Oh dear, I hoped it hadn't come out like that, as we all go through times
like that in our lives, dont we? Certainly watching our nephew recovering
is a very joyful thing and each photo his dad takes has shown an amazing
smile from ear to ear so definitely an onward and upward.
My flower made using your poppy petals but in blue, is now together and
standing proud in my tiny vase waiting for us to make up some sort of mount
to hold it up inside the dome while it waits for the other flowers to join
it. It now appears that one of my sisters favourite flowers is the poppy,
(there were lots about when we were kids out playing, in the 50s) and she
had a painting on her wall for years of a field full of poppies so that is
the choice for her, so now to make one up as it was meant to be. A glorious
red poppy but now to hunt out and buy a nice centre button to finish it off
before it is complete. Although there might be a delay sending for the
right size thread. Not sure I have Number 8 in my boxes right now. Then I
need to decide what other flowers and therefore what other threads I want to
use.
I think part of my lace doldrums was after making some pieces, leaves,
petals or whatever and seeing them less than how I wanted them to look and
dull rather than that slight sheen which brings something alive. My forget
me not definitely has that and I went off to bed a happy girl, lol.
I agree that the joy and the curse of being able to find things for very
little money allows people to think that we can do it for similar but of
course we cant and we shouldn't. I have sometimes made sure that people are
aware of the amount of man hours put into a piece and maybe even gone as far
as to ask them to multiply that by their own rate of pay per hour or perhaps
the minimum and they begin to understand. Now I just say I dont make to
sell as I have always said (although I did sell two pieces some years ago
but to pass on the money to a specific charity. First time after the
Tsunami in 2004 and then the second for the Shelterbox to get the donation
because I feel they do a wonderful job in helping people make a fresh
beginning when they have lost everything.
I always love to see your finished pieces of lace and drool, lol. I hope
you keep making lovely lace for many years:)
Sue T
Hi Sue,
I was reading your long email about your trials and tribulations and how you
were in the doldrums of lace making that some of us fall into at different
times. I was sorry to hear of your losses in the family and send you my
condolences, and Ihope your nephew recovers successfully from his operation.
I was also touched that seeing my poppy design helped you get your mojo
back.
At the present I am making a six pointed Russian star for a Jewish friend
who wants a lace donation for a charity event she is helping plan. I
started it on Sunday, and not having the correct linen thread, I started
making it using DMC Cordonnet 20. It filled the spaces but looks so heavy
that this afternoon I undid the two points of the star to start again. This
time I am going to use DMC 50, but put in more passives to fill the spaces.
I have made this pattern before, probably 20 years ago, and had it mounted
between two circular pieces of glass with a simple stained glass red border.
I used thin thread, as I probably had no idea how thick Linen 30/3 was back
then. It has sat in the window of two homes, each time in full sunlight,
and it has not come to any harm yet. It will probably outlast me. I
remember that the lady who mounted the lace in the glass delivered it to my
home rather than trusting the mail, and I was working on a simple
Schneeberger cat designed by !
Lia Baumiester. She was enthralled with it and asked me how much I would
charge to make some for her. I enquired of lace friends and they said $25,
which is what she charged for the glass piece. Needless to say she never
ordered any. :-) At the time, she was mounting those "handmade" Chinese
doilies in her glass pieces which she probably got for $3 each.
This Saturday my guild start demonstrating at the San Diego County Fair
where we were asked to teach fair goers how to make lace. We chose a very
simple fish design and the thread will be hung onto large plastic
paperclips. Can't use brooch pins in case the little dears prick
themselves. The organizers wanted us to do 100 fish per three hour
session!! Obviously they have never seen bobbin lace being made. That has
been revised to 20 fish, but we will see how it goes. Any bets on how many
get made on Saturday. There will only be two of us doing the teaching, and
getting the pillows ready for the next students. We will have a have a go
snake on a pillow for those who only want to try a row or two.
Janice
Janice Blair Murrieta, CA,
jblace.com
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