Does Tamara sell her designs and if so, how do we get to see them and buy
them?
OK, now that I'm back, and the Convention competition hoopla is over (Janice Blair -- another Arachnean -- got the first for her *superb* Mardigras mask in the form of a swan and, for once, the judges and the public were in agreement :) Congratulations to Janice), I can divulge.
I do not sell my designs -- my DH keeps me in style and in lacemaking tools, so I don't have to. The pattern for the Lovebirds (the official title was "With this Ring...") will be published in an IOLI Bulletin -- don't yet know which issue. The pattern directions are for the white/gold version, but I took the full-colour version with me (with the only gold being in the ring) and Debra (Bulletin's editor) photographed it too, to include in the same issue -- just to show you one of the possible options.
So, *subscribe to IOLI*, and you'll get the pattern and instructions. With Debra as the editor, the Bulletin is getting better and better, just as the Lace (UK) got better with Deborah (Robinson) as its editor (perhaps it should be a requirement that an editor of a lace-related magazine should be a Deborah or a version of the name? <g>)
The design (I got the second, BTW and, from all I've heard, the public was *again* in agreement with the judges -- definitely second, if not by a very big margin <g>) is, indeed, suitable for a celebration of wedded bliss -- the coloured version is intended as a wedding gift (still needs to be mounted, but I have 2 weeks before I have to mail it off), and I overheard several people in the display room saying (before the names were revealed and they didn't know I had a "vested interest" in their comments) saying that very thing ("would make a nice wedding gift" "Or an anniversary one"), so I'm very happy that I managed to hit the exact spot I wanted to hit.
I'll be sending off the photos of both versions to an e-pal in Venice, who'll -- hopefully -- add them to my "album"; that's where most of my original designs "live", since I do not have a website of my own (too puter-illiterate to set up and maintain one). But the pattern will be available *only* through the IOLI Bulletin, at least in the near future; it's a lot of trouble to put a *detailed* (I may not be as much of a perfectionist as Ulrike Loehr is, but am not far behind <g>) pattern on a web, and David Leader has plenty of other work to do on the Lacenotes without it (the errata section is to be launched off soon)
The image is 6.25"x 4.5" (more or less), uses Milanese technique (more or less <g>) in 80/2 cotton (though 100/3 silk is good too) and Sulky and Madeira metallics. It shows two stylised birds, beak to beak (with beaks and breasts forming a heart). Their wings touch and hold the ring (with this ring I thee wed). The whole is surrounded with a (somewhat baroque) vine with flowers. Some of the braids are from the Read/Kincaid books; a couple are of my own design (with diagrams). Not easy (17 braids altogether, several scrolls per mirrored side), but not impossible. I'm quite pleased with it myself, even if it is more sentimental than my usual fare :)
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