Hi All, Loads of snow here, and having already resued daughter in her car from being pushed in to a ditch by some too-fast, careless nutcase , I am not stirring from the house today, so will probably put pen to paper - or fingers to keyboard - rather more than you all want! (And to add insult to almost injury, he didn't even stop to help, or ask if she was OK!) Its amazing how just about, nearly two inches of snow can cause such havoc in this unprepared county! We lived in Lancashire, In the North-west of the UK, where snow was *proper* snow - deep and lush - I can remember that, among other times!, the day Claire started at Nursery scool, I carried her under one arm, and her brother under the other to the school, as the snow was above my knees, and most uncomfortably, over the tops of my wellies, - but the work/school/general life didn't come to a standstill ....................
However, I digress! I must admit, when I first started to make lace in the dim and distand past, we were taught to prick thro' the pattern, onto card and then fill in all the whizzy bits with Indian ink. However, as I *very* soon found out, these markings cannot be erased, so I very soon - much to the disgust of my teacher! - decided to photocopy the pattern, stick it onto the regulation glazed card, then cover the lot with the blue film. Which - I still do! I still feel that the success or otherwise of a piece of lace relies very heavily on the correct pricking, and card is a far firmer base than several layers of Christmas cards, or the cereal packet, and at least by copying the pattern, one doesn't have to waste umpteen pieces of card just to get the ink markings correct! I still tell my pupils how I was taught, and like them to do a couple of prickings in the *traditional* way, but then they can choose whether to use that, my way, or any other way they come up with! Carol - in a very pretty, but cold and white Suffolk UK. Subject: [lace] Re: Pricking card > On Mar 1, 2005, at 13:07, Jane Bawn wrote: - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
