Hello Everyone
<Naw, Alice, it's a courgette, but you're in the ball park. A marrow is >
<a summer squash and bigger than a courgette. I do miss my kitchen >
<garden. I only have elephant garlic and jerusalem artichokes.>
I usually lurk and don't post or ask questions but learn alot. I do love the above
quote form a previous message. I not only learn lace from my "Arachne friends" but now
I can learn another language.
I just finished a Torchon bookmark for an exchange on another lace list. I used The
Challenge from Sharon Scothern printed in the Lace Magazine. I am not sure of the date
it was printed in Lace. I wish I knew. If I do find out I will post the printed date.
A couple years ago I was given a copy of The Challenge. At the time I didn't even know
what the design symbols meant. I did as instructed by The Challenge.
Quoted from The Challenge: in The Lace Magazine
"To boldly go where no lacemaker has gone before!
To make a DIY (design it yourself) bookmark!
1. Photocopy this page
2. Cut out the small symbol squares accurately
3. Stick them (preferably in a nice pattern) on the bookmark grid, one symbol within
one grid square. Don't worry about the side fans or the start and finish - all that's
been done for you, and don't worry about which way up they must go, except for the
half/cloth stitch diamonds which must got this way up:
4. Either stick the completed pattern onto card and cover with blue film or prick
directly onto the card. Wind 20 pairs of bobbins with DMC Special Dentelles 80 or its
equivalent and away you go!" Unquote.
At the time I was given this pattern to do it was the very first lace I attempted
beyond the original learning the basic stitches. I enjoyed making the bookmark at that
time and now a few years later I enjoyed making it yet again for my new exchange
friend. As I understand it my new exchange friend is a novice lacemaker. I have
explored many types of lace since my beginning and I prefer Buckspoint. I now claim
that I am a little beyond novice but there is so much to learn. I thank my teachers
very much for all the help they have given me.
If any of you know the issue and year of Lace that The Challenge by Sharon Scothern
was printed would you please post the answer on this list. It would be a fun pattern
for newbies to try.
Pam in Ohio
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