SYCAMORE – All Susan Edwards wanted was a little shop in her backyard where she could teach basket weaving.

Meanwhile, her husband, Jim, was trying to figure out what to do with the huge ballroom of the former Elks building at the corner of Somonauk and Elm streets in Sycamore. Jim is a co-owner of the building.

“Finally one day he told me, ‘Go over there, clean that room out, get some of your friends, and start teaching classes,’” Susan Edwards recalled. “He didn’t think I would actually do it, but I did.”