FW: [lace] Thistle bookmark

2006-01-20 Thread Patricia Dowden 
I would be interested in seeing the thistle
bookmark made up in white or colours. It may even
convert me to bobbinlace.

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Rochelle Sutherland

Lachlan (7yrs), Duncan (6yrs) and Iain (5yrs)
www.houseofhadrian.com.au

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Hi Rochelle,

Do I detect a certain affinity for things Scottish in your house?  ;)
I am fascinated by Sherry's objective to make it in color.  I have a Beds 
Piece in colors and it was colored according to the part, red poppies, golden 
barley, green stems, yellow sunflowers.

Beds is not given to be made in color, but when I got the spirit of it,
I was hooked.  The principal difficulty,  ahem! Challenge, is to find ways to 
change colors.  I just checked and my picture of it is still on the Arachne 
webshots.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/314148412/1325990697048870129OFRfli

I have Jean Leader's patterns also, but I haven't made any of them yet.
Life is short and art is long.  Sherry, maybe we could jointly give it try 
and have a partner to confer with?  I am very fond of the subtly variegated 
threads available and I have quite a few of them.  Don't you think a thistle
would look more realistic with hints of pink and light and darker purples?

And then there is the foliage.  Thistles come in a lot of different colors,
but I suppose that the collection of patterns represents the symbols of the 
constituent parts of Great Britain and the Scottish thistle has a definite set 
of colors.  The flower is definitely purple but I am not sure about the 
foliage.  Some other types of thistles are pink, and there is even a bright 
yellow one.

Maybe a fantasy thistle in turquoise and purple?

Patty

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Re: FW: [lace] Thistle bookmark

2006-01-20 Thread Jenny Barron 
Patricia Dowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And then there is the foliage. Thistles come in a lot of different colors,

  The thistles I am familiar with have a sort of silvery green foliage
   
  http://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/thistle/thistle.html
   
  quite a pretty picture here
   
  jenny barron
  Scotland

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Re: FW: [lace] Thistle bookmark

2006-01-20 Thread robinlace 
There are many species of thistles in the northern hemisphere.  Some 
have deep green, some yellowish-green, some gray-green, and some bright 
green.  There's one species found in southern California (I think it's 
actually a foreign invader, but it's frequently found where cattle have 
disturbed the environment) that has large, rich green leaves with white 
lines criss-crossing them.

Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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 Patricia Dowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 And then there is the foliage. Thistles come in a lot of different 
 colors,
  The thistles I am familiar with have a sort of silvery green foliage
   

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