I just finished updating my Classes page, with my currently-scheduled classes. This covers May/June/July with a lot of offerings, and even has one in September at Heritage Spinning. I’m sure to fill in more classes further down the line, but this is what I have going right now.

I just finished two days in a row at Little Red Schoolhouse, very fun classes (Bags to Go! and Fast Florida Footies). Next weekend I’m at Threadbear for another Bags to Go! class, so you didn’t quite miss your chance yet. And the next weekend, I am at Threadbear once more for the Garden Capelet.

I still need to update my patterns page in the next few days, to add my new Garden Capelet, the Tea Cosy and Bags to Go! patterns. Whew! The Capelet pattern is ready right now, and the others are so close it pains me to say they are not finished yet. This week. Soon.

I start my computer class term Monday, so that will tie me up on Mondays for many hours, for a couple of months… it is fun, rewarding work but it is not knitting. However, it is steady work one day a week (the term lasts 10 weeks) and that is a real gift to someone like me who is self-employed. Teaching, any teaching, is really my “bag.” I just love it. And these computer classes fill, 10-15 students per class. Yippee!

But in knitting news… I’m still regularly teaching at my two bread-and-butter stores, Little Red Schoolhouse and Threadbear. I still have a few classes here and there at Yarn Garden and Heritage Spinning (they are out of town for me).

I also keep trying Foster Center’s community education schedule, but if I don’t get more students this summer I will stop that in the Fall. And since my friend Marie is now a manager at the local JoAnn superstore, I’m going to try a few day classes there for Polymer clay this spring and see if they happen. I’m willing to give it a try and see.

And now we have a yarn shop in my very own neighborhood (about 3-4 blocks from Foster Center… I still consider that my neighborhood but I now live 3 miles away). On the East side, Rae’s Yarn Boutique (a small shop that used to be in a craft mall way on the north side) has asked me to teach a few classes during the day.

So we’ve scheduled 3 day classes in June/July at Rae’s, and I’m going to see how that goes. I’m full-up with weekends and nights at my bread-and-butter shops, but if I can do a day class with a different pool of students, just before I pop over to Foster Center for my afternoon shift, I’ll be a happy girl. We’ll see how it goes, I’m hopeful it will fill out my schedule a bit, since I’m so very lopsided with night/weekend classes. There are only so many nights/weekends I can teach, and I need to get in as many hours of teaching as I possibly can.

Anyway… here are the long-promised photographs of my polymer clay class a week ago Sunday, at Threadbear. These women just did a fabulous job! I had one student from 3.5 hours north, and one student from 1.5 hours away in Lake Orion, and two locals. We had a very fine time, and they made some wonderful things. Thanks for coming to the class, ladies!

Here are the long-lost pics: The gang of four in our very happy mess; and then 4 trays of beads/patterns they took home with them.)

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