Awesome display of your work!!
It's just the beginning -- the early stuff :) I'm waiting for the October issue of IOLI Bulletin to hit the subscribers before posting photos of the 2000-2003 efforts (the *series* designs -- other than the flakes -- will have to wait. I don't have samples -- all given away -- and will have to remake them)
I especially liked Partridge in a Pear Tree.
You have good taste (but then, I always knew that <g>)... Of all my designs, this is my own favourite. It is... I don't know -- less convoluted? less contrived? less *constipated*? -- than most of the others. It's simple, yet graceful. Almost "not me" (my DH deplores my love of "ornate". Me, I think it's a sign of deprived childhood and low-class origins <g>)...
On Saturday, Oct 4, 2003, at 11:21 US/Eastern, Sue Babbs wrote:
I love the way the two-pair inventions have evolved from the booklet of
yours produced in August 2000. Are you going to publish them as well? Or
(dare I say it as a joke?) we might all be tempted to breach copyright!!
Sigh... I *promised* I would, didn't I? So I guess I will publish the dratted booklet.. :(
The whole thing (part I -- the centres, and Part II -- the flakes) was *almost* ready to "go" in April? May?... Then I waited for my "Xerox lady" to recover from her trauma of losing a child. She never did; the store is now "for rent"... Which means I'll have to deal with someone entirely new (there's only one other *serious* Xero place in town), and teach them, from scratch, what's important and what's not when it comes to reproducing lace and prickings... I may come through as brash on the list, but I am not so in "real life", so I've been stalling for all I can. I'm a socially-inept person; the idea of having to ballance "being nice" on the one hand, and "getting things done just so" on the other is enough to drive me into drink more than my genes predispose me...
At the moment, the timetable is this:
1) on Thursday, I leave for Ithaca (lots of loose ends to tie up; no serious work done beforehand)
2) I come back (hopefully <g>) on Wed, Oct 15, somewhat the wiser for the mysteries of the Polychrome Blonde.
3) I have promised to get my "paddle fan" in shape for publishing in the Winter IOLI Bulletin, with Nov 15 deadline. I doubt I'll have much spare time before Nov 15; almost all the "material" -- except the lace itself and the pricking -- got lost in various "shuffles"; IOLI changed the editors twice, I changed the whole puter system (PC to Mac) once...
4) I'll start negotiations with the "new Xerox-people" as soon as I've mailed off all the stuff to the Bulletin; say Nov 7 (or 10; weekends are the pits for the slow workers <g>)
5) by which time, we're thick into the personalised Christmas greeting cards and those -- relentlessly cheerful -- "year end reports", which so many Americans feel they have to mail out to hundreds of their acquaintances...
6) So, *realistcally speaking*, I may be able to get some "proper attention" from the "Xerox people" after January 6 (Tuesday after the hullaballoo; Mondays are for nursing hangovers)...
I'll let you all know *then* how things stand :)
Regarding copyright:
In general, I don't give a flying, er, leap... You like it and wanna make it? My pleasure (truly; there's no bigger "kick" than knowing that one's pattern "hit a spot"); that's why I give the info on where the patterns can be found (bigger pics). You wanna try and reproduce a pattern from a photo alone? Be my guest -- better you than me, anytime :) You wanna make umpteen copies of it for sale? It's your funeral, but you have my (atheist, ie worthless) blessing... :)
The "flakes" are somewhat different, in that I'm still hoping to put together a booklet (more likely: a set of loose sheets, for people to bind as they wish) which will be sold *at cost +$2*. With the $2 profit going to The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, CA...
So, that's the story...
In the story of the "selective mailbox", "the plot thickens" (or things get "curioser and curioser" -- depending on the reading of your choice <g>)... The messages from Carole and Sue that I have just replied to? I saw them in the archives 24 hrs ago, but they landed in my Arachne box only this afternoon... I expect my provider is having tantrums, with no-one to pacify them (it's a weekend) :)
Today has been one of those truly glorious days... Sunny, dry, with mild wind playing tag with the clouds... Indoors person that I am, I couldn't resist going out on the deck to smoke and wind (by hand) the 26prs of bobbins required for my Ithaca class. At one point, a spider dropped from the sky into my lap, and watched the peculiar activity; I expect the thread seemed somewhat familiar -- it's Organzine, and no thicker than what a spider makes, if a different colour. The spider then hopped down to the bobbin roll itself, inspecting a few bobbins, and settling down on the edge for a while. I wound, it watched. By the time I got my wits together and came back with a camera, it was gone... I wonder if the lace made with these bobbins will be "pre-approved" and no-fault <g> I wish I were a child again, so that a moment of wonder could be kept in my memory for *years*... At almost 54, I seem to loose memories rather than acquire them... :(
---- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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