If I mount by machine I use a narrow zig-zag with the distance of the
lengthways holes about the same as the distance from one side to the
other - similar spacing to the hand sewn triangular stitch but on a
smaller scale than I can manage by hand!
Brenda
On 11 Dec 2007, at 07:28, Joy Beeson
Sue has said:
I was amused when looking at the map to see that I have been
relocated to living in the middle of the neighboring town's
golf course!
I had an email from Liz Pass to say that she'd looked at the map, and it
shows that I live at the Old Power Station site on the other side of
On the old buddy map I positioned myself fairly accurately (wrong side
of the road though) using the postcode, but there doesn't seem to be a
way of editing this on the new system - or have I missed something?
BTW, The email doesn't work properly with Safari, it just puts oops
into the
Hello spiders
I installed a quick-and-dirty solution for the MS-IE mailto problem. The
dirty aspect you'll notice by the needles empty page that comes along with
popping up a new e-mail. But at least it works now.
Thank you all for your patiente.
Jo
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Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
I tie my knots, and leave longish ends, and then pull the knots through to
the wrong side, and weave the ends in.
You can avoid the tedious business of pulling the threads through to
the wrong side by knotting the threads over the ones already tied
off. It's a bit
You can't edit, but re-enter and follow the instructions, that is: drag the
green marker to the correct position. Then click the 'report abuse or
mistake' in the old bubble and convince the moderator to delete the old
entry (as I mailed on Arachne before, at least I intended to).
I suppose the
I don't mind winding bobins, sewings or tallies. Making prickings and
sewing on to fabric are ok too.
What I do hate is taking out pins and finding a mistake or a long
loop where a thread has got caught round a pin.
Jean
Glasgow, Scotland
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An interesting thing about that portrait is that there is another
portrait in the same collection, also attributed to William Larkin,
of Anne Cecil, Countess of Stamford in which she is wearing the same
dress as Diana but the lace ruff and cuffs are different. The
background is the same and
What green marker? There's a purple one where it thinks I am, and red ones
appear when they think they will, but nothing green.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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From: J. Falkink
To: 'Brenda Paternoster' ; 'Jean Nathan'
Cc: 'Lace'
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007
On 11 Dec 2007, at 06:24, J. Falkink wrote:
I suppose the safari oops will be solved together with the MS-IE
solution I
just announced.
Yes, it works properly now. (I kind of liked oops as an email
address :D )
Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
Visit the Seaspray
Please do read everything below the map. I wrote it for that purpose, but if
its clear as mud please explain what needs more explanation. After all
English is not my native tongue.
Fill in the form between the map and the horizontal line, hit the go to
step 2 button and continue to read all
Bev, this sounds lovely and to hear the sounds of people who do appreciate
the beauty of it is brilliant.
I will have to investigate somewhere that can really make use of a little
something annually, I often wish there was something for them to go towards
helping their appeals for funds but
Decided not to be on the map any more, whether it be out in the cold at the
old gas works site or where I really live. Seems there's no way to delete your
own entry. I've asked the moderator to remove my bubble completely. Hope she
does.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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Clay speaks of doing laborious hand mounting only of things to be judged.
Speaking from the perspective of a person who has been called in to judge
lace on occasion, I find the hand-finishing issue troubling. Some pieces are
very beautifully hand finished, representing a huge amount of time
Sorry for not counting to ten and reacting a bit impatient. It has been a
weird day and still is. All your questions slowly teach me what I should
have put on the map page and didn't. There is allways a struggle between
telling too little, or telling too much. Shortly after my impatient reaction
I
Even on a point system divided between different aspects, a nicely hand
finished piece picks up 10 points over one that is not. But my emerging
feeling
is that, since judging impacts the development of the craft, I would like to
encourage more and better lacemaking, not laborious French sewing.
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From: Marin Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a question for all of you: What do you do with the lace? Do you
sell it or embellish you linen or clothing?
This year my DD and DIL are getting hand towels with a lace edging as
Christmas gifts. Someone in our guild
Hi Jeanette,
You are not overvaluing your lace. A few years ago I was showing a fellow
seamstress my lace (it was yardage) and her comment was I don't know why
you would spend so much time doing that when you can go and buy lace for $!
a yard at Walmart I knew there was no sense in even
The Lacemakers' World May works fine. I registered the other day but never
showed up until the repair. It's great!
Who are you- Lacy- in Blacksburg on the world map? I didn't know of any
bobbin lacemakers there. Is it Dearl? Maybe we could get together!
Happy Lacemaking,
Betty Ann Rice in
Cindy wrote : I don't know why you would spend so much time doing that when
you can go and buy lace for $! a yard at Walmart
I had a similar instance to that one day when I was demonstrating. One lady
asked if I ever sell my lace and I said no because people don't want to pay
what it is
Robin, I couldn't agree more about the rudeness of just the occasional rare
lacemaker who puts others off making lace. A met a lady recently who had
just sold her pillow, bobbins and the couple of books she had because of
such a remarkI'm attempting now to get her interested again - she has
Does it ever occur to the tradition fusspots that if those women had
machines, better lighting, better pins, etc., they would not have availed
themselves of the convenience of machine sewing their lace onto garments so
they had more time to make lace?
I did a Christening gown with my handmade
I have a question for all of you: What do you do with the lace? Do you
sell it or embellish you linen or clothing?
I make lace for gifts for friends who will appreciate it. When I first
started I made a lace owl and put it in a brooch for my daughter. Smeone saw
it in a shop and when she
One of my students *used to* make assorted quick crafts for a local self-help
group. One year they asked her to make them some lace, so she chose some
simple bookmark patterns that she could do in a couple of evenings and made
several. She finished them off in a plastic sleeve with a
Hi All,
I just saw my mistake - it should have read '$1 a yard'.
Cindy
At 02:47 PM 12/11/2007, Malvary J Cole wrote:
Cindy wrote : I don't know why you would spend so much time doing that
when you can go and buy lace for $! a yard at Walmart
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not good enough to take a workshop - Isn't this what workshops are
for -- to improve one's skills, and learn something new?
Thought Police should be a banned group!! :) I am a bit Radical, so
they have a 'field day' with me!!! One or two of them have given up on
me, - so I
Jean L. Many thanks for that tip on tying off the knots without having to
pull them through. I can understand what you say, and will try it next
time. Sounds very clever and easy!
Isn't this list Great, when we can share ideas so easily from across the
world.?
Regards from Liz in
On Dec 11, 2007, at 10:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote:
Clay speaks of doing laborious hand mounting only of things to be
judged.
Speaking from the perspective of a person who has been called in to
judge
lace on occasion, I find the hand-finishing issue troubling. Some
pieces are
very
Lynn in Wollongong wrote:
I did a Christening gown with my handmade torchon attached with a machine and
then had the audacity to do machine embroidery on the gown. I didn't put it in
a competition because I was told it wasn't traditional and that it wouldn't
comply - do I care - nope - I
These days, if I ever make lace for something like a hankie, I tend to
hem the hankie separately (either by machine or a rolled hem by hand)
and attach the lace by overcasting (by hand). It's not as pretty, but
I can tak the lace off easily.
I do this, too, for much the same reason. It's not
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How much
credit should be accorded on finishing? Even on a point system divided between
different aspects, a nicely hand finished piece picks up 10 points over one
that is not. But my emerging feeling is that, since judging impacts the
development of the
May have seen this one before..
From: D. D.
It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and
then --
just to loosen up.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more
than just a
social thinker. I began to think alone -- to relax, I told myself --
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