While demonstrating last year at an annual 'festivel', I was making a piece of Beds lace - A Christine springett pattern, and I was working in purple thread.
I had just made myself a Biscornu Pin cushion , the Hardanger embroidery in a purpleish variegated thread, which looked nice on the pillow! A couple of ladies came by and raved over it - It being the pincushion, and thought I was making another one!!!!! How Hardanger looks anything like Beds lace I don't know!!!! When I politely pointed out that that was my Pin cushion, and that I was amking lace they were quite taken aback!!!!! What they thought 40 prs of bobbins was for I don't know!!!!!!!!!! :)) But on the Other hand, one year, at the same venue, an elderly man came along and said "Ah! Lace!! " It turned out he was sent out from Nottingham, England in the 1950s to show a company how to use their new Lacemaking machine, and had stayed here ever since!! It is always so nice when someone who recognises lace and lacemaking, and appreciates it, comes to a demonstration. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz lizl...@bigpond.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 325 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
