RE: [lace] time vs pieces

2003-08-14 Thread Ruth Budge
And I can add the perfect excuse for buying new bobbins for years - announce to the DH who has just told you that "you *must* have enough bobbins by now", that you're going to make Miss Channer's mat one day. Of course, the "innocent" DH asks "how many do you need for that?" Well, the pattern sa

RE: [lace] time vs pieces

2003-08-14 Thread Pickford Diana
> And I can add the perfect excuse for buying new bobbins for > years - announce to > the DH who has just told you that "you *must* have enough > bobbins by now", that > you're going to make Miss Channer's mat one day. Of course, > the "innocent" DH > asks "how many do you need for that?" Wel

RE: [lace] time vs pieces

2003-08-11 Thread Liz Beecher
Maxine, You are not doing the true lacemaker process - you go out and buy one pillow of every type you can and start a piece of lace on all of them and then do a little on each pillow in rotation until you realise that you have no spare pillow or spare bobbins which means that you have to go out a

RE: [lace] time vs pieces

2003-08-09 Thread dominique
Liz Beecher a gazouillé à ÒRE: [lace] time vs piecesÓ. [2003/08/06 22:44] > Maxine, > > You are not doing the true lacemaker process - you go out and buy one > pillow > of every type you can and start a piece of lace on all of them and then > do a > little on each pillow in rotation until you

RE: [lace] time vs pieces

2003-08-07 Thread Liz Beecher
riginal Message- From: Pickford Diana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 August 2003 14:32 To: 'Ruth Budge'; 'arachne' Subject: RE: [lace] time vs pieces > And I can add the perfect excuse for buying new bobbins for > years - announce to > the DH who has just told yo

Re: [lace] time vs pieces

2003-08-07 Thread Clay Blackwell
Now Maxine, Don't let Liz intimidate you! ;) You'll find yourself on that buying cycle soon enough - But I'm impressed with the amount of lace that you say you have made in a year! As I remember, those first pieces were painfully slow going... But we're SO proud of them!! Clay > You are not