Hello All! I'm still alive after the Maltese workshop on the 16th--barely. Lots of 1sts--using a straw pillow, linen thread, Danish bobbins, windmills in & out plus a gnarly crossing in the center. Some cussin' & spittin' ensued. The Danes were easy to pick up & about the same weight as my usual Dutch bobbins so no problems there. The leaves were the sticky wickets! Let's just say that I'm about 990 leaves shy of 1000 so they all still look like spitballs. It took all day to get thru the center crossing in class & when I started to work on the next section at home, I promptly broke a thread inside a leaf. Accck--I was too far beyond in the order of work so decided to add a bobbin & blast ahead. Then I found a mistake in the cloth work. What to do?? Would you believe I *fixed* both with an embroidery needle? I sewed the new bobbin thread into the back side of the faulty leaf & unwound the bobbin then re-sewed the thread in the cloth work. Please do not send the la ce police! It's done, off the pillow & appliqued onto a little bag that I made for the friend who *gave* me her equipment. Just part of the learning curve! <G> Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA where there has been precipitation of one sort or another 85 of the last 115 days--glub, glub
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