Just a Taste

What a week it has been already!  After the big Lego tournament this weekend, last night was the final Academic Team match. Following a fabulous season, we finished a disappointing second place in the championship match.  Still, we came home with two trophies and two students going on to the state competition.  I will be one of the coaches again.  Fortunately though, practices for that won't start until after the winter break.  We are all slogging through the last week before exams and then a nice break.  I am still buried in school work, but spent a few minutes in protest tonight getting a tiny start on step 2 of the solstice mystery.  Still avoiding the sewing part until my machine comes home again, but cutting and drawing lines is a simple diversion.

Its a Start

My sewing room was getting to the stage where it was so cluttered I just wanted to avoid it.  I was thinking I'd do a big clean-up when my sewing machine came home again, but that has not happened yet.  She has been in the shop for over a month now!  I got a call two weeks ago saying the front cover was broken and they needed authorization to order a new one.  They assured me it would be ready yesterday.  Then today I got a call saying that the front cover broke because the something screw was broken and they needed authorization to order a new one of those.  Seriously?  I don't think they understand what it is like to be without a sewing machine for so long when I am used to sewing on a regular basis.  I tried to express this to them, but they didn't seem to get it.  Kind of odd for people that run a quilt shop, right?
So I have some tape marking the quarter inch seam on Anna's machine and I decided I needed to sew at least a little.  Step one of my mystery quilt is all cut out, and the first two sets of 10 are sewn and pressed.  I had fun digging into my nicely color coordinated bags of scraps for useable sizes.  I hope I don't use them all up before the new Rainbow Scrap Challenge starts in January!  OK, so that isn't likely, but it was nice to revisit the ghosts of quilts past.  I used lots of nice blues leftover from the  4th of July quilt from two summers ago, and some lovely fabrics leftover from Smith Mountain.  I even did enough straightening that the sewing room is useable again.