Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 5

Welcome back for day five of the eighth round of mystery stitching! Sorry for being a little late, this took longer to write than anticipated. Yesterday the teachers of youngest's school finally showed up at midday - talk about making us wait! They did some set up before ringing the doorbell that included rolling out a red carpet and setting up an elbow height table. Then they rang the doorbell and started up some music on the portable speaker. Youngest got a face full of the contents of a party popper and a felt mortarboard put on his head. Then while he signed his diploma one of his teachers sang "you'll never walk alone". She can sing fortunately but as this was one of the songs played at my dad's funeral it always sets off the waterworks - it was a struggle not to cry and I'm sure if the teachers noticed then they probably thought it was proud mum stuff. Official bit over they showered him with gifts - a bottle of alcohol free Chardonnay, some strawberry syrup and plastic cocktail glasses were for making a mocktail and a huge bag of things to nibble with it from crisps (chips in the USA and the Netherlands) to a ciabatta, nuts in a tin to a cucumber - and even a mega sized bag of multi coloured marshmallows! Also included was a social distanced class photo - done year book style - and a water bottle. As much as possible was covered in a logo made for his school year that has the year, the virus, a mortarboard, a mask and the diploma on it. The whole thing including a group photo of him and the teachers took about 20 minutes and miraculously the usual busybodies in the street were absent so youngest didn't die too much from embarrassment.

Now on to what you *really* came for...

This is what mine looks like after stitching part four.

You can find today's pattern here.

Have fun and I'll be back in about ten hours with this month's NFSAL and tomorrow with the next part of the Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8!