[lace] information ?
Can someone give me some more information on this course please ? Thanks, Magda (Belgium) But the schedule of classes -- especially the Loehr's beginner Mechlin - -- sounds tempting enough to consider re-joining the Guild (now that I know I *can* drive long distance, anything is possible g)... - - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Pricking on the pillow
Ok, here are my reasons - 1) pricking as you go damages your pillow as you have to use more force to go through the card and my cork board is cheaper and more replaceable than my pillows 2) When you work unusual patterns such as ovals on a block pillow, if you don't have all the pattern how on earth can you work out how to place it on the pillow 3) I've been making a very large piece that is symetrical and therefore, by pricking through two lots of card I pricked the whole thing out in half the time 4) when working a long straight piece or a square, you can to the same as #3 by pricking the two halves in one go. Look, if you don't like pricking then photocopy, stick and film but don't get up set then if the finished piece doesn't quite have the sharp edges that those who prick first get as it is not easy to accurately put in the pins that way And - if like me and Tamara you don't like winding the bobbins get a bobbin winder Here's a story - the last time I was teaching lace the woman I was teaching pulled a face and said that she didn't like spangling. So, trying to encourage her and because I had some time spare I offered to spangle some of the bobbins so that she had enough to start making lace and had some to copy when she spangled them herself. Then she said that she found pricking the patterns hard on her hands - I've taught people with arthritus before and can sympathise - so I let he use one of my patterns that was already pricked out Then she said that she couldn't work the bobbin winder she had bought, so I wound some bobbins on it to show her how, but she kept having problems with it and in the end, when I'd finished demonstrating how to use it I'd wound them all Then she said that she couldn't follow me starting it off so could I have a go ... I looked at her and said, 'so exactly which thiing about making lace was it that you actually wanted to do?' She replied 'ah, there's two things, sitting at the reenactment with my pillow so people can see how clever I am and wearing it' I managed to say, straight faced, 'were you actually intending to make any then?' That was the last lesson that I gave her as she felt I wasn't supportive enough (I thought it wasn't because I wouldn't make the lace for her) and I understand that she got her boyfriend's mum to teach her the basics and she swans around the reenactments with the same piece of lace that she started with. The only thing that really hurt was that I had given her 4 metres of handmade lace as a thank you and it was being passed off as her own work. Moral of the story - we all have bits of the process we hate - me it's mounting the stuff, and we moan about them but we still love doing the craft but if you hate doing it as much as this woman did go find something else to do. Have fun Liz Tamara P. Duvall wrote: On Jan 2, 2004, at 13:10, Antje González wrote: Why do you prick the whole pattern all at once? I start pricking a few centimeters, then I work until the pricked holes are finished, prick again a few centimeters, continue working... This makes the whole process more relaxing. I've often been tempted to do it the same way; pricking and winding bobbins are *not* on my list of favourite activities related to lacemaking, so it would be nice to thin it out and fit in some of the favourite bits (like moving bobbins) in-between the less favourite ones. snipped - Tamara P Duvall - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Ghost at Hampton Court
Actually, thinking about this again, what I do is have spurts of pricking things and so will spend a weekend pricking out quite a few patterns so that they are done and dusted for when I just want to start some lace. I also used a time at a lace group to wind over 200 bobbins over 2 hour spurts each week and this meant I could do virtually any project in a particular book without having to go wind the bobbins. But then, I'm mad Liz Ruth Budge wrote: Dear Antje, I prick the whole pattern before I start for a couple of reasons. I don't like pricking on the pillow because it wears the pillow and loosens the pillow so that the pin doesn't stay as tight when I insert it; and I can make a more accurate pricking off the pillow by using a ruler to ensure the long rows of ground are straight. It's a horrible job (in my opinion!) and I'm always glad when its over. Warm regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia, where its very hot and very humid - thank goodness for air conditioning!!) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Pricking on the pillow
Just loved your story, Liz. One of my best is when we were demonstrating lacemaking at an exhibition, one lady hovered for ages, then asked if lace bobbins were sold in John Lewis (a well known English department store). We said it was possible, but not likely, and offered her lace supply and teacher's addresses. Oh, no, it's all right. came the reply I'm sure they must do. I'll go and buy A PAIR and teach myself. A tad confused with knitting maybe but I have idled away many pleasant minutes since, wondering how she got on! Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Question
In a message dated 12/31/2003 10:50:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you Gentle Spiders remember our getting a (for want of a better name to call it) thread holder in a goody bag at a lace event? The thingy is a tube of stretchable net that fits over a spool or tube of thread. So handy. Does anyone know where this can be purchased? Apparently it can be cut to any length, is a but stiff, but pliable. Dolace wrote asking about the above. The net tubing is available at stores that sell serging machines and through outlets that sell sewing supplies. Sorry I can't give specifics as I can buy it locally. Happy New Year all! Mary in southern Michigan where the weather doesn't know it's winter. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Bowes Museum
Hi, We visited Bowes Museum last March, and I went to the web site because I must say the lace, as a collection, certainly didn't jump out at us. Obviously would have helped to know what is available before the visit! Anyway, on the web site is the description of (among hundred of items with lace) a handkerchief bordered in lace. This is how the description reads: Linen handkerchief with Meander lace border like Honiton but home made. What is Meander lace?? The web site doesn't give a number, so I can't direct you to this particular item. I searched by selecting catagories from their drop down menus, and happened upon a selection with quite a few handkerchiefs. I suspect whoever cataloged these didn't know a whole lot about lace. Regards, Carolyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Passell Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Bowes Museum Bowes Museum has a web site. WWW.bowesmuseum.org.uk you can also email them at this address [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is many years since I visited this remarkable museum. There are many interesting things to see. If you type in Bowes museum Co Durham you will also find some other interesting sites of interest in the area. Hope this helps and I do hope you visit the museum. Best wishes Josie Chesterfield U.K. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Bowes Museum
I also went to the web-site and searched lace in collections and got 69 hits. If in fact everything is on the website (not the case at the Met.) it is not a very impressive collection. My own personal collection is better and I am not a collector who spends that much money on it. I am not sure I would go out of my way to go to Bowes for the purpose of seeing lace. Devon who perhaps has had her judgment warped by seeing the really fine collections at the Met and Cooper-Hewitt - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] one-handed lacing
Just noteI seem to have more of a problem with bobbins staying in placeso I got out a helper that I used to use for bobbins rollingtwo flat, oblong erasers. They stay where put, as stopper, and easier than pins etc. So far, so good, but slow..I have to train my letfy to think as a righty. Now I think I know what dyslectic children face! BarbE - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Fw: One handed sewing achieved
OK Vivienne, as you were so adamant that you didn't want advice without us trying it out first, I got out a pillow and a sample of Binche lace - in fine thread. And found that it is possible to make a one handed sewing using only my left hand. I am definitely VERY right-handed, and couldn't write anything intelligible etc with my left. I put my right hand behind my back so that I wouldn't use it - and yes, I was tempted to do so. It took me about 5 minutes to do the sewing, but I guess this would get faster. Here are my comments: This would involve unwinding thread from the bobbin and then rewinding it. I didn't need to unwind any more thread to work the sewing - just the same length that I would normally have on my leashes. I did however have to push down more pins than in the area tahn I would doing the sewing with two hands. This seemed to be because of the akward angle I was using to get in the hook. Put two or three support pins into the pillow, some distance from the sewing and pattern. These support pins would need to be sufficiently far apart to hold a big enough loop of thread for the bobbin to pass through. Have the support pins ready, but don't put them in place yet. Insert your hook into the lace as usual, and draw through thread. This was the hard part and took about ten attempts! But I guess it would improve with more practice. Put the thread as close to the pinhole as you can get it. I used a fine pin in the pillow at an angle to hold the thread close to the pillow, just above the pinhole. Have the bobbin just slightly up the pillow, so that some of the tension is taken off the thread. (I was using a cookie pillow. I have no idea how this would work if Lisette is using an upright Spanish type pillow, as I have never tried working in that way) Pick up hook and catch thread. If this doesn't work, put hook through pinhole, with hook down on pricking. Use fingernail to push thread under hook. Pull back hook. Try again and again! Once you have caught the loop and pulled it through, leave crochet hook in loop of thread. Take support pin, and put into loop of thread. Take second support pin and put about an inch away in the loop of thread. Take out hook. Do not have the loop taut, as you will need some spare thread to pass the second bobbin through the loop. Pass the other bobbin through this loop and then carefully tighten up, Compared to the earlier part, this was easy! I hope you can pass this idea on to Lisette Sue Babbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] new bobbin maker website
the specialty bobbins are marvels !! thanks Sumac for the address . i might never order but it was good just gaping at them on the web and adding them to my wishlist ... G dominique from paris Susan MacLeod a fait jouer ses doigts de fée pour écrire à Ò[lace] new bobbin maker websiteÓ. [2004/01/03 18:48] Barry Pawson of New Zealand has put up a website. Lovely bobbins! No connection, just a happy customer. http://mairestudio.co.nz/index.htm Sumac Susan G. MacLeod Dummerston, VT USA www.sover.net/~sumac Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] information ?
Dear Magda -- I think what Tamara was referring to is a three-day workshop on beginning Mechlin, to be given by Ulrike Loehr on July 31, and August 1st and 2nd. This is a sponsored workshop of the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild, and the cost is $100. As non-members have to pay an additional $8 to take the workshop; and as it costs only $8 to become a member of the CRLG, isn't it obvious that non-members should hurry up and JOIN? Go to the web site of the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild, and it will tell you all about it. -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Third hand for lace tools
Hi Bev, et al -- My third hand for sewing hook/pin lifter, etc. is a magnet pinned to my pillow. It's a party favor from the IOLI convention in Dallas, and is a round magnet with what I assume is a crochet cover -- a pin goes right into the middle and it's easily moved around the pillow as needed. I've also bought rectangular magnets and slipped them into a little bag made from wide ribbon that gets pinned to the pillow. The magnet is great for grabbing the tool quickly and keeping it within reach. Happy New Year! Lorraine (in Albany, NY today but heading to Austin, TX tomorrow where the warm weather will be a shock.) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: wide floral Bucks Point
And my lace content: I'm struggling to finish pricking a wide floral Bucks handkerchief edging - I'm coming down the fourth side now. It'll be a relief to start working it, after all this pricking! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) I wish I could make floral Bucks. I've been ages working very slowly through my how-to-make-Bucks book. What does your edging look like? How wide is it? How many bobbins does it use (it's exciting to use lots of bobbins; the most I've ever used was 50 pairs)? Did you get it from a book? What size thread and how many holes per inch? I'd like to aim for making Bucks at the standard size but it is not clear to me what the standard size is. My books don't go into that. I'm pretty sure the size at which I now work, using Egyptian Cotton 80/2, is too big. Should I be aiming for cotton 100/2? 120/2? I don't know what my goal should be. Julie Baltimore MD - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Pricking on the pillow
On Jan 3, 2004, at 6:56, Liz Beecher wrote: Look, if you don't like pricking then photocopy, stick and film That's what I pre-prick -- a film-covered sandwich, with the photocopied pattern as the middle layer... At the beginning (in '89) I did try to prick through a pattern and then put in all the markings -- honest Injun, I *did* try... And messed up every time when drawing in the markings; all that sea of pinholes confused me no end. Since you put the markings with a waterproof pen, the mistakes were permanent. Which meant back to the pricking board and starting from scratch. Bleech; it got stale very fast :) So then I'd draw the pattern (in pencil) on a piece of graph paper (became an avid collector of different;y-sized graphs g), erase and correct the mistakes to my heart's content, draw over the the correct lines with a pen, tint the pattern with a lightly-coloured crayon, then slap a bit of clear Contact over it. The whole thing was flimsy, so I started to glue it to a piece of cardboard. Thus re-inventing *the first* wheel of my lacemaking career (there've been many since; it is specified in my will that my tombstone should say: she's re-invented the wheel; frequently and with zeal g)... When the town got its first commercial photocopying place, it was like Christmas in July, for me :) And - if like me and Tamara you don't like winding the bobbins get a bobbin winder I do have a winder, but half the time it's not worth pulling out; there has to be more than half a yard of thread per bobbin needed before I bother... What I do to break the monotony is wind a few pairs and hang them in, then work as far as I can, then wind a few more and hang them in and work some more. In essence, I'm having my veg and my desert at the same time :) But there's no such relief possible when pricking (unless you break the monotony of that with winding bobbins g); you have to finish it before you get to the desert of making the lace. I don't prick through two parts at once (even if they're perfectly symmetrical) because I worry (with reason, as an experiment had proved g) about not being prcise enough; my needle skews a bit, and the hole is no longer through the centre of the dot, but on the edge of it. OTOH, I never prick all 4 sides of a hankie-with-corners, either; I prick two separate quarters of it, and alternate them on the pillow to work. The upside of that is that I can do one quarter and start working sooner... I do the second quarter in bits -- a bit every time I run into a problem on a pillow which needs thinking to resolve. As pricking doesn't require much mental effort, the two go well togeter and, usually, the second quarter is ready by the time I need it :) Here's a story VBG A classic case of what DH would call and how are you fixed for spit? (reference to someone who borrows a cigarette, then a match, then an ashtray, then a fan to dissipate the smoke... I had given her 4 metres of handmade lace as a thank you A thank you for what? For removing herself from your orbit? Might have been worth *something*, I suppose, but not 4 meters of lace; not even if it was a piece of 8-pair lace... we all have bits of the process we hate - me it's mounting the stuff, I hate mounting too :) There are even times when I hate working on the pillow (if it's a piece of yardage and longer than, say, a yard or so; by then it's all demystified and I start making mistakes through lack of attention). But the rush of coming up with an idea, working it out -- at least partways -- on paper, getting the possible knotty technical points solved in pre-sampling, then getting the magnum opus on the pillow (choosing the threads -- heaven g) and off it (triumphantly and with much chest pounding. Thereafter it can get stashed into the back of a drawer; who cares? g)... That rush is unbeatable... Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: information ?
On Jan 3, 2004, at 12:33, Aurelia L. Loveman wrote: Dear Magda -- I think what Tamara was referring to is a three-day workshop on beginning Mechlin, to be given by Ulrike Loehr on July 31, and August 1st and 2nd. Indeed it is. She offered the same workshop in Ithaca, in '99 and I was *accepted* for the class, then couldn't go, for personal reasons... I never got over it :) And as Loehr's now working on a new book which will be *on* Mechlin (Ice flowers is, I think, the tentative title; I saw some of the patterns while at the IOLI Convention, and they were *scrumptious*), it's all the more reason to try learnign the technique... The timing is a bit uncomfortable for me, since the OIDFA/Prague event takes place 11-23 July (if one wants to take in the workshops before the Congress and the tours after, as this one -- very definitely -- does g). Even if I slot my visit to Poland beforehand, it still gives me barely enough time to get over the jet-lag and do the laundry... :) But it's tempting, very... Go to the web site of the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild, and it will tell you all about it. http://www.crlg.org/Calendar.html Actually, it doesn't (as yet) say how much it'll cost or anything else -- just the dates, the names of the teachers and the subjects of the workshops... - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lace-digest V2004 #5
Dear Laura -- I will be writing more in the coming weeks and months about the October 2004 Lace Day at the Baltimore Museum of Art; and just at the moment I must, must, must get to bed or I will fall asleep over my computer; so forgive me for being so brief. The date is October 30, 2004, it's a Saturday. -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
