Having always (and still) been a stringaholic, I have and still do:
needle lace, tatting, crochet, macrame, embroidery and anything else
that comes along. I am seriously considering needle lace in wire. I
think it would work. Tatting does!
I recall my older brother at about age 8, tying some toothpicks
together with sewing thread and then proceeding to weave a very
respectable simple piece of fabric. My mother gave me a scrap of
machine lace that I worried over for a long time, trying to figure
out HOW they got the threads to move that way. So, 1 - I noticed
that it wasn't just over, under, over, under; 2 - I knew that over,
under, over, under was plain cloth and never would have produced this
wonder in my hand. Eventually, I acquired the DMC Encyclopedia of
Needlework and actually learned how to make bobbin lace from
it. (That must be worth a prize in itself!) This being in my
macrame phase, and lacking any proper lacemaking tools, I butterflied
my threads (silver cord), and used my T-pins and produced ribbons for
wrapping Christmas presents. Before Straw Into Gold closed
(wonderful thread place in Berkeley, CA), my husband and I wandered
through it for most of an afternoon. He couldn't understand why I
didn't want a spinning wheel and a loom (always the techie and
fascinated by machinery!). My answer was "Life is too short!".
Patty
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