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I made a wee!lumpy!doily!

The wee lumpy doily lifesize - about 2inches in diameter. In some dimensions. It's got picots (the small loops) of totally varying sizes, twists, extra stitches, dropped stitches, and I ahd to unpick and retat the last inner loop four times before I got the right number of sitches and picots, and attached it correctly. Whee!

And closer, so you can glory in the awfulness of my knots and loops.

And this is the Evil Orange Nemesis that made my cat piddle on the floor in ~~terror~~ rage. It was night, and through my screen, and the camera insisted on focusing on the screen and bouncing the flash off it, and the cat left before I could get the camera adjusted properly. So it shall remain evil and shadowy. And fluffy.

(I have a photo where all you can see is blurry gray and white from edge to edge ... with two glowing pinpricks of PURE FLUFFY EVIL, but didn't bother to upload.)

And here is my cat, all fluffy and big and ~~scared~~ brave, sniffing at the screen veeeeeery suspiciously, because she knows that PURE FLUFFY EVIL is lurking outside.

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i'm really glad you posted the picture of the tatting, because i had NO IDEA what you meant--except that you obviously didn't mean tattooing, which is sometimes what i've heard people mean when they've said "tatting". XD

:D As you can tell from the photos, it's basically a way of making lace by looping and knotting thread or yarn.

The really cool way to make lace is by bobbins, which requires a pillow, lots of pins, thread wound on a few to many, may, many bobbins, and you loop and twist the thread around the pins to form patterns in lace. Looks really nifty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbin_lace Some lacemakers use, like, 1200 bobbins to do really wide pieces. Samples of antique bobbin lace: http://www.marlamallett.com/l-bobbin.htm

The really cool way to make lace is by bobbins,

Once upon a time, I fantasized about learning how to make bobbin lace. (I'd attended a hands-on tutorial at - I think it was - Costume Con here in Southern California, circa 1991.) So,I bought a lovely little Dover softcover book, which has now been on my shelf for 15 years. I know now that I will NEVER invest in all the equipment, let alone have the time to learn how to do it. So... if you are interested in giving this book a good home, I'd be happy to drop it in the mail to you. (I've known for a long time I'd be parting with this book, but was hesitant to give it up until I knew it had the right home.)

Sure, I'll take it - I think I may even have stuck it on my Amazon wishlist last night. :D

It may be a bit before I get to it - my mom seems insistent on getting me into kumihumo braiding for some reason, possibly because she got a foam-core er, thingy to use to do it at a weaving conference and is tired of looking at it, and I think her Christmas plans involve leaping onto me brandishing the thingy until I learn to use it in self-defense. And I realized last night that in that case I could probably braid a bunch of badge lanyards and sell 'em at A-Kon, touting the Authentic! Japanese! Technique! (Maybe. We'll see. :D)

But I still have that "Ooooh! Bobbin lace!" thing going. XD

Email your snail address to robinschin AT aol-dot-com and the next time I go to the post office, I'll drop it in the mail to you. :)

Just sent! And thank you very much! :DD

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