If it’s Fall, I must be….
Fall is particularly welcome this year after record breaking heat this summer. We seemed to have instantly slammed into cooler weather and I’m delighted!
And if it’s Fall, it must mean I’m prepping for Houston. Because I kit my classes, students walk in with snips, pencil and paper, and everything else is provided-they love that! It is a lot of work to make and ship them but I think it’s worth it in the end.
Just think, I only have around 330 more sandwiches to go… What would I do without podcasts to entertain me?
I chose cotton batting this year instead of 80/20-but the sandwiches are soooo much heavier. Since I’ll be shipping 400 sandwiches that means it will be more expensive to ship them. I ship the sandwiches and some quilts ahead of time since I will fill my 2 huge 29″ suitcases with 100 lb of teaching supplies and the bulk of my quilts.
I miscalculated and had to order even more fabric. My new studio is perfectly set up to accommodate cutting and assembling the kits. I continue to marvel that I have such a fabulous “work place”!
I have to share some yard photos. My grasses are at their peak in the fall:
Love this perky little guy-kind of corn-tassel-looking to me.
My Japanese Forest grass is in on it too.
We don’t get the spectacular Fall of the Northeast so we settle for much more subtle leaf color changes.
My Autumn Sedum is pretty showy this year. These guys are our version of fall!
And this is my book-well it’s kinda my book, an early version of my book. I have new found respect for book authors-it is a LOT of work! I have a long way to go but I hit some deadlines this week and I am spent and weary. But give me a good night’s sleep and I’ll be all over it tomorrow. Onward!
Sharing this with Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday-I always check out the links.
You are amazing, Jenny. Don’t know how you get all that done and still do a cheerful blog!!
I don’t know either Ila! Thank you for the comment!
Wow, I can’t even imagine the number of hours it takes to get those kits together! And I would never have guessed that cotton batting is so much heavier than cotton/poly that it would affect the shipping cost. I would love to see how your studio is set up to facilitate kitting for classes. Do you just mean that you have a big cutting table, or is there more to it than that?
It does take awhile but students sign up for kitted classes! I actually am not totally sure that it is heavier and when I get a moment I’m going to find out. The way this all works in my studio is the fabulous cutting table that is 72″ long with both ends flipped up, plus 4 little temporary tables. One table is to hold the trash can so that Basset Boy does not eat the fabric:-/
Jenny, how very fortunate your students are to have a teacher who goes way above the norm. Of course, this way you know the quilt sandwich is done in such a way it won’t cause problems.
Oh thank you Gwyned! It really does benefit me also-I know it’s a good set up and I know they love walking into class with just a few supplies.
What motivated you to write a book? Did you have any idea that it would consume our time for so long? I can’t wait to see it, and hope that it is everything you wanted it to be.
I wanted to encourage and support free motion quilters and I’d also like to teach at longer venues so that I have my students longer-a book was the answer. I too hope it is what I want it to be-time will tell. Thank you for the comment!