I had the day off today (mostly) and I can finally gather my thoughts and talk about the Surface Design Association Conference that I have been absorbed in for the last few days.  Every other year, the Surface Design Association has a conference.  They are an organization with several thousand members and usually about 400 people attend the conference.  What is surface design?  It sort of broadly encompasses all of the things you can do to or with the surface of fabric: dyes, paints, shibori, batik, embroidery, [read more…]

Being the host of a conference has some disadvantages, but one of the cool things is that I do almost get to take a class.  I am an assistant for a one day workshop with the owner of Spoonflower.com.  I checked out the computer lab yesterday and got all set up for class and I have to pack up my digital cameras and everything this morning.  The conference organizers were a little worried about a class in a computer lab, but I assured everyone I would be totally in my element and would be a great assistant.  Sure hope that’s [read more…]