RE: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
Lin, I do not see how our announcement of the 2015 IOLI convention has taken the focus away from the upcoming 2014 convention as there has not been any discussion recently on Arachne about it among the talk of Miss Channers Mat, copyright and book publishing. Instead, you have indeed tried to remove the focus from our exciting news. I am sure that as soon as the Bulletin begins to hit mailboxes there will be comments about the 2014 convention. Devon, Thank you for your kind words. We do have quite a challenge in front of us to prepare for a convention in just 18 short months. Now that we have confirmed the where and the when we will be working on the other details. I am very excited about our venue! The Coralville Marriott is located just off of I-80 (near Iowa City) so it is easy to find. It is relatively new and located in an area where new shops and businesses are still opening. There is a scrumptious cupcake shop just down the street! Yum! But best of all, the hotel is warm and inviting with huge windows looking over the courtyard in the back and the woods by the nearby Iowa River. You will all want to pull up a chair and make lace! About half of the classes will be on the second floor and everything else is on the main floor. If you use Google maps to locate the hotel and zoom in you will see the layout of the hotel and nearby area. There is also a nice walking trail along the river. Unfortunately, Iowa does not have majestic mountains or wide open oceans and beaches. Our history is not nearly as rich as Washington DC, or Philadelphia or even Sacramento. Instead we have wide open corn fields and our immigrant heritage. Sweet corn will be in season! The National Czech Slovak Museum Library is once again open following the devastating flooding in 2008. You can be sure that we are in contact with them regarding the convention. We will be gathering information on other interesting features of the area to share with you soon as well. We hope you will all want to come, even if it is to just sit around in the spacious hallways next to the windows and make lace all week! Anita Hansen Cedar Rapids, Iowa Doris Southard Lace Guild Lin Hudren wrote: Glad you gals are figuring this out. i think more details will be available for involving others when the 2014 convention is closer to being attended. why are we working on 2015 when 2014 is needed to be focused on for attendance. you are disrupting the focus on 2014 and they need attendance to offset their expense in making that event happen. come on people, gift those working so hard to put on a good event for you in 2014 and let 2015 evolve in sync. thank you. - 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/
[lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
As I understand it, the location of the IOLI Convention 3 years out is usually well known, and people have time to adjust and plan ahead. The Midwest, where this is located, is rich in culture, although relatively young in history. A hundred years old is truly old. Except for Native American culture and history, anything older than about 150 years is unknown. This does not mean there is little to see. People here remember their history and culture from before settling here, bringing their rich ethnic heritage with them. Quilting is very, very popular here. This is corn country, and if you are not from America, you might not understand what this is. I well remember chatting with some German engineering students on a train in Germany, explaining that sweet corn is best eaten the day it is picked, as the sugars start to turn to starch once it is picked. They did not believe me. But we know it is true. It is a simple food, best lightly boiled and lots of butter on top, eaten with the fingers or corn holders as it is hot. I have never eaten it out, I eat it at home or with family. It's as good as a home grown tomato is. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA where just the thought of sweet corn makes me hungry. - 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/
Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2 - Corn products
In a message dated 1/12/2014, lynrbai...@desupernet.net writes: .sweet corn is best eaten the day it is picked, as the sugars start to turn to starch once it is picked. ..It is a simple food, best lightly boiled and lots of butter on top, eaten with the fingers or corn holders as it is hot. --- This has prompted me to wonder if there is any way to use corn silk in the making of lace? Would make interesting table favors at the 2015 Iowa convention! Another idea has to do with two 2 1/2 tall corn husk dolls I bought from a Czech dealer in the sales room at the 2008 Groninger Netherlands OIDFA Congress These are a banquet table favor possibility. They are glued to a 2 diameter round wood base cut from a tree. The one in my lace tools étagère is holding a wood lace pillow cut from a 3/8 diameter round twig, with a strip of paper glued around the middle with a drawn lace pattern. Attached on top of that are 4 miniature wooden bobbins wound with aqua colored thread. The doll in my embroidery tools étagère is holding a draped 1 1/2 square of fabric on which a row of cross stitches has been added in blue thread. Maybe the National Czech and Slovak Museum staff knows more about them, and how they are made. A article about this museum's re-opening after recovery from destruction by flood appeared in OIDFA's Bulletin 4, 2012. Lyn reminded me that my grandparents returned to farming because of severe food shortages during WWII (America's young farmers had gone to war in Europe and the Pacific). Before he went to pick corn, she set a pot of water on the old black wood-burning stove to boil. They rushed to husk the corn and put it in boiling water. We did not have butter, but it was still a feast at a time when people all over the world were hungry. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - 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/
[lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2: Hoover Library
In a message dated 1/10/2014, dmt11h...@aol.com writes: (Trimmed for Avital) I am glad that an effort is being made to acquaint us with details of the 2015 convention in Coralville, Iowa. What is there to do? What is there to see? How do I present the idea of vacationing in Iowa to my spouse, who also gets to weigh in on decisions? At this point I need to know what activities might be available to him in Iowa. Devon --- Dear Devon, Several years ago, you wrote a article for the IOLI Bulletin about the World War I laces in the Herbert Hoover collection at Stanford University in California. The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum are in Iowa (his boyhood home), I think fairly close to the IOLI Convention. _www.hoover.archives.gov/_ (http://www.hoover.archives.gov/) There is a strong connection to World War I Belgian Lace in Hoover's history - from his base in London he headed the Commission for Relief in Belgium during the war years. This is explained in the 1917 out-of-print book by Charlotte Kellogg, Women of Belgium - Turning Tragedy to Triumph, with an introduction by Herbert Hoover. In 1920, Kellogg wrote Bobbins of Belgium, which is one book I might walk through fire to rescue. Tess has scanned this onto the University of Arizona site, so everyone may read it: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html For more details from past Arachne memos, go to Herbert Hoover in our archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html Ice storm in Maine again, and automatic emergency town phone message has come in to stay off roads. I will be glued to NBC TV today and tomorrow, watching U.S. Figure Skating Championships. My sport for many years. Requires commitment and attention to details, just as lace does! Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - 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/
Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
Coralville is a suburb of Iowa City, Iowa. Karen Bovard The ShuttleSmith Omaha, Nebraska (just down the road, I-80, from Coralville) http://www.theshuttlesmith.com/ blog: http://theshuttlesmith.blogspot.com/ On Thursday, January 9, 2014 7:54 PM, purple lacer purplelace...@hotmail.com wrote: What is the closest airport for Coralville? I would imagine most people will want to use the Eastern Iowa Airport, which I still think of by it's original name, the Cedar Rapids Airport. The airport symbol is CID which I think stands for Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Dubuque. The Iowa City airport is closer, but it is a very small airport. I'm not sure what commercial flights, if any, are available there. There is a shuttle service at the Eastern Iowa Airport that will bring you to the hotel. The price goes down if more people reserve it together. We will be looking into that and have more details later. There is also an AmTrak stop about an hour south at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. If there is enough interest we might be able to arrange some transportation to/from the station. Anita Hansen - 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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
Glad you gals are figuring this out. i think more details will be available for involving others when the 2014 convention is closer to being attended. why are we working on 2015 when 2014 is needed to be focused on for attendance. you are disrupting the focus on 2014 and they need attendance to offset their expense in making that event happen. come on people, gift those working so hard to put on a good event for you in 2014 and let 2015 evolve in sync. thank you. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Karen Bovard k.bov...@yahoo.com wrote: Coralville is a suburb of Iowa City, Iowa. Karen Bovard The ShuttleSmith Omaha, Nebraska (just down the road, I-80, from Coralville) http://www.theshuttlesmith.com/ blog: http://theshuttlesmith.blogspot.com/ On Thursday, January 9, 2014 7:54 PM, purple lacer purplelace...@hotmail.com wrote: What is the closest airport for Coralville? I would imagine most people will want to use the Eastern Iowa Airport, which I still think of by it's original name, the Cedar Rapids Airport. The airport symbol is CID which I think stands for Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Dubuque. The Iowa City airport is closer, but it is a very small airport. I'm not sure what commercial flights, if any, are available there. There is a shuttle service at the Eastern Iowa Airport that will bring you to the hotel. The price goes down if more people reserve it together. We will be looking into that and have more details later. There is also an AmTrak stop about an hour south at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. If there is enough interest we might be able to arrange some transportation to/from the station. Anita Hansen - 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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ -- Hugs, Lin and the Mali Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile. The best things in life are free until the government finds out and taxes it. - 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/
Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
Dear Lin, I am looking forward to the Sacramento convention and think that it will be a great deal of fun. The location, just where our Gold Rush started is very interesting historically, and that theme will yield very interesting entries in its contest. I can't wait to get my Bulletin and find out who the teachers will be and the details of the trips! I already know that there will be some very interesting exhibits. However I am also glad that an effort is being made to acquaint us with the details of the 2015 convention in Coralville, IA. Usually conventions are planned many years in advance, as the Sacramento one has been and there is chatter and chit- chat for several years as people familiarize themselves with the location and make determinations about whether they want to go. In the case of the 2015 convention, there was a serious fear that no one would step forward to host the convention. In fact some groups who might have been interested in hosting found that all the potential hotels were booked up two years in advance, and instead chose to ask for years farther out. So, it was a tremendous relief when the Doris Southard group stepped up to the plate and heroically offered to put on a convention with a very short lead time. Not only do they have to put everything in place super quick, but there hasn't been the usual opportunity for consciousness of the location to evolve within the group. So this is rather an exceptional situation where the normal process has already been disrupted. I don't know about other people, but my vacation time and money are in such short supply that I am usually thinking several years in advance about it. I confess, I don't know much about Iowa, and I would like to know more. I have never taken a vacation in Iowa before. What is there to do? What is there to see? What is the hotel going to be like? What special things are going to happen there? How do I present the idea of vacationing in Iowa to my spouse who also gets to weigh in on decisions? Although initially cool to the idea of vacationing in Sacramento, he has researched the area and identified activities that he enjoys. Now we are both looking forward to it with (almost) equal enthusiasm. At this point I need to know what activities might be available to him in Iowa. I would like to know as much as possible about the Iowa convention and as soon as possible. It would be a real shame if the Coralville Convention were to be poorly attended because they did not have enough lead time to acquaint the lace community with what it had to offer. Devon - 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/
Fwd: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
Im not quite up to speed yet on replying to inquiries on arachne.com not sure when Im replying privately and when to the whole group. This is a response to Devons query re things to do in Iowa. Some years ago (Not long before the great Iowa floods) I did a lace program at the National Czech and Slovak Museum in Cedar Rapids and was very impressed with the museum. Trusting that it is still as wonderful as it was then, I do hope DSLG plans a free day field trip there and if that is not possible that many visitors with spouses in tow will consider that for a side trip. LOTS to see and do in Iowa and of course it is an easy trip from Chicago as well. Looking forward to that convention! EMK Begin forwarded message: From: dmt11h...@aol.com Subject: Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2 Date: January 10, 2014 at 4:00:19 PM CST To: ekure...@gmail.com Devon -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Kurella ekure...@gmail.com To: dmt11home dmt11h...@aol.com Sent: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 2:30 pm Subject: Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2 Do check out Cedar Rapids dont know if Quaker Oaks still does tours there, but there used to be a significant presence (pre-flood, economic shifts, etc.) This might be a bit esoteric, but the National Czech and Slovak Museum in Cedar Rapids is quite nice. http://www.ncsml.org my Slovak heritage requires I point that out. You ight enjoy it as well great collection of costume. Perhaps the IOLI group will plan a field trip. Amana colonies are nice And just driving around the boonies in Iowa can be quite interesting. I remember many years ago hearing the most bizarre noise while driving through farm country. My companion and I decided we had to check it out. It was two bulls in a field crashing it out head to head. Didnt think farmers put two in the same field, but who knew! And of course Chicago is an easy drive. EMK On Jan 10, 2014, at 12:57 PM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: Dear Lin, I am looking forward to the Sacramento convention and think that it will be a great deal of fun. The location, just where our Gold Rush started is very interesting historically, and that theme will yield very interesting entries in its contest. I can't wait to get my Bulletin and find out who the teachers will be and the details of the trips! I already know that there will be some very interesting exhibits. However I am also glad that an effort is being made to acquaint us with the details of the 2015 convention in Coralville, IA. Usually conventions are planned many years in advance, as the Sacramento one has been and there is chatter and chit- chat for several years as people familiarize themselves with the location and make determinations about whether they want to go. In the case of the 2015 convention, there was a serious fear that no one would step forward to host the convention. In fact some groups who might have been interested in hosting found that all the potential hotels were booked up two years in advance, and instead chose to ask for years farther out. So, it was a tremendous relief when the Doris Southard group stepped up to the plate and heroically offered to put on a convention with a very short lead time. Not only do they have to put everything in place super quick, but there hasn't been the usual opportunity for consciousness of the location to evolve within the group. So this is rather an exceptional situation where the normal process has already been disrupted. I don't know about other people, but my vacation time and money are in such short supply that I am usually thinking several years in advance about it. I confess, I don't know much about Iowa, and I would like to know more. I have never taken a vacation in Iowa before. What is there to do? What is there to see? What is the hotel going to be like? What special things are going to happen there? How do I present the idea of vacationing in Iowa to my spouse who also gets to weigh in on decisions? Although initially cool to the idea of vacationing in Sacramento, he has researched the area and identified activities that he enjoys. Now we are both looking forward to it with (almost) equal enthusiasm. At this point I need to know what activities might be available to him in Iowa. I would like to know as much as possible about the Iowa convention and as soon as possible. It would be a real shame if the Coralville Convention were to be poorly attended because they did not have enough lead time to acquaint the lace community with what it had to offer. Devon - 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
Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
Anita, What is the closest airport for Coralville? Thank you, Liz R, Raleigh NC purple lacer purplelace...@hotmail.com wrote: Doris Southard Lace Guild is pleased to announce that we will be co-hosting the 2015 IOLI Convention. The headquarters hotel will be the Marriott Coralville Hotel Convention Center just off of Interstate 80 in Coralville, Iowa. - 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/
Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
Iowa City airport -just a few miles away. Coralville is the best part of 4 hours drive from Chicago O'Hare. (Our son went to college 19 miles from Coralville, so we travelled that road many times to see performances) If you like fabrics, while there you need to visit Stephanie Brandenburg's studio in the Amana Colonies http://www.fernhill.net/ Sue suebabbs...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: lbuy...@nc.rr.com Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 5:53 PM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2 Anita, What is the closest airport for Coralville? Thank you, Liz R, Raleigh NC purple lacer purplelace...@hotmail.com wrote: Doris Southard Lace Guild is pleased to announce that we will be co-hosting the 2015 IOLI Convention. The headquarters hotel will be the Marriott Coralville Hotel Convention Center just off of Interstate 80 in Coralville, Iowa. - 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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
What is the closest airport for Coralville? I would imagine most people will want to use the Eastern Iowa Airport, which I still think of by it's original name, the Cedar Rapids Airport. The airport symbol is CID which I think stands for Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Dubuque. The Iowa City airport is closer, but it is a very small airport. I'm not sure what commercial flights, if any, are available there. There is a shuttle service at the Eastern Iowa Airport that will bring you to the hotel. The price goes down if more people reserve it together. We will be looking into that and have more details later. There is also an AmTrak stop about an hour south at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. If there is enough interest we might be able to arrange some transportation to/from the station. Anita Hansen - 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/
[lace] 2015 IOLI convention July 27 - Aug 2
Doris Southard Lace Guild is pleased to announce that we will be co-hosting the 2015 IOLI Convention. The headquarters hotel will be the Marriott Coralville Hotel Convention Center just off of Interstate 80 in Coralville, Iowa. PLEASE NOTE that the convention will be one day later in the week than usual. The vendors and display will open Monday afternoon July 27 and the opening banquet will be Monday evening. The closing banquet will be Saturday evening. The convention will finish Sunday August 2. We hope you will be able to join us for a week of lace! Anita Hansen Doris Southard Lace Guild Cedar Rapids, Iowa - 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/
