Ok... I'm joining in now.... Before I started school, like Ilske, I saw lace being made by my aunt. She promised she'd teach me when I started school, unfortunately she passed away before I got there. I'd been fascinated by the beads at the bottom of the bobbins.... One of the saddest things for me is that I don't have any of her lace.... not counting the crochet edged table cloth she made for my Mum and I still have!!
It was over 50 years later that I found a teacher and started making lace! Sue in a still wintry East Yorkshire On 23 Jan 2013, at 14:03, Ilske Thomsen wrote: > Sorry Jenny and Hazel, > it could be me beating the record. I saw bobbin lace making as a child of > three or four, sitting on the lap of my aunt. She was paralyzed on the right > side of her body and did lace with her left hand with hooded bobbins on a > roller pillow. And as you could imagine I forgot about. > In 1981 on a travel to Canada I saw it again and got interest in it. But it > took me till 1987 to get to a class. - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
