Carina dives into how adding Live Retreats to Design Suite happened. She recaps in January 2023 in Hamilton, Missouri at the Missouri Star Quilt Retreat Center. Learn about the activities, tours, and workshops Design Suite enjoyed while they were there. Watch the youtube channel for excerpts of the event at www.youtube.com/carinagardnerEpisode 283 Recap on the January Live Retreat in Quilt Town USA__________Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spending Time On Things That Don’t Work https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/freetraining__________About Carina Gardner:Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.comWatch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/I’m so excited! My new book Design Profit and Prosper just hit Amazon! We have some special things happening for the launch of the book. The first is I’m mailing everyone who purchases before March 12th a signed bookplate sticker for your book! Next when you submit a screenshot of your receipt, we are going to invite you to the virtual launch party happening March 14th! To join or get the signed bookplate, go to designprofitprosper.com