Hi All, After a blessedly brief (two day) hiatus I'm back. I don't know what happened. No chat and no lace for two days : ( Avital sent me digests of what I missed and today I seem to be getting arachne mail! But Bev and Anne Toney in Texas also had trouble. I missed you all terribly but I did get some lace made <G>.
I also have been working on a Kumihimo (Japanese) braid with the new gadget I got on the trip to Northampton, Massacusetts with Sumac. Before her fabulous "shopping" trip in the record store (sorry, CD store) we went to a great yarn store. I got some wonderful yarn and we also both got Kumihimo circles with notches in them. I made the practice piece - 16 threads, 4 colors winding around the cord and then started a new one. Unfortunately I chose DMC #80 tatting cotton. It was the best color choice right to hand. It's making a beautiful cord but a bit thin. I'll go searching later, I know I have lots of silk buttonhole twist and I think that would be beautiful!! And I seem to remember I have some spools of Pearl cotton that I was given a long time ago. I have lots of white and ecru Pearl Cotton for B'berg but I want color!! Sumac taught our Fiberarts Group Kumihimo a few years ago at Christmas time. She brought us all squares of matboard with notches. That works wonderfully but I think I put it away safely and I'm not sure where it is : ( Her prize winning run through the store was great fun. It was fun to see how the radio guys worked too. We (including the other customers) had to keep yelling every time they did a promo to stir up interest. They did that a few times and it gave Sumac a chance to look over the inventory again. She did wonderfully and crammed the canvas bag she was given full!! What fun <G>. Jane in Vermont, USA where it's below freezing again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
