Thanks for explaining what memory quilts are. They sound like fun. As for lace in Israel, I was there three years ago and don't even recall seeing any interesting lace anywhere.
Karen in Malta On 27 November 2012 16:07, Dona Bushong <bdonama...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've had no chance yet to unpack my lace after our most recent move back to > the States. For a variety of reasons it's taken longer than usual to > settle > in this time. Nothing bad, just a lot going on along with a small house > with > limited space for setting up a pillow. I head to Israel in a couple of > weeks > for a month and am considering packing up a travel pillow and starting on > the > smallest (in width) yardage for the on going christening gown I'm making. > Will have to see if the suitcase allows. > > Karen asked about a memory quilt. My daughters and I also make "memory" > quilts but use t-shirts. Our daughters each attended several high schools > with all our moving. In one school she might play lacrosse and > participate in > a musical program, in another it would be volleyball and drama - whatever > was > available and interesting. Each of these clubs traveled to events and > usually > there was a t-shirt provided for each team member. This continued into > university. With boxes of t-shirts which were really a diary of their > school > years, we cut out the important part, the logos or sayings and created > quilts. > My husband and I have been fortunate to travel to many interesting places > to > scuba dive. The dive shops always have a fun selection of t-shirts usually > depicting local dive sites. We've collected them with the idea that I'll > make > us matching quilts so when we're no longer able to dive we can sit under > our > quilts and reminisce about the places we've been. I'm looking forward to > adding a t-shirt or two to the collection from scuba in the Red Sea. > > I'll try this question again as I received no response earlier - are there > any > "lace" things I should see while in Israel? Understanding that my > movements > might be somewhat restricted currently. I will be back and forth several > times > a year so I don't have to rush to see anything right away but if there's > something to be seen, I'd like to check it out. > > Dona in Havre de Grace, MD on a cold and grey day. > > - > 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/ > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
