MY NEW BOOK...

Contemporary Lace for You has been selling well around the world, thanks in no small measure to the lovely reviews it received.  My grateful thanks go to those who wrote them; see here for some of their comments.

It has sold not only to lacemakers but also to art colleges and artists from other disciplines, including weavers, spinners, quilters, embroiderers and jewellers, and even to a choreographer interested in the bend and flow of my work.

Selling it has taken me around the country, across Germany to Bad Pyrmont and to Ithaca, NY, in the USA.  It was also on sale at Love Lace in Sydney – I’d been too busy writing it to enter this wonderful competition, but enjoyed spending time in France this year with participant Lauran Sundin.


 

From the reviews:
Workshop on the Web, Spring 2011

‘An eye-opener for those who have the impression that bobbin lace is very fine, delicate and white, and needs excellent eyesight to make it, this book blows all that out of the window.
‘… With the amount of information given in the book to inspire you, it’s hard not to start here and now.  Even non-lacemakers will find endless possibilities for mixed media and textiles.’
 

Bookselling often took me away from lacemaking and it took the untimely death of our talented friend Linda Grigsby to bring many of us to the realisation that ‘time is short’.  My focus now returns to personal work, but I also have a piece in the 98 Lace Group’s  ‘Study, Design and Create’ at the Bowes Museum, County Durham, January 28 – April 15, 2012.
 

ROUND AND ROUND IN CIRCLES 2012