Busy as a Moth in a Window!

We started off yesterday morning with a bang and a flurry of activity!

Students were anxiously waiting for doors to open outside of my classroom --- 8am, and we were ready for all of the rolling in and setting up of machines, unpacking of project boxes, ready to set needle to fabric and SEW!

It’s always fun to meet up again with folks that I haven’t seen in a while – perhaps we have met somewhere else before and reunions were many.

I let the students get all of their stuff in gear while the show helpers and I ran my trunk show and book signing stuff up to the luncheon location to set up for my noon-time lecture to come.

And back to class I went – heart pounding, ,ready to get this day off to a great start.  And we did!

40 moth making quilters!

Pressing and cutting while chatting up a storm.

Ready to set those moths a whirling –

Triangles on a string!

We were well on the way by the time lunch arrived!

Luncheon is served!

All of these ice teas are NOT for me --

But I could have drank that many!

Hahahahaha!!

This is a shrink wrapped bundle of gifted phone books ready for happy string piecing retreaters at Quiltville Inn!  I laughed so hard!

And back to class I went --

Beautiful blocks in Christmas fabrics!

So much scrap happiness in the making!

So grateful to Signature thread for our door prizes!

Gift packs of beautiful Signature 60 3-ply!

All of the rest of our activity is in the video below.  Click to play and enjoy:

We went all the way to 5pm - what a day!

Dinner with my friend Jill and her “rocket launcher” car!

Jill has “Ta-Da Quilting Studio” in Erie, PA – and I don’t get to see her often enough.  I was laughing about the “Rocket Launcher” on the top of her car, but in actuality it is ingenious! She is an Innova long arm dealer, and when she goes to set up a new machine at the home of its new owner, the rails go in the long tubes on the top of her car, the machine head and legs and all other parts fit in the back of the car – and away she goes without having to pull a trailer.

At one point on our journey back to the hotel, we ended up having to do a u-turn in the middle of the street, and I said “Look!  We are pole dancing!”  LOL.

So fun to have some time to be silly with a friend.

Today we are off and at it again, another class of 40 for Garden Part from the Addicted to Scraps book.  The same book for yesterday’s Moth in the Window, and tomorrow’s Wanderlust class. 

Another fun day of playing in the scraps ahead!

Did you get your entry in on this week’s Quilty Box Gift-Away?  Remember to enter ON THAT POST.

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

Vintage hexagon quilt found in Verona, Virginia

No one wants to hear what others think we should or should not be doing.

I've made it this far with my own decisions. And so have you!

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