- It take only practice so, when you have a lace done and you still have thread on your bobbins, practice on your little pattern with tallies (only tallies continuously - one after one - if you don't have one - create it).
Dear Ann, and Spiders,
Many years ago, my lace group (the Lost Art Lacers, in NJ, USA) held a "theme pillow contest." We had lovely and extravagant color-themed pillows, "English garden" pillows, antique pillows, heart pillows, and of course, "the BIGGEST pillow." My entry was a "pun pillow," which was not just a cookie pillow, but a *chocolate-chip* cookie pillow; with bobbins ranging from a "bobbin-shop quartet" to a "worker pear."
Regarding tallies, the pricking I made was a small rectangle with 11 pin-holes pricked about 3/8-inch apart, and the instructions to the lace-maker, written along one side, reading "10 petals, repeat 4 times." The 4 bobbins to work the tallies were: three pink-and-red "harem dancers," complete with curly-toed shoe-beads on the spangles (the beads were made from Fimo "clay"), and one Persian boy. He (like the ladies) had a face painted on the head of the bobbin, with a Fimo hat/turban (complete with feather), a blue, black, and green Persian-y garment painted on the body of the bobbin, and more curly-toed shoe-beads (blue, painted with gold curlicues) on his spangle.
All together, they were "Ali Bobbin and the Forty Leaves."
:-D
Beth Schoenberg
--- now in sunny downtown Wanniassa, Canberra (Australia), where winter is on its way, with night-time temps of 2*C (about 35*F), but daytime temps in the high-20s or low-30sC.
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