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Post by queenzod on Jan 5, 2018 22:05:14 GMT
It’s lovely! I didn’t know you painted! So talented!
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Post by mllemass on Jan 5, 2018 23:01:40 GMT
Ha! Thanks! It's one of my very rare landscapes. I avoided them because I was terrible at them. There were students in my painting classes (at university) who did gorgeous landscapes and I was embarrassed to show mine alongside theirs. Luckily, landscapes were not a requirement! Our classes focussed on still-lifes and portraits - my specialties.
In my last year of university, for my final painting assignment, I decided to attempt a large landscape. When my painting instructor met with me to discuss my work, he looked at the painting and asked me why I was doing it. I told him that I wasn't very good at landscapes so I wanted to become better at it. He reached into my portfolio and pulled out a portrait I had painted of my sister. He said to me "If you can do this, why are you wasting your time doing that?". And that was the end of my landscapes! I learned such a valuable lesson that day: It's ok not to be good at everything. Know what you're good at, and do it!
By the way, I also made the little lopsided frame around my little painting. We had been taught how to make them, so I borrowed my father's mitre box and gave it a try. Clearly, the angles are all wrong. I blame the mitre box!
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Post by queenzod on Jan 5, 2018 23:45:59 GMT
That’s so great. I admire talented people. I’ve done a little painting, but just for fun and not very good. I do make lace. My grandmother taught me how to tat when I was about 8, and I’ve picked up a tiny bit of bobbin lace, but my passion is needlelace. I just adore it. Unfortunately, my eyesight has gotten so bad to the point where it’s difficult for me now. Also embroidery and weaving. Love thread.
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Post by mllemass on Jan 6, 2018 0:12:35 GMT
Is that what making lace is called - tat? I've never heard of that before. My mother returned from a trip to Italy years ago with two pieces of lace that my cousin had made for her. They're both pictures done in lace. They're beautiful! My mother had them framed and they're hanging in her dining room. I didn't even know that lace was something people made by hand! I think it's great that skills are passed down through families, but unfortunately my mother had refused to learn how to do any of that stuff when she was younger, so she couldn't teach me how to do any of it, either. I took one year of home ec in high school, and we got a bit of instruction in knitting, crocheting and needlepoint, but I never kept it up and can't do anything with it.
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Post by queenzod on Jan 6, 2018 2:31:37 GMT
Tatting is one form of lacemaking. It’s simple knotting done with a shuttle and thread. Other types are bobbin lace, which is made in a pillow with hundreds, if not thousands, of individual threads wound on bobbins. The lace is made by twisting the threads and pinning them to a pattern as you work. Then there’s needlelace, which is made with a single needle and thread and millions of tiny, interlocking buttonhole stitches. Other types include knitting, crochet, sprang (a very old technique of twisting threads wound on a frame), and needlerun made lace, or embroidery on netting. The last two are popular in Ireland, as well as a beautiful needlelace called Youghal, which comes from a town in the SE part of Ireland.
I bet your mums lace from Italy is gorgeous! Lace was born in Italy around 1500, and there are still some ladies who make it there, especially on Burano, a little island near Venice. Most lace that you see around in the shops are cheap Chinese knockoffs.
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