[lace] Nearly finished
I usually try to finish one piece at a time, but must admit to having two unfinished at the moment. One is a large Bruges flower lace mat, and I have just run out of team on that, and the other is a free lace piece that I know is going to be difficult to finish off - it is waiting for me to have lots of patience. Otherwise, I too slow down towards the end of a project, worrying about finishing, which I think can ruin an otherwise good piece of lace. But I always have another project in mine, and eagerness to start it spurs me on. Kathleen - 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/albums/most-recent
[lace] Nearly Finished
Hi My problem is just the opposite. I have just finished a Kortelahti Oval from the book of roses, and a Torchon bookmark. I cleaned my pillows from UFOs which were sitting there collecting dust for several years. I didn't finish the UFOs I just took them off the pillow going by the motto that if I don't wear something for three years out it goes because it is a sign that either I don't like it any more or it doesn't fit me. So now I have four empty pillows and I have no idea what I'm going to do next. This is quite frustrating. I need something to trigger my imagination and it has to be a challenge. I hope, David, that you find something nice to do pretty quickly which you will like as much as you liked the current pattern. Hope the socks keep you warm. I could use some of your cooler weather since our July/August were the hottest I can remember. It doesn't even cool doan at night. Happy lacemaking, Miriam In Israel - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Nearly Finished
So I finished a bloemwork piece yesterday and having never used linen before I'm not sure if I should do anything to it before taking it off the pillow. As I live in a desert climate linen dries out too much. In fact I will probably not do it again as the threads break a lot! Any thoughts would be very helpful. Thanks, Marji Sent from my iPad On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Miriam Gidron mgid...@netvision.net.il wrote: Hi My problem is just the opposite. I have just finished a Kortelahti Oval from the book of roses, and a Torchon bookmark. I cleaned my pillows from UFOs which were sitting there collecting dust for several years. I didn't finish the UFOs I just took them off the pillow going by the motto that if I don't wear something for three years out it goes because it is a sign that either I don't like it any more or it doesn't fit me. So now I have four empty pillows and I have no idea what I'm going to do next. This is quite frustrating. I need something to trigger my imagination and it has to be a challenge. I hope, David, that you find something nice to do pretty quickly which you will like as much as you liked the current pattern. Hope the socks keep you warm. I could use some of your cooler weather since our July/August were the hottest I can remember. It doesn't even cool doan at night. Happy lacemaking, Miriam In Israel - 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/albums/most-recent - 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/albums/most-recent
[lace] Nearly finished
Dear Friends, I'm wondering whether any of you ever do what I've just done. I've been working on a very difficult piece of Point de Lille for the past 8 weeks or so and it has about 3 days' work left in it. I've enjoyed it so much I am loathe to finish it. So 2 days ago I simply stopped and knitted a pair of socks while I looked at it. Started again tonight and will finish it over the weekend. The socks are great too as Winter has a while to go yet here. David in Ballarat, AUS - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Nearly finished
No..Don't think I've done exactly that. I usually get excited about finishing and push right along. It's *after* finishing a piece that I've used as a demo project for several years that I have a small panic: What will I do now? I don't have a demo project. Then there's the times that I've made something for a special purpose that, when finished, did not meet up to expectations. Heavens, I can't give that to . So I wound more bobbins and started again. I do have to admit that sometimes I just stop to admire the progress on a project. It's fun to look over the total project instead of concentrating on four threads at a time. Alice in Oregon .. facing record hot temperatures today. Good day to stay inside. - Original Message - From: David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au Dear Friends, I'm wondering whether any of you ever do what I've just done. I've been working on a very difficult piece of Point de Lille for the past 8 weeks or so and it has about 3 days' work left in it. I've enjoyed it so much I am loathe to finish it. So 2 days ago I simply stopped and knitted a pair of socks while I looked at it. David in Ballarat, AUS - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Nearly finished
Alice, It's *after* finishing a piece that I've used as a demo project for several years that I have a small panic: What will I do now? I don't have a demo project. I know that panicky feeling. But it always happens when I finish a piece. I rarely know what I'm going to make next, and that thought of not having anything on the go is just awful. Then there's the times that I've made something for a special purpose that, when finished, did not meet up to expectations. Heavens, I can't give that to . So I wound more bobbins and started again. I have to admit to doing that a couple of times as well. It's fun to look over the total project instead of concentrating on four threads at a time. Never a truer word written thanks David in Ballarat, AUS - must get to bed as it's now 2:30 a.m. and freezing!!! - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Nearly finished
I do this all the time. You'd be surprised how many projects I have lying around, each one only needing a couple of days' work to complete! I'm a process person - for me, it's not the finishing, it's the fun of making something that drives me. So the closer I am to finishing, the less impetus I have to work on it. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) Dear Friends, I'm wondering whether any of you ever do what I've just done. I've been working on a very difficult piece of Point de Lille for the past 8 weeks or so and it has about 3 days' work left in it. I've enjoyed it so much I am loathe to finish it. So 2 days ago I simply stopped and knitted a pair of socks while I looked at it. Started again tonight and will finish it over the weekend. The socks are great too as Winter has a while to go yet here. David in Ballarat, AUS - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Nearly finished. Alice and David. 8-}
I love this exchange..is there a lacer out there who has NOT had all these feelings at time one or another . 'Been there and done that' Smiles, BarbE.peeking out from the shadows Sent from my iPad On Aug 16, 2012, at 11:23 AM, David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au wrote: Alice, It's *after* finishing a piece that I've used as a demo project for several years that I have a small panic: What will I do now? I don't have a demo project. I know that panicky feeling. But it always happens when I finish a piece. I rarely know what I'm going to make next, and that thought of not having anything on the go is just awful. Then there's the times that I've made something for a special purpose that, when finished, did not meet up to expectations. Heavens, I can't give that to . So I wound more bobbins and started again. I have to admit to doing that a couple of times as well. It's fun to look over the total project instead of concentrating on four threads at a time. Never a truer word written thanks David in Ballarat, AUS - must get to bed as it's now 2:30 a.m. and freezing!!! - 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/albums/most-recent - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Nearly finished
David, I always start grieving when the end of a project is near! And yes, I probably drag it out as well! But I'm also eager to get it off the pillow and see it in its glory! Clay Sent from my iPad On Aug 16, 2012, at 9:14 AM, David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au wrote: Dear Friends, I'm wondering whether any of you ever do what I've just done. I've been working on a very difficult piece of Point de Lille for the past 8 weeks or so and it has about 3 days' work left in it. I've enjoyed it so much I am loathe to finish it. So 2 days ago I simply stopped and knitted a pair of socks while I looked at it. - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Nearly finished
I'm with you, Ilske! I am excited when a new project starts, hate the long middle part when I have become familiar with it, like the end as I am looking forward to seeing it finished, and from the middle part on while working on the lace I am looking forward to the next project and planning it in my head. Sue sueba...@comcast.net - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Nearly finished
Yes I am the same as you Ilske. Â Always eager to start the next project. Maureen Ilske Thomsen ilske.l.thom...@t-online.de wrote: Oh, I am shocked about myself. It seemed I am not as some of you are. I mostly become very impatient if a work of mine becomes to an end. And I must be careful not to spoil it. Because my thoughts are still on the next project. And I am happy to have finished this one. - 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/albums/most-recent
[lace] Nearly Finished
I have had things on my pillows that were not very large and more than half finished and then I didn't touch them for years. Sometimes I finish out of a sense of duty (blah) and sometimes I fall in love with it all over again. But lately I have been mostly tatting and inventing things in tatting and so forth. My husband has to pry my tatting out of my hands to get me to stop for the night and go to bed. But at least I finish. Patty - 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/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] Nearly finished
David I never simply work on one thing, I have a challenging pattern usually teaching myself a new technique, any easy pattern to do just for fun, a project eg gifts for family members, and at least 2 others all of different types of lace. I love going from one to the other as the mood and light takes me. And yes when I have my finishing off phase usually around December and January, there is a note of sadness which lasts only a few hours as I usually have my next 10 projects ready and waiting for pillows and bobbins. Anna who is really looking forward to the Flanders workshop that I shall be teaching on the weekend In Sydney on a sunny and perfect Spring morning. On 16/08/12 11:14 PM, David C COLLYER wrote: Dear Friends, I'm wondering whether any of you ever do what I've just done. I've been working on a very difficult piece of Point de Lille for the past 8 weeks or so and it has about 3 days' work left in it. I've enjoyed it so much I am loathe to finish it. So 2 days ago I simply stopped and knitted a pair of socks while I looked at it. Started again tonight and will finish it over the weekend. The socks are great too as Winter has a while to go yet here. David in Ballarat, AUS - 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/albums/most-recent - 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/albums/most-recent
