In 2016, after some encouragement from another lace maker and gifts of the large enough gold coloured rings to allow them to fit I set about making a lace suncatcher with bobbin lace and beads for my sister who was at that time diagnosed with a nasty cancer. Once I sent hers and she obviously loved it so much, putting it up at her kitchen window where she sat drinking her morning coffee, watching the bird visitors to her garden and enjoying the quiet and the sunshine, I decided to make one each for my other two sisters, then my daughter and then my Mum. Ours got put on the back burner for a while, so I could do some tatted pieces as quick christmas gifts for friends. My sister sadly died which took the wind out of my sails and over the coming months I did very little lace although I did get dragged back in to make some wedding lace in the middle of last of last year for my new daughter in law but during that time my elderly mother also passed away. At age 93 It was much more to be expected but lots of the little bits of lace I made always ended up in her hands or else we talked about it often on skype so some of the impetus left me. I decided not to fret over it knowing that if I just left it I would decide my best route in time and of course in recent times I spoke to my husband again about the shelved flower I had been working on back some while ago which is a commemorative piece for my Mother in Law. I wasnât impressed with the bobbin lace petals so tried needle lace instead and got a complete mental block part way through it and put that down as well. Since then I tried a pattern from the fantasy flowers book I have of the daisy type lace but worked it in blue and although that turned out quite nice it still wasnât right for my purpose but at breakfast the other morning I was looking at the two poppies sitting on my mantel piece and realised that Janiceâs poppy petals were the right shape petals for my flower and now in less than a week I have made all the petals I want which look great but hunted the house to little effect for some very special gold buttons I bought which would make an ideal centre for the flower ready to begin filling my second flower dome. Because I was getting close to completion I emailed my nephews and my siblings asking them for their ideas of what flower my Mum and my Sister loved best, thinking that one flower each would make a nice addition and we have had two days of flurries of email ideas for me to pick through. I think we have all enjoyed the chat as much as I did, when it was light hearted rather than the life or death stuff they have been going through. My nephewâs son is currently recovering from a double lung transplant he had been quite poorly with his Cystic Fibrosis, so they are about to hold a massive celebration over in Canada and I am going to set about making flowers for my dome and the suncatcher in lace. Another conversation we have had over recent days was talking through with my DH is as we have now been given back Mums green and gold suncatcher that tones in nicely with our own sittingroom colours do I still want me to make another of the suncatcher piece but in gold thread and beads for us as we are approaching our Golden Wedding Anniversary and he said yes. So now I am excited about it instead of bored or feeling pushed into making something, for the first time in a while. Of course since then I have hunted all my folders for the prepared pricking ready to begin and didnât find it, so as a last ditch idea I asked DH to get the pillow boxes down from the top of the wardrobe and there it was still attached to the pillow all this time, waiting for me to begin our own, which was meant to be December 2016.
So now over to you, what lace projects are some of you about to tackle which you are looking forward to? Sue T Dorset UK Where we are having some summer (its better than the spring we are probably actually on, lol) although parts of the country have had a months rain in the middle of horrendous thunderstorms in the last couple of days. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
