On May 20, 2006, at 11:44, Margot Walker wrote:
On Saturday, May 20, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Adele Shaak wrote:
who has the oldest UFO still on a pillow
I may have the youngest UFO - I just started a project 1 hour ago.
Four or 5 years ago I made a vow not to start a new piece of lace
before I'd finished an old one - in other words, no UFOs
Me 2 :)
For the 1st year of my "lacemaking career" -- until I found suppliers
-- I only had as many bobbins as I could force myself to carve by hand.
And, even after I found suppliers and stopped wasting time on carving
bobbins, I couldn't afford to go hog-wild buying good pillows (the one
I made was -- and is -- v. good, but wasted a lot of lacemaking time,
and used up all the excelsior I'd kept from my "dowry crate" <g>). So,
from the beginning (1989), it has always been down to "scissors or
slog". By the time I built up my bobbin "stash" and got a couple more
pillows, the habit of finishing an old project before starting a new
one was so deeply ingrained (and proved so successful in curbing my
wishy-washy, Libra-ish nature <g>), I never saw much reason to change
it. The duplicate pillows/extra bobbins come in handy to take to
workshops but, if I come back with an unfinished workshop project, it
gets the same scrutiny as all the others: snip or finish.
I did, once, keep a pillow and 40+ prs of bobbins prisoner to a project
that I'd started and was reluctant to cut off because it was pretty.
"Maybe I'll come back to it one day" I thought. But new projects/ideas
kept crowding that one out and, when I finally did try to go back to it
after 18months, I found that I had to learn all the techniques/insights
from scratch, because I'd forgotten everything... For the birds :) So
it got snipped off and I've been unwinding the bobbins and using the
thread elsewhere, as needed, ever since (5yrs). Have reclaimed 30 prs
so far :)
My only UFOs are the sewing (clothes) ones but sewing (and needlepoint
and miniatures) had, essentially, "gone out the window" when I started
making lace. It just took me longer to get resigned to the realities
(like: until I die and go to heaven, I will only have one pair of
hands. There are only 24 hrs in a day, and I like to spend at least 6
of them sleeping and another 2 eating and reading. Etc)
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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