Stories from the Sewing Room

I thought I'd have so much to share this week, but alas, I do not.

After the 10 inches of snow we got Sunday/Monday last week, we got an additional six inches on Friday. That means that we got almost our annual average in just one week. It's been really cold as well, so the snow is sticking around, which is also unusual. My son had 1.666 days of in-person school last week, one actual snow day, and two days of e-learning. He's been back at school this week (so far...).

Saturday afternoon we saw the sun.

Moving on to sewing, I have sewn the block rows of the Marble Mystery together. I have part of the sashing rows assembled and have the other batch left to sew before I can put the top together. I thought I'd get this thing put together before it was time to post, but I had some work that was much more involved than I planned and then I suffered a pretty bad headache Monday night. I spent Tuesday taking it easy and trying to will the headache away; I wasn't totally successful. Thankfully most of my work hasn't arrived at my house yet so the only sacrifice was my personal sewing time.

I have completed two quilts for others. The first one belongs to Betty. She is a newer quilter and this is her largest quilt to date. She picked JK Celtic for the quilting and it looks pretty.

I also stitched the custom edge-to-edge design I shared last week on Margaret's quilt. 

I'm happy that I'm able to watch parts of the Australian Open live on tv in the evenings. My son and I particularly enjoy watching Frances Tiafoe. We caught part of his match Sunday night until it got so late I sent him to bed. I thought I'd watch more, but turned it off after Tiafoe was sick on the court, which ended up being a few minutes after I sent my son to bed. I was pretty grossed out. I checked the outcome the next day and it looks like I should've waited it out and stayed up later. Oh well. We're also happy that the new season of All Creatures Great and Small is on. I'm also looking forward to the new season of Finding Your Roots. I've learned more history from watching that than I learned in school. 

We were able to go outside for a few quick walks this week. We were shocked and awed when we found deer tracks forming a heart in the snow. Can you see it? It didn't show up as well in the picture my son took as I would have hoped.

Our first robotics competition is in a week and a half. I'm not sure how ready the boys will be. It's been a rough season. My husband (their coach) is totally stressing.

We were also looking at colleges again with the thought that we may need to start looking at doing some campus tours if he's considering anywhere other than IU. My son wishes to study computer hardware engineering and most of the programs we've found focus more on programming and AI. Anyway, the point here is that the cost of college is truly shocking. Non-state schools are anywhere from $50 - $85k PER YEAR!!! How will these kids ever get out from under loans? My family is fortunate enough, I guess, to only qualify for loans, not aid. So we need to find places where there are chances of scholarships; IU is one that does offer competitive scholarships and we can save the $10k room and board fee since it's local. 

We also found out that he got accepted into the SEAP program this summer, so that was nice. I feel like I've only talked about one child lately. My daughter appears to be doing well. We haven't seen her in a couple of weeks due to work and weather and such. 

Linking with Quiltery, My Quilt Infatuation, and Alycia Quilts.