Maybe you need a humidor (like they use to keep cigars
moist) for the rubber bands!
Diane Williams
Galena, Illinois USA
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Sure hope the rubber bands I've kept in the box all
these years
(although in a dark cupboard) are still
Wire gimp! I wish I thought of that. I'll have to try it on my next one.
What kind of wire did you use?
Starching was such a pain, and I live in a humid climate, I'm never sure how
dry things will stay.
Beth McCasland
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Where it's clear and chilly today. There were
I have updated http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace.html for those who
would like to look.
Jenny Brandis
Kununurra, Western Australia
Bad spellers of the world, untie!
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I have been doing Filet Lace for about 3 years now...my mentor is Marie Jo
Quinalt from Filet Lace by the Sea in Florida. She told me that I had to
wash it, even if it was only to wet it good when I was done stitching it. I
too thought what can this do...but I did it anyway. The change was
We have just finished proofing the Modern Priscilla booklets on cotton
knitting and Irish crochet. I know that someone was asking recently
about knitted doilies: there are a lot of them in the knitting book.
And someone else is a specialist in Irish crochet: if she doesn't
already have this
Thank you to all those who answered my question about the elastic bans for
my bobbin winder :) Isn't modern technology wonderful? :)
Anyway, all the men in my family are into model making and one of their new
magazines featured an exciting new product. I immediately saw it's worth
for lacemaking
Did any of the other UK arachnes watch Bleak House last night? The
housekeeper at Chesney Wold, Mrs Rouncewell, was wearing a beautiful
Bedfordshire lace collar, on the right sort of dress in the right time
period. Kudos to the researchers for getting it right.
This production of Bleak House is
Thanks, Sharon! That DOES have some possibilities!
Clay
Clay Blackwell
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Date: 11/18/2005 2:51:21 PM
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Thank you to all those who answered my
Oh my, I missed the original post and this **does** sound like fun.
BarbE
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Subject: RE: [lace] thanks, and decorating bobbins
Thanks, Sharon! That DOES
it's about 4 or 5 years old. i have the dvd, and if you want the exact
date i can look it up. if you do a search on the internet for the
original sin with antonio banderas it will give you all the statistics
on the movie, but i have tried to get info on the lace and i had no
luck. they made a
Dear friends,
I am sure you will be pleased to hear, that my husband kindly drew two names
out of the bag, of 99 names, on pieces of paper. I took the opportunity of
adding those of you, who continually brighten and enthuse Arachne, but did
not ask to be entered in the draw, thinking if one of
Hi All,
Have just had a look at Jenny's site - would be an excellent resource for
someone teaching lace with minimal access to resources
mary Carey
Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
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Hi all,
My lace stuff is all over the place, a little box here, a bigger box there,
some in this room, some in that room and that's not talking about the
pillows!!!
Does anyone have a good organization system that they are willing to share?
How do you store all these treasures?
Thanks,
The wire I have is from Michael's Craft Store. It's a
box from Toner Plastics, called Fun Wire. It has 22
and 24 gauge wire in 15 coils of about 120 each. Each
coil is a different color. This is very soft wire
that is easy to bend and shape, yet is strong enough
to hold a lace shape when the
Dear Spiders
Friend Husband and I are off to Georgia for the week, and I will be
unsubscribing as soon as I post this. I won't have access to e-mail for the
week so want to only have private postings awaiting when I return. You all
behave...
Happy Lacemaking,
Betty Ann in Roanoke,
Tamara wrote:
Please look at the last paragraph carefully: Just because your
children were born in the South doesn't make them Southerners.
While I was teaching we had a problem with the son of two of our teachers.
They had four sons and been in Australia for a couple of years. The youngest
Hi Secret Pal,
Thanks for this months parcel of goodies.
I love the needle case and my aunty who is a lace maker and a bobbin maker
will be very jealous when I tell her about the rescued trees!
The bobbin is very unusual and I don't have another like it. I also love the
spangles and will put
Hello all,
Regarding 'place' of birth over 'source' of birth - quotoed from What
Makes Canada Cool? www.canadacool.com
Ottawa, Ontario - In 1943 Princess Margriet Francisca (younger sister of
Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, the current Queen of the Netherlands) was born
at the Ottawa Civic
Thanks to my secret pal in Belgium.
The lovely package arrived and was waiting for me when I got home from
vacation.
Thanks for thinking of me while you were in Spain, I love everything you
sent. I can't wait to show my lacemaking friends at our meeting on Sunday.
They will be as excited
Hi All, Thank you so much for sending the note about the tulips Heather.
What a charming story! I've always seen huge gardens
full of tulips on postcards of Ottawa but never knew the story
behind them!
Jane in Vermont, USA who would love to see all the tulips in
bloom in Ottawa some day!
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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
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