[lace] Afficot Raffle - To Margot
Hi Margot, Many thanks for the afficot - it arrived safely a couple of days ago - but I couldn't reply then, as the computer had broken an elastic band, and needed secialist help from my son to remedy! It seems all is OK now, so I do send belated thanks for such a useful object! I am trying to interest all the family in eating lobsters - hopefully I will be successful, and then I will also have a claw to raffle - but thanks to you for your raffle, and I am so pleased to be a winner. Carol - Suffolk UK 'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.' - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] afficot saving files
Hello All! If you found the arachne archives for afficot, you passed the Google results for several French sites that give a short explanation. Just click on the translate button. There are several references to Picardy Patois Normand indicating that the afficot is used to hook, fix or fasten, as in a small turned perforated boxwood instrument in which one supports or 'fixes' one of a pair of knitting needles. That sort of makes sense. Does anyone want to bet that an item fitting this description will turn up on EBay??! As to saving files, after my computer crashed this summer I lost all kinds of files, I invested in--less than $20--a flash drive. I used to keep my files on my hard drive because I didn't like the idea of burning a CD all the time. The flash drive has all the attributes of the old floppy technology--portability, plus adding deleting files 2gig seems like a nice round number. I just put it in my pocket when I visit friends so they can dow nload any files they'd like I can do the same. Hope this helps some other low tech lacemakers out there! Sincerely, Susan - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] afficot saving files
A portable flash drive is handy for carrying files around but not recommended for long-term storage because they're too fragile. If you step on one, it's gone. Really important files should be backed up on something sturdier, like an external hard drive or an on-line service like www.carbonite.com. Large hard drives are not very expensive these days. I keep one in a shoebox and once a month I back up my files using Syncback, a free program. OTOH, if I want to take some files to work or to someone else's computer, a flash drive is a great gadget. My flash drive and card reader (for camera card) go everywhere with me. Avital On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote: to saving files, after my computer crashed this summer I lost all kinds of files, I invested in--less than $20--a flash drive. I used to keep my files on my hard drive because I didn't like the idea of burning a CD all the time. The flash drive has all the attributes of the old floppy technology--portability, plus adding deleting files 2gig seems like a nice round number. I just put it in my pocket when I visit friends so they can dow nload any files they'd like I can do the same. Hope this helps some other low tech lacemakers out there! Sincerely, Susan - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Afficot Raffle
I just got home from buying 2 live lobsters for dinner tonight and was reading all the emails about afficots. Since I will have 4 lobster claws available, I thought I'd raffle off the pincers. (The large part of the claw can also be used as an afficot, but mine will be broken to get the meat out.) So if you'd like one, send me your name and address and I'll pull 4 names out of a hat on Sept. 25 and send them off - surface mail. There shouldn't be any problem with entry into another country since they will have been boiled and bleached. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Afficot
Yes indeed, that is the story. It is used to press down one part of the lace so as to raise and emphasise another part pf the design. Some time ago I made a few sets of needle lace tools that include an afficot, lifters, ringsticks etc. I thought I would buy my Mercedes on the proceeds, but there was not much interest, probably because I do not make many tools for commercial sale and thus do not advertise them; Rather I make things that no one else seems to make. Now I know why few makers make needle lace tools! Brian and Jean from Cooranbong Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
