Re: [lace] Re: Pincushion

2017-01-12 Thread The Lace Bee
This morning one of my work colleagues showed me the results of the evening class for sewing that she ran yesterday. As an introduction to sewing she taught her students to make a patchwork pin cushion. In just a couple of hours they had mastered making a cardboard patchwork template, pinning

Re: [lace] Re: Pincushion

2017-01-12 Thread Karen ZM
Joy Beeson - I loved reading all about your pincushions. The account reminded me a little of the essays we would sometimes be asked to write in lower secondary school, e.g. I Am a Pencil 😊 A very colourful account indeed. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace] Re: Pincushion

2017-01-11 Thread Joy Beeson
All my experience with pincushions is for sewing. For that, I switched to a magnetic pin dish decades ago, but magnets wouldn't do at all for lace: you can't pin a dish to a pillow, the delicate pins would be damaged when the magnet grabbed them and jammed them in with the others, brass pins