Lace making - and other strange hobbies

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Okay I had my first lesson of lacemaking today. My head hurts.

Search (and destroy?) obscure/weird hobbies.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I made my first piece of LACE. yay!

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Being Flemish making lace must come as easily as eating waffles nath :-)

― stevo, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i just hit my first DACE in the FACE with a MACE

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

headcase

― Tim, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it came from SPACE but went to THRACE

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lacemaking was popular in my one-time hometown of Honiton, which I understand was the home of a particular kind of lace. This kind of lace is named Honiton Lace. Here my knowledge of lace stops because lace is ... wait for it ... BOBBINS! Har.

― Tim, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

next face to face i spray yah with mace markah!

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim, yes, Honiton lace. English lace isn't really that GRATE (looking). Lace can be made with either bobbins or needles (no, it isn't embroidery). Stevo, no, you also need a LEFT and RIGHT hand... I have two lefties. heheh

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

CHEVY CHASE!

― jel --, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Saving Grace!

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Other great things about Honiton: on one of the public holidays a committee of the great and the good of the town go round to various top rooms of pubs. Here they heat up coins of the realm and then throw shovelfulls of coins out of first floor windows into the street for the people of the town to fight over.

This ceremony is known as "Hot Pennies". I knew of people who had made upwards of £1 from this event, and that was when £1 was one pound. I also knew a boy who claimed to have a 2p-sized indentation in his back from a very hot coin going down there by accident.

There's some nonesense about "no man shall be arrested" but that's all talk. And the town crier has a wicker head.

― Tim, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

marrons glace

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://members.aol.com/dubplatestyle/mase.jpg

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Markah, that does NOT work and you KNOW it. :-) I prefer profiteroles anyway!

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but it mentions cuba AND rum!!??

also there is an improv band w.that leetle cuticle jim o'rourke: brises glace

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

LACE? How low can you go?

― Tim, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

all yr glace are belong to us

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hey was that a Kelly Deal creation?

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no but it's cute, isn't it?

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.fjsmjs.com/Mary/images/tubbies.JPG

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.fjsmjs.com/Mary/images/morepuppets.jpg

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Lacy is a name

― bobbie carmine, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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