I am looking to do a 'special' piece of lace to celebrate our 40th
Anniversary, next year.
The question is has anyone else done something like this for themselves and
what kind of thing.
We don't have room to use my original idea of a table runner, and we want
something we can see around all the
I didn't make a piece of lace for our 40th, but Diane Miller made me a pair
of bone bobbins - one had the date of the wedding and flowers from my
bouquet painted on it and the other had the date of the anniversary and a
ruby coloured rose. She also painted the beads - my initials and the date
I had a bobbin done for our Coral wedding anniversary which is lovely and
also in use. What I wanted was something for us both to enjoy.
Thank you for your idea though.
Sue T Dorset UK
I didn't make a piece of lace for our 40th, but Diane Miller made me a pair
of bone bobbins - one had the
How about making an edging (as for a handkerchief, only inside-out, with the
headside on the inside) and make a picture frame with it. You could put a
picture of you and DH (taken on the anniversary date?) in the frame.
If you didn't want to put the lace on the outside, you could attach it to
How about a framed piece? A nice border (edging) around a central figure
(#40) with or with out flourishes.
I am sure you could find a pleasing arrangement by combining different
elements, possibly use different laces for the parts.
Lorri
I am looking to do a 'special' piece of lace to
Gentle Spiders,
I don't even have Laurie's excuse -- I was not sick at the time. Must
have been a senior/blonde moment... :)
There's a glitch in my pattern (Celeste; the angel with a 'tude)
instructions. P. 24, 3rd column, lower 3rd. In the instructions about
making the 2. Head, I said:
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with it. You could put a picture of you and DH (taken on the
anniversary date?) in the frame.
Or time to frame/reframe an old wedding photo with the lace on a mat
around the photo. A friend of mine has a number of pictures framed
with lace under the glass on a
Congratulations Laurie,
I only wish I could attend. I am sure the lace is lovely and interesting and
I would love to hear your lecture. Also it is 20 yrs. since I have been to
Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Lorri F
Subject: [lace] Handmade Lace: From Fine Art to Folk Art, exhibition in Los
On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:41, sue wrote:
I am looking to do a 'special' piece of lace to celebrate our 40th
Anniversary, next year.
The question is has anyone else done something like this for
themselves and
what kind of thing.
I haven't; my DH and I have just agreed to forget our anniversary
Thurlow Weed wrote:
WOW!!! Rather impressive how nimbly she does it!. I got a folded
T-shirt out of my dresser so I could try this. After a couple of
tries (trying to find the midway down point on the shirt), I got the
hang of it.
I wonder if there's a similar snappy method for packing
Lessons from British Folk Ballads ( OT, Humor )
Things I've learned from British folk ballads
Don't ignore warnings. If someone tells you to beware of Long Lankin,
friggin' beware of him. If someone tells you not to go by Carterhaugh,
stay away. Same goes for your mother asking you not to go
I just found some mushrooms(toadstools) in my yard
that were new to me. I'm used to mushrooms with a
smooth rounded top and pleated spore gills underneath.
These have just the pleated gillsno tops. They
remind me of the neck ruffs worn back in historya
circle of pleats made of fine
Hi Alice
That's your biology and botany tidbits for today.
Nice tidbits, thankyou.
I was so taken with a brilliant white field mushroom on my lawn, that I
took a digital picture. The gills of this one also reminded me a lace
ruff. The mushroom you have is probably a Laccaria. or a Tricholoma,
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