A mere handful at last night's monthly lace guild meeting in Inverness, but I came away with a giggle in my heart and encouragement re my lacemaking.
I have been struggling with a torchon pattern for a miniature fan. Unpicked it three times this week, and despite reading the instructions over and over could not figure out where I went wrong. Thursday a friend and I took a jolly along to a pottery way up north and of course I got lost - did the typical "road sign says turn right and I turned left" navigational error, and once we retraced our steps and reached our destination something must have settled in my sub-conscious mind because I came home and re-read the instructions: where I now read: clothstitch RIGHT through two pairs and not as I misread it before: clothstitch LEFT through two pairs, LOL. We had a good laugh about that at the guild meeting. My tutor said that at our last lacemaking weekend she learned to do the perfect picot, which she showed to the group and I promptly tried it and will now have 'unflappable picots' in future. Yipee. My picots will now stop waving their two arms in different directions. Micki - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
