ASG Meeting night and Kumihimo

Last night I went to my ASG meeting. We had a great time and had some new ladies come to our meeting too. We meet at a Joann's store each month and we are able to shop before or after the meeting. It makes it very convenient, sometimes too much so. I don't know if you have ever heard of this before but we had a class on Kumihimo. It is the Japanese Art of Crafting Cords and Ribbons. I had never heard of it but it seems to be getting pretty popular. One of our ladies, Rheba, bought some supplies at the Houston Quilt show last year and took a mini-class or demo down there and she was hooked. She's made all kinds of things. Bracelets, necklaces, lanyards for her glasses and name tag, key chains, etc. She taught the class last night and we had so much fun. This cord is worn by Japanese women to tie their kimonos. She made us a kit with a disk in the kit and we all sat and make keychains last night. I even finished mine. I'll take a picture and show you what it looks like. It was very interesting and would be fun for kids to do too. If you go on the web and google this, it brings up all kinds of info on it. I cannot give you any links because alot of them are copyrighted....Go check it out.