Diana Smith wrote <Has anyone else received their copy of Lace yet? There is a picture of > <another beautiful piece of needle lace made by Catherine Barley.>
Clay it's exquisite! A stunning piece and all those bobbins to organise too! Many congratulations to you both - what an achievement! The piece of needlelace in 'Lace' is my comtribution to the Winifred Millar challenge. A pricking was sent to several lacemakers as a challenge to use this as inspiration to design and work a piece of lace in their chosen technique. I had originally intended it to be only a small piece for the front of a bridal shoe (the one not worked from the pair in my book), hence the shape and to be worked in gold thread which I thought would contrast well with the ivory satin. However, I was unable to source a gold thread in varying thickness, something that is necessary for Point de Gaze but do have an abundance of white/cream threads in numerous different gauges - so once again, white it had to be! I also take photographs of my work in progress as I feel it is far more interesting for others to see the journey, rather than just the original pattern and completed lace and have various stage photos of the version of Ulrike's Californian Poppies which many of you will have seen already, plus of course the piece currently in 'Lace'. I have been without my laptop for almost four weeks and was devasted when I thought I had lost all my photographs taken over many years (not backing up my files on a regular basis), but fortunately a clever engineer has been able to retrieve them for me - what a relief! However, nothing works the same as it did before and I spent a frustrating day yesterday, trying to fathom out how to work everyhting. I did actually send this email yesterday from my address book but it hasn't appeared on Arachne neither is it in my 'Sent Items'! Guess I'll have to go back to the engineer. Hope this one arrives in the mail box and a warning to you all to regularly back up all your files! Catherine Barley Henley-on-Thames UK - 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
