What does IOLI mean to me....for one I do think it is international. I have seen patterns and articles from Ann Keller from Ireland, Lia Baumeister-Jonker from The Netherlands, and people from all over in the bullentin. For me IOLI has brought me closer to other people that enjoy the same thing as me and that is Lace wether it is tatted, crocheted, knitted, bobbinlaced or just made with a plain ordinary needle.Lace is so beautiful for the eye to behold!! Don't you all think so??!! IOLI gives me a chance to see what other lacers are making. It shows me in pictures the variety of different kinds of lace. It also shows me other pictures of lacers. Helps me to put a face with other lacers in the world. Funny of all the time I wasted. I have been tatting for many years. I thought I was all alone in my busy, working, isolated life. I thought I was the only one that tatted for I never saw anybody else doing it. I now know I am not alone...and there are many shutttles and needles flying around. And when I got my computer a few years ago...well all I can say is WOW...what I didn't know was out there!!! So much. About 5 years ago....I spent a month in the UK and Ireland. While I was in England I bought a bobbin for a souvenir in a lace store that was in the cobbles of York. BTW....if anyone on the list can tell me what the name and address of that store in York please let me know. Years ago..I tried writing to York to find out and all they sent me was information of places to see there. I want to order some more bobbins from that store. It was a lace store. Like I said in the cobbles of York...down from York Minster Abby. Back to the story anyhow...I didn't even know what to do with the bobbin but....it was so pretty. Now I know....and it is always on my lace pillow to remind me of the happy time I had on my trip. A few months later I went to Ithaca to check out their lace display and find out what it was all about. On the display there was this Bedfordshire bookmark with a thistle, designed I found out later by Jean Leader and done by someone in Pa. Being my mind was still very fresh with what I had seen and learned when I was in Scotland...that bookmark called to me. That bookmark was the fire that was set inside of me to learn how to do bobbinlace. So over to the try out pillow I went. I have been hooked ever since.:)) big smile. Since then...I am like a sponge...looking for lace everywhere...in antique shops...and especially in my lace magazines and the internet. As you all know...there are NO lace magazines on the newsstands except for an occational Anna magazine. So I am so grateful for all of those that contribute to IOLI bullentin. I should mention...I also belong to the Hollies Lace in England. But for me it is a real thrill to get my bullentin in the mail. All I have to do is walk to my mailbox and get it. If it wasn't for either one of these magazines I would be really lost. I have learned much from both magazines and love looking at them over and over again. This morning for instance I was brain dead....nothing new for me...I am brain dead every morning. All the brain can handle is looking at things. A couple years ago at Ithaca during a raffle I won some old back issue of the IOLI Bullentin. You would have thought I won gold....but I was so thrilled. This morning I looked at them again. There are some great patterns in them for one Summer 1993....I just love the pillow with the 4 rollers shown on the back cover...just think if I had one of those I could be making four different laces on one pillow...just boggles the mind I can tell you...in another issue...Spring 1992...there are all kinds of butterfly patterns...then in the Summer 1994 there is the cool looking X-mas tree that Tamara did....I could go on and on...but I just love my lace magazines!!!!! Debra Jenny...is doing a marvolous job I think with doing the magazines. I love the color pictures that are now in the bullentin. ...and right now...I CAN"T WAIT for the next issue to come in the mail to see all that was there at the convention and to hopefully read some stories on the convention since I couldn't be there. But at the moment I am planning and hoping I can be there for next year's convention in Pennslyvania. Keeping my fingers crossed until then. Sorry this is so long...please forgive me...I don't post much....but I hope someone enjoyed all the many words I just typed here and I hope this email will go to the right address this time. Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canandaigua, New York USA
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