Re: [lace] summer/winter lace projects
At 10:01 AM 7/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: For those not going over lists and checking them twice to go to convention, how're things, lace-wise? Ok, so the mat/doily took several weeks, and now I feel like making a few quick things before the next longish project. Several weeks is a longish project Interesting viewpoint. I have one on-going project now in it's 4th or 5th year, and only half done. I take it to demo's -- seldom work on it at home. I realize that the amount of time available for lacemaking is a big factor in how fast a project is done. For me, a quick project is 2-5 days. I did a bunch of those this spring while making the rose bouquet (14 flowers). However, you did bring to mind the quickie 'competition' at conference last year...Who has the longest-time unfinished project that you intend to complete? The winner was 23 years. (And the lady next to me moaned, I had one for 24 years and finished it last month.) I can claim only 10 years for one project .. but I DO intend to finish it someday. However... back to the original subject. This question made me take an inventory of my pillows. I found *seven* empty pillows!!! There will be a 5-day workshop next month, and I want to have several pillows available in case I need them. However, I found one pillow that's brand new and never been used. It really does need a project to christen it. I've worked so many hours/days this year that I've been just too tired to even make lace -- except for the wedding garter that barely got done in time for the bridal shower. The wedding is this weekend, and I look forward to seeing the bride in person. She has both a wedding hanky and a garter that's handmade. The projects I have going are a 5-inch Kortelahti edging, a large trangular Idrijan motif, a small Bayeaux oval, a small Binche round motif, a Hungarian doily (almost done), and a 1-1/4 insertion adapted from a picture in a very old lace diary in a language I can't read with the pattern titled 'Margarethe'. I just got the lace book The Lace of Peniche. I think I'll set up one of those patterns. Next week. Now I'm off for the weekend for the big wedding. Happy lacing everyone, Alice in Oregon - 40 demo hours in 4 days sweltering at the fair. Oregon Country Lacemakers Arachne Secret Pal Administrator Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] summer/winter lace projects
alice howell wrote: Several weeks is a longish project Interesting viewpoint. I have one on-going project now in it's 4th or 5th year, and only half done. I take it to demo's -- seldom work on it at home. Well ok, I admit, several weeks does not seem that bad, BUT, you have to know that there are lots of projects that I have started and that will take forever to finish. They will get finished, I just don't know when. There's the crocheted tablecloth that was started ten years ago, then the crocheted lace curtains for the patio door are five years old, the tatted tablecloth is also five years old, the large needlepoint is at least four years old, and Many of my projects take months or years to do, in large part because I have so many things on the go at the same time that I don't work on everything that often, plus stuff for me gets delayed by Christmas presents, and then I travel, and then ... Cross stitch and bobbin lace are the two techniques that I do the most, mainly because I keep a cross stitch in the dining room (I live alone), and work on it every day, and because I try to do some bobbin lace every day (when I'm home), even if it's just for 15 minutes. When I travel, the bobbin lace gets deserted, but I do bring cross stitch and tatting. Add to that the fact that I only have work on one pillow at a time, and that I mainly make small items in bobbin lace, like motifs for greeting cards and bookmarks, and a mat that takes several weeks (like 7 or 8) seems to be very long. But, nothwitstanding all that, you are absolutely right. Several weeks as long for bobbin lace is just my personal perception of things, and I don't consider 10 years on a tablecloth as being long. Oh well, now if I can just get through today, I can go home for a nice long weekend. Lise-Aurore [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] summer/winter lace projects
Hi Bev, I enjoyed reading your article in the new Lace Guild magazine. Thankyou. I rather wish you hadn't started this trail about lace projects though, I'm feeling guilty. At the beginning of the year I had cleared all of the pillows with work on them, vowing not to have more than one project on the go at a time, (well perhaps two at a pinch) How are the mighty fallen, pride comes before a fall, etc. etc. While I was waiting for my recent operation I thought a largish project would take my mind off things. I started Geraldine Stotts 'Torchon Waterlily' pattern. It didn't work. I found tthat I couldn't give it the necessary concentration, so I put it to one side and made my rainbow pincushions instead. When I came back from hospital, I still felt that I couldn't go back to the water-lily, but I wanted to make some lace and decided traditional torchom was the answer. One of Biggins patterns was calling me. Now it is large, one that is a wide, full lace rectangular mat. You work down one side, round the bottom and up the other side sewing in as you go. I spent quite a bit of time planning how this could be made on my existing pillow. I have a large one with big movable blocks and I worked out how I could do it without moving the lace. As I worked down the first side and came to start the turn, I spent more and more time pondering the position of the lace on this pillow until now when i am halfway around the turn I know that it is not going to work like that and I am going to have to move it and it has 64 pairs of bobbins!!! Scream. Then it was our monthly lace meeting a couple of weeks ago and I could not pack up and take either of those pillows so I have started one of Cathy Belvilles Chrysanthemum Lace patterns, but at the meeting taking with one of the other members we decided that we must plan for a class we are teaching on Milanese lace so I have now started a sample for that. Four pillows now. No more. I have run out of places to stack them. It's a good job I thnk that I cannot go to the IOLI convention Jean in Cleveland U.K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 12:48 AM, Bev Walker wrote: Hi all For those not going over lists and checking them twice to go to convention, how're things, lace-wise? Everyone cool enough (or warm enough or tepid enough - this is hemisphere friendly) to do lace? And what's on your pillow now? Let's fill in the time until convention reports come our way... - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] summer/winter lace projects
Ann, I think what you are doing is a fantasic thing - I am sure your children will treasure anything you make. I'd love to know what pattern you are using. As to creaky gates and not - my dad has had his gate status changed but he is working on the principle that Bloody Mindedness can preserve you forever - it's worked so far!! Regards Liz Beecher -Original Message- From: ann DURANT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 July 2003 01:02 To: Bev Walker; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [lace] summer/winter lace projects Hi, all This is going to sound rather gloomy/pessimistic/stupid. I have spent the first 7 months of this year making the lace for 2 heirloom table cloths, and shall spend the next 5 months (God willing!) making the lace for a third. Until I have done all three and mounted them, I am not going to do anything else! The reason? Up until a couple of years ago I had every intention of living forever, with all my faculties (of course!) - even after my first heart attack, when the consultant told me that I was a creaking gate and would go on for ever. The second 'slight' heart attack had me in hospital for a month, during which time I had a double coronary bypass, and lost my 'creaking gate' status. The problem is that I have three children, and every one will have to have an heirloom - hence the three cloths. I just started the lace for the third this evening - and for light relief I am halfway through mounting the first. Ann in Manchester, UK - Original Message - From: Bev Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:48 AM Subject: [lace] summer/winter lace projects - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ This message has been checked for all known viruses on behalf of Vivista by MessageLabs. http://www.messagelabs.com or Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vivista formerly Securicor Information Systems for further information http://www.vivista.co.uk ** The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the individuals named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you should be aware that any dissemination, distribution, forwarding or other duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual author and not necessarily those of Vivista Limited. Prior to taking any action based upon this e-mail message you should seek appropriate confirmation of its authenticity. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by using the e-mail reply facility. ** _ This message has been checked for all known viruses on behalf of Vivista by MessageLabs. http://www.messagelabs.com or Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vivista formerly Securicor Information Systems for further information http://www.vivista.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] summer/winter lace projects
And what's on your pillow now? My pillow (s) have lace that I am making for my church's altar. I have a Torchon pattern for yards of lace to put on the Altar cloth and I am doing a series of Bruge Bloemwork crosses for the lectern. I have to have one of the crosses done before I leave Friday for IOLI. So what am I doing on the computer?? Dianne in Dunlap - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] summer/winter lace projects-an a bit of a ramble!
I'm a happy soul! I've just finished a square torchon mat and it looks wonderful. Currently I'm making a bookmark - it shouldn't take long- It's an Irene Tomlinson design that I have made several times since 1998 (bought it at my first NEC tried it when I'd been making lace for 4 months.) I'm planning to start another torchon mat next (in-laws golden wedding in August 2004 I'm going to do Biggins/Ruthan Jubilee) I may be going to do a bit of tuition (not teaching) gulp! Perhaps some of you recall my question in May about Brownie badges and lace? My friend fom work still has the pillow,+ original how to make lace book + bobbins etc. She took the newly finished mat (above) to show her daughter(Charlotte) who was inspired. We're going to try this weekend . If we get stuck could you come to help? I said yes without thinking! It will be wonderful to see someone having the same joy as me from those first (and if truth be told) not very good bits of lace! Charlotte is the rationale behind the bookmark choice. I thought it would be nice to give her as a prize when she gets somewhere with the lace whether its Progress Failure but sticking at it and wanting to try again; or I've tried this Mummy and I really don't like it (I desperately hope its not the last option) Anyway I'll leave the bookmark with her Mum to decide when to hand it over! Happy lacing everyone Viv - Original Message - From: Bev Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:48 AM Subject: [lace] summer/winter lace projects Hi all For those not going over lists and checking them twice to go to convention, how're things, lace-wise? Everyone cool enough (or warm enough or tepid enough - this is hemisphere friendly) to do lace? And what's on your pillow now? Let's fill in the time until convention reports come our way... I am approaching the second move of my Flanders lesson/hanky edge, and after the move will be able to begin the third corner. On my pillow dedicated to a mindless project I have now *5* inches of the 13 required to go around the fabric points ornament. Such excitement. Do respond. -- bye for now Bev in summery Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] summer/winter lace projects
Hi, all This is going to sound rather gloomy/pessimistic/stupid. I have spent the first 7 months of this year making the lace for 2 heirloom table cloths, and shall spend the next 5 months (God willing!) making the lace for a third. Until I have done all three and mounted them, I am not going to do anything else! The reason? Up until a couple of years ago I had every intention of living forever, with all my faculties (of course!) - even after my first heart attack, when the consultant told me that I was a creaking gate and would go on for ever. The second 'slight' heart attack had me in hospital for a month, during which time I had a double coronary bypass, and lost my 'creaking gate' status. The problem is that I have three children, and every one will have to have an heirloom - hence the three cloths. I just started the lace for the third this evening - and for light relief I am halfway through mounting the first. Ann in Manchester, UK - Original Message - From: Bev Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:48 AM Subject: [lace] summer/winter lace projects - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
