I have plenty of books, rather we have plenty of books! Many of which have sat on the shelves for years simply taking up space . Unfortunately most of these don't have any real value and may only make 50p on ebay so I'm checking values and popping them into the charity box. Amongst them are a few ladybird books but having done a quick search on the net I've found that there is no real value to any of these, just a sentimental value .
I must confess that I followed this up by falling asleep for a couple of hours, the thunderstorm last night kept me awake and I was also wide awake a bit too early this morning for my liking.
Back to the lace, I need some sort of focus for this, a project that will give me variety of styles but not just strips like I have been doing to try and practise. I don't want to embark on any major piece of work and I know that I get distracted easily by other crafts but I do have the threads, books and purchased patterns that are just sitting around doing nothing.
Some time ago I thought about making bookmarks rather than sample pieces as they would look good displayed together in a book or sewn on to a long narrow cloth that can be kept rolled up when not needed. I started putting ideas together on my pintrest page (https://www.pinterest.com/guzzisue/ ) for inspiration and I'm trying to find out which books some of them are from or at least who designed them so I can buy the pattern. I don't feel confident to design my own.
I will have a think about it............looking back at the lace I made years ago, some of which is on this blog, I feel that I have forgotten so much about this lovely craft.
4 comments:
i go to lace class once a week and usually just work on the lace when in class. i sometimes forget from week to week so staying away from it for a long while would be like starting over for me. i've just set up a small pillow for myself so that i can experiment with different ideas before doing a big project. you might consider doing a sampler with all types of ground stitches. i did that and made it into a little pouch that holds some of my lace tools. there's a picture of it here on an early blog post:
http://eclectic-meanderings.blogspot.com/2010/09/bobbin-lace-sampler-case.html
Hi, thats a really good idea and I love your bobbin pouch and you've some leaves/tallies... I really don't like doing them!
i know how you feel about the leaf tallies. i have to relearn every time i do them. check out this video. i'm going to try his method next time.
http://www.theanticomoderno.com/come-fare-palmette-e-roulotte/
thanks I'll check it out, I've found a pricking for a simple bookmark so I'm winding bobbins at the moment to have a bash at it. x
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