Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

After babysitting our grandson, I hiked up my street and met with my friend of 33 years who had paid for an online class about quilting with Ricky Tims. She'd offered to have me sit in several weeks ago, and, since I love quilts, I took her up on it. Tims is delightful, and the lessons are excellent. I may never make a quilt again, but I love learning how various techniques are accomplished and just seeing all the quilts is delightful. He is an amazing quilter, as well as musician and all around Renaissance man. He has a studio in Colorado and seems to have made hundreds of quilts, and his father quilted as well. Because my father knew how to sew as well as my mother, and that is saying something, as he worked in the garment industry his entire life, I love the idea of men quilting. Tims is a great teacher, and well organized. He is encouraging, because he throws out all the rules of quilting, and frees the quilter to truly create and design. I came home raring to quilt, and I just happen to have some cotton print squares that suit the purpose. But I am now craving to buy fabric, as between sending a bunch to my granddaughter and giving away fabric for friends to sew masks, I have very little to choose from. I can see a trip to a fabric store is in my future, and very soon indeed.