Continuing Threads, 60th Anniversary Exhibition 2007, Wrap up
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our exhibition. We had many lovely and interesting items to show or sell and had a lot of interest from the show visitors. The demonstrations of spinning and weaving were also popular with a lot of schoolgirls lining up to try a piece of rag weaving and requests to learn spindle spinning which was shown at one stage on an improvised spindle made from a plastic computer disk and a piece of wooden dowel.
Although our space was smaller than we wished, it opened on to a large café area so our display could be seen by people while they were having lunch and so we had visits from people who may not have found us otherwise.
I was lucky to have such a competent and hard working display team who helped to make it a success. They checked entries, compiled lists, manufactured display props, attached labels, photographed everything, packed and repacked entries, set up the display and sales area and arrived day after day to help with all of the jobs. Thank you to Barb, Susan, Barbara, Gwen and Sue.
Thanks also to Chie and Yvonne who helped with setting up. To Tua, Isabel, Kris, Ros, Diana, Lucy and Elizabeth who spent hours talking to people and promoting the various aspects of our craft. To Phil who ferried equipment there and back and came day after day with the money and stayed to help. To Jenny, Helen, Denise, Gwen ,Sue and Jenny for supervising the sales desk. And to all the other members who came to help in various ways, we couldn't do it without you. I hope you all enjoyed it.
The peoples' choice award goes to number 62: a knitted lace shawl by Liudmilla Abramova. Equal second place goes to number 28: "Sea Birds" by Denise Stevens (handwoven transparency) and number 80: handspun, knitted shawl by Jean Brown from the Nowra network group.
Lucille Ryan, Exhibition Co-ordinator