Back on my bobbin lace:
Bobbin lace is fundamentally not really a -useful- craft, to whatever extent crafting is useful anyways, but I am making something I will use! I put my hair up in two plaits with a strip of bobbin lace in the plaits then use the lace to tie them up on my head, and so far I only have a rainbow piece of lace for it. This one's the monochrome version.
My tools also always make me grin, because I have a mixture of 'free' lace bobbins (they're wooden pegs split in half) and 'actually priceless' bobbins (they're made of vintage collected western australian sandalwood, a wood you're actually not allowed to harvest any more, so you can't get WA sandalwood lace bobbins for any price, unless you know a woodturner who has some in his shed). My mum asked a fellow-Rotarian of my grandfather if he might make me some bobbins since he's a woodturner, and he presents me with 13 pairs made of ACTUALLY PRICELESS wood. I'm always stunned when I think about it. So grateful. I don't think he even particularly thought about that he was making possibly the *only* examples of these that exist in the world, as, in his words "he used wood from the shed". Makes me grin every time, working with combo of pegs and these treasures.
