All geared up with no where to go!

Patches offers a free introductory lesson to your sewing machine if you purchase one from there. It's a great store. I've only been in three or four times and they already know me by name and are very helpful.

I had my lesson yesterday and then decided to purchase my beginner gear (cutting boards, rulers, sharp cutty thing that looks like a pizza cutter) and my material. I originally wanted to stick with white and a few dusky colours but Sharon (one of the ladies at Patch) said that they like you to have 4 dark, 4 medium and 4 light for the Yellow Brick Road class so you can have some contrasts going. So I started walking around the shop and just picked up Fat Quarters that I liked the look of until I had 10 or so. Then Sharon took a look and put them into groups for me (fauns, blues and pinks) and told me to get more pinks and then I'd be done. She sounds like she knows what she is talking about. I just like looking at the pretty patterns.