Today at our lace picnic in Mission Bay park, San Diego I moved my lace table to a spot under a tree when the sun became too intense.  It was hard to see my fine silk thread on my Blonde pattern in the sun.  I stepped away to bring my chair over to the table when I heard a thud, turned and saw my table had fallen over and the pillow was upside down. Didn't realize the ground was so sloping there. The hardest part was retrieving thousands of pins from my pin box which had fallen open.  We couldn't leave pins in the grass where children might be playing.  Luckily Linda Knott had a long handle magnet which picked many up quickly.  I was picking them up individually and separating them from the grass and pine needles when I realized I was wearing my lace bracelet which had a magnetic closure.  Using that speeded things up and we hopefully got all of the steel pins.  I did the trick of holding the pillow up to let the bobbins fall down.  I only had about 28 pairs and it didn't take too long to sort the threads out.  Just got going again when a thread caught on my ring and broke.  Not bad considering the disaster it could have been.  Note to self: Don't move the table without pinning down the bobbins and closing the pin box tightly, also maybe not wear jewelry when dealing with fine thread. Second disaster was DH was playing with another husband and his Australian boomerangs and he tossed one that came back so fast and high it landed in the bay.  Drifted out instead of in.  The first one lost in the water was retrieved by a passing snorkeler but he had left when the second one went in. Nice day making lace by the water with two other lace guilds, plus a good selection of food at the pot luck picnic.Janice Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, 60 miles north of San Diego www.jblace.com www.lacemakersofillinois.org
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