Talking about coincidences, I used to live in the town for the first 29
years of my life but dont remember ever seeing the lace section in the
museum until years after I had moved away and was visiting my parents, just
after I started making lace, probably about 2001. I have since visited
several times and bought some of their patterns for myself and friends. I
decided to make a clock face in bucks point lace (using Alex Stillwells
pattern) which keeps begging me to do it. It was to be a gift to my sister
who left the town 20 years ago to live in Canada. Her son makes fabulous
wood items so we got our collective thoughts together via the internet and
he is making the body of the clock plus he bought the face when he saw
something he loved, while I get on with making the lace.
When i received the measurements I realised that the piece in question
wouldbe too big to fit, so reduced it and Alex kindly checked it and told me
what thread would work on the new size. Since then I found a piece of lace
made by me which was made using one of the patterns redrawn from an old
piece of lace and sold by the museum to raise money to aid the preservation
of the Lace Dealers Pattern Book. Symbols within the lace which I made
because I just loved the pattern are just so right for my sister, and is a
much better fit for the clock as is, so she is getting that but I still Must
now make this other lace but can now return to the proper size and make it
just for Me:-)
I have also bought the introduction to Milanese lace book you mentioned
which is very good and I have plans to improve my skills in this very
beautiful lace.
Now if any of you know how to make each day last twice as long or me be able
to speed up more than my current speeds I would be very grateful. There is
so much beautiful lace out there I must make.
I think I might have to abandon making lace for others in the future and
just keep working on all these forms of lace for the love it them rather
than making something with an end use and an end user.
Sue T
Dorset UK
Dear All
As Jill noted, the latest copy of Lace has arrived - and I see that
the introduction book is reprinting. Worth the wait if you are new to
Milanese, or just want the basics (and a bit more) in a convenient form
[email protected] - back from Woking lace day, to which Veronica Main had
brought some goodies from Luton Museum for us to admire - by chance
including
the original unit pricking I had used for the length of Bucks on which I was
working!
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