Courage, Jean.  The sunflower is the hardest one.  Now
you can do the others with fewer 'swearwords' than
this one.  Paperstrings are unruly, and not as
cooperative as nice limber thread.  They do take some
patience, like colicky children.

Best wishes to both of you and your projects.
Alice in Oregon

 
> I'm currently swearing a lot - trying to get the
> correct colour (yellow or 
> brown) paper string trapped in the correct pair of
> threads in Eva 
> Kortelahti's sunflower. The lady sitting next to me
> in my lace class said 
> she couldn't understand what I was muttering and
> swearing about (I only say 
> "swearwords") until she started one of the angels in
> the book this week. Now 
> she's joined in and she's only working with one
> strand of white string at a 
> time. I dread to think what she'd be saying of she
> had closely packed 
> strings of different colours. The swearing's
> working, and the sunflower is 
> taking shape.
> 
> Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 
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