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Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 1:43:59 PM
Subject: RE: [lace] Storing bookmarks
What do you do with the bookmarks you make? Do you give them away, do you
save them. How do you store them?
Miriam
In a very hot Arad,
Israel
Well, to be honest I haven't made so many bookmarks
I store the ones I get from other lacemakers in my china cabinet. Those in
plastic holders stand in the back of the shelf and others are under small items
that I collect, such as silver spoons. I love the fine hairpin one made by
Diane Williams. I have a number of sample ones from a recent
...lots of them...using what's left on bobbins...lots of colors
Joined together, they could make a wonderful stole or shawl, and if not
enough, accents within one, even if joined with another technique. (Or, an
inset/insert to a v neckline, on a cuff, down a sleeve, on either side of a
placket,
Before the list goes completely quite and some of you are off to Japan, I
decided to start this thread.
What do you do with the bookmarks you make? Do you give them away, do you
save them. How do you store them?
Whenever I finish a larger project and have too much thread left on my
Hi Miriam
Like you I keep some of the bookmarks, put them in a plstic bookmark cover,
and use them in my lace books.
Others I give away as presents.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
What do you do with the bookmarks you make? Do you give them away, do you
save them. How do you store them?
Dear Miriam,
I will always treasure the beautiful one you gave me - must have been
back in the late 90s I reckon!! You worked my name into it - remember?
David in Ballarat
Whenever I finish a larger project and have too much thread left on my
bobbins, I use the surplus up making a
Hello to One All!
Bookmarks...Ive made hundreds of them! Probably well over 5 or 600. Im a member
of the Society for Creative Anachronism, SCA, since 1975. Its because of them
that I discovered bobbin lace making.
I would make them in our kingdom, Caid, colors, blve silver. Or if we have
Many of my bookmarks are made for a specific purpose and given away. I
often keep one of a style and put it on my demo display board.
No matter how many I make, it seems like I'm always short of one when I
have an occasion to use one as a gift. Storage is not a problem. The
rare time I have
What do you do with the bookmarks you make? Do you give them away, do you
save them. How do you store them?
Miriam
In a very hot Arad,
Israel
Well, to be honest I haven't made so many bookmarks as I'm usually too busy
doing other things, but I do find it very hard to give away a piece
Hi Miriam and everyone
Fun questions!
Bookmarks are a nice project for bobbin lace. They don't take long and one
pattern can be made variously. As it happens, one of my favourite patterns
is a Torchon design by Miriam which we published in Canadian Lacemaker
Gazette a while back. I made probably
What a lovely idea, using up thread that way, I have used up bits on
smaller
projects like christmas baubles but rarely bookmarks.
I have made quite a few bookmarks, just because I like the patterns but
most have been
given away. I have also been given a couple and like Agnes I use them in
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