Weeell it all depends on the thread you've been using for the samples and the size of the pattern .. lol .. three huge tallies with a bad one in the middle should do the trick nicely .....
dominique from Paris Clay Blackwell a fait jouer ses doigts de fée pour écrire à ÒRe: [lace] A T-shirt for the "in" crowd?Ó. [2003/12/13 13:17] > I think it's a clever idea - but wonder if the medium is > going to do it justice? If you look at your other "lacey" > t-shirts, you'll see that there isn't much detail to be > seen... the individual threads just aren't there. So the > "oops" samples may not look much different from the correct > version... > > Hate to be a wet blanket, but I'm a skeptic... (in regards > to this idea...) > > Clay > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "lace Arachne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:45 PM > Subject: [lace] A T-shirt for the "in" crowd? > > > > Gentle Spiders, > > > > The last week or so, I've been corresponding with several > BL "novices" > > on the finer points of Torchon bookmarks (I have the book > in which the > > bookmarks were published, so could check what they were > talking about). > > Three of them (the novices) mentioned -- as if it were a > dirty secret > > -- a *general* problem or two they were having (not the > same ones). I > > couldn't begin to understand why they thought those > problems were > > something to be ashamed of; when I was starting, the > overload of info > > was overwhelming -- *everything* was new, and everything > had to be > > memorised before the fingers (skills) took over... "Up a > creek without > > a paddle" is where I felt I was (of course, that was '89, > I had only > > one book, with outdated info re: suppliers, and no Arachne > in sight > > <g>). > > > > So, as I was writing back, I kept thinking: "been there, > done that..." > > And then realised that, no, I did *not* have a T-shirt to > prove it; I > > have several lacemaking T-shirts, but not *that* one. > > > > I'd love to have a T-shirt (either short or long-sleeved) > which said > > "been there, done that... Ooops" and then showed some lace > (Torchon?) > > with common "oopsies"... My personal favourite would be > the messed-up > > footside -- pin under 2 instead of under 4 for just one > pin -- that's > > one that still happens to me sometimes (in Milanese). But > I'm sure > > there are other "lovely" ones worth commemorating... :) > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" at the bottom optional... > > > > Non-BL-ers wouldn't understand it, but then they don't > understand the > > "straight" ones, either. For *us*, however... On the one > hand, it's a > > statement of improvement (been there, done that, but am > not doing it > > anymore). On the other hand, it'd be reassuring (I should > think) to > > novices to know that *everyone* had, at some point, worn > the "lace > > diapers" but did manage to get "toilet trained" in the > end... > > > > If y'all think the idea is worth pursuing, and if there's > someone among > > us who'd be willing to get such a T-shirt "organised", I'd > volunteer to > > make the "oops-y lace" for it *After* New Year's <g>) > Provided, of > > course, other people on the list were willing to share > their particular > > bugaboos (a pine-cone tally among a cluster of perfect > ones?) overcome > > or not... > > > > ----- > > Tamara P Duvall > > Lexington, Virginia, USA > > Formerly of Warsaw, Poland > > http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ > > > > - > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > containing the line: > > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
