I sort of suffer from the other extreme of this. Because I used to work in London near two fabulous bead shops I would spend a portion of my mad money each month on beads (you know mad money ... the stuff you put aside to treat yourself with so you don't go mad!). Because I didn't need to buy a full necklace of beads I could squander some of the mad money on exquisite beads that I would buy just 2 beads as my centres for a pair of bobbins and then put them on relatively cheap bobbins. Yesterday, my husband and I were looking at the piece I'm currently working on which has over 70 pairs on it and he commented that this was a picture of my life as I could trace lace events back over 20 years (can I really be that old!) and I was looking at a pair of bobbins that cost about 3 or 4 pounds to buy but that have the most beautiful sparkly japanese centre beads on them ... each bead cost over a tenner but they are lovely. L
Kind Regards Liz Baker [email protected] --- On Mon, 24/1/11, Margery Allcock <[email protected]> wrote: From: Margery Allcock <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [lace] Square cuts To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Monday, 24 January, 2011, 22:14 Liz Baker (thelacebee) wrote: > I saw a well known lacemaker at a fair who had spangled > every bobbin exactly the same - she thought it was out of > this world and I was aghast!!! When I used to do demos at shows, I had a good collection of identical bobbins, all spangled identically ... I did it out of mischief, really; several times people watching had said to each other "How does she know which one to move next?" "They're all marked with different beads - that must be how." I wanted to find out how they thought I knew which one to move next. Margery. ====================================== [email protected] in North Herts, UK ====================================== - 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]. For help, write to [email protected]
