I don't have any that I 'store' any more. I kept everything over ten years, but never went into the bulging files, drawers, boxes and binders. It was freedom to toss the lot. I found I don't reuse a pricking if I've put it away. I'd just as soon make another photocopy of the original, from my library. I work exclusively from a newly done photocopy glued to card and I work the pattern as I go, that is the pins do the pricking. If I'm going to reuse the pricking, it will be right away, sometimes as many times as the pattern can stand until it is in shreds. Like Kate, I will go ahead and prepare a design to work, for the meditative exercise: I won't prick the pattern, but I'll make a photocopy (scan and print with home computer that is), glue it to card, find a matte covering if it will need it, trim it and stare at it for a long time to appreciate the lacemaking, such as one might read sheet music and play the tune silently :)
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Jenny Brandis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you do with your prickings? > > I have been making lace since 1 April 2005 and have held on to all the > prickings since then, including the ones I have prepared but not used. The > pile is getting rather unwieldy now. > > -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
