A variety of needle skills came before I met up with bobbin lace. I learned embroidery and crochet before age 10, and continued with knitting, crewel, needlepoint, counted cross stitch, and various freemotion machine skills. I was about age 50 when I saw a lady making BL at a festival. Then I saw a listing for a class at our local fabric store.... and that started the whole adventure in 1993.
Three years later, May 1996, my husband set up a computer for me and made me sit down and 'type something' in the search. I typed 'bobbin lace' and found Arachne -- just after its first anniversary. There were 300 members at that time. A year later someone suggested that Arachne needed to have a conference and the kind members in Nottingham, England, volunteered if we would come to Nottingham University. Thus Arachne was the reason I ventured across the pond the first time. It was a lovely week. (This year lacemaking takes me again to Europe... to the OIDFA Congress.) Arachne also opened my eyes to the wide variety of laces in the world, and the many different ways some stitches can be done. It has brought me many new friends whom I would otherwise never known. I thank Liz for her generousity in starting and maintaining this group even though she no longer has time to participate regularly. Alice in Oregon -- where we had sunshine, rain and hail today - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
