Today was my first day of workshops with Elly Sienkiewicz. Today's workshop was the ruched rose she demonstrates in her first video. Despite a rocky start (we were supposed to have been given a pattern and have done our prep work prior to class, but that didn't happen), the class was wonderful! Elly did a fantastic job of improvising and we were back on track in no time. I ended up doing an 8" block instead of 12" as planned, but I can always start over if I really want to include it with my barely-started Baltimore. Here's a shot of Elly demonstrating how to handle the cut-away stem:
At the end of the day, Ricky Tims stopped by with his video crew and filmed a quick talk with Elly and our group. He's apparently working on a piece about Quilt Colorado for an upcoming episode of The Quilt Show.
I am looking forward to my second workshop with Elly, although I hate for the week to come to an end. I still have several things that I want to do - I'm not sure that I can accomplish them all before we wrap things up tomorrow night. I am not looking forward to the long day of driving on Saturday, but I sure can't wait to se my puppy!
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