How about we help by suggesting what a newcomer to lace might take - seeing as it is your question :p
My free advice is to take Alex Stillwell's Illustrated Dictionary of Lacemaking. I think you will find it pleasantly straightforward, as a dictionary, certainly involved as regards the cross-referencing, as complicated as you care to make your study of it <g> and plenty of material upon which to muse, as you bide your time until rescue, when you can start on the many lace projects this one book will inspire :D Susan wrote (in another message) > Since I am new to bobbin lace, I cannot answer the question of what I would > take, but I think it would be something very complicated and involved, to > fill my time. > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Susan Reishus <elationrelat...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > If there was a fire and you had only one book you could take with you, > which would it be, and for what reason? (I suppose that being left on an > island with only one book and lots of thread, as one could make > bobbins...<grin>) > > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
