Nottinghamshire Bobbin Lace Society lace day

 On Saturday I made my way down to Nottingham High School, This was previously Nottingham Boys High School and I had not been inside the building for around 50 years ! not since I was sneaked into the boys sixth form common room as a teenager as I attended the Girls High School across the road and this sort of behaviour was frowned upon.

Whenever it got foggy in the afternoon we would pray that the headmaster could no longer see the statue from his room as that would the signal to call the school buses in early to take us home.

Anyway, back to the lace.

The bookmark banner was on display, this was made for the anniversary last year and I believe that this is one of the longest running lace societies in the UK

Around 60 members attended throughout the day, spent there pennies with the bobbin maker ( I may have also spent some) and enjoyed the birthday cake.

I was very impressed with how light and airy the room was. Wandering round I spotted a friend who always uses bone bobbins and she was sat with another lady who also uses bone bobbins, these are beautiful. I have a few myself but I'm a little too clumsy and found out that I'm safer with wooden ones.

I did make some progress on my lace edging but spent a lot of time chatting :-)

My anniversary bobbin arrived last week, I originally was told that since I'd re-joined (after a few years) after the anniversary date that I wouldn't have one but this arrived in the post much to my delight.

My purchases were a few bobbins to go in my black and silver collection, a lace day bobbin ( the red one) and some second hand patterns and threads from the society sales table.

I probably have more threads than I will ever use but at least I have them to hand if I ever fancy starting a new project :-)