Saturday was the first hands on session of a free quilting class I'm teaching for some ladies at church. We met the previous week at JoAnns and I showed them how to read labels, some good ruler choices and some that are a waste of $$, helped them pull fabric, etc. It's going to be 'slow-going' as about half the class is 70 plus years young. I'm getting a little creative figuring how to compensate for weaker hands and physical limitations ... including mine with rotary cutting. I realized my hands don't work like they did even 5 years ago and I just turned 59. I hope I'm as agile as they are at their age!
It's going to be fun and that was the whole point in doing this. I do have one student much younger than us and she's way ahead of the rest of the class but since the class is small, it's not going to be a problem to keep everyone going at their own level.
The rest of the weekend was spent putting my sewing room back together after trashing it pulling out all kinds of rulers and notions and rotary cutters, bobbins, iron, ironing surface, power strips, cutting mats, etc. I felt like I was opening my own quilt store at the church! I sent some pictures of my room to my students showing the mountain of fabrics I had pulled from every little hidey hole they were stored in to make another sample quilt while trying to find that 'one more fabric' to pull together the quilt. It's still a mess but at least I can walk around the room fairly well without stepping over fabric!