Hi Mark, I think your site is great. I love your pictures, but I have one objection to your instructions.
I really dislike it when beginners tie their thread onto the bobbins as I am the one who usually empties them and rewinds for the next group of beginners. One time I found they had been tied on and someone helping me used scissors to cut the thread off and damaged the bobbin neck. I teach beginners to hold the end of the thread with their thumb, wind the thread over the tail a couple of times and then wind in the normal fashion. Beginners usually wind on more thread than is necessary so they usually don't have a problem with the bobbin falling off near the end of the work. That does happen to me as I am mean when winding thread for my projects. This happened this week when I used remaining thread from a christmas ornament for a second one. By the time I finished I had three threads attached to hackle pliers with just enough to finish and some for the tassel. I have been collecting fancy hackle pliers and love the ones made by Richard Worthen. I usually try to buy them when he is at conventions. I have seen his work on www.Etsy under bobbin lace and he calls them a Thread Clamp. No connections, just a happy customer. Janice This is a project that I have been working on for quite some time. I know there are several websites out there that have instructions on bobbin lace. But I wanted to create my own version in my own style. Plus it gives newcomers a different perspective and hope that if one instruction doesn't help them, then maybe mine will. You can get to my bobbin lace instruction from my website (http://www.tat-man.net) and clicking on BOBBINBURG (http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/bobbinlace.html) and then go to BOBBIN-A-LONG SCHOOL OF LACEMAKING (http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/howtoBL/Basic_BL_Supplies.html)....."Home of the flying bobbins!" Yeah, I know...sort of cutsie. But I tend to gear my instructions to the younger crowd in hopes that it will spark more interest in that generation and for the future of lacemaking. Here is the direct link to the first page: http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/howtoBL/Basic_BL_Supplies.html I only have worked out instructions so far into the program. I still have more things to add as you may notice. So far there are 10 pages of instructions. I am up to the part of the student learning the cross and twist movements. then I move on to adding more pairs to start working out a design. Let me know what you think of how it is presented. 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]
