I started with the Horror Kit too, but once I decided I'm seriously interested
in bobbin lace and started looking at lace resources online, I quickly realized
there were much better ways of doing it... So I think there's a good chance that
most people who start with the horror kit will eventually discover better
equipment.
Weronika
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:27:26PM -0700, John OConnor wrote:
> Jeri, Jean and Liz, and others,
>
> I did not contact Evening Stitches about the Horror Kit. I meant to, but
> never got around to it. Someone must have as it has been withdrawn. Even
> Annies Attic, the crochet catalog now carries that kit.
>
> To our amazement, just within one week we met 2 ladies who had ordered
> the kit and actually learned to lace on it. One even padded and covered
> that board. The "bobbins" are not as big and clumsy as they used to be,
> but still to me, big and clumsy. The other lady learned how to do the
> cross and twist, made a strip, then took it to her school and taught her
> class how to do it. All on that awful board. Such a shame so many now
> think that is the way lace is made instead of on proper pillows and with
> proper bobbins.
>
> Jane O'Connor
> New Lenox, IL
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> Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul
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