taking a break

I will be taking a break for the next couple of weeks until I get the new studio up and running. and I will be back and I hope that you come back and read again. Thanks for looking. Katie

Busy, Busy, Busy

Over the past week I have been so busy that I have had no time for crafting that amounts to anything. I am trying to pack up 2 years worth of amassed books and crafting magazines. I did not realize that I had so many. After the move I might be putting up a few for sale or trade. I also had to change the building that I am getting because the builder was unable to get the other one on the schedule in time for me to be out of my retail space. I am not getting a pre-built building that wil be on location mid-week, next week. I am really excited and look forward to the change of pace and location. My class list will be expanded to include:

• Basic Sewing
• Intermediate Sewing
• Art Quilt techniques
• Beginning Knitting
• Beginning Crochet
• Beading
• Drawing and Painting
• Slab-formed Pottery
• Painting on Clay

The last three classes I have taught previously at a private school and I look forward to going back to these classes.

A new path for me

A lot of you know that I own a retail shop. Well as of the end of this month I am closing the storefront location and opening a smaller studio space closer to my home. It was not an easy decision but it needed to be made for a lot of reasons, and so I decided that with the end of my lease that I would move to a studio location. I am having a studio built and I am hoping that it will be ready for me to move in in the next couple of weeks. It is a 16' x 20' building with a second story office.

This is the exterior picture that the builder has supplied. And here is a few shots of the interior but the stairs will be mirrored so that the door is not at the end of the stairs.

Here is a picture of the loft area that I plan to use as my office.

I will still be selling yarn and other knitting supplies, and I will be adding fiber arts items such as fabric and kits for handbags, mini quilts, needlework and cross-stich and embroidery.

I will also be adding back a few of the classes that I did not have at the shop such as Ceramics and slab-formed Pottery (I have a kiln in my garage that I will move to the studio).

I would like to say thinks to my new secret pal. I will post pictures of the beautiful yarn as soon as I can fined the camera cable.

A ramble of a post

I know I have been away for a while. My oldest daughter started school Friday and as you can expect it was a cry fest on the kindergarten hall. She did real good on the first and the second day but this morning she held on so tight, and she did not want to let me leave. To explain a little more her classroom is on the back hall of the school and so she asked me to walk her to class and she asked me to eat breakfast with her today and after I walked her back to her room and she was determined that I was not going to leave. I feel like such a bad mom because I left her crying in her class. Ok I wall get on with the real reason that you read this blog. I have been crafting alot over the past few days just to keep my mind off of her being away from me. I picked up the book Fabric Art Journals, by Pam Sussman, and the current issue of Quilting Arts Magazine. Both of them has inspired me so much that I started a mini Applique quilt and I hoep to be able to complete one per week while she is in school. This quilt is title "hope" I do not know whay this came in my mind but it did and so that is the name that stuck. It is almost complete. I have the top appliqued and now I am adding embroidery to it in the form of seed stitches and the word HOPE. The Background fabric is White Muslin.