Hi, I am not in class this afternoon and was making lace in my bedroom when a huge moving van parked in front of my ground floor window and blocked out all the light, so I am taking the opportunity of reading all my emails in the hotel lobby in Salt Lake City while it is fairly quiet. Classes are still on for a couple more hours.
I am doing a Beds Thomas Lester class with Holly Van Sciver and working on a giraffe that is taken from a lappet. It will be about 14 inches tall as I enlarged it for my 80/2 Egyptian cotton. It is quiet a challenging piece of work and I need all the light I can get. Hope they move the van soon, but I think it might be here for as long as I am. There is a cycle race going on (Tour of Utah), and the support vans have taken over the back parking lot. I managed to stop them towing my friends car away when I saw the tow truck moving all the cars that were parked there. The cyclists come into town today but I don't know if there are any famous ones in the race. Back to lace - yesterday I took a class in Romanian Point lace with Sylvia Marariu and had a very enjoyable time. She is a delight as a teacher and very knowledgeable having learnt the lace as a child in Romania. My bookmark is taking shape but I put it aside now to work on my Beds. Holly has redrawn the giraffe which is surrounded by large leaf shapes and trails. The original piece has the giraffe with a birth sack between its four feet. Thankfully she changed it into leaf tallies and more trails. Not sure I would have wanted that on my head! The Arachne lunch on Monday was a success. There were 24 of us, plus one husband and one interloper who got the wrong meal ticket in her registration package. Maybe she will join us after finding out what a fun group we are. We had 10 raffle prizes and I got the first one (people called it a fix) but it was purely accidental. Liz Ligetti's husband, Alex, won the last prize which was a very large sparkly spider brooch. We had a group photo taken which will be put on our site, unless it is there already. Devon took it. This is the first time I have had an Internet connection. Money is running low after many visits to the vendor room. Have to save some as we are driving home and it is a 3 day trip. I hope someone else posts with more news. This evening we are going to a rehearsal for the Mormon Tabernacle choir. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
