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      • A R Archer
      • Ash Firth
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      • Barry Biggins
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      • Bill Botman
      • Bill Schmitt
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      • Church Meadow Crafts
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      • David Haldane
      • David Hirst
      • David Naylor
      • David Potter
      • David Reynolds
      • David Stanley
      • Dawn Jakeman
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      • Derrick (D A) Robson
      • Diana Taylor
      • Diane Miller
      • Dinah Hales
      • D J Hornsby (Denis & Bill)
      • Don McCrabbe
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      • Eddy Faber
      • Elaine Robson
      • Elizabeth Anne Carlton (EAC)
      • Elizabeth van Treirum
      • Ernie Frid
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      • Geoff Mudge
      • Gordon Palmer
      • Gordon Scriven
      • Greek Urn Tail
      • Heather Power
      • Helen McAllen
      • HW - unknown painter
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      • Jacqui Carey
      • Jacqui Rowing
      • Jacqui Southworth / Larkholme Lace
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      • Jan Gardiner (Lacewing Design)
      • Janet Lloyd Bobbins 'n' Beads
      • Janet Retter
      • Janet Smith
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      • Jean Turner
      • Jenny and Graham Hudson
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      • Jim Tregellas
      • Joann Kramer
      • John & Annette Pollard
      • John and Jennifer Ford
      • John Atkinson
      • John Beswick
      • John Doyle
      • John Hopwood of Alsager, Cheshire
      • John O'Brien
      • John Platt and Norina Moreton
      • Julie Roche - Tidnock Bobbins
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      • Katherine Robertson
      • Kate's Husband's Bobbins
      • Keith Hourigan
      • Ken Smith
      • Leon Young
      • Lesley F. Williams (Lesley FW)
      • Loricraft
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      • Mainly Lace
      • Malcolm Fielding
      • Malcolm Grover & Karyn Day
      • Malcolm J Fowler
      • Malcolm and Margaret Thorpe
      • Marble-ous
      • Margaret Wall
      • Margaret (SA)
      • Mark Priestley - Crescent Industries
      • Mary Niven / Mary Woodthorpe
      • Maurice Milne
      • Max Meier
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      • Millholme Crafts
      • M P Products
      • Mr Bert Kennet
      • Mr. Brotherton of Market Harborough
      • Mr Emmerson of Wath-upon-Dearne
      • Mr G Hall
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      • Neil Keats
      • Nick Perrin
      • P&K Herron
      • Pam Kubas
      • Paul Durst
      • Paul Webb
      • Peter & Pauline Denmark
      • Peter Kolbert
      • Peter Minson
      • Peter Papworth at Flying Bobbins
      • Peter Saunders
      • PJ (Phil) Skinner
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      • Rob Borthwick
      • Robin Foster
      • Roger Aaron
      • Ron Law
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      • Roseground - Amanda D
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      • Sally Woollard
      • Sarah Jones
      • Shirley and Harry Gates
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      • SMP Lace
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      • Stephen Pearce
      • Stuart Fowler
      • Stuart Johnson
      • Stuart & Debbie Spencer
      • S Pruden
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14/5/2024 0 Comments

Bobbin a Month Clubs - why you should join

Liz writes:
At my first lace fair, Springetts, September 1989, I met Shelia Perrin, of SMP Lace.  I was carefully watching how much I had to spend and trying to get the most for my small amount of money.

I was trying to work out how to afford pillow, bobbins, books ... well everything and she told me to get my basic bobbins so I could start making but find a maker I really liked and sign up to their bobbin a month club.

Her advice was to buy the most expensive bobbin I could so that in years to come I had built up a collect that meant something to me.

"Even if you just buy one bobbin a month", Sheila siad, "at the end of the year you will have 6 beautiful pairs of bobbins, then at the end of the next year, 12 pairs and so on." I've been making lace for over 30 years.  I now have a fantastic collection of bobbins.  But those first SMP bobbins, my travel bobbins and my honitons made from different woods are at the heart of that collection and all because Shelia took time to talk with me.
PictureMy first Sarah Jones bobbins featuring her signature orchids © Liz Baker
When I first started to make lace, a bobbin from Sarah Jones or Heather Power cost £4.50.  Doesn't seem like much now but in those days, my rent was £400 a month.  So a bobbin was about a tenth of my monthly rent.

I came back from that first lace fair and told my mum about everything I'd seen and how I only had the absolute minimum of equipment (and that had been bought on a pay as you go basis through a club at my work).  I told her what Sheila Perrin had said.

My mum, the angel that she was, said that she would pay for one bobbin a month as a birthday present so I could buy one a month myself and I'd build up my collection of bobbins quicker.

PictureTwo of my tulips with the LH bobbin being the replacement © Liz Baker
I chose to buy the Orchids myself and my mum paid for the tulips.  Years later, I lost one of the tulips in a house move, a few years after I also lost mum.  I reached out to Sarah and asked about replacing it.  Sarah explained that she had stopped painting the tulips a while back but if I could work out which I was missing she would see if she still had her original sketches.  So, I got out all the tulips, photographed them, sent over the photo and descriptions, Sarah found her sketch and a few weeks later I got my replacement bobbin.

Tulips were a particular favourite of both myself and my mum and each time I handle those bobbins I remember the kindness of my mum in buying them and that of Sarah in repainting a lost bobbin. 

We recently ran a poll on the FTM facebook group asking 'why do you buy bobbins' and 6.2% said that they do because they are members of a bobbin a month club.
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This is why bobbin a month clubs are so important.

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