wool, so the result was tragic!
Ann in Manchester, UK
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My best (worst?) UFO is the crochet lace bedspread I started making in my
te
Hello Beth,
Is the bedspread in squars? Than you could make very modern sleeves for
a blouse or a dress, take it with one of the corner in the middle of
the shoulder and sew on the two sides going from this point and ready
is it.
Greetings
Ilske
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Beth, you've just reminded me - I started a crochet tablecloth before we were
married nearly 39 years ago! I finished a 36" square one, then decided to add
more motifs to make it fit the dining table, which it nearly does, but then I
changed my square table to a round one! I can't bear to throw
-can anyone think of a use for half a
> bedspread?
> Beth
how about a large floor cushion - make a dark blue floor cushion and use
your half a bed spread as a topper - mind you you'd have to sew down at a
lot of points to make it usable
jenny barron
Scotland
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Hi everyone
I'm working on a beds hankerchief edging (pattern 11 from Barbara Underwood's
20 lessons) at the moment, and I've got a piece of bucks point in black silk
(to go on Pauline's pincushion) on another pillow which I need to get back to
while the evenings are light enough ...
My best (worst
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:02:23 -0700 (PDT), Janice wrote:
>I had to free up my large block pillow for convention which is why the hankie lace
>got finished. I am in the Gillian Dye class working with wool. I am thinking of the
>future when finer threads are too much for old fingers and eyes!! Ha
I do not write often but I guess that survey is contagious! Like usual
for me, I have only one bobbin lace work going on. It is a swedish
torchon 'Girlang' with square tallies. I have 30 pairs with Bockens
linen #60/2 and one thread of 18/5 linen as gimp. I work on my
Christina pillow and it is
Yes, I confess it sure beats being a professional Mental Health Therapist -
except for the money, which is very poor... But the benefits are
incredible!! And as for resisting the fabrics... after being around them
all day, they begin to lose their seductiveness... I can always see them
again to
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:24:24AM -0700, Bev Walker wrote:
> What lace(s) are you working on now? Maybe don't list all the ones you
> have in progress (unless you want to) - this survey is for the projects
> you are doing *right now* - short and sweet?
I only have the one cookie pillow (my eyes
> What lace(s) are you working on now?
Hi Bev and all,
I work on
- a Danish pattern "Flugten til Amerika" (=The escape to America) by Aase
Nilsson.
It is a picture with a girl and a boy and I make it as gift.
It is made in colour and I use Bockens linen 60/2.
- a Celtic wallhanging in torchon de
Anneke, Sorry to hear about your wrist, but isn't it nice to just sit and
go through all the books we collect.
> > Hi Bev and all,
> >
> > I enjoy reading all your emails about all the laces in progress.
> > Due to my fractured wrist I am not making any lace at all at the moment,
> but
> > I am l
> What lace(s) are you working on now? Maybe don't list all the ones you
> have in progress (unless you want to) - this survey is for the projects
> you are doing *right now* - short and sweet?
I have just finished the 'Swan Lake' dancers in the Yusai Fukuyama book '100
New Bobbin Lace Patterns an
I'm impressed by all that is being done - most of it beyond me by the sound
of it. I have two piesec on pillows:
a wide insertion based on the Greek key pattern by Atkinson;
and a circular insertion designed by Jenny Hester for a UFO candle holder.
I also have in progress a cross stitch lion'
It's interesting to hear what everyone is working on just now, I'm working
on pattern2 : handkerchief corner motif, from Introduction to Honiton Lace
by Susanne Thompson. I've done the outline and once my head cold from hell
has departed I'll start the fillings. I must say once I invested in a pair
Hi there I am currently trying to finish three half gloves for a wedding on
10th July. I have finished two and am working furiously on the third. The
gloves have a hand made ring which is joined to a piece of lace which comes
over the back of the hand and joins to a lace wrist band. This is my f
I have made tatting for about 35 years.
I can do bobbin lace. and knitted lace.
Roslyn in Austin
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Subject: Re: [lace] informal survey
Spiders,
I am currently working on a Downton edging of Duke's
Garter that I plan to use as a hanky edging for a
friend that is getting married next spring. I had no
purpose for the lace when I sta
I'm working a 3" wide circular Bucks edgingI think the pattern came from a
"Lace" magazine at least 15 years ago! I actually worked the piece some 10 or
more years ago, but wasn't happy with the join, so always promised myself I'd
re-work it one day. When mounted, it makes a mat approx 10" ac
At 10:24 AM 6/29/2004, you wrote:
What lace(s) are you working on now? Maybe don't list all the ones you
have in progress (unless you want to) - this survey is for the projects
you are doing *right now* - short and sweet?
I've been alternating working on:
1. A 4-inch 's-Gravenmoerse edging,
2. A
Thanks, Bev - for starting an interesting thread that helps get us out of
our summer doldrums! I confess that I'm doing more quilting than
lacemaking at the moment - a fact that is attributed to my happy part-time
employment in a quilt shop where I can make up shop samples to my heart's
content -
At 10:24 AM -0700 6/29/04, Bev Walker wrote:
What lace(s) are you working on now? Maybe don't list all the ones you
have in progress (unless you want to) - this survey is for the projects
you are doing *right now* - short and sweet?
I'm working on Louise Colgan's Bucks Point fan, from her book of 4
I've got Marianne Kinsel's Rose of England Tea cloth on the needles. Knitted
lace is my lace of choice. I'm 129 rows of 152 rows down, but I just agreed
to doing lace for a wedding hankie for the last week of August.
So what I'm /really/ doing is swatching up edging patterns and trying to
find one
Quick answer in between travels and jet lag!
I am currently working on 4 projects (at different times of day)
1 a bobbin lace scarf in cotton perle 8 from an enlarged Binche pattern
2 a beaded necklace which I started 4 years ago, but have now decided to
finish
3 a quilted jacket, which will a
I'm on the Honiton trail too! I've just finished the "basic flower" in
Sue Thompson's "Introduction to ..." My best effort yet, only my second
with fine (120/2) thread
Before starting on the next pattern I'm getting a torchon piece underway
for my brother's silver wedding next year. I'm doing Ruth
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