Fw: [lace] rocking horse/Liz

2006-02-27 Thread Sue
Liz, Sorry to take so long answering, I have been feeling unwell over the weekend. I only started to learn lace from September 2001, did Torchon first, then began to learn the Bedfordshire, Cluny style plaits, picots, leaves and things. Because of the way the Sjogren's syndrome affects my

[lace] rocking horse/Liz

2006-02-26 Thread Sue
Liz, I bet the honiton horse is beautiful, but my eyesight is not good enough to work honiton lace. I had huge difficulty seeing to sew the material to the lace for the hanky. I had to take my spectacles off and work with the cloth about 6 inches from my face. I could only work about an