For the last three years I've been studying hard, and have had to put
aside all hobbies to make enough time for it. ("It" being part-time
undergraduate art history at Oxford University). Now I'm very tired and
have decided to take a year out to rest and recover, and I'm really
looking forward to starting to make lace again. However, as I feel I've
forgotten everything I ever knew about lace-making, I've been wondering
where to start.
At first I thought I'd go back to where I began and work through the
exercises in torchon lace that I learned first, before I began to make
my favoutite Bucks. Now I'm thinking that, if I'm going to start again,
I could just as well start by learning something new. But I don't know
what would be a good idea, as I've never taken a great deal of interest
in other sorts of lace. So I'm asking for your help.
All I can tell you is that I really don't like the styles of tape lace
and Bedfordshire. And it would have to be bobbin lace as my arthritic
fingers are forbidden things like knitting, needlework, and using pens
and pencils because of the side-loads these activities put on my finger
joints.
All suggestions gratefully received ! And I'm immensely grateful, too,
for everyone who has sent messages to this list, which have kept me in
touch with the lace world all this time.
Thank you, everyone, from Linda in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.,
(where the rain has been falling all day, and is forecast to fall all
week, but the garden needs it).
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