Me, too! I dread winding bobbins and put off projects just because of that. I
used to bribe my boys when they were little to wind for me, so I could do
drudge work like cleaning. In repayment, they got the left over thread that
they called "lion hair". They'd play with that and make things with
it...usually curly fur for creations. I do wind them all to start (by myself),
but just getting to the winding point is a mental game.
I love to make tallies and feel that the hardest for me were square. I'm
doing a yardage piece that will stay on the roller pillow for a while. It has
many squares in it and they're finally looking squarish.
Sewings are no big deal. It takes time, but to me on a nice piece of lace I
should take time and have a neat finish. Just like doing a neat and tidy
pricking ahead of time is important. So maybe starts and finishes make a huge
part of nice work for me.
Another thing to also add, I dread adding pins to my pincushion! (Silly, I
know) I like to reach and grab a sticking-out pin rather than fish from a dish
or bowl. But taking the time to refill the cushion seems a bit of a waste of
time that I could be doing another stitch. More wasteful for me, though, is
grabbing from the dish, figuring out which way is up, retreiving pins from
underneath my nail, putting back the extra one I grabbed. Oh well, the rest of
lacemaking is so much fun, I'll deal with refilling pincushions!
Off to make lace!
Laura Sandison
Lace! in New Mexico, USA
If only ready-wound bobbins were available!! Definitely winding the bobbins
is the pits for me.
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa
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