I finally have the house tidy after being away for over a week but I still doze off if I sit for any length of time. Convention really takes it out of you!! I got my desired workshop Polychrome de Courselles with Pompi Parry and was not disappointed. What a lovely woman and my kind of teacher!! When I made an error in winding too little thread on my workers for the third piece of the week, I thought I would have to back track most of the lace but Pompi said she thought lace should only go forward and that I should continue as far as I could and then add a new worker as needed. Yeah! You have to understand that to wind a worker in this lace entails mixing five individual colors of single ply silk thread in order to get the colors that you want to blend together. The 2/20 silk passives had a life of their own and tended to snap or part company without too much effort but Pompi made adding new thread so easy. I had a good workshop with lots of lovely people. RMLG are to be praised for organising the Arachne luncheon which came with its own set of spidery goodies including a needle case and a spidery pencil. JoAnne won the centerpiece on our table. I didn't have any luck in the raffle (sorry, door prize drawings) either and I was surprised but delighted when my original design (Snow Queen) won second prize in the competition. I hadn't held out much hope for it, as once it was off the pillow I took so long deciding how to mount it that the tension on the metallic threads had gone all wonky. Shan't make that mistake again. :-) Paula Harten won the popular vote with her needle lace ornaments. Maybe she can describe them better as I know nothing about needle lace. RMLG did a splendid job and everything ran like clockwork or earlier. The lines for meals were allowed into the ballroom as soon as possible which meant waiting was kept to a minimum. My workshop was one of the ones that moved around between the ballroom and the corridor outside another meeting room but the hotel staff were great at getting extension leads to our tables so that we could plug in our lights. Boy am I glad we had that discussion on Arachne about lights before convention. I bought one from JoAnnes on sale with a 50% coupon and it worked great, similar to an Ott light but a lot cheaper and a little lighter for packing. RMLG have set the bar high for the next conventions including my group at Prairie Mill and I was pleased to hear from other guilds that they are thinking about what goodies to make for our convention in 2008. Now to get back to reading digests. I had 19 when I got home and every day there are more to read, I am up to date with lace but still plowing through the chat ones!! Janice
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