As most of you know, over the last several years I have made several bobbin lace handkerchiefs for the Atlantian Lace Guild, with LLT assisting on the most of them. Up until now the ONLY way to get a lace hankie made by me was to become Queen and then hope that I was the one who did that reign's hankie.

In an effort to raise money for the 3 Day Walk Tirzah and I will be raffling off a lace hankie, with the lace made by me and with blackwork/construction by Tirzah.

The rules
1) Donation must be to either My fundraising page or Tirzah's fundraising page. If you want to mail in a donation and have it count the donation must be received by the site and acknowledged on one of our pages by the raffle deadline - Saturday, September 27 (the Saturday before the walk).
2) Donations can be made to either account
3) For each $25 donated you will get one entry in the raffle. While you don't have to donate all funds at once, $25 increments cannot cross the accounts. This means if you donate $25 to each of us you get 2 tickets. If you donate $50 to one of us you get 2 tickets. If you donate $10 to one of us and $15 to the other you don't get a ticket. Sorry, but I need to do this to make life easier for me.
4) If you have already donated $25 or more you already have entries - thanks for the donation!
5) On Saturday, September 27 I will tally all donations and hold the raffle. Tirzah will draw the winning name out of the bag and I will announce the winner here.


Rules may be added as I think of them, but the basic rules should stay the same.

I looked up the two bobbin sites. It turns out that until you get 50-100 bobbins Lacy Susan is actually cheaper than Lace Maker's Circle for the ones you guys want.

The other useful website that you want is The University of Arizona's scanned books related to lace. cathgrace this is where the pdf of the 2nd volume of Le Pompe is as well

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During dinner tonight I actually took pictures of several of the courses. We've been wanting to do this for a while now and we just never manage to do it during a feast. Go figure.

Since I was downloading them I also finally got the pictures of Rowan's Hankie. So here they are. Click on the picture got get more. :)

Corner of hankie presented to Queen Rowan at A Day in the Middel East.

Lace by Lady Orlaith Carey
Eye Beads by Lady Ethelfelda Davidsottir
Construction by Lady Tirzah MacCrudden
Photos by Lord Frederich Von Teufel

Edited to say: BTW, for an extreme close up of any of the pictures, go into flickr, pick the picture you want to look at. RIGHT above the picture is a menu bar saying Add Note, Send to Group, etc. Select "All Sizes" and click on "Original". This gets you the whole picture at the resolution that frederich used to take the picture.

Here's a wonderful picture of the hankie presented to Queen Seonaid ní Fhionn at Pennsic. It was taken by Mistress Sarah of the East Kingdom at the Known World A&S Display at Pennsic. If you go to the other albums and click on Orla's Lace you can see pictures of the gold lace I'm currently working on also courtesy of Mistress Sarah.

Guess I need to get busy finishing the gold lace

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While I was at the A&S display on Monday someone from the East Kingdom stopped by and we started talking about lace. She said I should come teach at the ( East Kingdom University )
which is on November 11, which is up against Dun Carraig Baronial B-day

I'm trying to decide if I want to do this...

I'm sure I'd sell out the class since my understanding is they haven't had a bobbin lace class for several years.

I have that free round trip ticket and it's taking place in Carolingia so I have a place to stay.

Opinions?

I'm current reading The identification of Lace by Pat Earnshaw and there is a section that is really bugging me. Is this right?
( For the Spinners out there )