Hello all,
I'm enjoying the snippets about strange things heard while
demonstrating... I believe I've posted this before but for those who may
not have seen it,
my favorite such experience was overhearing a woman who had been watching me
ask her companion what I was doingto which the com
In one of the old IOLI bulletins that is posted on the
Professor's site, there is a reprint of a newspaper
article that described a lacemaker at a pillow as
making an Indian headdress! I can't remember which
issue it was, but I get a giggle every time I see it.
Diane Williams
Galena, Illinois U
Oh Liz! After nearly two decades of lace demo-ing, I thought I'd heard them
all, but the comment you report is the best! Now we know why our lace
sometimes goes awry - it's the un-fortunate juxtaposition of maleficent
spangles that does it! My previous favourite misconception/ comment was on a
fli
--- Original Message -
From: Elizabeth Ligeti
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 7:36 PM
Subject: [lace] ?Fortune Telling?
Last weekend, I was away, at a country town, and sat making lace - and a man
came up and asked me if I was fortune telling using the "funny beads&q
Last weekend, I was away, at a country town, and sat making lace - and a man
came up and asked me if I was fortune telling using the "funny beads"
method? I think he was ready to ask for his fortune to be told. He looked
very perplexed when I said I was Lace making.!!! "Oh, don't you read
