Thursday, February 26, 2009

What the 830 can do!

This site has videos you can watch and see some of the amazing things that this machine can do. Check it out just for fun - scroll down and click on the "watch video" link. Be careful though....you might end up realizing you neeeeeeed this machine!

A Sneak Peak

The new schedule will be coming out on March 1st. Here's a little peak.....


Thursday, February 19, 2009

The Wool Market!

Lorraine and her neighbor June decided to buy Cashmere yarn and have sweaters made. Here is the wool market.
June and Linda hunt for bargains. Cashmere socks anyone??

The favorite cashmere vendor. Lorraine says they have been back three times since this visit!

The Koi Pond

Visiting the Koi Pond in Tongli

Feeding the Koi fish

More of Tongli

Parkins and Caravettas take a boat ride.Where's Domenic??
The kids play in the pagoda.

Lorraine's been sightseeing!

The streets of Tongli, a water town.
The Caravettas and the Parkins.
Antique boats along the river.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Cutting Away

It's the Friday night scrap class, cutting up all their scraps. Next class they will begin a pattern from all these leftovers. Call it "something from nothing."

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Syndi's Tropical!!!

This is just beautiful!!!

Angle Play

Check out these quilts from the first session of the Angle Play class. Donna, MaryJane and Viola have done amazing things with this pattern. We'll have more from the next session soon!!!

Barbara and her amazing students

First a look at some of the blocks from Barbara's Wickersham class...







Next a look at some marvelous work that Barbara is doing. Maybe an upcoming class??????