Gentle Spiders,
I had *no idea*, the raffle would be so popular; I had 76 entries. I
should have, probably, included dire warnings about the tedium of
plaits and (leaf) tallies an sewings involved in making those
flaky-flakes... :) Many names were familiar but almost as many were new
to me -- come on, folks, DO write to Arachne about what's going on,
lace-wise, in your part of the world and what YOU, specifically, are
doing. Don't be shy. This list is only as interesting as its members
make it, and we're *all* interesting, because we're involved in the
most fascinating craft. Right?
Anyway...
Faced with 76 entries, I decided to "fudge a bit" (this being the most
commonly used lacemaking technique <g>). In addition to the last copy
which I offered for the raffle, I had two others. Both have a slightly
"lemon-y" flavour - neither is as perfect as I'd have liked it to be. I
was gonna keep them both, but... With my "Christmas toy" (the
scanner/copier) I can always make a copy for myself and have it bound,
right? And a less-than-perfect copy is better than nothing. Or, so I
hope.
So all 3 copies are going out. Perversely, the DH and the box decided
that all 3 go to the "silent Arachnes"; people whose names I've not
heard before.
1) First drawn was Marion Goad, in Oz. She gets the only good copy.
Marion, I need your snail-mail address.
2) Francoise Parent, in Ottawa, Canada. You get the "lemon" with most
of the diagrams bound in upside down. It's a nuisance, but usable. And
it's "unique" :) Francoise, I think I have your address, but please
confirm, just to be on the safe side.
3) Melissa Booritch, Florida, US. Your copy has overexposed photos of
the lace bound in and a set of extra pages (with better quality
photos). I do have your address.
The books are, probably, going out on Monday; due to lousy weather
conditions, I have not left the house in several days, so don't have
the necessary packaging and don't know when I'll be able to get it.
Hope you have fun with the booklets.
The remaining 73 of you... I don't know what to say or do. I will,
definitely, *not* be reprinting the booklet; 200 copies were hard
enough to get rid of, even though some 20 of them were given away as
personal gifts or donated to various libraries. The Lace Museum in
Sunnyvale might still have some copies left. Otherwise...
I'd offer to e-send the prickings, text and diagrams (sans the wire
version of one of the centres, which isn't mine to give away), and let
you scavenge the photos off my website, for your own booklet. Except
that, even wthout the photos, it's still likely to be a *huge* set of
files. Not the text so much, but the graphics.
But... if you can pick *one* snowflake that you really, really like,
write me and we'll see what I can do. I'm thinking you'd get all the
text and the page of all the centres' prickings (10). And the diagram
for the centre of your choice as well as the pricking and diagram of
the selected flake. Anything more than that and I think I'd have to
charge you -- via PayPal -- for the cost of the donation to the Lace
Museum ($3.85)
Thanks for participating, sorry I couldn't do more
T
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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