For the `SAVE the lace` police attention....

I'm glad you are saving some laces that would disappear otherwise. I like reusing things. I took the lace from a dress I wore to prom the night my husband proposed to me in 1970. In 2006, I placed some of this lace on the lining of a christening dress I made my first grandchild, Veronica.

Granted, this example is not a fine, antique lace, but it is amost 40 years old and very, very sentimental to my family. Veronica's mother has a favorite photo of Dan and I, ready for prom and looking at my ring. She's always loved the dress but it was starting to deteriorate. I saved what I could and kept enough to put into some other projects. Saving a little history is a wonderful thing. Moni ---- Posted via Pronews.com - Premium Corporate Usenet News Provider ----

MONI what a delightful story

Thank you for being glad, only this week on another Subject , somebody thought it was a bad thing that i cut up old laces,,,, I really feel that reusing old[er] cloth is much better than God Forbid throw it out , or just `save it` for who knows when ,, I used parts from my wedding dress, to make a vest which my daughter used in concerts. embroidered parts were added to adorn a wall piece i made for her , many parts end in my own art and of course i made "Fabrics Remember Album " in whuch i made cloth pages [ pink for my family and light blue for my husbands family, and on each page i embroidered stiches old doilies and embroidered the DETAILS , names

How touching thank you for sharing this sentiment with us .. mirjam

I made my wedding dress. I told my husband I was going to cut it up to make something for our daughter and he very vehemently requested I not do that.

Actually, Mirjam, what I objected to was the fact that so much of the stuff you put together looks like it's just thrown together scraps of no redeeming value except that you are trying to make some kind of statement. I think the one that was the straw that broke the camel's back was when you decorated your cast with leftover material. How pretentious! And I cannot imagine that it was in the least attractive!

Linda

Linda, If you are talking after you have looked at my site than i am a bit surprised by your description , but can`t discuss with you the way you see my fiberart. If you are talking , based on parts of my written descriptions, than this are usully descriptions of parts of my work , not the completed works ,, But it is all in the eye of the beholder....have it your way ,,, As to my cast , i played with some ideas ,to decorate it , but eventually didn`t do it ,, i layed all kinds of stuff on my cast,, and decided not to do it , esp since i hate Glue, and working with left hand isn`t easy....And last and not least thank you for the marvelous compliment, i like my art and my craft to be MINE , one of a kind, even i have trouble to reproduce 2 things even remotely looking the same ,,, And yes i tell stories with my art , and make statements, and i am proud of it, and if you make something unique enough to be shown in galleries and museums you should be proud of yours as well ... I think that using up leftovers, and ``given to me found , inherited etc materials , fits me , and my beliefs in not wasting things people made, and not fill up the Dust piles. Fits my feelings that one can and should `make do` with waht one can afford, that one can share and exchange with friends and aquaintnaces, things one doesn`t need. mirjam

I love to reuse things, especially in a sentimental way. When my girls were little, I made tons of clothing for them. I used the leftover bits when making a quilt for my mother in law. To this day, we can see the quilt and remember, "this was a dress for Vicky", "Kimberly wore that outfit". In between pieced squares, I drew and embroidered events from my in laws lives, including a pig riding in the backseat of their car - "long story".

I still have my wedding gown and don't know what I'll do with it. My girls aren't crafty and wouldn't put it to use, and they each had their own gown. I will probably keep it so that one day my grandkids can see it. If it starts to deteriorate, I'll save some in a scrapbook album of our wedding and early years of marriage. Ususally, the fabric rots way before the lace, so I'll do something to keep at least some of it. Moni ---- Posted via Pronews.com - Premium Corporate Usenet News Provider ----

I have my mother's wedding dress and I don't know what to do with it. I gave my grandmother's dress to my sister who dances in a 15th century dance group in Germany. She made an apron for her costume out of it. I have a cedar chest full of linens and pieces of lace made by my great grandmother and grandmother. I'd like to get it all in a quilt to hang above my bed, but never seem to get around to it.

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Tamara , just start with playing with those parts ,,, and eventually you will make it ,, best of luck mirjam

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Louisa

I'm keeping my children's receiving blankets to make quilts. I thought I'd buy some plain white and plain yellow flannel to do the sashing and backing, and then make alap quilt for each of them, and one for me, too, if there's enough fabric. Someday I'll get around to it. Have you noticed how you have far more ideas than time?

Louisa

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That is fantastic thinking Louisa ,, mirjam

When you do it , you might embroider their Dates on their quilts mirjam