I'm on the way home from Washington and I have some photos to share. Did I take pictures of the classes or of the quilt shop? No, I'm always too busy teaching to stop for that. But before and after class I found time to pull out the camera. 

I stayed in Yvonne's quilt room/apartment in Bellingham. I had the whole place to myself as Yvonne and Dave live in the big house (the big Victorian house, not the prison :-)). They had a number of wonderful sculptures in their 5 acre yard – gotta love these guys.

You can see Mt. Baker from the front yard. Steve and I were up there a few years ago.

I can't grow peonies (this is a peony, isn't it?) so this one called to me…

Even better in a close crop…

Anara drove me to Arlington at the end of class on Thursday. We took the scenic route. I suppose it's a good thing that the sun was in the wrong place for picture taking or we would have had to stop more.

We ate dinner at a restaurant that I should remember the name of. I don't. Sigh. But I did take pictures of this wall. They have decoupaged area maps to several walls and it looked really good:

I've done this sort of thing with dyed brown paper on floors before so I can truthfully tell you that this is not hard. Crumple the paper, or don't. Dye it, or don't. Tear is for interesting edges, leave them straight, or combine both kinds of edges. 

I used watered down white glue in the past but you could also use Mod Podge. Wallpaper paste would work. I'll bet that you could also make your own 'glue' from flour and water. 

If you did this on a floor, you would want to use the white glue – it's more permanent. You also need to coat it with clear polyurethane made for floors. I can tell you that it sticks well – just go back and see how hard it was for the guys to take up before they laid our new floor.