Collected during discussions in December 2008 – Thanks to Jenny R for keeping a record of them all.
Sayings on Bobbins
- A clean house is a sign of time ill spent”
- Dull women have immaculate homes
- I’ll do some housework tomorrow
- Government health warning: lacemaking is addictive.
- An immaculate house is a sign of a wasted life.
- I’ve just spent next week’s housekeeping money.
- The best man for the job is a woman
- When god created man she was only joking
- I know exactly where I am in this pattern – totally lost
- I’m only like this when I make lace
- Specially made for short, cross eyed, cack handers”
- Champion bobbin untangler 1997″
- I’m too tired to do housework, I’d rather lace
- Love me truly
- Dont kiss and tell
- I love the boys
- Lace is as much about the space between the threads as it is about the threads themselves.
- Lacemakers do it on pillows and usually in pairs!
- Lace – the invention of a goddess and the occupation of a queen
- Life without lace – I’m a frayed knot.
- Lord, let me grow old like beautiful lace, cherished and treasured and care for with grace.
- It is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that count.
- it is nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
- “I am not tatting
- Happy people are those who are producing something.
- These hours are never wasted.
- At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
- Making lace is making friends.
- Joy to the world, christmas1993.
- Christmas is a happy time for one and all to share.a time for peace and goodwill for people everywhere.
- The complete 23rd psalm.
- The lords prayer, spread over 2 bobbins
- It must have taken a lot of courage to be the first to eat frog’s legs”,
- “lacemakers do it on a pillow, but bobbinmakers do it on a lathe”
- I’m not going to vacuum til they make one i can ride on.
- Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
- Teaching (could be lace making) is a work of heart.
- A mind is a terrible thing to waste on housework.
- Hang the washing-lets make lace
- “Blow the dust – lets make lace”
- A home should be clean enough to be healthy and untidy enough to be happy.
- When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
- When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven!
- “I’m not going to vacuum til they make one I can ride on”.
- Adding life to years, looking, laughing, listening, living, learning, loving, lacemaking
- Be content with such things as ye have
- Life’s not a dress rehearsal
- The best thing to save for your old age is yourself
- The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend
- A true friend is the best possession.
- “Never never quit”
- Behind every creative person are cupboards filled with good ideas
- Most men who go through life with an inquiring mind don’t appropriate her
- Do not fear mistakes there are none (Miles Davies)
- Imagination is more important than knowledge (Albert Einstein)
- A journey of a 1,ooo miles starts with a single step (chinese proverb)
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- Leisure time is for doing something useful (n. Howe)
- The quietest thing on Earth is the sound of hair turning grey”