Thanks for Sylvie posting that I actually won first prize in the original design. No one was more surprised than me! The Popular Choice ribbon had over 800 leaf tallies and was beautiful. I am not allowed to post photos of my design until after it appears in the Bulletin but you can bet I will have it on show when we demonstrate this coming weekend and again at my lace guild the weekend after. Congratulations to Liz Ligetti for her second prize for the Birthday Party ribbon, a very nice Bedfordshire piece with insets of needlelace flowers. A number of the winners were French Canadians and I did not remember their names. The Popular Choice ribbon I think also won the Technical section, the leaves were perfection!! There were 27 entries including one that was not eligible. As Liz had two pieces, one in each section, I wondered if she had sent three. The ineligible one was a piece of needle lace of an Australian plant, probably eucalyptus but I can't remember the exact title. Maybe Liz will set us right. I used Schwarovski <sp> pearls in two colors and different sizes of purple/pink for the grapes and based the point ground design loosely on polychrome techniques with a few added ones of my own. As the piece was so large I decided to use Gutterman 100/3 burgundy silk for the grounds which blended in nicely with the autumnul colors I chose for the leaves, branches and vines. The title was Ribbon of Wine. As my workmanship was not brilliant I did not think it would win. I told people I was going for the "rustic" look in my lace to explain the nobbly branches. ;-) I think about 30 of us met for Arachne lunch on Monday in a nearby restaurant. Patsy organised the reservation but I don't think she was present. Someone brought 3 sparkly spiders webs with scary spiders for the table prizes which was a great idea. We were also given tiny black rubber spiders. I used mine to scare a roommate! The Montreal Lacemakers did a great job with convention and I had a wonderful week with a super class with Ulrike Voelker, despite a heavy cold that started in the middle of the week and still seems to be getting worse. Thanks to everyone. Janice
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