I know it is a little early to be thinking of next summer and another great
convention, but I did want to let you all know that next year there are 3
Arachne members on the co-host committee and they will be planning our
get-together. We are hoping that there will be a concession stand where we
can pick up our lunch and meet in a private room, but we will have to see what
works out.
It was great to see everyone, including Janet Goodacre. She and I
met over 10 years ago when I visited her on Vancouver Island and also met Bev
Walker and the rest of her guild. I have met so many Arachne members over the
years. We had a great contingency from overseas at our get-together this
time. Lots of prizes in our free raffle. I won a tea towel commemorating
Queen Elizabeths jubilee which was contributed by Janet Theaker. It was so
nice to meet Janet and her husband and they were having a great vacation with
Sallie Owenby and her spouse. Janet and I exchanged Christmas cards last year
on Arachne, and this time she won a little humbug sewing bag made in spider
fabric I had contributed to the raffle. I know I mentioned this in a previous
email but that one was supposed to be a private email and I goofed so you all
got it.
My convention was really good. I didn't seem as harried as last
year. I am on the IOLI committee and arrange the teacher agreements and info
that appears in the Bulletin and online, and the Teacher Showcase. Did
everyone like the fact that I included a more detailed class description,
photos and supply lists, where available, online last time? If so, I will do
it again but I have not received much feedback on that. A good deal of
convention time is spent in meetings for this year, including the Teacher
Meeting and those for 2015, 2016 conventions. I did miss the 2017 meeting, but
I didn't miss any class time. My time on that committee is up next year and we
are always looking for someone to shadow me for a year before taking over.
Any volunteers?
I took Ipswich with Karen Thompson. I thought that would
be easy as it just looks like Torchon but in black silk. No, not simple, you
really need to study the excellent diagrams she provided to make sure you
didn't go wrong. I did go wrong a few times and did retro lace quite a bit. I
was able to work a full repeat in one sample using 35 pair of bobbins, and
started my second sample which includes Kat stitch ground. Something I had
not done before but once I had it established, it is a nice ground to work.
I
think the host group did an excellent job and everything went smoothly, apart
from my buying a book by Ulrike Voelcker that I already had on my bookcase at
home. The only thing we could complain about was housekeeping as one day they
never did tidy our room. We can live with an unmade bed but to have no coffee
for the morning was bad. Good job our friends in an adjoining room had spare.
I bought a couple of books, more thread than I can possibly use in a year,
only one bobbin, and a commemorative square bobbin with California orange
poppies on it, but I did a lot of eye candy shopping. Wish I had unlimited
funds, but then it just means more for my family to get rid of when I pop my
clogs.
Tomorrow I am going to the San Bernardino History Museum to meet up
with the Cross Twisters. They demonstrate there every week and I guess we get
to gossip about lace and stuff when no one is visiting.
Sunday will be a
picnic at Mission Bay in San Diego with the three lace guilds from the area.
A chance for DH to meet some lacemakers and their families. Life is good in
sunny southern California.
Janice
Janice Blair
Murrieta, CA, 60 miles
north of San Diego
www.jblace.com
www.lacemakersofillinois.org
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