Lord, what a pair! People are just getting more and more spoiled, and
typically, the adults are more badly spoiled than the kids!
Yours,
Villandra Thorsdottir
Austin, Texas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 4:12 AM
Subject: [lace] What would YOU do?
Hi All,
I am just looking at the lace pillow I spent all yesterday
afternoon/evening
attempting to untangle - I haven't touched it for several months since the
'accident' happened., but will have to sit and work at it again today, and
until it is OK again.
To explain. I was demonstrating with several 'Have-a-Go' pillows, and
others on display, and with this one displayed, but with elastic across
the
bobbins, so that it couldn't be disturbed. However, I was sitting with
one
little girl, with the snake, when I noticed that another girl - probably
about
14/15 - had undone the elastic, and was fiddling with the bobbins. I
asked
her not to touch, when the accompanying lady told me that the girl was
very
accomplished, had won prizes at school for handwork, and could only help
me to
finish the lace. I again asked her not to touch it, as it was quite
special
to me. I was very restrained, and polite, as I again told them it was a
special piece, being a chalice cover I was making in memory of my late
husband, but the lady took offence, as did the girl, and, as they turned
away
making impolite remarks, the woman 'accidentally' knocked the pillow and
table, whereupon the pillow fell. The resulting tangle is what I am
still
attempting to remedy.
In all the years I have demonstrated, I have never before had such an
experience! Which explains the subject line - I was (and still am )
horrified that anyone could do such a thing, and although it has never
happened before, it does make me wonder whether I will ever take pillows
with
complicated work, and many beautiful bobbins, to a display again. As I
said
- what woud you do?
Carol - in Suffolk UK
'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.'
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