As I blogged about earlier, we’ve been planning a kitchen/family room reno all Spring, and work on it has already begun! Hooray! I really love reading about other folks renovations, and I’ve gotten some great ideas from those renovations over the years, so I know that I wanted to blog about the process here, both… Continue Reading
Yesterday Andrew and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary with a nice dinner out at a local restaurant! Amazingly, we actually had that evening free, because he’s in the middle of hosting a huge International Double Reed Society conference at the UoR School of Music. Yup, 1000 oboe and bassoon players have descended upon campus… Continue Reading
I finished up the last session of my first free motion quilting class at the Redlands Sewing Center last week and I remembered to snap some pictures the last class. Look at the concentration on these faces: Continue Reading
What a whirlwind week! Packing up a 16 year old for a two week European orchestral tour is a LOT of WORK! They’re headed to Germany, then Austria, and then a lot of time in Italy, playing 4 concerts along the way The group he is in, the Claremont Young Musician’s Orchestra, has done a… Continue Reading
Hooray! Today is the day – Dyeing 100: an Intro to Fiber Reactive Dyes has launched! I have really enjoyed sharing my love of color with lots of folks in Dyeing 101: Controlling Color and Dyeing 102: Controlling Texture. But I felt like I needed a smaller, simpler class for people who wanted to dip their toes into dyeing,… Continue Reading
I’ve been working really hard here: and am really close to launching Dyeing 100! Fingers crossed tomorrow is the day! What else have I got going on? June Goals Samples for Free Motion Quilting Class June 3 90% Quilts for FMQ class June 10 75% Teaser page for online classes June 10 100%… Continue Reading
I’ve been on the computer a lot the last couple of days, Dyeing 100 is just about ready to launch, and I am really sick of being on the computer! But I wanted to pop in, say hi and share a bit of color: Ain’t it grand? Continue Reading
I’ve been having a great time teaching free motion quilting at the Redlands Sewing Center! I’m teaching several classes for them, each class is 3 sessions a week apart. I just taught the 2nd session of the first class last night, and we’re having a blast! If you’re interested in taking one of the upcoming… Continue Reading