Carol
I'd have been yelling and swearing and using all sorts of animal epithets on
the two of them. The kind of spite you describe is way beyond the category
of "normal" behavior. Possibly the real motive was envy. They knew they
couldn't match you so spite made them destroy something they couldn't equal.
Possibly it is a good idea not to take something so special as your chalice
cover to a demonstration. Non-lacemakers will be impressed even by a 12
pair lace in torchon. For reasons other than spiteful visitors (which you
probably will not encounter again in your lifetime) it might be good to
leave the really special ones home. I remember doing an outdoor
demonstration with my local guild many years ago. When I got home I worked
on the Cluny piece some more. After I had 2 more repeats done I noticed
that the lace I had just made was not the same color as what I had done
during the outdoor demo. The demo portion was definitely gray in color.
Outdoor dust had blown onto my pillow and dirtied the lace. There was a
steady breeze than day, but not high winds.
The one time I had to untangle a mess that somebody else made of my pillow,
it was my cat. I had left the pillow on the top of a bookcase where my cats
never went. So I thought it was safe. It was a Bucks point workshop piece
that I was finishing up, and used lots of fragile Bucks bobbins with glass
beads. I came home from work and found it upside down on the floor, with a
few broken bobbins and several broken beads. And, of course, a huge tangle.
I rounded the corner from the living room into the dinning room, saw the
catastrophe, stopped dead in my tracks, and started yelling. Since it was
several hours since the disaster had happened, it was gone from their
memories and they had no idea why I was yelling. It took me 2-3 hours to
untangle the mess, put the threads onto unbroken bobbins. I can report that
my cats remained unstrangled, but it was a near thing.
Lorelei
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