[lace] Big postal delays and Posh bags
Jeri, the latest problems with sending post to the USA stem from someone sending a small amount of explosive in a toner ink cartridge from the UK to the USA - presumably as a test to see if it got through; which it didn't so that shows that checks are as they should be. In spite of the checks being proven to be stringent enough, letters are still being carried as normal, but USA Homeland Security will no longer allow posted packages to be carried on passenger flights to the USA. They now have to go on cargo only flights and are subject to additional checks by US customs. This has been in operation since 18th November - see the Royal Mail web site. They estimate a week's delay to the normal 6-10 days airmail delivery time. Another of my packages was delivered yesterday, 5 weeks after sending, still leaving one in the wind. Of those delivered, the first was crushed on one side, Clay's had a small puncture, and the third looked as if it had been stamped on by an elephant. Fortunately my packing was good enough to protect the contents. As for Posh bobbin bags, there are photos of my 48 bobbin bag on Arachne webshots in my album, which I put there last time we discussed them. http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/394293545qaUZRh I did mention to Janet that I was buying the bag to send to someone in the USA as she didn't seem to have a Paypal account or other way for overseas customers to pay. She said she did sell abroad, but payment has to be direct into her bank account in sterling. I heard rumours after the fair that she's unwell and will be stopping making them. Haven't heard any more, so don't now if it's true. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - 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] Monica Ferris books
I'm just getting to the end of the last Monica Ferris novel to have been published in paperback (Blackwork) - there's another one after that, but it's currently only in hardback. For those of you who don't know the books, they are about a lady who inherits a needlework store in Minnesota after her sister is murdered and gets involved in solving local murders - wouldn't like to live there! Some of the books have patterns, charted needlework of some kind, knitting, etc in the back, and there's always needlecraft content. 'Blackwork' mentions bobbin lace. I have them all and it's time they left me for other people to read. I'd like to pass them on to someone and for that person to send them on to someone else when they've read them. A sort of round robin. They need to be read in order, so the first person needs to receive them in the correct order. Any suggestions on the best way to do it? My first thought is that they could be passed person to person, rather than posted to save cost to anyone (and sanity if passing to someone in the USA by avoiding the postal system). Many of you attend events where you meet up with others from all over the world. Or should I just give them to one of my local charity shops? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - 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] Monica Ferris books
Hi Jean, We have a system at our monthly meetings of the Aust. Lace Guild in South Australia which works brilliantly. We donate books to the trading table (organised by our Librarian) and we pay 50cents per book (fiction novels). After reading them they are given back to the trading table and someone else buys them for 50cents. If we have more than one person interested when the book first arrives, we sometimes write their name inside the book in pencil then pass the book on to the next person on the list. By the time we've finished with it if nobody else needs/wants it the books are usually donated to the local thrift shops or old people's homes. This way we recycle and also we earn money for our Guild which is banked into our Tutor's Fund which pays for visiting tutors. Hope this helps with your dilemma. I haven't read these books yet so I'd best go looking at our local library as they haven't turned up on our trading table. Please can someone let me know the name of the first book? Ta muchly, Shirley T. - lots of reading time coming up as the temperature is tipped to reach 39C tomorrow then 43C for New Years Eve! Well, we haven't had a lot of hot weather yet. - 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] Monica Ferris titles
Monica Ferris titles in order published: Crewel World Framed in Lace A stitch in time Unraveled Sleeve A murderous yarn Hanging by a thread Cutwork Crewel Yule Embroidered truths Sins and needles Knitting bones Thai Die Blackwork Out in hardback only Buttons and Bones Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - 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] New Essay
I have written an essay that builds a bit on the fashions of bobbins we talked about a few weeks ago. It is well developed now into a discussion point about when and how bobbins may have become spangled. I am told that it will bit be up loaded some time tomorrow at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs.html as a pdf. It is entitled Lace Bobbin Fashions. It is at least semi serious. I will be interested in what you may think about the idea. Oh. I have just looked and it is up there already. Brian and Jean From Cooranbong. Aystralia - 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] New Essay
You are such a prolific essay writer Brianhow about you come to write some of my University Lace Diploma Course essays for me? I still have another 5 to write before the end of the holidays - four on Economics and one on History of Lace! Well - on another note, thanks for letting us know about them because I do enjoy reading them and I also hope they will prove helpful to me somewhere in my studies - other than the fact that I love general knowledge of any sort. It's so good that you are ready to share. Happy New Year everybody (in case I don't write in again before then because I'll still be busy working on my coursework). May the coming year bring you all good health, all you need and lots of lacemakingand essay writing :-))) Karen in Sunny Malta - 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] Christmas cards
Hi, I have just received a lovely card, with a gorgeous piece of deep red lace and a calendar which is just the right size for my desk. Thank you so much Laura. I hope you received my card. It was sent with time to spare (I thought). The card I sent to friends of mine in Alaska ânot lace makers- got theirs before Christmas, but theirs has still to arrive. Best wishes from Joepie, in misty East Sussex where the temperature has risen to bearable level. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/png which had a name of wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile[1].png] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/png which had a name of wlEmoticon-smile[1].png] - 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] wire lace with insect pins
Hello Spiders As my old site is too elaborate to maintain, I just started a blog. My first post: http://kantelier.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/wire-lace-with-insect-pins/ Jo - 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] Monica Ferris titles
Thanks Jean for the update of the books in the series - I need to get to the used book store to look for the ones I haven't seen. I've never done a raffle before, but if anyone hasn't read Crewel World - I have a copy and would like to offer it. Please e-mail me separately and I will put all the names in a hat and get it drawn on 12th night (Jan 6), just in case people are still travelling and away from home at the moment. Malvary in Ottawa, Canada where we are supposed to have a heatwave on Sunday +7c. - 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] Re: Big postal delays
Receiving mail from the USA has also become difficult and the extra security imposed on packages at the border has beome onerous and expensive. UPS charging $40 in brokerage fees and then the Canadian taxes and charges of an extra $20 on a purchase of $75 of bobbins, thread, and pins. And a wait of almost a month for delivery of a package that was comming from less than 300 miles away. I don't think I'll be ordering anything again from the US any time soon. And yes, I know that the postal service (USPS) is not UPS but the custom and brokerage fees when there is a terrorism scare are just as large. International post is no better: I had a $20 British purchase of a bobbin opened at the border (after a white powder scare in England) last year and the handling, custom and taxes came to over $40. In the quiet periods between scares, parcels clear Canadian customs without delay and with almost never any additional charges. I wish we could find some serenity. In the 1970's, the various European terrorists (German, Basques, Irish, others) caused much more death and destruction than today's terrorists and many more planes were blown up. Somehow, I don't remember people, and governments, being so fearful and frankly, paranoid. International police and security forces are doing a good job of detecting and defusing threat and / or re-establishing order. Notice the number of successful raids in Europe and North America. Who was it that said All we have to fear is fear itself? Was it not an American president? I wish we could find some serenity. That's what I'm aiming for in the New Year, that and a lot more lacemaking. Lucie DuFresne Ottawa Canada - 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] Card site updated, please refresh
Jenny, Thanks for the reminder to look at the new cards that are posted on your website. Nice job everyone. Faye, where did you find the wooden star and centerpiece for your card? I have seen similar things from Europe but have no idea where they can be purchased. Did you make up the pattern to fit the star? Hope everyone had a good Christmas holiday and didn't eat as much chocolate as I did. Janice The Arachne card site http://www.brandis.com.au/arachne/2010/index.html has been updated with the latest batch of cards, please remember to refresh your screen if you have visited recently. I will try to get to the downloads later today. For those who asked, the title picture is made with the Kathryn lace http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/Lace/freebies.html behind the transparent text, I then added a drop shadow, 1 pixel stroke and inner shadow to complete the look. Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - 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] Re: Big postal delays
Our older son lives in Goteborg, Sweden. He gets the large 'if it fits it ships' box, about 16inches square, and 6 inches deep, which costs $55 to mail via USPS. Definitely not cheap. But it arrived within 2 weeks. I sent it November 22, and it arrived 2 weeks later, no muss, no fuss. But packages I have ordered from sellers in the US through Amazon have taken much longer than usual to arrive. I believe it is the Christmas crush, because all of a sudden, predicted arrival times seemed to get later and later. Last year I mailed the Swede's package on December 10, and he only got it after Christmas. I think the sheer number of packages at Christmas makes for more delays. In the '70's, there was much less global mail. So much more difficult to place foreign orders without internet. And the killing on planes, at least as I remember it, was by people on the plane. Hence the heightened metal detectors DH and I experienced in Britain and not in Netherlands, or the US on the same trip in '74. Terrorism was much less sophisticated. And localized to Britain most of the time, or the Basque area, or the poor Israelis of the Olympics.Naughty IRA. I have no idea what steps were taken to protect British mails, but I bet there were steps. Now, when a country is targeted, it goes all out to protect its citizens. Can't really blame them. Terrorism and the protections necessary are both much more sophisticated. And someone has to pay. Sad but true. On the other hand, as mentioned, fewer people are now dying. Always a good thing. But the thousands killed on 9/11 are stuck in the US memory, with nasty consequences all over, including the mail. It was Franklin Roosevelt who said, The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. He said that in 1933, and was talking about the panic caused by the Depression, and not about terrorism, or even the Nazis, who weren't really a force at that time. Sadly, from all those successful raids, and the discovered explosive materials in packages, it is clear that we have much more to fear than fear itself out there. The attacks are real, and we all suffer in one way or another. Delayed post and packages is the least of these. Let us all do whatever we do in the way of prayer or similar, that peace on earth will come. More time and energy for lacing is always a good thing. Lyn from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where we didn't get the big blizzard of the east coast, and where it is a lovely sunny day, 41F 4.5C. I hope you are all enjoying the holiday season. -Original Message- From: lucie...@uottawa.ca Sent: Dec 29, 2010 1:46 PM To: Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk Cc: Lace lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Re: Big postal delays Receiving mail from the USA has also become difficult and the extra security imposed on packages at the border has beome onerous and expensive. UPS charging $40 in brokerage fees and then the Canadian taxes and charges of an extra $20 on a purchase of $75 of bobbins, thread, and pins. And a wait of almost a month for delivery of a package that was comming from less than 300 miles away. I don't think I'll be ordering anything again from the US any time soon. And yes, I know that the postal service (USPS) is not UPS but the custom and brokerage fees when there is a terrorism scare are just as large. International post is no better: I had a $20 British purchase of a bobbin opened at the border (after a white powder scare in England) last year and the handling, custom and taxes came to over $40. In the quiet periods between scares, parcels clear Canadian customs without delay and with almost never any additional charges. I wish we could find some serenity. In the 1970's, the various European terrorists (German, Basques, Irish, others) caused much more death and destruction than today's terrorists and many more planes were blown up. Somehow, I don't remember people, and governments, being so fearful and frankly, paranoid. International police and security forces are doing a good job of detecting and defusing threat and / or re-establishing order. Notice the number of successful raids in Europe and North America. Who was it that said All we have to fear is fear itself? Was it not an American president? I wish we could find some serenity. That's what I'm aiming for in the New Year, that and a lot more lacemaking. Lucie DuFresne Ottawa Canada - 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
Re: [lace] Monica Ferris books
Jean, et al, First wish we had some of your 30C temps! Not really, but it would be nice if it was above 30F. Re the books, may I concur with Jean. Your idea is great for earning money for tutors and it also gives others an opportunity to read the books before they are passed on. On another note, is it possible to get the ISBN for these books? I would also like to read them. Sallie On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Tregellas Family endso...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi Jean, We have a system at our monthly meetings of the Aust. Lace Guild in South Australia which works brilliantly. We donate books to the trading table (organised by our Librarian) and we pay 50cents per book (fiction novels). After reading them they are given back to the trading table and someone else buys them for 50cents. If we have more than one person interested when the book first arrives, we sometimes write their name inside the book in pencil then pass the book on to the next person on the list. By the time we've finished with it if nobody else needs/wants it the books are usually donated to the local thrift shops or old people's homes. This way we recycle and also we earn money for our Guild which is banked into our Tutor's Fund which pays for visiting tutors. Hope this helps with your dilemma. I haven't read these books yet so I'd best go looking at our local library as they haven't turned up on our trading table. Please can someone let me know the name of the first book? Ta muchly, Shirley T. - lots of reading time coming up as the temperature is tipped to reach 39C tomorrow then 43C for New Years Eve! Well, we haven't had a lot of hot weather yet. - 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
[lace] Tunisian Chebka lace on LaceNews
I just put up a piece on Tunisian Chebka lace on LaceNews, which includes scanned images of the two main technical resources. Laurie http://lacenews.net - 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] Wondering about Tamara Duvuall
I haven't seen anything coming to the list in a while now from Tamara. I was wondering is she is okay. Does anybody know. I so much miss her posts since she have a vast amount of knowledge on lace making. 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
[lace-chat] A spider
Have a look at this http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/ Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.uk To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
