Saturday 21st (I think) February - running

Don't get excited... not real running,... I can't remember when I last ran about a dozen steps, and that was on a downhill gradient! Although sometimes I do manage a brief moment of trotting on the spot.

Today has been a mix of running quite fast just to stay still... 🙃 I think Ang called it a 'cascade of tasks'. 

Going to find some paperwork I managed to tip my sewing tin onto the floor; trying to put the paperwork away (I did find the Grant of Probate in quite a sensible place) I ended up tidying and sorting a couple of shelves of filing...

and I've shoved everything back into the sewing tin....

Going to cook lunch I discovered some alien slime in the bottom of one of the fridge drawers hiding under the potatoes (ok, ok, should have cleaned the drawers earlier in the week, how time flies when you're not paying attention)... 

said drawer is all nice and clean, the veg is washed and dried and back in the fridge...

and I carried on with cooking lunch at the same time...

After lunch I did one of the planned jobs for the day; Three packages ready for posting, each with appropriate contents (including 10 pages copied and pasted and printed from the Internet for a friend who doesn't have a computer) and a quick note in each package... 

But the afternoon was really taken up with running with my current obsession; The Stitch Sampler. 

I sat there with notebook and pen and thought and sketched and came up with this;

I'm currently interested in Quilt as you Go as an 'as and when' portable project. So combining QAYG with the stitch sampler seemed like an idea worth exploring. 

It might come to nothing,  but it's a thought. Using an old duvet cover which has grey and white striped fabric for the sampler side, and the reverse of the quilt with a grey and white swirly pattern for the backing/border should work. The stripes will help me organise the stitches neat(ish)ly.

I've got a retired mattress protector to cut into wadding squares.

Here's how I think it might work; (Ang will notice I've corrected the number of squares the I'llneed; sums was nevermy strong point in spiteof doing maths at university!)

So here I am at half past eight, with half an eye on the men's curling final wondering where the day went!