November 11,12 &13th 2014
Firstly, I want to thank Janet for carrying the blog the last few weeks with no contribution from me. As has been said before, I live in Venice, Florida and Jan in England so it is rare we actually get together. I am thrilled to say I have just had coffee with her as she called in on her way back from her holiday in Florida on route to the airport. I think she was expecting me to be collapsed in a heap after 3 solid days teaching at the above retreat. Instead she found me so excited and unable to stop talking trying to share with her all the fun I had.
I taught two classes.
The first was a project on the Serger making a beach cover up (Kimono robe) that I had designed taking into account that there was a harsh time limit and people who had never worked on a serger or made a garment. The real challenge was they had to complete it in 3.5 hours!!! There were 40 students each day and they were all super smart and industrious and all robes were finished although a few preferred to take theirs home to hem. The rest used a coverstitch to complete the hem. As a teacher I view success as everyone finishing and loving what they have done. I was beyond thrilled!
This pattern for the Serger is available as a download from the store on this site
I used the `Silhouette` cutting machine to cut out all the numbers for everyone. No fun cutting out detailed numbers!!!
As I said at the beginning, it was a `brilliant` three days. Thank you to all the class participants
who were so much fun and so lovely. I am still excited!!!!!!