It was in the days when I craved colour but there were so few in the only available threads - Coats and Twilleys. This was when I resorted to silk sewing thread.
I was quite pleased with this 'back then' but nowadays wouldn't give it a place outside a drawer or a box in the loft!!!! Strange how your tastes change over the years!!!
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That is a nice framed piece - and your color choices foreshadow the creation of Lizbeth's Pink Cocoa - which you named as well, correct?
I think it's beautiful! It's fun taking trips down Memory Lane. My daughter Joanne helped me clean out a closet yesterday and we found all sorts of treasures, including a paper weight I made for my grandmother in the 80s. I was really into counted cross stitch back then... can't be bothered with it now that ice learned to tat!
Too bad it doesn't merit exposure- it's quite pretty!
Very pretty!! :P)
It is sweet... You certainly were ahead of your time. A real groundbreaker!
Fox : )
it's always fun to see how you have improved through the years. really like the color combo and it is pretty.
Gorgeous little box. Love the color.
Back in the 70s when I first started teaching people to tat, a whole lot of other people told me I was wasting my time and it was a dyeing art--oh yeah, and also that ti wasn't "real" lace. My choices were white and off-white unless I wanted to try size 70. We have come soooooooo far since then!
All lace is real. I didn't know there was snobbery in crafting circles. Not real lace? Lol that's just silly.
Oh, Dora, that's one of the reasons I gave up on bobbin. Not only the snobbery surrounding it in the 60/70's but because I was told it wasn't 'real lace' too. Actually at around that time I was also told I wasn't a 'real teacher' too. I was doing a lot of supply teaching (which was tough in those days and not easy when your only transport was a bike) and one of the parents of a class I was teaching at the time told me that I wasn't a 'real teacher'!! If I ain't 'real' now then I give up!!!!
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