Cspoonquilt

I have been a member of my local guild for almost 20 years.  Our members and our guild shows and activities have played a formative roll in my development as a quilter.  So I felt very complemented when I was asked to teach my Scrap Strategies class for the guild's monthly class offering.  We are very fortunate to have a great classroom space at the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz's new facility.   The natural light is great, the workstations are ample and the chairs are comfy!  You can see the crowd of students in the far left.  They are all gathered around the "Scrap exchange" table.  I invite students to bring a bag of scraps to share.  We dump them on a big table and toss them like a fabric salad and then everybody can go fishing for new scraps.  It is soooo much fun! In my Scrap Strategies class I  teach how to sort and sew scraps in a very care free way to produce very individually designed scrap quilts.  It's fu...

One of many misc. jobs I had before becoming a full time mom,  I arranged flowers for parties and weddings. Evey now and then some family friend is getting married and I offer to do their flowers. It's fun for me to keep my florist fingers nimble and one less wedding detail they have to worry about. My dear friends Sun-ah and Charlie's daughter got married yesterday and they asked me to make the bouquet for their daughter.  Monica is a very independent minded young woman and decided she wanted to wear a traditional Korean wedding dress (as she is half Korean) and to go with it... she chose a rather unconventional type of bouquet! Actually when she sent me the pictures of her dress and sample bouquets that she liked I kind of "got it" why she chose the succulent bouquet.   It was actually a lot of fun to research and design and I think it complemented her and her dress beautifully. Of course there was such a crush of people around the new bride I did not get ...