First of all, let me just do a little happy dance around my hotel room as I watch the returns come in. A message has been sent. Will it be heard?

Now, to my day here in gorgeous Tahoe. It was bright and sunny today – not a cloud in the sky. Not so for the northwest where the rain has finally stopped, but not without leaving a lot of devastation in its wake. I am happy to have missed it.

Today, we took our basic design and played with it some more and then selected a design for out big project. Here is what I did with two of my pieces:

Here is some other work from around the room:

Here is how I left my design wall, as I was auditioning fabrics:

And, of course, the Dessert Du Jour:

We had a preview of AQT 2007. It will be for one week, only, and it will have a lot of new teachers. More about that, later.