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<\/a><\/p>\nThe lighting is challenging for getting a photo that shows the details of his woven garments. \u00a0He is holding an origami crane, also made by Sally. \u00a0Really<\/em>, isn’t he fabulous?? \u00a0I doubt the judges knew what to make of this! \u00a0And I wonder if they opened up his kimono to see his handwoven undergarments.<\/p>\n The guild exhibits were quite good this year. \u00a0The space was light and large so that each guild table could be seen well from multiple directions.<\/p>\n Maybe it was not the most creative use of space, but the displays themselves were quite inspired. \u00a0Very enjoyable. \u00a0This is the display for the Weavers’ Guild of Boston.<\/p>\n It was a wonderful day for me, and far too short. \u00a0By the time I caught up with friends and had a dash through the vendor booths it was past time to head home.<\/p>\n My favorite place in the vendor hall is upstairs, where Vav Stuga and Pro Chem share a space. \u00a0I always find way more than I meant to buy in these two booths. \u00a0This year Pro Chem had a deep basket full of stamps for printing fabric, and Vav Stuga had a bundle of past Vav Magazine calendars at a discount. \u00a0Who could resist either of those? \u00a0Not me!<\/p>\n There was a new vendor this year, Lofty Fibers <\/a>from New Hampshire. \u00a0On top of selling some wonderful linens and the Jaggerspun wool\/silk blends, they have developed a small gadget called a “Tempo Treadle” <\/a>that keeps track of your treadling sequence and will alert you if you make a mistake. \u00a0Isn’t that a handy thing to have? \u00a0I would like to have one for my AVL mechanical dobby, which has a very bad habit of not lifting all the shafts that are pegged or lifting one too many. \u00a0It’s a mysterious –and pervasive– problem, and I would love to have an alarm system for this! Barry said he’ll look into making one for AVLs.<\/p>\n There was a wonderful 3-woman exhibit of works by Norma Smayda, Jan Doyle, and Antonia Kormos. \u00a0All three women are Rhode Island weavers, although my small area group in Connecticut claims Tony too, as well a number of other Rhode Island residents who regularly come our meetings. \u00a0Tony is in her 90s and still doing fabulous work in many complex weaves as well as bobbin lace.<\/p>\n Changing gears a bit, but still celebrating inspiring works of art, the next photo\u00a0is of a gift that Bob and I recently gave each other. \u00a0Back in June we celebrated our 40th anniversary. \u00a0Pretty amazing to both of us! We enjoy looking at art together, although we are not wealthy enough to actually as much art as we’d like. We count ourselves\u00a0\u00a0lucky to have some accomplished artistic friends….because of that we heard\u00a0of an artistic exchange between the US and Russia, where a group of Russian painters\u00a0came to the US last spring to paint plein aire along the coast of Maine. \u00a0Bob and I sailed coastal Maine for 16 years before we started sailing in the Caribbean for our winters, so images of Maine bring back some wonderful memories of summer travels during our increasingly long marriage (I mean that in a good way!).<\/p>\n One artist in particular captured one of our best memories with this depiction of a lobster pound near Stonington, Maine. \u00a0Almost every summer we would stop and anchor near Stonington, just off from Billings Marina. \u00a0We’d take our dinghy ashore and walk into town, which included walking right by this very spot. \u00a0It’s the still water of the pond that just undoes me. \u00a0It looks wonderful close up and at any distance. \u00a0We have hung this in a spot where we can view it from close up as well as all the way to the other side of the house, and we love it from all the vantage points.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n