Hi Janet and Norma, Welcome to the list. It is usually a lot busier than of late. Maybe you can think of a question to ask to generate some mail. I get the digests and before the one today, the previous one was last Thursday! Next Saturday I will be teaching 4 or 5 new lacemakers at our lace day in Downers Grove, Illinois. The pattern is not my own and was chosen and advertised before I agreed to teach the group. This one has over a dozen sewings so I doubt that it will be made in the allotted 2 hour period. I can see that after lunch the group will have to carry on with the hope of completing it. It took me an hour and forty five minutes to make the sample and I am known as being a speedy lacemaker!
Hope I get chance to do some shopping. I need to purchase some thread for my convention class. I am, for the first time in my life, taking the morning needle lace class. I forsee frustration as I do not get along with needles. I also forsee plenty of blood on my lace! In the afternoon I will be in Yvonne Scheele-Kerkhof's Beds Flowers class. I think I am going to do the wild strawberries pattern in her Nature in Lace book. On each strawberry there are about a dozen rolled tallies on the half stitch ground. That should be a challenge for me. I have just completed a piece with rolled tallies but I was working in silk and they were frustrating. A half hitch did not hold at the end of the talley while rolling it,so I am looking forward to getting some tips from Yvonne. When the supply list came for this class, it only had the thread for the Duchesse students and I was almost ready to cancel. It needed 160/2 thread!! I thought 100/2 last year for Binche was hard enough to see. I usually work with 100/3 Gutterman so this looked like breathing on it would break it. Anyway, I have plenty of thread left over from my Binche still on my bobbins so at least I can save on some winding time. Just need another 2 or preferably 3 dozen bobbins! The talley piece I just finished had 182 bobbins altogether but I had to mix in some different types. Why is it that we just never have enough? Is there a bobbin gremlin in my house hiding my stuff? :-) Lacemakers, if you are going to convention in LA this summer, I hope to see you at the Arachne lunch. What classes are you taking? Is anyone doing the needle lace with Nancy Evans? Janice <From: janet theaker <janet.thea...@hotmail.co.uk> Subject: [lace] Lace List Newcomer. Hi There, I have just joined Lace list chat, I am Janet Theaker and live in Bridlington East Yorkshire ,I am a new Lacemaker approx 4years (But new compared to some who have been Lacemaking many Years) . I find it relaxing and a way to get away from the turmoil the world seems to be in at the moment. I look forward to having lots of input and look foward to reading your interesting comments Take Care Janet Bridlington East Yorkshire.> Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
