Hello everyone,
I have been asked to introduce myself and how my husband and i got to
make lace bobbins.
Well, for starters I am Dutch and he is English, and live in the UK near
the City of Hull on the East Coast. We have two grown-up children
(daughter working and son at uni), a mad labrador called Megan and a
red-pepper addicted ancient guinea pig called Eskarina-the-Wizard-Witch
(anyone who reads Terry Pratchett will know who this is).
I started lace making about ten years ago, doing a community education
course in the village. My husband has always done woodwork and promised
me for years that he would have a go at turning some bobbins for me.
However, work took over a lot of both our time and nothing came of this
and my lace stuff got rather dusty. Mike took voluntary redundancy at
work, and I scaled down my foreign and english language teaching, so we
could both have some more free time. So, Mike finally started to turn
bobbins last year and I went back to lace making, having to teach myself
all over again. However, some friends then also got interested in
bobbins and lace, and since then there has been no stopping him, and I
started to sell bobbins on ebay. We try to keep them affordable, do not
claim them to be pieces of art, but very functional, nice looking bobbins.
I am going to try my hand at Bucks lace this year, having booked a
course with Christine Springett in June and I am quite looking forward
to that.
Well, that's us, for now at least.
Regards,
Agnes
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