I remember the Conference. It was held at a bible college. The rooms were
very small and the lighting terrible. The beds were just dreadful and many
of us ended up pulling the mattresses off the beds and putting them on the
floor. A friend and I were sharing a room and we were almost at the end of
the corridor of rooms. At about 5:00 or 5:30 a.m. people would start
getting up and going for showers (communal bathrooms) and the water/air in
the pipes would start banging. The only remedy was to turn on the water in
the washbasin in the room. My mattress was across the end of my bedframe,
across the door and under the washbasin. When the banging started I reached
up and turned the water on until the noise stopped.
The conference courses were very good. I didn't do Torchon Torture but I
know of others who did. Theory on the various stitches and grounds in the
mornings and then putting the theory into practice in the afternoons (from
what I remember). Because you needed to have finished each block of ground
or new stitches many of the students in the class worked away late into the
evening and were probably those getting up at 5:00 to continue.
I did Valenciennes with Pauline Collerette , a teacher from Quebec. She,
sadly passed away 3 or 4 years later. I think I also did a lace
identification class.
For someone with food allergies, meals were somewhat of a challenge as they
were very "institutional" and it was hard to be able to get something
acceptable. I ate a lot of ham and hard boiled eggs that week.
Malvary in Ottawa
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