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| Kerrie driving, me hanging out the passenger window. |
Here is the lovely Kerrie and Bernie, working away on their postcards.
WOW, what a lovely space. It's all painted this pretty yellow and there's windows facing every direction. Bernie could give Anna Maria Horner's new attic a run for her money! hehe
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| lovely, sunlit, hardwood, incredible view, filled with heirloom quilt tops. |
I gave everyone two themes for their postcards. The first was "Something with Yellow". Two hours later, I added a second theme of a mini quilt or quilt block. Here they are!!
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| my favorite part might just be all those toenails! ; ) |
We did some satin stitching, decorative stitching, couching, raw edge applique, fusing & gluing, piecing, and Kerrie even did some hand stitching and french knots. (Yay for you!) Those women who were up for a card swap threw their addresses into a draw-box, and picked a recipient to mail their card to. It was lots of fun, but GOSH the time sure flew by! Some of us didn't leave until after 5 (sorry Bernie!).
Thank you to all the great women who came out to sew today, and a BIG THANK YOU to Bernie for creating such a great space and having us over to stitch in. : )
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| Bernie's Attic, 3 stories up in the sky. |
See you all tomorrow for Tips on Tuesdays!
~Monika
7 comments:
I had tons of fun and can't wait to make more post cards! Thanks so much for the great class and thanks to Bernie for the perfect classroom!
Tamara
Monika, what a talented bunch of people. Love the postcards, wish I could up sticks and move there. What a fantastic sewing space and such a rural setting. Will have to take myself off down to the sea here to see if it will give me a surge of inspiration.
Wowow!! Those are so awesome! And boy, would I be the happiest Girl around if I had such an incredible sewing area!
Wish I could have been there. What a great spot for classes and workshops!! Lucky you!
Hey, what fun!! Hi Kerrie!!!! I love all of your postcards, girls. I wish I had an attic, too.
Those are lovely! I need to spend some time on post-card quilts, it looks like so much fun!
To those who commented on the attic - it is a fabulous space and I totally love it!! I'm always happy up there and on crazy busy work days I sometimes wander up in the moon light before I go to bed just to absorb the space.
My long term plan - for when I retire from Operating Room nursing - is to host classes up there. This opportunity was too good to pass up and it turned out really well. We learned that, for sure, 8 is max! Working on anything big would make it more challenging. I often have 5 friends up on Friday nights and that is also a nice number but some just bring hand stitching and some use the floor space to layout quilts! So I moved up the start of the workshop space and for sure will host another one in the fall.
Monika, thanks for the awesome picture of the attic. I will want another one of those when we finish redoing the siding and the house looks as good on the exterior as it does on the interior. I also have a blog site if anyone is interested - it chronicles the story of our catalogue house. I don't update it near as often as Monika - mostly because I struggle with the uploading of the pictures (thought the new computer would make it better but I can't seem to downsize them enough to get them to open easily! Like Monika - I love when people leave comments!
If you are interested in attending a workshop in the attic or have a class suggestion please feel free to email me at maxic@yourlink.ca
Bernie
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