After seeing the request by Vasna I thought I would have a little race with myself. I had already sent 3 bookmarks along with some others from my guild. On Friday around 3 pm I wound bobbins and started a bookmark, worked until DH came home, maybe stopping a couple of times to do household tasks. We went out for dinner and on returning I carried on with the bookmark. I finished it just after 10 pm but left it on the pillow until today as yesterday I was out at a craft fair manning a table. So now I know I can do a bookmark in a day if I need to. This design in a torchon one with two pansies on it. I made it in black with purple petals and green stalk and leaves. In my haste I forgot to hunt out some yellow to add to the center of the flowers but I think it looks just as good without. The pattern was given to me years ago by Jean Barrett and is called Heartsease and was designed by Babs Reidy (if my memory is correct). I love this pattern and have made quite a number of the years. Thanks Jean. It will be in the mail to Denver tomorrow. I donated a framed lace cross to the raffle at the church where the craft fair was and as they had tins in front of all the prizes that you could place the tickets in, they told me my cross was by far the most popular and raised a lot of money for them. A second cross was bought by the vicar for his office and two larger crosses were sold just before we packed up for the day. I sold two other lace horse pictures and took orders for 6 more crosses. I had no idea they would be so popular as I had not made anything like them before. Just passing the idea on if you have a fair in your future this summer. Janice
Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
