Hello to One and All! I've used the plastic bobbins on a regular basis. I currently have 50 each of the black and brown. I had 100 of the white ones that I tea stained to look more like ivory and they were all spangled the same. (I gave these as a gift to a student.) My black ones I spangled using semi precious stones and blown glass beads. The brown are spangled all the same with colored glass beads and 3 belly dancing bells off the end. :-) They can get quite noisy when I really get going. To the tune of, "I've got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle." "I've got bobbins, that jingle, jangle, jingle. As I go lacing merrily along."
Van Sciver has these bobbins for $6.50 a dozen. Good deal when a student wants to learn but doesn't have a lot of money to spend. http://www.vansciverbobbinlace.com/4Bob_E.html#Top%20of%20BobbinsE Susie Rose - Up in the mountains outside of Las Vegas Prayers, love and hugs go out to all who are in need. UFO 12 for 12; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UFO12for12/ Death by Socks: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DeathbySocks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean Nathan Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 11:03 AM To: Lace Subject: [lace] Horror kit - UK version Janet wrote: <I bought a kit, from House of Crafts I think, and a Dryad kit from ebay> The House of Crafts kit is around GBP 20 new, and a Dryad kit from ebay will be around GBP 4 to 8, plus postage. That's a total of about GBP 30. The Dryad kit would have been improved by using different thread, glass beads, a better pattern and looking for instructions on the web such as Jo Edkins on line lessons. As an example, yrom D J Hornsby, you could buy a polystyrene pillow for around GBP10. Their plastic bobbins (described by Pamela Nottingham in her book 'Bobbin Lace Making' (Batsford 1983): 'Recently, one skilled bobbin maker to cope with the huge demand, has had plastic bobbins made to his own specification. Many lace makers avoid plastic as out of keeping with the craft, but these are quite exceptional in use and appearance' at 20 pence each. Most people can usually find cheap glass beads from car boot sales or charity shops (both House of Crafts and Dryad only have plastic beads), thread, card, pins aren't difficult to buy. Add free instructions from the web and you should be able to get started for less than GBP20 with a decent items. Unfortunately when people are starting out to find out about lacemaking, they're not aware of what's out there as separate items that are it better than kits, and at a reasonable price. Lori has links to free patterns on her Lacefairy web site. Hornsby carries items not easily found eg emergy powder for pin cushions, blue tracing cloth for needle lace and polar graph paper. They also sell a range of English and foreign language books Web site: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/djhornsby/Home.htm (No connection, just satisfied with everything I've bought from them). Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
