I'm talking about my doily pictured here on the right. After attending Maire's classes I spent the next two weeks, a total of 75 hours, completing this piece. I then rushed up to West Springfield, MA, and submitted it as my first piece in their judging competition. It won a Red Ribbon. I was thrilled.Then, awhile later, I was asked to submit it to the Lacis Museum in California for an exhibit they were doing. I was again thrilled.
Today, I shipped it off NYC ... to MAD to be exact. MAD is short for the "Museum of Arts & Design." My work will be part of a demonstration being offered by Barbara Hillery Van Elsen, Fiber Artist & Founder of the NYC Crochet Guild, on Thursday, April 12th. The demonstration is entitled, "Non-Conformist Crochet" and promises to be an exciting evening as she "... demonstrate[s] and examine[s] the origins and techniques of freeform and freeform lace, and compare[s] examples of pieces done by a variety of freeform artists."
I am planning on attending in person, and I'm also looking forward to seeing the "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting" exhibit while I'm there -- everyone has been raving about it, and what I've seen in the MAD catalog, it's well worth checking out! So a week from tomorrow I'll be going MAD -- and enjoying every minute of it! I can hardly contain my excitement!! :D
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