Thanks to Joepie for reminding me about Vuelta y Cruz - combining
Spanish practice with lace definitely rates highly with me, so wanted to
subscribe but couldn't afford to when it first started and had forgotten
about it; subscription for this year now taken out :-)
I'm also a Lace Guild member, can't give you a review of the April issue
of Lace as it's been sitting unopened by my chair for a week, along with
quite a pile of non-lace publications I'm behind on reading; too much to
do, too little time - how I'm going to find time to read Vuelta y Cruz
as well is a mystery :-(
I find myself agreeing with both Jane & Joepie on the individual
membership/shared subscriptions questions - of course we should support
our lace organisations/publications by subscribing individually and
encouraging others to do so, but where 2 individuals can't afford the
whole membership fee/subscription surely it's better for everyone to
have them club together and share one copy - at least the organisation
gets one sub that way instead of none? Similarly where one individual
can't justify the cost of an individual sub in terms of what they'll get
back - that's probably an issue for some of us when considering
subscribing to an overseas guild/publication where the postage rate
pushes up the cost and we're too far away to benefit from any guild
activities apart from the the magazine, and most of us don't have deep
enough pockets to support more than our local/national group out of
altruism.
And of course, passing on or lending a recent-ish back copy of a guild
magazine to a newer lacemaker can be a good "hook" to lead into the
suggestion they join the guild...
Beth
In a warm but windy Cheshire, UK
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