Company Girl Coffee 092812

Good morning! And a good morning it is - seven hours until vacation!

You'd think that I'm going somewhere special, but no, I'm hanging mostly around home. At the end of the week I'm taking an intensive, three and a half day quilting class with Margaret Miller (click on "gallery") at a quilt shop in a sweet little town half an hour west of here.

My creativity needs a bit of a jump start after sacrificing itself to moving and rearranging the condo over the last year. This class will be a bit of a refresher on color/value theory, plus a lot of playing with angles and new blocks. From what I understand, we will work in pairs, providing an opportunity to see things from a different perspective. Woo hoo!

We were told to bring 8 -10 fabrics in each of two colors, of varying values (value is the relative lightness or darkness of the color, though you can't go on the actual color itself...trust me, if you take a black and white picture of a range of fabric, which ones read as "medium" and "light" may surprise you). Her examples were complementary color pairs - red/green, orange/blue etc. Eh. So I'm actually using analogous colors (colors next to one another on the color wheel) for the two primary fabrics - teal and lime green. I've an accent color in a red-violet; something tells me I should pull quite a bit of that from my stash, as someone is bound to recommend I use that as one of the primaries (with the lime?) and the teal as the accent...

Wish I could direct link to some of the fabrics I've chosen. Can you tell I'm excited?

The rest of the week holds a hair appointment, canasta night, my 35th high school reunion, a fireplace cleaning and at least one trip to the Farmer's Market. Lots of reading, finishing basement cleaning (with the promise of being able to clean and repaint a cute little wooden bookcase that the previous owners left down there), fall food cooking and relaxing. Counting down the minutes...