Developing New Classes

I once had the privilege of rooming with Maggie Jackson of MaggiKnits. Maggie is a fabulous designer with a look that is all her own. (She is also a wonderful person putting up with a ridiculous cough I had!) A discussion with her just before bed one evening convinced me that I was not REALLY a designer, but instead was a TEACHER!

She described her endless flow of ideas for new projects in the following way (paraphrased of course):

If every idea that came into my head could be magically extracted and made into reality without all the time consuming process of swatching, sketching, figuring and working through the details, I could live to be a very old woman and would not have run out of ideas.

I get design ideas from time to time, and they often are interesting, but they are not endless. However, ideas for classes practically are. Now reality is that I don't always get them written up in proposal form and I rarely develop them until they are selected to be offered as both aspects are very time consuming. But this afternoon was spent adding some more classes to my list. My goal is to have 100 to choose from -- I am about half way there!