As you know from previous posts, this week is the IOLI conference in the USA. There's some of us in our group who wished they could go but it wasn't to be. So, someone dreamed up the Un-Conference Workshop. We have 8 or 9 people participating, though not everyone every day.
We meet in a different home each day and each person is working with the same pattern from Lace Express (an oval doily), the way we would do in a class at conference. Each person is doing it her way, however she interprets the pattern, and we help each other. Some are new lacemakers and some experienced. We look forward to comparing our results when finished. As at a conference, each person received a Goodie Bag. It was a handmade fabric tote bag with several small items in it. We take our own lunches, spend about five hours together each day, and get home before rush hour traffic. It took most of the first day to get the bobbins hung on and the first repeat done. Now that it's started, progress should speed up. As with most classes, we won't finish the project this week, so it will be several months before we can compare results. This is a fun way to relax this week, after being County Fair superintendent of Creative Arts last week and putting in 120 hours of work. We had a good display, including a quantity of lace items. Most of the time the fair was open, we had lacemakers demo-ing bobbin lace and knotted lace. I didn't work on my project tonight, but look forward to doing it tomorrow. If our average lacemaking speed is a square inch an hour, I should be able to do about five inches on the pattern tomorrow. That will be my goal. Have a good week, whether at conference, Un-conference, or just doing the usual things. Alice in Oregon -- in the middle of a heat wave - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
