<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nRaNae will be teaching classes based on her new book \u201cSimply Amazing Spiral Quilts.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>There will be all day classes on Thursday and Friday and then a 1 \u00bd day class on Saturday and Sunday morning.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nNote:\u00a0 <\/span>As I was writing this blog I discovered that the #676 class on Sat.-Sun. \u2013 \u201cExploding Spiral\u201d, was omitted from the printed brochure. It will be included in the class listing on the web site.\u00a0 <\/span>Our apologies for the omission to RaMae. Something always turns up no matter how much you proofread.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n1.\u00a0 How many years have you been quilting?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nMy mom taught me to sew when I was 7 or 8, but I made my first quilt in my first year of graduate school, which would have been 1989, so that’s — YIKES! — 20 YEARS!!!!!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n2.\u00a0 What motivated you to start quilting?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nMy grandmother (mother’s mother) was making a quilt for me when she died in 1976.\u00a0 My mother brought me the unfinished quilt when she came home from the funeral.\u00a0 I finally picked it up in 1989, and that was the first quilt I made.\u00a0 It was king-size and hand-quilted.\u00a0 YIKES!\u00a0 A graphologist once looked at my signature and said “You never start anything small.”<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n3.\u00a0 Where have you traveled in your quilting teaching career?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nI am just starting to travel in my quilt teaching career, and that has taken me to many places in the USA I would not have otherwise visited.\u00a0 But my previous work as a travel writer and photographer took me far and wide — most notably three times\u00a0to Uzbekistan.\u00a0 I also lived for 1-1\/2 years in Argentina back in the 80’s, and return as often as I can to brush up on my tango dancing.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n4.\u00a0 What is the most, unusual, frightening, funny, frustrating experience you have had in your quilting career?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nNone come to mind, except that the whole fact of stumbling into this quilting career has been an incredibly serendipitous surprise!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n5.\u00a0 Who is your favorite author?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nDiana Gabaldon.\u00a0 Start with Outlander<\/i>, and you’ll be hooked too!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n6.\u00a0 What is the last book you read or are reading?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nMagician<\/span><\/i> by Raymond Feist.\u00a0 I don’t love it, but the French grad student who is living with me recommended it (he likes medieval fantasy fiction) and it has been part of my getting to know him.\u00a0 He also loves to cook, so we spend a lot of time together in the kitchen!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n7.\u00a0 What is your birth order, only child, first, second, third, or ??<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nFirst of six.\u00a0 That’s probably why I ended up teaching — I’ve been telling everybody what to do for my whole life!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n8.\u00a0 Where did you grow up?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nSouthern California, but from the time I was about 12 I wanted to live in New York City.\u00a0 I moved to NYC in 1995, and it has felt like home from the moment I arrived.\u00a0 For my high school years we had a farm in Moorpark, CA, so I feel as at home in the country as I do in the city.\u00a0\u00a0I can still milk a goat!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n9.\u00a0 Where did you go to college?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nScripps College (the women’s college, not the oceanographic institute) in Claremont, CA for my first 2 years.\u00a0 Then USC to finish my bachelor’s degree in piano performance.\u00a0 After I came back from Argentina I did a master’s degree in piano at UCLA.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n10.\u00a0 Do you have children \u2013 grandchildren?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n11.\u00a0 Do you have any pets?\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nNo kids, but I have a dog.\u00a0 Her name is Morgan, she is half golden retriever, have chow chow.\u00a0 She’s 13 years old\u00a0and I’ve had her since she was a baby.<\/b><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n12.\u00a0 What is your favorite food?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nI enjoy eating anything except liver, and I love trying new things.\u00a0I won’t hesitate to spend any amount for excellent chocolate.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n13.\u00a0 Do you have any other hobbies besides quilting?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nLately there hasn’t been time for much else, but I love the outdoors and there’s the tango dancing I mentioned earlier.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n14.\u00a0 What would be on your \u201cbucket list\u201d (like the movie) if you could do anything and money was no object?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\nWow, that’s a question about priorities, isn’t it?\u00a0 I could say the question is more about time than money, because I believe you can always find the money for what you really want.\u00a0 But that could be said about time as well.\u00a0 But then there’s the question of finding the time to make the money, which then raises the question of why you’re doing what you’re doing with your time, and if that’s really giving you what you want.\u00a0 And if it isn’t, why are you\u00a0doing it?\u00a0 And what could\/should you be doing instead……?<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n
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