5th Annual Southern Style Stitch In
Report from Martine H, 2005's host:
The stitch in started with Jean C
from Hamilton Canada who arrived mid Thursday afternoon. She and I had
a chance to show and tell before I took her out for real southern
bar-b-que ribs and a quick tour of the area. Jean has only had air
flights in her life and has never been to the deep south. Tina
unfortunately had to miss this stitch in at the last minute due to
health problems. She was greatly missed and we all wish her a fast
return to health. Friday, Barb S and Kayjay W arrived and out came all
the books and temaris and from that point on, the den was covered up
with temari.
The big hit of course was
Saturday night with Hiro who quickly breezed through a few
interpretations before I gave him a harder one we all had been puzzling
over earlier that day. Can someone say 2 minute translation??
Hiro asked for a marked C10 ball and breezed right through the stumper
never having done a C10 translation before. The part that had us
stumped was that not all elements in the particular all over
wrap/stitch design were stitched every row. Some elements were only
stitched every other row. Kayjay was so impressed with Hiro that had I
not gone by his place late last Sunday to thank him, I would have
wondered if she had stuck him in her suitcase. (Hiro is a jewel and
because his PhD is in some sort of mathematic/engineering field and his
English is excellent, thus he quickly sees the pattern elements if
given a wrapped divided ball. His technical translation is superb but
he himself admits that the emotional translation as often found in the
pattern name is more difficult for him.)
Barb worked on attaching fabric
to mari and divided up our group order from
Ai. Along with the
order, Ai included some of the fabric that is stitched on, and the
paper that the stands are made on. I suspect Jean will be the first to
have a complicated hand embroidered temari in the not so distant
future...Ginny had sent us some pens that were given away and a bag
that was awarded to the first person to finish a temari. The winner was
Jean with one of her beautiful eggs!
All too soon Sunday came and with
it, the departure of the friends. Temari SouthernStyle 5 is over, and
Hiro left begging to do more translations which he later told me late
Sunday afternoon. Next year? Kentucky??
Martine
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To add to what Martine wrote - I have flown only once 29 years ago to
Europe so I put locks on my baggage. My baggage did not arrive with me
in Birmingham. It was held in Charlotte NC where, I think they were
suspicious of a very light bag. The lock was missing from one of the
bags when they arrived at the house after supper. The bag with the
missing lock was the one that had all my Temari in it!
Martine took me all around town on Friday and we did some shopping as I
had a special order from my daughter. She left me at the house in case
KJ arrived while she went to the airport. KJ arrived just after Martine
returned. I had a great time and the girls wrer like old friends that
you haven't seen in a while.
Sunday morning I had my flight back home. I came out of the airport in
Toronto and it was freezing cold and blowing wind. My daughter was late
picking me up as she thought there was a delay with the winds. Monday
morning I looked at the paper and the headline was " A witch's brew"
sub "Tornado's last gasp hits Hamilton". Some home coming!
Cheers
Jean in Canada
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And from KJ : "Heck, I'd be happy with a clone! It was just
incredible to hear him whip through the directions. I think he should
become a professional temari translater. The pay may not be great, but
he'd make A LOT of friends!...."
Hugs to all! KJ