off on Monday for the holiday, but we can not go anywhere or enjoy a sunny afternoon at the pub. We have done some physically distant visits with the fella's sisters for coffee and some neighbours popped by this afternoon for beers shared over the fence. The weather may be not particularly summer-like and we may be under pandemic restrictions, but dammit, we are going to sit out in the back yard and drink beer!
I have been stitching away at this quilt, slowly but surely. This picture fails to show how much I managed to finish yesterday as I spent my day off relaxing and stitching. The baby is due in 2 months so there is still time to get it stitched, but my fingers need to fly a little faster with the needle and thread.
The ort jar is filling up nicely with the orts from the quilt on top of the flamingo project orts. The flamingo is in the hands of a friend who is much more skilled with a sewing machine than I am. I could have finished the pillow, but I would have had to hand sew the cover. My girl friend assures me that it will be easy for her to finish once she saw the project and fully understood what I was trying to acoomplish.
One of my neighbours was decluttering a few weeks ago and offered up several colouring books for free. There were 6 or 7 colouring books plus this post card book. I kept this book and a couple of the big books before offering up t my neighbourhood the others along with some novels that I had read. I have an idea of randomly going through my address book and sending out the postcards to my friends and family. I love to send and receive mail so I got to thinking about how I could send out some love and best wishes with my handiwork, my pandemic project as it were.
So, dear reader, I hope that you are keeping busy with your stitching and that, more importantly, you are safe and healthy! Happy stitching!
