Hi Tamara, This was going to be my next question. As it will be about next October by the time I finish my hearts lace edging I shall be just in time to hunt round the stores for some material to match. :-)
BTW congratulations on achieving "BL Editor" of IOLI I'm sure as a result the membership will increase (by at least one from this neck of the woods at any rate) :-) Jane Bawn Portchester UK Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:36:51 -0500 From: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [lace-chat] Re: spider pillow On Feb 5, 2004, at 20:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lynn) wrote: > I have just recently started to learn bobbin lace, how or where do you > get > the spider material to make the pincushion, I would love to try it. It's a long -- 18 months? 24? -- story... :) Pauline (Norris?), in UK, came accross very tacky -- red satin, with black spiderwebs and spiders - -- fabric... Bought all the store had, and offered to make and send pincushions -- filled with lavender grown in her own garden -- to anyone on Arachne who was willing to make a lace edging for it... Ended up making, I think, a hundred or two of them :) The earlier efforts can be seen on Lori-the-lace-fairy's website: http://lace.lacefairy.com/Arachne/Pincushions.html (this is the first page of 4, BTW) Lori then made a matching bobbin -- painted bright red, with black spiderweb and spider, and spangled with black and gold beads, with a red heart as the bottom bead... Typical -- to me -- of Arachne generosity, and the spontaneous interplay of ideas... My own -- duly edged -- pincushion, with Lori's bobbin, skewered to it by a gold spider (pushing the concept of "tacky" to the outmost limit <g>) is hanging off the dining room chandelier, except at Christmastime (when it's on my "textile tree"). But you can't get *the* pincushion anymore -- all that fabric is gone now. For fabric with spiderwebs (to make your own pincushion or a cover cloth), go to your nearest fabric store (for me, it's WalMart) sometime in September-October; that's when they're gearing up for Halloween... > It has finally stopped snowing, now it's raining ice. Lovely...:) Our spell of freezing rain seems to be over for the day, and "they" are promising "melting weather" for tomorrow (or the day after, at the latest), but the film scheduled for tonight (Roman Polanski festival, at the U film-club) has been cancelled all the same... It's been the bleakest winter of my 31 experience of "the South" - ----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ End of lace-chat-digest V2004 #19 ********************************* To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
