Initially, when I first started to make lace, I chose a project for one of two
reasons.
a) because it taught me technique that I wanted to learn.
b) because I was going to give it to my mum.
With mum's passing, earlier this year, it brought me up sharp just how often I
made a piece for mum.
K
I'm another who just likes the making, and doesn't care much what happens to
the finished product - if indeed it gets finished. A good challenging
pricking, a combination of threads and/or colours, whatever appeals.
Incidentally, for those on Arachne who knew I lived in Cooma at "The Round
House
When you consider the hours spent on any project they have to go to someone
who will love and appreciate them, or find a home on our walls, or whatever.
Those items that have been sitting in my box or in a folder are a bit sad
and not so alive.
I have got lots of books and patterns and every tim
