Good luck with the project. I'm sure it will be beautiful when you are done.
Lyn in Lancaster, where the snow is going to melt on this sunny day, and then it's going to get warmer, above freezing for at least part of the day for the next week. Yippeee! -----Original Message----- >From: Lorelei Halley <lhal...@bytemeusa.com> >Sent: Feb 11, 2011 1:39 AM >To: lace@arachne.com >Subject: [lace] struggles with Binche > >Well, I just have to report I've spent a strenuous evening trying to start >another Binche lesson from Verbeke-Billiet's first syllabus -- #2. I had set >it up about a year ago, winding the bobbins, then set it aside. Lordy what a >mess. I started at 7 pm , it is now 12:30pm and I have the first 2 square >inches done. I had to take the thing off the pillow twice because I hadn't >been smart about where I started. Finally I spent my dinnertime studying the >diagram, making a copy of it, and marking in the simplest way to set up. I >got that straight. Then I had trouble working the Binche snowflakes in half >stitch. I must have worked each one 3 times until I figured out how to not >lose my place. I really thought I had mastered those, but it has been over a >year since I made any. I guess that is the lesson: don't let too much time >elapse between the basic exercises and trying to work the patterns which use >them. I think the rest won't be so hard. > >Actually, I'm laughing at all this. Of course, the whole time I was >struggling with the bobbin lace, I was worrying about defending it from my >cat. I have 2. One runs away the instant I say "no". The other one is more >persistent. I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED by this Binche or my cats!!! My brain is >really tired. > >I wonder how long it will be until I can post a picture? > >Lorelei > >- >To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: >unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to >arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: >http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
