Strips that Sizzle is a Flimsy

This is a 16-year-old UFO done.  YOu can read about it's humble beginnings here  and  here  and here .  It has been a flimsy for a while and I was ready to write up a post about this and some other finishes...

It makes me dizzy so I don't think it's a keeper.

Thinking I might add borders to enlarge it somewhat.

... when Whoosh.  A Pipe burst.  School flooded.  Water came from above over my class counter and cabinets.  Four inches of water in most of the building - and my cabinets.  Most furniture and supplies beyond hope.  First day of school 5 days away.

Not much we could do after emptying the building.  Reconstruction is still under way 3 weeks later, but we have a start day of Monday for teachers and Wednesday for kids.  So I need to take advantage of my last days and get non-school things done.  Most of our holidays will be used as make-up days, so not sure when there will be down time again.

You would have thought I would have really be sewing like crazy with my girls back in school, but me not teaching yet.  But the flood and all the unknowns about getting back in and what was lost and what wasn't really put me in some kind of limbo.  I did do a last minute job.  Monogram on a towel for one of Middle E's friends going off to college.

I had just finished making work aprons for the new teachers at work and was going to take a picture of them on the hooks at work, but now they are lost in the jumble of stuff.  I guess that gives me a guaranteed finish for a later date when I might not have a current finish!

I ended up working a lot on my Leaders & Enders.  I know they are supposed to be used while working on a larger project, but I just could not concentrate on anything.  The Leaders & Enders were perfect.  Mindless. 

Check out some other finishes at Crazy Mom Quilts   and Confessions of a fabric addic.