> The piece I just finished was given away as a gift, which I am > profoundly thankful for. I can't imagine that in years to come I will > want to look at it and go " Oh my GOSH!!! Look at what i did!" and > cringe.
Welcome to our wonderful world of lacemaking, Francesca, and good luck with the next piece!! Just to make you feel even better, I just want to tell you that when I was young, my parents took me to Brussels and Bruges, and I just HAD to have one of those wonderful looking pieces of lace that were on sale in the streets(they still had old lacemakers working outside then). We watched a lady making lace, and my parents bought me a hanky with a simple torchon border (they couldn't afford much at the time), but to me it was absolutely mind-boggling because it was handmade. (And no, at that time, they didn't have work coming from Asia :-)) Well,I looked at that hanky a few years ago, after I started learning lace myself, and I thought "This is really basic work, I can make a much better one myself". And I can. So, you see, even professionals do work that is not necessarily that much better than ours!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne. http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
