I MOVED MY LACE ...and it worked! After having this in the back of my mind all week, I sat down and did it today. Didn't have any choice...I couldn't work any further until I moved my pricking. And since the pillow I'm using is on a stand (I probably didn't mention this before, but it's my biggest pillow and I like the way I can swivel my work), I couldn't use the towel or styrofoam tricks to extend it. They will help I think with my other pillows though. And one day I will get or make a larger pillow.
It became pretty obvious that I'm going to have to move this piece several times, so the sooner I tackled it the better. Thanks to Noelene, Ann, Alice, Tamara, Patsy, Sheila and Bev (I hope I didn't miss anyone) for giving me the benefit of your experience. Your suggestions really helped, and having it expressed in different voices helped to clarify what I needed to do, and more importantly, why. I read the messages several times, took a deep breath and did it. The only thing I had trouble with was trying to put the pins back into the pillow in the right place. They were still in the pricking, for the last full repeat, but kept poking further through to the back side than I would have liked. I finally got them placed reasonably well (I have a very slight buckle on the pricking that I hope won't make any difference to the finished piece) and carried on. The next time I will move it right *after* a corner if I can, doing it just before (no choice there) meant that I had a couple of awkward repeats until I got round the corner. I will not be as worried the next time, but I will also do it slowly and carefully so as not to make a mess of it. And, I have too much invested in it at this point and it's slated for my mom's 74th birthday in October (a bit of a miscalculation there, now I'm going to have to give her something more impressive *next* year <g>) It's looking quite nice already and I'm very pleased. LACE AND THE GLOBE THEATRE Same mother (well I do only have one) just came back from a trip to England. Among other lace discoveries which I have to visit her in Vancouver to hear about <g>, she mentioned a tour of the Globe Theatre. She didn't see Richard III, but she said there were several rooms with costume displays that included lots of lace on the garments as well as a pillow with lace in progress. No idea what kind of lace, possibly some of you who've been to the theatre will know more? JulieO in Whitehorse, Yukon wondering if it'll warm up enough today to do some garden clean-up [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
