Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:15:09 -0700
To: Clive and Betty Ann Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Patty Dowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [lace] Betty Ann's Crazy-Daisy
I'm going through some of my late MIL's sewing things, and came upon
this little box , 2x2 " square and 3/4 " deep. On the box is
"Crazy-Daisy Winder for Finer Hand Weaving." It is manufactured by Ralph
C. Springer Co. 11411 Joanne Place, Culver City, California. Inside the
box is a brass object. Two circles sheets of metal with a knob on top
and when the knob is turned, 12 pins pop out from between the sheets of
brass (tin?)
It looks vaguely familiar; I think my Mother may have had one when I was
young, but I don't know how to use it. Dear MIL had a habit of throwing
away directions to everything, so there is nothing to tell me what
marvelous things I could make with this pretty little "Crazy-Daisy
Winder."
Anyone know? Thanks for any information.
Happy Lacemaking,
Betty Ann
Hi Betty Ann,
This brings back childhood memories for me. I got one in plastic as a
child. It is sort of like what you would need to make teneriffe, but
there are not nearly enough pins or sprockets to make fine teneriffe. The
Crazy-Daisy was designed for working in yarn or thicker cotton threads. I
remember being vastly puzzled by instructions for a 'diamond' shaped
motif. At my tender age, diamonds meant only one thing to me - sparkly
stuff - and I had no connection to diamond meaning a lozenge shape. There
was this bridge-like thing that fit on top of the wheel which would make
one set of sides have longer loops and thereby form the diamond. I never
did figure it out at the time. It's only with the wisdom of age that I
realize what it was for. Another thing was that the kit didn't supply
enough yarn to do anything useful or entertaining. I found one recently
in the same pink and blue plastic like the one I had and practically did a
dance (in public, at a flea market) Fiber junkies unite!
To replace those missing instructions:
Wind thread around the sprockets just like you were making a five pointed
star, but keep going until you use all the sprockets.
Cut a length of the remaining yarn and needle weave a center to hold it
together.
When it suits you, tie off the yarn and pop it off the Crazy-Daisy by
twisting the sprockets back into the head.
With a zillion of these little motifs you could make something.
Hope this solves the mystery for you. (But I like a little mystery, don't
you?)
Thanks for the memories
Patty Dowden
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