More Serger Classes, Please

I will be sewing today. I have spent most of this week attending to other projects and I need a day alone, in my sewing room, to process and plan. I stopped in at the quilt store north of town yesterday morning and was asked by a customer when I was going to offer more serger classes there. I had classes on the schedule in January, February, and March, but none of them filled. I told the staff person that I would look at my calendar and schedule additional classes.

I am working hard to keep boundaries in place. My volunteer activities are important, but I have learned over the years that if I am not vigilant, some of these organizations will begin to treat me as unpaid staff, and I don’t want the road to hell to turn into an eight-lane expressway. Teaching sewing is what I am doing these days and that needs to be my focus.

Part of our Starlink order arrived yesterday:

I think the box with the mounting hardware will be delivered today. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to install it this weekend or not. We’ll need to use the forklift and we still have quite a bit of snow in the yard. I am sure the husband has this all planned out, though. Being married to the man who built the house has its advantages.

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I’ve been meaning to mention this book, which I read the week Tera and I were at Sew Expo:

This is the story of Jenny Doan’s life and how Missouri Star Quilt Company came into being. I had trouble putting this down. I knew the basic history, but to hear Jenny talk about growing up in California and everything in her life that led to the founding of one of the most successful quilting businesses in the country was riveting. I was lucky enough to see her in person in 2021 at the Garden of Quilts in Salt Lake City (another trip with Tera). Five stars, highly recommend.

I got fabric yesterday for the binding on the third bear paw quilt. I’d love to start quilting the fourth one—I am still hoping to meet my self-imposed deadline of finishing all of these by the end of March—but I had to order thread and that order hasn’t come yet. If the thread doesn’t arrive by Monday, quilting the last bear paw top will have to wait until after the fire department auction.