Ooops!

   I completely dropped the ball on my blog recently! I even had newsletter emails that I wrote, and just needed to copy and paste, and I just forgot! I've been quite busy with my 40+ Ways to Use Your Free Motion Foot series, and I guess that took over my brain... 
   So, I thought I would at least post the last couple of them even though they are late, because they still have good things to think about! 
This one should have been on May 26, 2023:
 
This might be short, as I'm getting ready to hit the road for the first RV trip of the season! As usual, it involves work for at least one of us 😂, but it's still always fun! It will be the maiden trip for our giant oaf of a 'puppy', Maxwell, so... wish us luck... Our husky, Tundra, is a pro, so hopefully she will help him. 😀 The first time I let Maxwell into the RV to meet it, he jumped up into the over the cab bed, so... should be fun... 😅 The bottom photo will give you an idea of his personality and regard for personal space... and he wasn't even full grown yet 😅 (the yellow lab is Roger, my son's dog who spends a lot of time at our house)
   Here's my question... are you the type of person who dreams big? If so, do you usually see at least some of the big dreams through to completion? If not, what stops you? I'd love for you to respond and tell me a little bit! Not everyone is that type of person, and that's totally ok too. I want to do more than just help people make pretty things. I want to help you see that you can do big things if you want to, or at least more than you maybe think you can! I have definitely found that fear is a bigger hindrance to people learning art quilting than information and knowledge. (I'm not implying fear is the only thing that stops people, there are a bazillion other legitimate things that make things hard!) But I'm always hoping that the encouragement you get from me won't just stop at art quilting, but will translate into confidence in other areas of your life too! And you can start small, you don't have to jump right into a huge dream. Did you know if you spend 15 minutes per day working on something, it will add up to 90 hours in a year? If you have a big dream, is there anything you could start doing just a few minutes per day to start working toward it? Something to thing about over your long weekend! 
Happy sewing! Beret​