Hi It's more than a year since I sent an email to lace, but I have read all your posts. It's been a difficult year trying to work full time and support my mum who became increasingly frail and eventually died at the end of November. But now I'm back in the flow and have a bit more time for making lace again. So I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for just being there and reminding me that there are things beyond the everyday grind.
I particularly want to thank Jean Leader. Over the last few years I have been working through Jean's little Lace Guild book on Bucks Point lace and have at last finished the final piece short of taking the pins out. I started working the final pattern, a bookmark, in May last year and managed to get about a third of the way down by Christmas. In my notes I announced that on 31 December I had got half way and now it is done. I have enjoyed nearly every minute of working all the patterns, except the times when I was going backwards, rather a lot at the beginning, less when I got nearer the end. Thank you Jean, so much, I'm looking forward to choosing the next Bucks Point pattern to tackle. Alison in Colchester, Essex, UK where it's sunny but bitterly cold - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
