Hi Irene:
They look like they are having a great time despite being in a
"torture"
class. Does anyone remember this conference and class? I'm curious!
I was at that conference, too. I can't quite recall what I was taking,
though I remember being glad it wasn't Torchon Torture! (Though the
people who took it said later it was a very good class in that they
learned a lot - just not the fun time and shorter hours we're
accustomed to.) They did warn everybody in the brochure what it was
going to be like, though, so the people who took it knew what they were
getting in for.
TT wasn't a normal class; it had longer hours and went 5 full, long
days. They started early, went late, and didn't stop for breaks. Then
there was the homework! The rest of us were gadding about, eating and
talking and taking breaks, and the poor TT people would be in their
rooms, hunched over their pillows. The pattern they were doing was
similar in concept to the "Sampler" at the start of Cook's "Building
Torchon Lace Patterns", (an insertion strip that runs back and forth to
build up the centre of a rectangle, with an edging around the whole)
and as Malvary says, they had to get to a certain point for each day.
They got an introduction to design, as well as the pattern - I think
part of the design was their own. I also recall the class instructions
included a request to bring "pure black copy paper" which, in those
days before the gel pen craze, did not exist - certainly not here in
Vancouver, anyway. People were looking all over for something suitable,
and wound up buying expensive black paper from art supply stores - and
even they had only heavy charcoal paper, not the thinner weight that
was wanted.
I don't recall having the bedroom problems Malvary reports - maybe
that's only because I've managed to erase it from my mind! I wonder if
that was the PNWC that was held in what used to be a seminary, and the
rooms all had windows in the doors so the monks could look in and make
sure their pupils weren't doing bad things.
Adele
This past PNWC was either my 6th or my 7th! Lots of good memories over
the years.
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