Blogging. . .never thought I’d be doing this, but what the heck, I’ll give it a try.
I suppose what I’m most excited about these days is my new workroom! Along with our new addition this fall, I inherited a workspace. The dining room actually worked fine for a lot of years because it’s really two rooms made into one. However, most of the materials I worked with were packed into a tiny room, everything stacked on top of everything else. . .you know what I’m talking about. Now, I have a beautiful room, with beautiful light, counters, shelves, design board and great set of organizational pieces from Ikea to store fabric, paints, beads and camera stuff. And since it’s been so long since I’ve actually played with all these toys, I’ve had the best time organizing and getting re-acquainted with my “inventory”!! It’s still a work in progress, but here are a few photos.
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| “Mmmm. . . fabric!” | “Yummy. . .fabric!” |
What I love most about this space is working on several projects at once. There was always a problem when we needed the dining room - clean up could take awhile. Now I can leave my sewing machine and ironing board set up and projects strewn all over the place! Aaaah, freedom! I have some new friends in my life. They are a quilt group I joined up with a few months ago. There are six of us and we meet every month or so for four hours. It’s an eclectic group for sure with tons of talent and each person expressing their own style. We’ve been working from the “Art Quilt Workbook” by Jane Davila & Elin Waterston and “Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter” by Katie Pasquini Masopust and Brett Baker. Everyone takes a turn teaching a chapter and then we take what we’ve learned and apply it to a themed project at home. Also, each time we meet one person takes a turn and provides a small “bag-o-goodies” (fabric, beads, hand made items, wire and other embellishments) for our ‘postcard challenge’ which can be any size we choose. You’d be amazed what everyone comes up with!
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| “January goodies.” | “This is what I made.” |
So, as time goes by, I’ll share more photos, but now I better get back to work! Thanks for reading!
