Hi spiders My neighbour, who I have been helping to learn to make lace over the months of this year has just become a grandmother again to a new baby girl and my husband suggested she might like to make a small piece of lace for the new baby. Now had we started a couple of months ago we might have achieved something to go on the card for the arrival, but that happened in the week and she is still working, slowly on and off on her poppy. One more petal to go. We have not had a lace session this month due to my husbands birthday and then some major family situation when he brother was shipping back to this country 8 months after a major accident which has left him with some major brain damage, so for a woman who already has a couple of serious health issues herself it has been a very stressful month and not conducive to calm lace making. Anyway I spoke to her this morning about the baby lace and she seemed pleased with the idea so I am again coming through all of you to ask if you have any suggestions of simple braid type lace pieces that might go into a frame on the babies wall and not be consigned to a drawer after the first few days. I have seen a stork but thats for the here and now, not for a young child, have seen the elephants on the lace guild site which looked good, so are there any other good pieces out there. I will check out my books during the afternoon to see if anything comes up but its difficult to know what pieces are available without having every book that exists and most I have never seen or heard of but I do have a goodly number myself so far.
I am sure there are one or two grandmothers out there so would be interested to know what ideas you might have used yourselves. Always grateful Sue T Dorset - 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/
