[lace] Aussie bobbin winder

2005-11-17 Thread Jean Nathan
Would the bands sold in model shops for model steam engines, etc be suitable, or perhaps the type used on sewing machines? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] News article about Janya Sugannasil

2005-11-17 Thread maureen harvey
Barbara, Thanks for sharing it is a lovely article, makes me feel so lucky that I had lace tutors readily available when I learnt lacemaking. Do you think it would be alright to print it in Norfolk Lacemakers next newsletter? Happy lacing Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - Original Message -

Re: [lace] aussie bobbin winder

2005-11-17 Thread maureen harvey
I always pick mine up off the street outside where the postman drops them after taking the bundles out of his bag. Happy lacing Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - Original Message - From: rick sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:51 AM Subject:

RE: [lace] aussie bobbin winder THE ANSWER

2005-11-17 Thread Carolyn Hastings
I replaced my bands years ago. I purchased with (here in the US) Sparco size 31. 2 1/2 x 1/8. If you can't find them in a big box store (they only carry the most common, best selling items) try a smaller stationery store. My box was huge. I still have 3/4 of the original quantity (I had to

[lace] Lace in the movies

2005-11-17 Thread Diane Williams
I was perusing some movie photos from the upcoming Harry Potter movie and noticed that Ron has quite a bit of lace on his dress robes. Look here: http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hvid=1808475610cf=pgphotoid=555613intl=us Or this if the one above got broken: http://tinyurl.com/9d7ry Diane

Re: [lace] E-mail problems at the Lace Guild

2005-11-17 Thread Jeriames
In a message dated 11/16/05 5:25:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Following the email problem at The Lace Guild with the laceguild.org addresses, their broadband has gone down so they can't pick up any email at all, even that to the laceguild.demon.co.uk address or

Re: [lace] fan on ebay

2005-11-17 Thread Alix Hengen
http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=6578631108ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:FR:1 Merci sof. for the link, those fans are quite beautifu, but the cream colored one is clearla not a needle-lace fan as stated. I think you can call it a Brussels-Duchesse, I can see 3 little needlelace

[lace] Cutting off lace

2005-11-17 Thread Jane Partridge
I have a narrow point ground edging on my pillow that I want to continue working, but I want to cut some of the length off now to use. I think we fuss too much sometimes - if it was machine made, you wouldn't have a second thought about cutting it (leaving exactly the same number of loose

Re: [lace] News article about Janya Sugannasil

2005-11-17 Thread Aurelia Loveman
I imagine that quite a lot of us must remember Janya from the 'seventies. She was studying in London at the time (seemed like far more than a mere two months) and, I think, with Pam Nottingham among others. I have one of Janya's picture frames made with lace around the mat. Leaf tallies to

Re: [lace] Cutting off lace

2005-11-17 Thread Barb ETx
Golly, I have had a tiny lace on a pillow that has been going for several years. I never thought much about it, I cut what I need then, then add on as I find time. I have never had a problem with any ravelingit has worked just fine with me. BarbE - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

[lace] spider raffle - draw will take place Friday evening

2005-11-17 Thread Pauline
Dear friends, Just to remind you that you still have until tomorrow evening, (Friday), to enter the raffle for the beautiful spider pin/broach, Kind regards, Pauline in Somerset. U.K. www.wincanton-uk.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

[lace] Filet Lace

2005-11-17 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
I have just completed my first serious piece of filet lace. - and enjoyed it!!! However, instructions in one of the 2 books I have on that type of lace tell me to wash and/or bleach the lace, - to matt it up a bit. That gives me a fit of the horrors!!! My question is - should this type of

[lace] lace card exchange

2005-11-17 Thread Janice Blair
Bev wrote: Hi everyone in the exchange! By now some of you have made and sent your cards, excellent ;) Am I the first to receive a card? Mine came earlier this week and was from South Africa. Jeanette Fischer sent me a very nice letter along with some photographs of her home town of Kleinmond

[lace] Re: Filet Lace

2005-11-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Nov 17, 2005, at 19:20, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: I have just completed my first serious piece of filet lace. - and enjoyed it!!! However, instructions in one of the 2 books I have on that type of lace tell me to wash and/or bleach the lace, - to matt it up a bit. That gives me a fit of the

[lace] Re: aussie bobbin winder THE ANSWER

2005-11-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Nov 17, 2005, at 7:57, Carolyn Hastings wrote: I replaced my bands years ago. I purchased with (here in the US) Sparco size 31. 2 1/2 x 1/8. And, the best of friends that she is, she sent me some, too. And they did fit/work to perfection (I tested). I then left them in the original

Re: [lace] lace card exchange

2005-11-17 Thread Alice Howell
My lace is made, and I was getting ready to send it early when my guild president 'requested' me to bring it to the next meeting on Dec. 1. We got word that a reporter was going to be there to take pictures and my president wants my ornaments on display before I give any of them away. I can make

Re: [lace] spider raffle - draw will take place Friday evening

2005-11-17 Thread suzy
how do you enter the raffle!?! --- Pauline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, Just to remind you that you still have until tomorrow evening, (Friday), to enter the raffle for the beautiful spider pin/broach, Kind regards, Pauline in Somerset. U.K.

RE: [lace] Re: aussie bobbin winder THE ANSWER

2005-11-17 Thread Carolyn Hastings
Sure hope the rubber bands I've kept in the box all these years (although in a dark cupboard) are still stretchy when they arrive at their destinations. I last used a replacement in late May and it **seemed** ok, and they look ok to me now, but I hope I'm not sending rotten rubber bands to

Re: [lace] Lace in the movies

2005-11-17 Thread suzy
if you have ever watched the movie the original sin with antonio banderas and angela jolie there is lacy doilies that resemble needle lace. it will be in the scene where he charges out of his office on a really pretty large white horse to run home and find that she ran away. he shoots the lock

[lace] Cutting off lace

2005-11-17 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
I have had no problems with just cutting off a length of lace from my pillow. I remember the first time I did it - I had to shut my eyes and chomp with the scissors!!, but now I am not worried about it at all. As others have said - that is what they did in the old days. 'faffing about'Oh

Re: [lace] Cutting off lace

2005-11-17 Thread CLIVE Rice
Lots of suggestions - mine is: That's why God made Fray-Chek Put a thin strip across the place to cut, let it dry, and no fraying Happy Lacemaking Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [lace] Question about an Irish Crochet book

2005-11-17 Thread debbie
She's probably talking about this ebook that's free for resale that's been going around for the past year. Following is just one way that I searched for it, there are probably a lot more available with a less refined search.

[lace-chat] Two Women in Heaven

2005-11-17 Thread David Collyer
Two Women in Heaven Two women are new arrivals at the pearly gates and are comparing stories on how they died: 1st woman: I froze to death. 2nd woman: How horrible. 1st woman: It wasn't so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm and sleepy, and finally died a peaceful

[lace-chat] Deja Vu!

2005-11-17 Thread malvaryj
Deja vu Very interesting... Year 1981 1. Prince Charles got married 2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe 3. Australia lost the Ashes 4. Pope Died Year 2005 1. Prince Charles got married 2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe 3. Australia lost the Ashes 4. Pope

[lace-chat] spider raffle - draw will take place Friday evening

2005-11-17 Thread Pauline
Dear friends, Just to remind you that you still have until tomorrow evening, (Friday), to enter the raffle for the beautiful spider pin/broach, Kind regards, Pauline in Somerset. U.K. www.wincanton-uk.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thank You

2005-11-17 Thread Faye Owers
Dear Secret Pal, Thank you for the things in this months parcel, they will all come in very handy. I am attending a Honiton Lace workshop in the new year so I will be able to use my little mouse bobbin which is so cute Thanks again Faye Owers Tasmania Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: G.R.I.T.S.

2005-11-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Some of you - the Southerners - already know all this stuff; for you, it'll be just a chuckle and a nod. For the rest - the Northerners and other foreigners - it should be an education. For me, the first paragraph was an aha! moment... I've been doing it all wrong (ever since I'd learnt of the

[lace-chat] Absent days

2005-11-17 Thread Micki
Tamara recounted the story of the envelope with a bird in it, that was never send and then goes on to say: Barbara was amused when I told her what'd happened, and she said she wouldn't tell anyone, which I don't think is right - the story *is funny*, even if it's less than hillarious to me.