Tamara's snake???? Sounds interesting!! What snake Tamara?
Giles is finished!!! Just have to lift him from the pillow!! He
turned blue with the cold yesterday! LOL. Thanks for lending me the
pricking Jane!
The threads were Gutermann Sulky metallic in 14 different colours!
And the beads were brilliant glass bottom bobbin beads! How is a
lacemaker with lots of unspangled bobbins supposed to resist those?!?
(I also bought a Gutermann metallic 'ribbon' reel.... just to see how
it works on something....)
Sue in EY
On 13 Jul 2009, at 18:09, Jane Partridge wrote:
Sue found a lot of things on that stand... thread, beads... she was
very tempted, and probably needs to borrow Tamara's snake....
Happy birthday Sue!
The idea that I have been planning to turn into a pattern one day is
the photo I took of the stained glass window next to the back door
at The Hollies - and I'm sure I'm not the only one! I'm also (very
long term) working a Honiton piece of a basket of flowers using one
of Ann Orr's "prick and pounce" quilting patterns for the pricking -
these have the pinhole spacing right to start with!
For me, I think the most challenging piece I have done is
Marguerite, the mat I designed and went into Lace a few issues ago -
and the piece on my roller pillow at the moment - both concentrating
on the technique of working three overlapping gimp rings with only
one pair of gimp threads - it is possible (I have done it many times
now), but finding a consistent way of doing it and drawing out the
thread path for others "loopy" enough to follow is proving very
challenging. (This requires very loopy gimps!).
Other than that, the piece of unfinished needlelace that Mom was
working on (she died nearly two years ago) - what was she planning
to do where, and which of the two thickness' of thread she was using
were to go where? I'm not even sure if the pattern was a published
one or one she had drawn out herself.
My favourite pattern - I'm not sure I have one - possibly Giles (my
dog bookmark), probably my butterfly bookmark, definitely my Castle
Class Loco and Tender (Branscombe point) - but that is because it is
railway related and I like steam trains!
There are also many amongst the Retournac patterns that I like, but
haven't enough hours in a day (especially now I'm working two days a
week again!).
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