The Strings of Fate
Oct. 3rd, 2005 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetSo we were leaving Anime Iowa after our last room-sweep when we came across a woman spinning wool on a drop spindle. We stopped to chat for a few minutes, mostly to find out what she was doing. As we talked, I eventually mentioned that my mom does bobbin lace.
"Oh?" the lady (Jo-anne, I find out later) says. "Where do you live?"
"Iowa City," I reply.
"Does she know (insert name here)?"
"You mean (correct pronunciation)? That's my mom!"
"O_O!!!"
Turns out they knew each other in a lace-making group ^__^ Jo-anne thought it seemed familiar when I mentioned that Mom recently went through reconstructive surgury but she didn't manage to put two and two together ^^a Anyway, she told me that she would be doing a buckspoint (type of lace-making) demo at the Amannas on the first Sunday of October for Oktoberfest if Mom wanted to drop by and see her/them. I took down the information in my brand-new Badtz-maru notebook that I got for being an emergency volunteer, and told Mom about it when I finally got home. Mom was pleasantly surprised, and mentioned that Jo-anne's daughter was also into anime, which explained why Jo-anne was 'playing Den-mother', as she called it. Managed to forget about it until church yesterday.
I reminded Mom once service got out and Mom said she'd think about going, since she'd been up really early to help the band pick up trash and wanted to take a nap, and besides, she'd already had a long weekend. I let her sleep until about three, when it was time to get going or miss the lace-makers completely, at which point I managed to convince Mom to go ^__^ We got to the Amanas and found the Olde World(e?) Lace Shoppe by around three-forty-five. Mom and I went in while Dad went cruising for antiques (more for bargains than for actual old stuff--well, that and 78-RPM records, which he collects).
We got to the room where the demo was and there was Jo-anne and another woman (whose name escaped Mom 9_9;) making lace. Mom walks right up to them and says, in her most innocent-sounding voice, "Is that tatting you're doing?"
This is taboo to ask bobbin lace-makers. It's about the same as asking a crocheter what they're knitting ^^; Jo-anne glances up at Mom, not really seeing her, and starts to launch into an explanation of what exactly bobbin lace is. Mom and I exchange amused glances, and the other woman at the table kinda elbows Jo-anne to get her attention. Jo-anne looks up, registers who asked the question, and says, "Beth! I'm gonna kill you!"
It sorta degenerated into a bobbin lace free-for-all discussion then, maybe half of which I understood. Another highlight is as follows:
Mom: *notices a demo pillow with square-ended bobbins on it* Are these yours, Jo-anne?
Jo-anne: No, they're the lace-making guild's. You can get 'em for fifty cents/a dollar each, which is a pretty good price.
Mom: Oh. And here I thought you were the only square.
Anyway, Mom had lots of fun and was glad I made her go in the end (which is bonus points for me, because Dad was just saying on Saturday how he wished Mom would get out and do more stuff, since he thinks she would really have fun if she did). She also said she was in the mood to make lace again, which is something she hasn't done for... quite a while now. It's a good thing, too, because she said she'd be making some handkerchief lace for a soon-to-be niece's (for her, cousin for me) wedding gift.
And now, the obligatory CFUD joke to go with this post.
I think that bobbin lace would be right up Sasuke's alley. It takes lots of time and patience (very zen), uses lots of sharp and pointy things (pins, of course), and the bobbin lace-maker's mascot is the hedgehog!
(I'm working on a way to incorperate the Hedgehog Song into CFUD!Sasuke's life, particularly via Naruto, but it's taking a while D: Bear with me? ♥)
Also finally starting work on Doujin-of-Communications. It's... slow going, to say the least ^^; Have one more ninja crack fic to get out of the way, and then I hope to finally finish Icka's cookie and that companion fic for Ysabet. And those are my projects for the moment. Well, that and repairing what's left of my Dante project. (Part of the spiral fell down ;_; I knew glue alone wasn't stable enough to hold it for too long.)
"Oh?" the lady (Jo-anne, I find out later) says. "Where do you live?"
"Iowa City," I reply.
"Does she know (insert name here)?"
"You mean (correct pronunciation)? That's my mom!"
"O_O!!!"
Turns out they knew each other in a lace-making group ^__^ Jo-anne thought it seemed familiar when I mentioned that Mom recently went through reconstructive surgury but she didn't manage to put two and two together ^^a Anyway, she told me that she would be doing a buckspoint (type of lace-making) demo at the Amannas on the first Sunday of October for Oktoberfest if Mom wanted to drop by and see her/them. I took down the information in my brand-new Badtz-maru notebook that I got for being an emergency volunteer, and told Mom about it when I finally got home. Mom was pleasantly surprised, and mentioned that Jo-anne's daughter was also into anime, which explained why Jo-anne was 'playing Den-mother', as she called it. Managed to forget about it until church yesterday.
I reminded Mom once service got out and Mom said she'd think about going, since she'd been up really early to help the band pick up trash and wanted to take a nap, and besides, she'd already had a long weekend. I let her sleep until about three, when it was time to get going or miss the lace-makers completely, at which point I managed to convince Mom to go ^__^ We got to the Amanas and found the Olde World(e?) Lace Shoppe by around three-forty-five. Mom and I went in while Dad went cruising for antiques (more for bargains than for actual old stuff--well, that and 78-RPM records, which he collects).
We got to the room where the demo was and there was Jo-anne and another woman (whose name escaped Mom 9_9;) making lace. Mom walks right up to them and says, in her most innocent-sounding voice, "Is that tatting you're doing?"
This is taboo to ask bobbin lace-makers. It's about the same as asking a crocheter what they're knitting ^^; Jo-anne glances up at Mom, not really seeing her, and starts to launch into an explanation of what exactly bobbin lace is. Mom and I exchange amused glances, and the other woman at the table kinda elbows Jo-anne to get her attention. Jo-anne looks up, registers who asked the question, and says, "Beth! I'm gonna kill you!"
It sorta degenerated into a bobbin lace free-for-all discussion then, maybe half of which I understood. Another highlight is as follows:
Mom: *notices a demo pillow with square-ended bobbins on it* Are these yours, Jo-anne?
Jo-anne: No, they're the lace-making guild's. You can get 'em for fifty cents/a dollar each, which is a pretty good price.
Mom: Oh. And here I thought you were the only square.
Anyway, Mom had lots of fun and was glad I made her go in the end (which is bonus points for me, because Dad was just saying on Saturday how he wished Mom would get out and do more stuff, since he thinks she would really have fun if she did). She also said she was in the mood to make lace again, which is something she hasn't done for... quite a while now. It's a good thing, too, because she said she'd be making some handkerchief lace for a soon-to-be niece's (for her, cousin for me) wedding gift.
And now, the obligatory CFUD joke to go with this post.
I think that bobbin lace would be right up Sasuke's alley. It takes lots of time and patience (very zen), uses lots of sharp and pointy things (pins, of course), and the bobbin lace-maker's mascot is the hedgehog!
(I'm working on a way to incorperate the Hedgehog Song into CFUD!Sasuke's life, particularly via Naruto, but it's taking a while D: Bear with me? ♥)
Also finally starting work on Doujin-of-Communications. It's... slow going, to say the least ^^; Have one more ninja crack fic to get out of the way, and then I hope to finally finish Icka's cookie and that companion fic for Ysabet. And those are my projects for the moment. Well, that and repairing what's left of my Dante project. (Part of the spiral fell down ;_; I knew glue alone wasn't stable enough to hold it for too long.)
