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It feels good to be sewing again. I find that when I don't sew, I start feeling a little crazy. The children are in their electronics-induced comas (i.e., videogames) so I try to use the time as efficiently as possible...oh, and put in a load of wash, fold the wash, plan a New Year's Eve dinner for friends (who thankfully don't care what the house looks like!), update the website finally, and yada, yada, yada.

This is a pic of a project I'll be teaching at the Lancaster Heritage Museum on January 28th. If you have always wanted to learn to make traditional blocks the easy way, please come join me. At my classes, we sew, chat, eat chocolate, and such...generally have a pleasant day whilst learning about foundation piecing.

I've also been spending time with Electric Quilt. I have my new project for the Lancaster Quilt Museum in the works and will post the preliminary drawings soon. After much soul-searching, I am going to attempt some kind of queen-size quilt. I want it to be "me", but want to make something that will have broad appeal so that it brings the Museum lots of $$. As quilt artists, I guess we sometimes have to walk that fine line between "the art" and "commercialism". My plan (which seems to change hourly) is to take a traditional design, "rock" the blocks (to keep in the Rockin' Lancaster theme), and use my hand-dyes as accents to the bold colors of the Amish traditions of our area. Like last year, I'll be keeping my progress on-line at my website. Please check it out in the coming weeks to see the thrill of victory and agony of defeat.

So much to do...so little time. Unfortunately, Threadnest had to take a back seat.

Whaz happenin?

1. Learning about Medicare and Home Health Care for an ill parent.
2. Major bathroom renovation. (This, of course, began with a small crack in a 30 year old fiberglass tub and led to "Well if we're gonna do "this", then we might as well do "that".
3. Cat suspected of a horrible terminal cat illness, but was then cleared (after an expensive vet bill)
4. Homework and projects with 2 children.
5. Charity quilt for the Guild
6. Drunkard's Path quilt top (very cutesy colors)for DH's grandchild (supposed to be a girl...ended up a boy...so much for the pink & lime quilt)
7. Learning Electric Quilt
8. Taught a class
9. Made class samples
10. Making more class samples
11. Firmed up teaching schedule with Lanc Quilt & Textile Museum
12. Invited to participate in Museum's Art Fundraiser
13. Doing appraisals and studying.

I will have some pics soon. Life has just been insane. The good kind of insane, but insane just the same!