Saturday was a good day. I was teaching a class at Serge N Sew in Nanaimo. http://www.sergesew.com/
The technique was the stitched tree in my book, "Embellishing with Anything." It's the same technique used in the tree on the cover. On Saturday we were translating it to Christmas cards.
The most delightful group of 6 ladies were registered and what a great group. Three left with beautiful cards, one made TWO trees and decided to do a wall hanging with one. Two had trouble with their machines but coaxed them into working..... with the help of Linda from the store who saved the day. 
It encouraging to see the students I had catch on to what they were doing and then talk about different ideas for the same technique. To the left we have Tina who has been in one of my classes before. She's a delight and a creative "power sewer"! Lots of ideas and unstoppable energy. She's produced many many postcards since that class and has a travelling kit to do more!
To the right is Mary, an elegant woman who mastered her machine and the technique. Her card was completed except for embellishments when she headed home. Her husband picked her up and he was the best man for being interested in what she had accomplished!
To the right is Mary, an elegant woman who mastered her machine and the technique. Her card was completed except for embellishments when she headed home. Her husband picked her up and he was the best man for being interested in what she had accomplished!
And this is Irene, who also took a class with me previously. On Saturday she brought her binder of finished projects, all of which she worked through following the instructions in my book after the one class. She had an amazing variety and quality to her collection. I was really pleased to think that someone had spent the time she that she did with my book and produced such wonderful treasures, both the patterns and ideas in the book and more of her own design. Beautiful work Irene!
To the right is Maryanne. She had a terrible time getting her machine to cooperate, but once it got adjusted, (thanks to Linda, at Serge & Sew)....she was on a roll....look closely at the lovely tree she is working on.
And here is Judy, the maverick in the class. She worked quietly and intently and asked great questions. She is the one who made a wall hanging, and then started on a card and had great ideas to use the technique in other ways. I love it when that happens. Such great ideas when they all started with the same project.
