On Apr 26, 2004, at 20:13, Patricia Ann Fisher wrote:
Way back in my early lacemaking days (10-15 years ago!) I found a large scale
honiton pattern of a rose flower from Lacis. It came as a kit with heavy
cotton thread (in an ugly pink color!)
<VBG> Way back in my early lacemaking days (almost exactly 15 yrs ago), I too got that kit...
*Before* I got it, I used to be very sorry that, during our stay in England (Oxford, July-December '88), we didn't stop at Honiton when on our way to Wales (we didn't stop because, at that time, I wasn't yet making lace. Every time we planned a tour, everyone got to pick *a* place they wanted to see, and the other two had to put up with it. My choice at that time was Shrewsbury, because of Brother Cadfael books... Sigh...) *After* I got it, I stopped being sorry for myself, and figured I hadn't missed a thing :)
It took 7 yrs, the advent of Arachne, and many books to make me feel sorry for that missed opportunity again; Lacis has more to "answer for" than the "horror kit" ("bobbins" and "pillow")... <g> I have never made up the rose in the kit -- took one look at it, noticed all the halfstitch (at the time, my personal arch-enemy <g>), and put it away.
But I've been eyeing it again for the past couple of months... Unlike Trish, I actually *like* the colours; they're what I think of as "my colours". Half stitch has -- long ago -- stopped being a "monster under the bed". The whole thing could be whipped up in a couple of days. And I have *many* plain T-shirts (most of them black) which could use a "face lift", especially with the upcoming trip to Europe/OIDFA Congress in Prague. If I manage to "close all the buttons" (ie meet all the other deadlines) before it's time to leave, I think I *will* make it. Perhaps, even, with Trish's addition:
[...] designed a stem and two leaves in honiton to match the scale. Made
the leaves and stem using two colors of embroidery floss used "as is" from the
skein.
to add more interest to it...
All the more reason to quit yammering on e-mail and go to bed early, so as to get up early and *get going*. As usual, Arachne has provided a "fertilizer" even before I realised I needed it :)
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