Things I am doing: FLL prep, FLL prep, and yet more FLL.
Things I'm thinking about: FLL, Christmas shopping, FLL.
FLL stands for FIRST Lego League. My husband and I are coaching our son's team. We have six elementary school boys this year. Here's our robot. Our qualifying competition is this weekend. We have two more practices to go, along with making sure everything is ready for Saturday. I have lists, papers, supplies, and parts everywhere! This season has been pretty smooth overall, but the last week before competition is always crazy, as is competition day. I'm proud of how well the boys have worked together and the amount of work they've done this year. In case you're wondering, in my opinion, six is the perfect team size.
Moving on to sewing, last week I got most of the Kaffe top put together. It still needs three borders. The backing we ordered came yesterday and it kinda matches. I'm ready to go with quilting next week (assuming I find time to get the borders on).
I've been attempting to gather up some April Showers fabric. I won a jelly roll on eBay and was trying for yardage and a layer cake, but I keep getting outbid or the system would freeze and not let me bid at all in the final minutes. It's so frustrating. I did find a couple half yards and a fat quarter on Instagram. I still need either another jelly roll or a layer cake for the project I want to do. Finding one at a reasonable price will probably be a challenge since it's out of print and people jack up the prices ridiculously--think up to quadruple retail in some cases. :/
The quilt my friend and I made for our guild mate had a bit of the backing bleed onto the front. I managed to get it (red) out of the white and thought all was well. Then I looked again in the sunlight yesterday--so nice to be sunny, raining again today--and some of the blue had run all over it. Sigh. So far I'm not getting it to come out very well. At least it's less noticeable than the red. I used Dawn, water, and hydrogen peroxide to get the red out.
I added photos to the 2017 finishes page. Guess I'd better get back to work. Until next week (which will be much less hectic, can't wait!).
PS--Can you believe Christmas is only 40 days away? Eep.
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