Sunday

Today I'm pretending it is my 'Saturday' since I have Monday off... and was transporting a kid most of yesterday. I did get dinner made for me at the expense of hubbys back. Poor guy, he made dinner (steaks, baked potato and steamed broccoli) but was in too much back pain to eat :(. It was yummy though.

Yesterday was Solo and Ensemble MPA (music performance assessment) a little over an hour away from us. Emily signed up for one of each with her clarinet as it was a requirement to be a section leader next year. 

this was their ensemble. my kid is in the middle.

We got there a couple hours early, so I grabbed lunch from the concession area, went to the car and did a little stitching with the windows down. I did have to put a quilt up to block the sunshine a bit as it was getting a little warm despite a nice breeze. I got the four orange hexagons stitched and quilted. Oops, guess the flowered print needs the quilting added.

We stayed another hour or so and observed another friend of hers do her solo. She did good despite being extremely nervous. I saw this hanging up in the room she performed in and loved the saying. How neat to have this in a high school classroom.

I have made some progress on cross stitch when the dog lets me. 

This is where I was a week ago.

This is where it stands now. The counting and careful stitching of the 'neutrals' doesn't show up well, but it is making progress. I like the weekly comparisons as it shows I am making progress on it.

Joy kindly reminded me I have tons of UFO's listed on my Ravelry challenge and we are halfway through already! Yikes. That is my next project today. The dog has been walked, the chickens needed food so a trip to Tractor Supply happened, the kitchen got cleaned up, the chickens got fed and let out to wander in the back yard. Laundry started and moved..... time to go sew! Kids went to Grandma's house since they are off tomorrow as well for Presidents day.  Let's see if I can get a quilt pinned and start the machine quilting on it! I think I made the binding already, it just needs pressing.

Linking up with Kathy and the other Slow Sunday Stitchers. I've watched some of the hockey from the Olympics and figure skating and snippets of curling (I did live on the border to Canada for almost 40 years after all!).