I tell you, I am quite the professional blogger! Lol, nothing can be further from the truth. I just found a draft for this blog from March and I never even posted it! Oh my goodness. It must have been a SQUIRREL! I wonder a lot about my focus these days....
The first part of June is fresh with the promise of summer and breezy, warm days, filled with creativity. The reality of it is, mowing for hours every 3-4 days to keep ahead of making hay from our acreage yard. Mowing is another real reason why I love January!
It turns out June, this year is filled already and its just June 5th. Our church is starting VBS this week, I'm traveling out of town for a 10 day stretch to work for a friend and then family arrives for a long weekend. Done! The month will be over. AND we have to mow....
I'm looking ahead to fall, September, to be exact, to start conversations with the students who signed up for my class at the Duluth Rug School. Each year for the last 34 years, the Arrowhead Hookcrafters Guild has been hosting a 4 day rug school and I've been fortunate enough to teach there for several years. I'm just beginning my conversations with students and I love to find out what their hopes are for the class and their project along with learning what their struggles might be. I am insanely curious as to why students choose their patterns and color plans. It's challenging but so rewarding to help students gain confidence in their project, teach a few new things and also, last but NOT LEAST, help the students get the rug they envision, since they are the ones taking it home to live with it and love it. Everyone has a different perspective on what is good and lovely and I really like to find out what each person chooses as good and lovely for their project. My tastes are different from theirs and their vision is what I want to accomplish. Facilitate their vision. Love that.
I hope you have a corner or nook to sit and hook on the days that are too hot, rainy or whatever, this summer. Creativity has to be given space of it's own and there isn't really a season for it. Rug hooking is relaxing and exciting as patterns come to life.
Cathy