Plans Change

What a long strange week it has been.   On Monday, the older of my two daughters found out that she had been accepted into graduate school at Virginia Tech.   She was so excited!   Then on Tuesday she learned that she was also in at Rhode Island University.   Now she has to choose!  So we hastily scheduled a trip to Rhode Island to get a feel for the campus.   

By Wednesday we had plane tickets, a rental car and a hotel along with lab tours, lunches and meetings for Anna to get check out the program.  I had sub plans and filled out leave paperwork and told my kids to be good while I was gone.  I even found my coat which hasn't been worn since 2017.  In normal times there would have been in person interviews, but given the state of Covid, everything was online.  Then we found out that there was going to be a big snow storm moving into New England and everything was cancelled.   Poof!  All that planning for nothing.   So now the same plans are now rescheduled for next weekend and Anna was able to do a Zoom meeting with two of the professors she would be studying under at RI.  We have a driving trip planned for Virginia over spring break.   Kurt and I have been shopping for houses or land outside of DC, so we will combine both trips. Sydney, the younger daughter, is coming along as well so we will throw in a theme park visit for her.  

Then, just as things were settling down again, Sydney has found out that she is accepted to the University of Florida, which is now her first choice of colleges.  Fortunately, she has already been on tours and seen the campus, so she is excited and happy.   

So I have an unexpected weekend at home to FINALLY sew some of my aqua scraps.   The quilting frame was set up for three weekends in a row and I focused hard on getting 10 flimsies quilted.  So far only one has been completely finished with binding sewn, but I will share each as a I finish the last stage.  New York Beauty was a quilt of my own design.  I sketched each of the blocks out and then charted them onto freezer paper with a compass, protractor and rulers.   The fabrics combined batiks with my favorite hand dyes from Vicki Welsh.  I started in 2014 and then finished it during the lockdown of 2020.   It was first on the list because I took it in for a faculty and staff art show at school.  So now the dog has been walked, the husband is off playing tennis and I am ready to play with some scraps!  Misterlinky is below, please share your own scrappy progress.