Three weeks ago, I mentioned several things were going on behind the scenes. Today, I agreed to teach Beginning Sewing (3-4 sessions) plus Sewing Machine Maintenance at the Southeast Quilt & Textile Museum for spring and fall semesters in 2025. I have the spring dates already set! Project based classes may be offered during the summer months, depending on interest and instructor availability. We’re also working on details for a potential vintage sewing machine maintenance class.
The other major development is that the school-based R.E.A.D. program I’ve been wanting to do with Sadie since retirement is several steps closer to reality. We’ve met with the local liaison and hashed out several of the details, including the day and time for our weekly visits. Sadie & I are tentatively set to do a meet & greet with the staff at an upcoming teacher workday. The liaison seems to think we’ll get the party started before Thanksgiving. Perhaps since it’s a smaller school district? We’ll see. I’m anticipating a January start date, but earlier will be okay with us.
Making room for the R.E.A.D. program means that I may have to pass on the opportunity to join a Featherweight enthusiast group that meets monthly in Ellijay. Having a standing weekly therapy dog visit also means we’ll have to pass on other cool visit invites we might receive that fall on the same day and time. We’ll see how things sort themselves out. Over the past year, I’ve become much more selective about the therapy dog visits I choose to accept. There are some teams in our group who do visits 4-5 days per week. I’m good with 1-2 visits per week.
In other news, the property appraiser did the site visit today. Based on conversations with the field techs, I think we’ll see corrections amounting to 400 sf upstairs and 550 sf in the basement. This should have a significant impact on our assessment. I’m supposed to return to the BOE in a week or two for their official findings. Currently waiting on a date.
Time to go make some project samples and write my tote bag pattern.
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