Design Wall Monday - January 18

 The project that is front and center for later today is another Sew Together bag.  The interfacing is now attached to the end sections and the lining pieces.  So now it's ready for the next step, which are the 3inside pockets with zippers.  

The ends are that orange batik and the linings are the black batik with stars.  I have a deep purple for the edge bindings and handles.  I think this will be a really cute little bag.

I've linked up with https://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/ for my Design Wall fun.

No sewing has happened around here since last Wednesday.  We had planned to leave Friday mid-morning to drive to Omaha to meet our niece and husband at a college basketball game.  We are all Jackrabbit alumni and fans, and our Jacks women were playing the University of Nebraska Omaha Mavericks on Friday and Saturday afternoons.  Well . . . a winter storm was moving quickly toward us, and our niece suggested we drive down on Thursday. So we left right after lunch. Good thing we did since I-29 was closed by 10 PM that night. 

The basketball games were fun - with ugly wins both days.  And the evenings were a blast with card games.  On Friday night we played Shanghai where the object is to build various sets and runs of cards. Each player has 3 chips to "buy" a discard out of turn.  A great game!  And on Saturday we played a different card game -Tripoli.  And her husband loves to cook so he kept us filled up with yummy food the whole weekend.  

It was a wonderful escape.  We felt very safe since my niece has already had Covid, and her husband is tested frequently at work including twice in the past week.  Both work mostly from home these days anyway.  And the basketball arena required masks and social distancing, and had fewer than 300 fans. 

When we got home on Sunday afternoon we saw the effects of the terrible wind that came with that storm.  For the second time this year, very strong winds have tipped over the buffalo statue on this street corner here in Mitchell.  The buffalo and steer statues are a long time fixture on a corner just north of the interstate.  Thank goodness that steer is more solidly anchored.