Re: [lace] Accidents
Hi David et al, I had to chuckle - but with great sympathy! Some years ago, I was finishing off the border lace for a chalice cover, with my (antique) wig hook gripped formly in my teeth as I tied off the threads. I lifted my hand, to retrieve the hook, only to bury it into the flesh between the last two joints of my right hand ring finger - I should think it was as painful as your experience! To add to my woes, I didn't want to cut the hook off a lovely ivory piece of equipment, my husband was entertaining a client, and the only person available was my daughter, who hadn't passed her driving test at that point. So - I muffled my anguish, and set out with her driving me to the AE - where the nurses laughed at my plight.When I got to be seen, the doctor was mystified as he didn't have a clue what a wig hook or crochet hook was, so asked me to draw one. When I complied - and NOT to scale - he was even more confused, but when he attempted to push the hook out of the flesh further down, to cut the hook bit off, I really rebelled, as I loved the wig hook... So he just pulled with vigour, the hook came out intact, I fainted as I was bleeding quite well, and I am extremely squeamish. What fun we do have as lacemakers ... Carol - in Suffolk UK 'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.' - Original Message - From: David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 4:57 PM Subject: [lace] Accidents Dear Friends, I'm afraid there was a bit of language at the lace pillow today. Have you ever pushed in a pin really hard, only to discover to your peril that it was upside down??? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Accidents
My worst accident was one day when I had gone away for a weekend break and I was carrying my pillow complete with tools etc into the hotel. I was waiting for the elevator while my friend was at the counter asking a question. I could feel that I was losing some of my load, so hitched it up against myself so that nothing fell off. I felt a sharp prick on my lower stomach and thought that perhaps I'd snagged a pin. When we finally got to the room, I discovered that what I had snagged was in fact my very fine crochet hook. It was firmly imbedded through my skirt, slip, underwear and tum. I can't remember how I got it out, but I do remember it was very sore and I had a large bruise for quite a few days. Malvary in Ottawa (the Nation's Capital), Canada where I have been retro lacing all week because I have done a big, big error on the curtain I'm making and I'm having to undo about 3 weeks of work. I've carefully cut out some of it, but I need to undo the rest. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Wig hooks embedded in flesh
Hi David Carol You have my sympathies, I'm just recovering from a wrist broken when I stepped backwards and caught my heel round the leg of a chir while teaching lacemaking. For anyone else having problems with hooks embedded in flesh. A small pointed scapel or other surgical instrument slid down the side of the hook will act as a shoe horn and the hook can be withdrawn against it. Only to be attempted by a qualified medical practitioner. Hoping no one has to use this advice. Keep lacemaking Alex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Louise Colgan
Okay...I have written to Louise herself. I will let you know what she says when she write back to me. Wind To Thy Wings, Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com http://celticdreamweaver.com/ http://celticdreamweave.blogspot.com/ Nata 616 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Fw: [lace] Alphabet Inpirations' authorship?!
Holly has now corrected her website for this small error Sue Babbs http://www.vansciverbobbinlace.com T, before you rush to buy the Alphabet Inspirations book, I'm pretty sure the author is Sandi Woods, not Louise Colgan. Both are great designers of Milanese patterns, but they are different. I have Sandi's second book, but it's packed away. I'm pretty sure it's called Alphabet Inspirations and its cover looks just like the picture on the Van Sciver website. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] bobbins
When I first started bobbin lace I made a bunch of large bobbins with wooden beads and dowels. Since I was using very thick thread I made the bobbins 6 inches tall, but the idea could be adapted for any size. I would recommend first buying a lot of beads, then taking the beads to the dowels and selecting dowels that are a snug fit, or a little too big. Slightly thick dowels can be sanded down, but glueing a dowel that is too thin into a bead will not make a good attachment and the beads will come loose. Wood glue works well. Here is a photo: http://lynxlace.com/images/bbn4.jpg The small ones are standard bobbin length, about 4 inches (I did not make the small ones). Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] bobbins
Years ago (it seems!) when this idea was first muted on the list as a cheap way of making bobbins for beginners, I imagined the beads to be fairly uniform, such as the plastic pony beads sold here in the UK for children's craft activities - colourful, but maybe a bit caterpillar like in looks! Using the longer beads has made yours really attractive, Lorelei, and I expect they look just as good as turned bobbins on the pillow. Finding beads here with a decent sized hole isn't easy - as I found out when I needed to replace the ones on my sandals! (In this case, they are espadrille type sandals, and the beads are at the ends of the ribbons - I had very little choice when it came to finding four large wooden beads with approx 4mm diameter holes drilled through - ie big enough to take the ribbon - and those I did find were expensive!) In message ed84dbecd2fe4478a1dc97479a81c...@loreleihalley, Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.com writes When I first started bobbin lace I made a bunch of large bobbins with wooden beads and dowels. Here is a photo: http://lynxlace.com/images/bbn4.jpg Lorelei -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] bobbins
I too made a set of pony bead bobbins when I started - I was able to buy glass pony/jug beads through eBay, including some heart shaped ones to put at the bottom of each bobbin. Finding suitable size wood was the hardest bit, until I found a Remote Control hobby shop - the sort that sells the thin balsa wood for making model planes, and they had a very fine dowel in hardwood which was ideal. Noelene in Cooma nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] bobbins... and now, teaching?
When I first started making lace in the late '90s, I was able to borrow, from my guild, two or three dozen very plain bobbins, spangled with very plain beads as well as a pillow and cover cloths and pins... for up to three months in order to determine whether I would be interested in continuing. Needless to say, I was very interested! My guild then directed me to numerous websites and vendors where I could purchase the supplies I needed. I started out with two or three dozen plain bobbins of my own, and at my very first lace day bought a dozen pretty bobbins. I fell in love with spangling. I joined a bobbin-a-month club with Maureen Benda - and she introduced me to lots and lots of wonderful bobbin-makers from all over the world. Within the first year, I had enough pretty bobbins to work the nice English laces I was making at the time. Since then, many of my favorite bobbin-makers have retired. Many of my favorite vendors (including Maureen) have moved on to other pursuits, or have retired. I have two of Richard Worthen's bobbin display domes which contain some of my favorite painted wood bobbins, and my favorites from my collection of Archer bone bobbins. These occupy places of honor in my house! The first bobbins I bought - two or three dozen plain - were spangled with interesting beads. I had no qualms about cutting spangles off of a plain bobbin to put on a more luxurious bobbin... but I always replaced the spangle on the plain bobbins with something. These plain bobbins have been loaned out so many times that I can't count. Sadly, the success rate has not been tremendous. People learn, through using decent tools on a decent pillow, whether or not they want to pursue bobbin lacemaking. Some have, but more have not. I recognize that we are a rare breed! ; ) The true measure of success in teaching new lacemakers is to have the equipment they need readily available for a reasonable length of time, and most importantly, to have a good teacher who is willing to devote the time and energy needed to get newcomers started. Unfortunately, in my experience, the lack of teachers is the primary reason our magical art is seeing a decline in new lacemakers. I acknowledge that I am not a teacher. I lack the patience and the ability to recognize the student's required learning mode, and thus follow it, and I remain focused on my own lacemaking, rather that focus on the growth of the art.And so... I am not criticizing anyone for not being a teacher. More to the point, I am criticizing people who *claim* to be teachers, but whose lack of the required characteristics make them teachers of beginners in name only... and this is where we're losing them. Having said all of this, perhaps now that I have studied with the masters (most recently, Anne-Marie Verbeke-Billiet), is it time for me to set aside my own self-centered interest in lace and offer to teach a newcomer? I recognize that this will be a gift to our art, and will require me to shift my perspective. Is anyone else interested in doing the same? We may need to support each other!! Clay On 9/26/2010 6:17 PM, Noelene Lafferty wrote: I too made a set of pony bead bobbins when I started - I was able to buy glass pony/jug beads through eBay, including some heart shaped ones to put at the bottom of each bobbin. Finding suitable size wood was the hardest bit, until I found a Remote Control hobby shop - the sort that sells the thin balsa wood for making model planes, and they had a very fine dowel in hardwood which was ideal. Noelene in Cooma nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
