November 30, 2005

No matter what you want to call it, I’m really excited about our up coming fiber art workshops! It’s great to see how much interest has been shown already. Ruth McDowell’s workshop is already close to filling up!

During this “downtime,” we have been driving around to as many area quilt shops as possible to distribute our fiber art workshop brochure. We have visited many fine shops that I wish I could win a shopping spree in! (But I had to settle for just a few fabrics in each. LOL!) First we hit a bunch of New York shops, then New Jersey, and then Massachusetts. I’ll be adding a quilt shop page on our Fiber Art Workshops website when I’ll list and describe all the shops that we visited.

In New York, much to my delight, we found a wonderful little shop just 15 minutes away from us — Log Cabin Quilts in Ravena. They have a great selection of contemporary fabrics and lots of embellishment goodies. I’ll be working out details for them to put together a trunk show type package that can be available at our inn when the quilt art workshops are in session.

In March, right before the art quilt workshops start we will be upgrading the electrical circuits in the art studio so that we can accomodate lots of sewing machines and irons. We will also be getting some nice ergonomic chairs.

I am remodeling one of the guest rooms this winter — Room 21. It is getting new paint, a new mattress and box spring, new bathroom fixtures, new rugs, and some new furniture. I’ll post pictures when I have some. Right now I’m preparing to do the painting. It will be 3 shades of yellow — from a pale, pale yellow to a nice sunny yellow.