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knitting and stitching...
Nov. 5th, 2004 08:50 amexcept not so much with the knitting. I've done it and like it fine but it's not what I want to do much right now. But the show, as always, made me want to be an embroiderer, a beader, a braid-maker, textile person (whatever you call them - can't apply the word 'artist' to myself, as it just doesn't fit!) a spinner and weaver, and ooh, forgot felt-making, which looks like lots of fun... Came home with some beads, though the shop was disappointing really, a couple of 'inspiration packs' from a group who hadn't been there before (I'd so have gone for a beautiful lavendar sachet kit of theirs, had it not had a British stamp on it - nothing personal, but I don't really have any great desire for the Queen's face on a sachet). These have a piece of hand-dyed raw silk and matching silk embroidery floss and/or ribbon and a silk leaf, and were just gorgeous. And two books (I did hear that the prices were cheaper than Eason's, which made me feel a bit less insane) and a bit of coloured wire and two hanks of thread (one mix of rayons and cottons and one rayon) in the most gorgeous deep peacocky blue-greens from Oliver Twists. What I'm going to do with this stuff is another matter...
But I didn't see the goddess embroideries you mentioned, wyvernfriend - at least I don't think they were there. Some amazing things in the exhibits though.
Oh, and there has to be just one little complaint, right? It is this - if you are coming over from the UK to Ireland to sell things, then why, why can you not think ahead enough to mark your prices in Euro rather than Sterling? One stall was selling lots of little things, had small cardboard hand-written price tags in Sterling (would have taken about two minutes to re-write them all), and the stupidest woman trying to convert the prices as you bought from her. When she'd finally worked out the cost for me in Euro I gave her the small change so she wouldn't have to work out the coins - and then she actually moaned about having to deal with this unfamiliar currency. I said (pleasantly, of course) that we'd had to go through learning a new one and the woman behind me in the (slow) queue leaned over and said 'good for you!' in my ear. Honestly. And - not a complaint this, just a wonder - when people use a public toilet (and the RDS's are not the nicest, though far from the grottiest around), why do they go to the bother of the ritual of running a drib of water over their hands and shaking them off afterwards? Why don't they either wash their hands properly, or just walk straight out without going near the sink? Enquiring minds...
But I didn't see the goddess embroideries you mentioned, wyvernfriend - at least I don't think they were there. Some amazing things in the exhibits though.
Oh, and there has to be just one little complaint, right? It is this - if you are coming over from the UK to Ireland to sell things, then why, why can you not think ahead enough to mark your prices in Euro rather than Sterling? One stall was selling lots of little things, had small cardboard hand-written price tags in Sterling (would have taken about two minutes to re-write them all), and the stupidest woman trying to convert the prices as you bought from her. When she'd finally worked out the cost for me in Euro I gave her the small change so she wouldn't have to work out the coins - and then she actually moaned about having to deal with this unfamiliar currency. I said (pleasantly, of course) that we'd had to go through learning a new one and the woman behind me in the (slow) queue leaned over and said 'good for you!' in my ear. Honestly. And - not a complaint this, just a wonder - when people use a public toilet (and the RDS's are not the nicest, though far from the grottiest around), why do they go to the bother of the ritual of running a drib of water over their hands and shaking them off afterwards? Why don't they either wash their hands properly, or just walk straight out without going near the sink? Enquiring minds...
