Hi All,
Yes - I have been away for several weeks, *celebrating* a birthday, and have
come home to umpteen weeks of messages - but I had to chuckle when I ready
the piece about coloured gimps.
Several years ago, I went on a course in Milanese lace, at Christine and
David Springetts, and my chosen
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I wound
the bobbins and, as I thought that a pale pink gimp would look well with the
ecru lace, I wound several pairs of said pink gimp.
I had similar with my first attempt at designing a piece for a pendant
in Bucks - in
Helen
It is interesting to me how many people are now putting color into their
lace. Your idea of just using colored gimp is one I never thought of. I'll
have to try it. I still remember a piece in the Art Institute of Chicago's
collection, just a fragment really. It had multi colored flowers
Lorelei,
Don't feel so bad about your thread. I made a B earlier this year from
a pattern an Ozzie friend sent me (hi Annette :-) ), and I used about a
140/2 cotton, but for the thick thread, I used coloured 50 Retours -
pink to outline the flower, green for the leaves and Blue for the
letter.
