[lace] Latest Lace magazine
Dear friends I just have to write with a little boast that my lace has been chosen for the front cover of this quarter's Lace. I am also flattered by a double colour page in the magazine as well. The work was produced for my City and Guild Part I, which I completed last year and was submitted, without any encouragement by me, by the tutor, Ann Day. I didn't ever expect it to gain such world wide publicity! By the way, what are people looking for in the newest Anna magazine? When I was at the Knitting and Stitching show recently I looked through the latest copy and at the publicity for the next one and couldn't spot any lace-related items at all. The infrequency of lace in this magazine has put me off subscribing, although I have quite a few usable patterns from the past. By the way, the Knitting and Stitching show at Alexandra Palace was a wonderful day out and there were even two (!!) genuine lace suppliers there. Also the usual display by the Lace Circle with their dedicated supporters and an excellent stand by the Lace Guild with some lace from the collection on show and several panels of labels produced for the Lacemakers Census. We were told that there were so many entries for this that there are still many to be mounted, so those of us who didn't send in until the last minute will have to wait for our offerings to be displayed. The best thing I picked up at the Knitting and Stitching Show was a new student for one of my classes. Funny how we can spot the right people; we got chatting on the tube on the way to the show!! Happy lacing Rosemary (in Sussex) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] future is now (lacemaking)
Hi Bev et al, I went to day for the first of a series (I hope!) of private lessons with a new student, who, when I asked over the phone if she'd done any lace, said she hadn't, but she had a pillow, several bobbins, and some thread. Anyway - I decided to take her a pillow with my 'bandage' pricking on it (how can that have anyone's copyright on it - a length of cloth stitch trail?) and a few books to show her. Imagine my surprise - when I arrived at the house, she proudly showed me several lengths of an edging - torchon ground and fans - which she had done from a book borrowed from the library, without any help at all!However, much to my amazement, she wanted to start at the beginning, with the 'bandage', and then looked at my books and decided that the one she liked the look of was the Bridget Cook Manual, closely followed by the Geraldine Stott Torchon Lace one.So for next week, I am hoping to have a copy of one or other of the books from eBay, a supply of new spangled bobbins, and some threads - she was bounding along and had almost completed the bandage by the time I left after just over two hours, so I am sure she'll be a definite asset to the lacemaking world. She was also quite taken with the Essex and Suffolk newsletters, as well as the Circle and Guild, so hopefully in a few weeks/months, I'll be able to sign her up for all or some of those too! So a very good and enjoyable morning - when one discounts the fact that I waited for about twenty minutes, at the wrong garage, for my husband, who took his car in to have its MOT and some work done on the brakes!What a waste of time *that* was! Carol - in Suffolk UK. - Original Message - From: bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:34 AM Subject: [lace] future is now (lacemaking) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [lace] future is now (lacemaking) The September issue of Kant, the Belgian lace magazine, has just arrived here. It seems that the problem with lacemakers being advanced in years is a geographical problem and not a lace problem. There is an article about the 25 th Bruge lace day in the magazine. The people demonstrating lacemaking were all youngsters with young visitors from Schneeberge and Poland and there are photographs of these rows of young people making lace! I wonder how many of them do manage to keep up with the hobby once the job and family responsibilities start. Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Piecework - Attention: Weronica in California
Weronica, Recently, you inquired about covering books with lace. On the last page of the November/December 2005 issue of PieceWork (knitted dolls on cover) there is a photo of two blank books that have been covered with lace. The ones shown were made with part of an antique embroidered linen guest towel and a crocheted doily (both stronger than much of the lace we usually make with bobbins). You might like the idea of attaching a ribbon bookmark to the inside of the back cover, perhaps with lace attached to the ribbon. You can go to a store like Barnes Noble or Borders and look at the picture and information, without having to buy the $6 magazine. It will be with the needlework magazines. I suggest you wait another week, because sometimes subscribers get magazines before they are distributed to stores. Since you are from Poland, I do recommend you go to the Web and print the directions for a Snutki Doily - some time in the future, you may want to try this needle technique. (www.interweave.com/rd/pwprojects) EVeryone: There are a lot of free instructions at this site, and some of you have asked for patterns that are free. Take a look, and start a notebook of instructions you like. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] How I started lacemaking
In my early teens I ws enchanted with crochet and knitting - learned both of them mostly from old and inadequate how-to directions. My mother knew a little about crochet but that was all the other help I had.. Then in 1950 (I think) an article on bobbin lacemaking appeared in Woman's Day magazine, (I think it cost 5 cents at that time) complete with suggestions about making a pillow and using small plastic clothes pins for bobbins. No longer available, these were small straight clothes pins - not the clip kind - and I think made for lingerie laundry. Fine beginners bobbins. The first pattern I made was probably the most advanced in the article and I was hooked permanently. I got some lessons-by-mail from Marguerite Brooks, bought the very few books that were available from Robn and Russ in Oregon. I had been a weaver for years and so knew about Robin and Russ. It was ten years before I ever saw another person making lace and she was a middle aged lady of Danish descent who had learned bobbin lace while on a visit to Denmark. Doris Southard in Iowa - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace in the present
I have been offering and teaching tatting and bobbin lace through the local college. I thought that I would only get a few students and that they would mostly be older. But that is not the way it has turned out. I have four to eight new students at each class and they are young, 8-13years old and older, above 80. I have been doing this for two years now and the local Hobby Lobby store has increased the tatting thread and shuttles it sells. I know that when the students go in and ask for the tatting equipment they are told that the only equipment they have are tatting needles, but when they get back to that section of the store there are shuttles. In offering these classes through the local college means I have a wide spread base of people who learn about lace and are given the opportunity to learn something new. My classes in the summer are the big ones and the classes during the school year have fewer students. It is always interesting to me during the first class to have the students tell me about how they learned about tatting or bobbin lace. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Latest Lace magazine
Congratualtions, Rosemary, on your beautiful lace, and your City Guilds success. You should feel very proud of yourself. The enlargement of your piece, that was featured on the front cover, shows how beautifully even your stitches are. I wish mine were that good!! Very Well Done. My orchid in pale yellow with a mauve tongue is featured about ½ way down on the left edge, in the flowers photo on the back cover! I made a spray of 3 orchid flowers, on the one stem, as my contribution to the Johnston Collection vase of flowers. You can see about half of a 2nd flower, and the 3rd flower is hidden under the larger white one. I made them from the Floribana book - the mediun size of the 3 prickings. I think they need a bit more starch as the central petals seem to flop a bit. They were fun to make, and the finished collection looks awesome! Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace in the present
Karisse, where do you live? It would be ever so kind if everyone would sign their postings with their name and where they live. I cannot believe that the booger man will choose any one of you because you put your hometown at the end of your posting! That used to be one of the rules given when anyone joined Arachne. Please, Please! Happy Lacemaking, Betty Ann Rice in Roanoke, Virginia USA who is not in fear of her life nor that she is in dire danger just 'cause everyone on the list knows she lives in Roanoke, Virginia USA. - Original Message - From: Karisse Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been offering and teaching tatting and bobbin lace through the local college. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
