[lace] how do you find a club without risking a clubbing?

2007-06-05 Thread Janice Blair
Both of the lace guilds I belong to meet in rooms at local libraries. One is totally free but can only accommodate about 10 people around the conference table. If we grow we will have to move into a room we would have to pay for. The other group meets in a room that we pay rent for but it is

Re: [lace] how do you find a club?

2007-06-05 Thread Carol Adkinson
D]>; Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [lace] how do you find a club? Hi Devon and All, Then I moved back to the "lace desert" and with help, started a guild. @yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] how do you find a club without risking a clubbing?

2007-06-04 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presumably, if a person who you suspected of being a serial killer were to approach you and ask where the nearest lace meeting was, you might demure. It *is* quite a dilemma: do you let the craft die out through privacy-paranoia, or through

Re: [lace] how do you find a club?

2007-06-04 Thread clayblackwell
Dear Aurelia and Barbara! When I read Barbara's note about "her" group ("before she was a member"), I understood that she meant the group in Washington (state)! I am close enough to Baltimore (I'm in the land of Lynchburg), that I can feel the glow of the hospitality that is the hallmark of al

Re: [lace] how do you find a club?

2007-06-04 Thread Barbara Joyce
Oh, good heavens, no! Although I attended only a couple of TerraPins meetings before I moved from Maryland to the Seattle area, I had a lovely time meeting all the sweet ladies there. No, all of the comments in my post referred to Lacemakers of Puget Sound, my current group, also made up of wonder

Re: [lace] how do you find a club?

2007-06-04 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Barbara! Horrors! The group that was _your_ group before you moved to the Pacific Northwest was _our_ group. Surely you couldn't have meant the TerraPins (Baltimore area) or the CRLG (regional), all of whom are the most hospitable people on earth (and P.S., the TerraPins meet on the first Thurs

Re: [lace] how do you find a club?

2007-06-04 Thread Barbara Joyce
> Do any of your groups belong to a larger center that provides meeting and > storage space? As real estate is at a premium in most areas, the thought has > always intrigued me...something similar to the Textile Arts Center in > Minnesota. Lacemakers of Puget Sound does rent a meeting space an

Re: [lace] how do you find a club?

2007-06-04 Thread La
Hi Devon and All, What a timely topic! This has always been a subject that is interesting to me. My own early learning was goofy, until I lucked into finding a fabulous teacher in the very town I had just moved to 20 some years ago. Then I moved back to the "lace desert" and with help, s

Fwd: [lace] ...how do you find a club/electronic lace map

2007-06-04 Thread bevw
oops sent this just to Devon, meant it for the whole list -- Forwarded message -- More information on the electronic map project can be found here: http://www.ville-retournac.fr/musee/anglais/indexang.htmClick on "We Need Your Help" Although I have not met anyone in person at