In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Elaine Chock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I once got a homemade gizmo made of two pieces of >plastic held together with velcro. > >I also have a collection of crocheted bobbin >holders -- and it seems so >simple/effective, that you take it for granted >and assume everyone else uses it, too? Perhaps >you've invented something yourself to fulfill a >particular lacemaking need.
Not one that I've used - yet - but the above has just put a thought in my mind - two longer strips of Velcro, pinned to the pillow at each end and possibly in the middle, would possibly hold the likes of Honiton or Continental bobbins for transportation, and be quicker to apply (just lay one under, one over, press together every two or three bobbins and pin down) than the crocheted strip or curtain tape (which I use now for Honitons)? Depending on the time, I probably was lacemaking at the same time this morning - I've been at it all day, out demonstrating lace at a papercraft show in Birmingham (UK). One lad today, the type who looked extremely bored (and wanting to be out playing, at a guess), was being told repeatedly not to touch anything (which he hadn't) by his mother - so I asked him if he wanted to "have a go" - I wasn't surprised when he said yes. His question (the first time I have been asked this) was "is it weaving?" Normally it is us lacemakers who suggest that, this lad had it in one! And finally, after for years saying that Phil (DH) was descended from the machine lace industry (his grandmother was a lace runner in a Nottingham lace factory), and searching for a lacemaker on my own tree (no luck yet), last night I was tracking his father's line back.. from Sherwood, to Peterborough, to St Neots, to Eaton Socon - which is in Bedfordshire. At great grandfather level, my comment to him was that his family kept living next door to lacemakers, how come it had taken so many generations to marry one.. and then I went back to his gr gr grandfather, and there she was, his gr gr gr aunt, Eliza Partridge, aged 16 (in 1861), occupation Lace Maker. I take it all back - now I know how he puts up with me! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
