[lace] Beginning Lacemaking

2004-11-19 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Sherry, Welcome to the wonderful, addictive, world of Lacemaking. Ruth and Patty have given you excellent advice. I, too, would have recommended the Rosemary Shepherd book if they had not got in first!! A group of ladies in Darwin - right up in the top end of Oz, used a copy of that book to

Re: [lace] beginning lacemaking books

2004-03-10 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Samrah I am really new to lacemaking, just started in December, and just got on this list. I do a goodly bit of sewing, and lots of embroidery~Palestinian in particular. My lace teacher is about 5 hours away so I don't see her nearly often enough. I guess I am a bit odd as I tend to

Re: [lace] beginning lacemaking books

2004-03-10 Thread W N Lafferty
Brenda suggests: Jennifer Fisher's Torchon Lace for Today Rosemary Shepherd's Introduction to Bobbin Lacemaking Bridget Cook's Torchon Lace Workbook as good beginners books. It just struck me that two of these are by Australians, which kinda reflects the way so many Australians lace in