#WIPWednesday I was about to say that I just cleared off the pillow for our upcoming lace retreat--we are doing "early lace" samplers and I'm psyched for that.
But I do, of course, have more pillows... And this one is the one I use to demonstrate Ipswich lace. Our lace group is doing a Revolution 250 event in Sudbury MA on the town common this weekend.
Our #lace group will be demonstrating at the #SudburyMA #Rev250 events that are coming up.
Details of their day of celebration are here.
https://sudbury.ma.us/sudbury250/2026/05/01/sudbury-250-day-saturday-may-16-2026/
Just got a newsletter from the Old North Church and it links to an article about the steeple falling in #HurricaneCarol 1954.
They found movie footage of it falling.
But I also thought about how visible it was from the harbor...
Medford's "Mother" of the Boston Tea Party recognized with modern honor
https://www.wcvb.com/article/sarah-bradlee-fulton-statue-medford/71064928
The web article that accompanies our Piecework magazine article is available. We talk about our #Rev250 event last spring with the tale of the Revolutionary lacemakers.
#BobbinLace #IpswichLace #Massachusetts250
https://pieceworkmagazine.com/lace-lives-on-bobbin-lace-in-ipswich-past-and-present/
I have an article coming out in the spring issue of Piecework Magazine. It's about #IpswichLace and it has stories of the women we are researching who made or used the lace.
The issue has a #Rev250 theme. Another article is about Abigail Adams and the accompanying pattern is a needlepoint of her house and a phrase:
To be Good
and
To do Good
I gasped when I saw it and thought of #ReneeNicoleGood . Patriots--the real kind.
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