Hello Weronika! This question comes up from time to time. When you're first starting to make lace, you have these visions of yards and yards of lace for which you have no use. In actual practice, you end up making lots of "practice" pieces which go into your scrapbook. Eventually, you start making "keepers".
In my own experience, shortly after beginning to make lace, I learned that I would be a grandmother - twice in one month!! (Both my son and my daughter became parents that year, and the children were born 29 days apart!) So I made four yards of tiny bucks edging with which I trimmed the Christening gowns I made them. The babies were both boys, so didn't need loads and loads of lace - just around the neck and on the cuffs. That project took nine months (really - I started when the girls were three months along, and finished when the babies were three months old - in time for their Christenings!!) Then there was the Bucks handkerchief edging I made for a niece for her wedding. That was on my pillow for about a year. I made a few Milanese motifs, which have found their way into frames in my office/lace studio. I have a Tonder continuous lace on a roller pillow which has been there for several years. I work it off and on when the mood strikes, and have no idea what I'll do with it when I'm "finished"... since it's continuous, who knows when that will be?? Now, as my lacemaking is becoming more technically challenging, I am making less of it, even though I spend just as much time doing lace! I started a Binche handkerchief edging last June and finished right after Christmas. That now resides in my Binche portfolio which I hope to have critiqued next year at a workshop. (Sigh... I was looking forward to the workshop with Michael Giusiana this summer, but all of his workshops were cancelled... I'm really hoping for next year!) I did a quick study piece, which is also in the notebook, and am now working on a mat edging. So in truth, there just isn't a lot of lace lying around my house! After gifts and study pieces, there just isn't much to "do" anything with!! People don't understand why on earth I would spend so much time making something that I'm not going to use. I think the reality is that I'm in pursuit of the skill, not the material product. For me, it's the journey, not the destination. Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Weronika Patena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:58 PM Subject: [lace] what to do with lace? > Hello everyone! > > Yet another question. > > I really like making lace, and at the moment I'm just putting it all in > a scrapbook, but I know at some point I'll want to make whole pieces > that I can use for something... And what can I use them for? What do > you do with your lace? > > Weronika > > - > 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]
