All this definately proves that we have to choose carefully those we give
these priceless gifts to and also to try to make them aware of the many
hours of work that goes into them. It also proves we need to have a big
sense of humour.
Thankfully I have only felt once that I made a wrong choice to give a
bookmark gift to someone.
When I made the first set of napkins I asked one sister what the other one
might use and she said table napkins to go with her tablecloth. After
attempting to find out what the cloth looked like without her knowing I gave
that up and just made some pretty lace, but I also learned that the other
sister would also love something like that (so got them the next year).
I wasn't tempted to make them for my brother and his wife, but she watched
fascinated while I worked away earlier this year during a visit, so I asked
her if she had a special photo that she would like a lace frame for and the
smile told its own story. If someone glazes over when seeing it or talking
about it then I am not tempted.
Sue T, Dorset where we have sunshine for the Queens visit today
"thank you for the beautiful silver frame"
I have a similar story.
My bestest friend, who no longer makes lace, had had a really bad back
problem and as she was recovering was with me on a Honiton lace weekend
tutored
by Beryl Moore. My friend was making a little Honiton swan, and was
struggling as her back was still not comfortable. By Sunday lunch time
she had
done the beak and head and was negotiating the turn into the neck. Shall
we
say it wasn't the best piece of lace she had ever done!
Eventually the swan was finished (and now we get to the point of the
story)
and it was framed in a little silver frame. At that time my friend had a
mother-in-law who was a good Liverpool Catholic, and she took said swan as
a
gift for her. It was placed on the sideboard and while friend was still
there a couple of nuns came to visit MIL. She proudly pointed out the
little
gift she had just been given and it was duly admired with the comment, you
guessed it, "What a lovely frame". At which point friend collapsed with
laughter all over again.
To this day, we still describe things as 'an exquisite eye in a lovely
frame'.
Jacquie in a damp Lincolnshire
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