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[elspethdawitch.livejournal.com]

A hanky I finished yesterday for a lady I work with who is like my third grandmother, and whose cancer might be back...

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[nonniemous.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's lovely! And what a sweet gift!

[moniqueleigh]

Ooo, that's beautiful work! I need to get a good spacer so I can do mignonette. (I suck at guesstimating picot or space sizes.)

[ex-shattered767.livejournal.com]

I could never have the patience to do that! You rock!

[majolika.livejournal.com]

wow that's beautiful!

[elspethdawitch.livejournal.com]

I promised it to her last year, and I've been puttering away at it, thinking I had all the time in the world...so I worked on it for like three hours, till after midnight, so I would have it done in time for my last day of work. Someone who's friends with her and lives nearby is going to give it to her for me.

[(Anonymous)]

You know what I did? I took the cardboard back of the pack of sewing machine bobbins I bought (they fit in my metal shuttle and have more room on them than the little bobbin that came with it), mesured the 3/8" I needed, and cut out a little rectangle of that size. It worked beautifully. I did a pair of mignonette fingerless gloves last year, so it was pretty simple for me.

[elspethdawitch.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was me, I just forgot to log in.

[elspethdawitch.livejournal.com]

It took me over a year to do, but then I wasn't working at it all the time. You keep going round and round with the mignonette, and I couldn't find the place where I was suppose to end! So I just randomly picked a corner, heh. I think the original pattern called for the first and last rows to be blue, but I didn't bother with that. What was really annoying was the first row of chains, they're like a textured zig-zag chain thing, *that* took a lot of patience, it felt like it was never going to end!

[elspethdawitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^_^ I'm really proud of it, but the hanky is so dirty looking from being toted around with me for a year, I feel bad that I didn't get a chance to wash it before I gave it someone to give to the lady it's for...