On 6 Jul 2015, at 17:45, ELIZABETH PASS <[email protected]> wrote: > I appears that the Lace Guild website has recently been updated. Sadly there > are no Poppy bobbins but for the current membership year 2015-2016 the > bobbins have the Lace Guild logo and heart outlines in blue.
Liz Pass is quite right - I updated the Lace Guild website last week and added the new Lace Guild membership bobbins for 2015-16 (the bobbins for 2014-15 are sold out except for a few Poppy continentals). If you can’t see the new bobbins you need to refresh your browser (or empty the cache if that doesn’t work). The new bobbins are lovely smooth wood and while they are more expensive than last year don’t forget that the price that you see on the website includes postage. I also added the 2016 Calendar - Rubies are red… I haven’t seen it yet myself but hope to be able to add some information about the contents soon. Next on my list for the Sales Page are the 2015 Christmas bobbins - there will be a bone and a wooden bobbin for ‘Seven Swans A-swimming” for those of you collecting the 12 Days of Christmas, and also painted bobbins with a Christmas wreath in Midlands, Honiton and Continental styles. The elephant on the Young Lacemakers page (https://www.laceguild.org/ylm/elephant.html) can be made as a simple outline for beginners - scroll to the bottom of the page to see this. A good way of providing something for a young lacemaker beginner is to take a simple outline and work it with 4 or 5 pairs in cloth stitch - the elephant outline can be downloaded from the page as a PDF file or the young lacemaker could draw her own shape. Jean in Glasgow where it’s still grey and damp ----------------------------------------- Jean and David Leader Lace Guild website: http://www.laceguild.org - 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/
