Please don’t be upset.

April 28, 2020

I decided what I wanted for this week’s border. It is a combination of several of the ideas I had yesterday. It is from my book, but it is also smaller so I could use the papers again, though I am still not thrilled with their accuracy. I also went with the wonky dancing idea.

As it was only one border it was very fast. The wonky bits on each block are totally improvised. Which I am sure made things faster and was a technique I have wanted to try for a while. It wasn’t fabric efficient, but I enjoyed it sufficiently that I am now planning a whole quilt based on this. So this simple little border may prove to be one of the most useful for me. Well until the next good one I have decided that for this quilt I am going to try and throw my starting block as far off center as I can. So I now have a head start on picking where new pieces fit. Just wait we will get a run of add all round now I have made that decision.

Yesterday our monthly meat and fish delivery arrived. As it needs to be cold that delivery can’t just sit in quarrentine so it was all washed and put away, and a thought hit me, once upon a time we didn’t need to clean shopping. That seems really weird to me now. I did wonder if that was just me but asking around I have a few friends who know feel the same, I guess there is some truth in those research papers on how fast we form habits. It also shocked me how long it took. 50 minutes from delivery to put away. That’s as long as going to the shop and buying it used to take. In a similar vein, you may have seen the image on social media saying the worst purchase of 2019 was a 2020 planner. I disagree, I have never had so many things I needed to keep track of. Purchases, delivery dates, and really important when I need to clear things from quarentine to normal storage. That’s besides the dog log which was why I actually bought it. Maybe the people who make the images have a much better memory than I do.

The penultimate folding chair decided to throw me on the floor this morning. When the previous one did that I rolled beautifully and was fine, this time I was thrown the other way and hit my shoulder on a wall then a floor. I can’t reccomed that as a way to start your day, and it means we need more chairs. Not the best timing, but we had picked some we liked last time we were in Ikea. Thing is my dining room is still full of my stock, fabric threads and books, so the dining table isn’t set up and not ready for real dinning chairs. So I thought I would buy a few more folding chairs to ride us over. Well, it seems everyone has been buying folding chairs. Maybe for all the kids now studying at home? Yes I may be clutching at straws, but the whole family working from home was the best I could come up with. I tried lost of chairs, some I didn’t even like in the hopes of getting 4 folding chairs. Once it looked like I would be paying as much as for proper dinning chairs I decided that OK it wasn’t really convenient but I would buy the chairs we want for the dining room. Or not, those are discontinued, and second best are discontinued in any colour I would want. Sigh. Next try, Argos had some I liked the look of, and well if they aren’t great we will make them our only when we have guests chairs. Yes they really had them, yes they would deliver and in less than a week, sounds promising…..over 45 minutes to check out. I swear even with Argos, not the quickest store, it would have been faster to drive there, but in store and bring them home. I can only assume people are doing a lot of shipping. Still they are ordered, the delivery planned and hopefully they won’t throw me on the floor. The old chairs were plastic folding chairs over 20 years old I think, so I can’t claim they owed me anything, well maybe a softer resignation.