Hi Marji, Not sure if this went to the list, or not. You will get more answers from them so I have cc'd my reply.
I think I would sew the ends together as you would a hankie or overlap them as they do in the continental laces and cut off the overlap once sewn together. I have not made a garter as my daughter did not want one. Don't know whether I was glad or not as the wedding hankie was made a couple of years before the event and I would have had time. Maybe you could make the bridesmaids a pendant. I have made a couple where I put the small piece of fine lace between two pieces of thin glass and wrapped them with sticky silver tape so it looked like a metal frame. A friend gave me a package of small frames complete with the glass and I made a number of these for sale. I think she got the frames from a stamping shop but I have never seen them since. I used some Russian patterns but am having a senior moment and can't remember where I found them. My first ones were made in colored silk and I just did a diamond shape of torchon ground with a spider in the center. The glass I used was instrument glass that another friend gave to me but you could use scientific glass slides or ones that used to be for photographs. Depending on the ages of the bridesmaids, you could frame a small motif such as a butterfly or cross. I made my son-in-law an elaborate lace corsage in the wedding colors. I made sure it would go with her outfit first. :-) Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org --- On Mon, 6/8/09, Marji Sakievich <[email protected]> wrote: From: Marji Sakievich <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [lace] Re: New lace maker/Convention To: "Janice Blair" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 8, 2009, 8:14 PM Here's a question. I just finished the lace for my daughter's garter and am wondering if I should sew the beginning into the end, to make a circle and then gather it or just finish the ends, and how to do that best and then just gather it? There it sits on the pillow waiting ideas. I have a until September so I am not panicked at this point. Also, any ideas on a little lace gift to give to the 3 bridesmaids and mother of the groom? I thought about a hanky but that would just get put in a drawer. Am thinking about a small motif and a coaster to put it in? Any ideas on what others have done? Marji --- On Mon, 6/8/09, Janice Blair <[email protected]> wrote: From: Janice Blair <[email protected]> Subject: [lace] Re: New lace maker/Convention To: "lace" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 8, 2009, 5:25 PM Hi Janet and Norma, Welcome to the list. It is usually a lot busier than of late. Maybe you can think of a question to ask to generate some mail. I get the digests and before the one today, the previous one was last Thursday! Next Saturday I will be teaching 4 or 5 new lacemakers at our lace day in Downers Grove, Illinois. The pattern is not my own and was chosen and advertised before I agreed to teach the group. This one has over a dozen sewings so I doubt that it will be made in the allotted 2 hour period. I can see that after lunch the group will have to carry on with the hope of completing it. It took me an hour and forty five minutes to make the sample and I am known as being a speedy lacemaker! Hope I get chance to do some shopping. I need to purchase some thread for my convention class. I am, for the first time in my life, taking the morning needle lace class. I forsee frustration as I do not get along with needles. I also forsee plenty of blood on my lace! In the afternoon I will be in Yvonne Scheele-Kerkhof's Beds Flowers class. I think I am going to do the wild strawberries pattern in her Nature in Lace book. On each strawberry there are about a dozen rolled tallies on the half stitch ground. That should be a challenge for me. I have just completed a piece with rolled tallies but I was working in silk and they were frustrating. A half hitch did not hold at the end of the talley while rolling it,so I am looking forward to getting some tips from Yvonne. When the supply list came for this class, it only had the thread for the Duchesse students and I was almost ready to cancel. It needed 160/2 thread!! I thought 100/2 last year for Binche was hard enough to see. I usually work with 100/3 Gutterman so this looked like breathing on it would break it. Anyway, I have plenty of thread left over from my Binche still on my bobbins so at least I can save on some winding time. Just need another 2 or preferably 3 dozen bobbins! The talley piece I just finished had 182 bobbins altogether but I had to mix in some different types. Why is it that we just never have enough? Is there a bobbin gremlin in my house hiding my stuff? :-) Lacemakers, if you are going to convention in LA this summer, I hope to see you at the Arachne lunch. What classes are you taking? Is anyone doing the needle lace with Nancy Evans? Janice <From: janet theaker <[email protected]> Subject: [lace] Lace List Newcomer. Hi There, I have just joined Lace list chat, I am Janet Theaker and live in Bridlington East Yorkshire ,I am a new Lacemaker approx 4years (But new compared to some who have been Lacemaking many Years) . I find it relaxing and a way to get away from the turmoil the world seems to be in at the moment. I look forward to having lots of input and look foward to reading your interesting comments Take Care Janet Bridlington East Yorkshire.> Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. 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