Some things just stick in my head.

Today has been pretty productive until I quilted three areas I meant to leave unquilted. I have unpicked two of them and will try to do the third tomorrow. I have trained the dog, done my exercise and flattened the cardboard box mountain. While longarming I have time to think, not always a good thing, and I am still bothered by the lady I heard on the radio earlier this week. She was saying with lockdown she has no life because all her routines are gone. She went on to list things she isn’t doing any more, and yes one of them I can’t see a way fo her to do from home. The others though I can see ways to do, and that is what bothers me. If you have things you love doing see if there is a way to keep doing them. I admit some are easier than others. I am really missing my aquafit classes and unless I buy a swimming pool I can’t do them at home. I can do low impact knee friendly exercise videos which are surprisingly similar. Want to exercise with friends, call them, message them, use a video link if you like. You can do it. Another one I thought of that will be hard to do at home (unless you already have a lot of equipment) is pottery. Maybe air drying clay or salt dough would work? I am not a potter or sculpter so I really don’t know. My real point is if you want to do something at a certain time each week, you probably can. Probably even with others if that is what you want.

That lead on to my second thought. I am not at all sure when we will really be able to have quilting classes regularly in person again. So I need to start looking at other routes. To that end we will be ordering me a web cam, I assume that will take a little while to arrive due to current demand. After that I have a couple of thoughts. I would like to do a more informal regular meeting. Where quilters can catch up with and inspire each other while getting their mostly sewing issues sorted out. I think it is also worth looking at doing more indepth taught technique classes. Those will be trickier but I think can work with the meeting style interactive system. I know it would be more efficient to record set lessons and sell them repeatedly but I much prefer tailoring my teaching to the people taking the class on the day. I would rather people stop and ask a question right there, so some sort of live lesson seems a better option to me.

I would love to know what you think about online classes. Would you be interested in an interactive class like this? It won’t be quite the traditional formal lesson, it will be more the way I teach in person. Would that be good or just too weird. Am I nuts thinking this could work?