Excellent work, Susan!! Congratulations to Bertrand, and to you for
coming up with an excellent gift to commemorate the occasion!! I
suspect it will be a festive one, and would love to see his reaction to
your gift.
Keep up the good work!
Clay
On 8/14/2011 5:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hello All! What do you do when your favorite restaurant receives an "award of excellence" from the Wine
Spectator& the owner invites you to a party to celebrate? You make lace of course!! Bertrand is from the Loire
region so a fleur de lys seemed an appropriate token. Luckily a lacemaking friend came to my rescue since I had no
pattern& can't design my way out of a paper bag in lace. She worked with the graph I found in Here Be
Wyverns& emailed the pricking last weekend. After numerous consultations by phone/email& a too-close
personal relationship with Penelope stitch, it is finished& I've posted a pic to webshots. Please--no pot shots
from the real lacemakers on Arachne--I will take my ta-da moments wherever I find them! Big learning curve for
me& lots of mistakes--but done& ready for tomorrow's bash. In the midst of all this, I blew up the
pricking to page size so I could follow the paths of the threads. That lead to the idea of enlarging the pattern fo!
r !
perle coton to make wine coasters. And I'd like to try working the pattern from bottom
to top, using a different finish. So it's a good thing I'm retired& have time on my
hands.<g> Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA
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