> And as for finding a use for our wonderful laces?? > Takes 12 to 15 yards of insertion...
Everyone always asks how I'm going to use up the 5 metres of lace that I made for the 5-metre club, but if I made one of these hats I'd only just be getting started: While I was on vacation this year I visited a museum that had a sample of a type of cap worn about a hundred years ago. This was a piece of fabric that loosely covered the top of your head and was weighed down and held in place by the trimming. This trimming was lace (the ones I saw were machine-made lace, thank goodness) and the lace (about 1" wide) had been folded back on itself again and again to create 1inch deep pleats. (Like accordion folding, only they didn't put a crease in it where the fold was). Anyway, this very densely pleated lace went all around the piece of fabric. I measure one with my hands, it was about 20" around where the lace went, and there was about 5 feet of lace per inch of trimming! So, let me see ... that's 100 feet of lace for one hat, or about 33 yards or 30 metres! Talk about conspicuous consumption - you couldn't even *see* the lace! All you could see was a thick wad of threads. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
