Neat!! :) On 12/30/06, Brenda Paternoster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > by Margaret Clark 20 or more years ago. She told me that she carved > the shell shape from balsa wood and worked the lace directly over it, > sticking the pins into the wood. When it was finished she carefully > chipped away at the wood to release the lace, but destroyed the > 'pricking' in the process. >
She could have left a gap along a median, I suppose, to remove the wood, and sew the gap later, but that might have been fiddly and not as nice-looking in the end result. -- Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) blogging lace at www.looonglace.blogspot.com and fallen trees at www.looongstory.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
