I guess I sort of started this discussion so I'll add my information, too.
Before lace, like a lot of you, I had tried my hand at a wide variety of other things. My great grandmother taught me the things a girl "needed" to know like embroidery, knitting, crochet and quilting starting when I was very little. By the time she tried to teach me to tat I was into my tomboy stage and refused to sit still that long. Many years later, however, when I wanted to learn to tat I wish I had stayed around longer <sigh>. I continued my thread work with counted thread work of many kinds along with macramé (both large and small items). There was still some knitting and crocheting but not much. I tried sewing clothes in home ec class in junior high school and quickly learned my talents to NOT lie in that area :D I've done different kinds of beadwork, both on and off a loom, tapestry weaving and painting with oils, acrylics and watercolors. I rediscovered quilting shortly before I discovered bobbin lace. DH was stationed in Germany and a friend of mine did quilting and she rekindled my interest in it. My fascination with bobbin lace began when I chaperoned a school trip for my daughter's class to Brussels. We went into a shop on the square and in the back of the store was a TV playing a video of someone making lace. I was absolutely mesmerized by it. I had never known anything about this beautiful art form and decided right then that I would have to learn. I made the mistake of buying the "horror kit" from Lacis and nearly gave up before I started. That thing is SOOOOO frustrating it's unbelievable. If you know what you're doing it is okay, but in that case you wouldn't be getting a beginner's kit. Luckily, I found a copy of Doris Southard's book and, with DH's help, built a sturdy roller pillow. Unfortunately, shortly after we moved back to the US the house we bought was destroyed in 1999 by the tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma City and my beautiful pillow was lost <sob>. But I have replaced all that equipment and after dealing with the depression that event (and other subsequent traumas) caused I have begun to get my life back. I have purchased several DVDs from Hensel productions with a variety of different techniques. Right now, I'm working on the Russian Tape lace butterfly with Lia Baumeister-Jonker. Now, wasn't that more than you wanted to know? <LOL> Ruth R. in Ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
