I thought I'd share my most recent finished piece.. I know it's knitted
lace, and if crochet is the redheaded step child of the lace world, we're
the one who half the time doesn't even make the family tree. Still..
Amongst the circles i hang with, there is something called Wordfame
Wednesday, and
There's been a lot of really cool experimental archeology in the
re-enactment world looking at all the bits of the Birka find. Any textiles
those bits you're looking at were once attached to are long gone, and just
the metal is left.
Certainly the posaments are gorgeous when recreated. One
It doesn't look like fingerloop to me either.
Tablet weaving absolutely goes back this far (and further.. go
anglo-saxons!), but this speaks more to rigid heddle than 4 hole tablet to
me. (2 shafts rather than 4, effectively).
Lovely piece!
Heather in snowy SW Ontario, with a tablet weaving
Thank you to Ruth Kurz for the lovely bell ornament and card. I could only
wish my own cat would be so serene sitting and looking out the window. :)
Hopefully Canada Post works quick!
For US lacemakers.. Happy Thanksgiving! For the rest of us, Happy Thursday!
:)
Heather (aka Jazmin)
in cold SW
Much as I feel every day can be (and often is) knit in public day
(yes, I had my knitting out at the cafe on Saturday for the 'official'
day), my lace pillow with the simple little nine pin edging comes with
me all sorts of places (mostly SCA events, but not entirely!).
Every day can be lace in
I didnt have a foam roller, but I did have a pool noodle, so that's
what is the core of my wee travel bolster. Pool noodle, another chunk
of foam (pool noodles aren't very big) and then a nice thick layer of
felt and covers. The whole thing then gets shoved in a shoebox.
(Between this and my
Good morning!
I'm usually one of the quieter (not quite lurker status, as I ask
questions and get fabulous answers) members, but I do recall a comment
made in an email not so long ago hoping that more people would
actually post.
I've been lurking about forever (longer on chat) as one of the
Thank you so very much ladies! I do have Brenda's delightful and
invaluable book, I have since she mentioned it here as a 1st edition.
My how it's grown!
I've only heard wonderful things about Piper's silks, and I've a line
on a local (ish) lacemaker who is attending a lace day soon who
hopefully
I am getting myself tangled up and confused in reading all the
different terms, so I turn to the ever wise and eternally helpful
Arachnes.
I am looking for recommendations for a filiment silk thread (not spun
silk, I'm hoping to compare the two!) that is approximately the same
size as Gutterman
I'm taking a straw poll here just /before/ I start a new project. It
is a gift for an artisan exchange that I'm part of locally. To my
knowledge, I am the only lacemaker in the exchange.
We are medieval reenactors, to give a touch of context. My current
(cunning) plan is to gift my recipient a
I was terribly disappointed that I wasn't going to get back to the
exhibit for the second time to get more photos, so i'm delighted that
someone took some and posted them!
I had no idea what to expect when I dragged a small handful of friends
with me to the museum, and we were all blown away. I
I am having a moment of duh, and I know you lovely people will set me straight.
I have a copy of Brenda's fabulous book of threads for lace
(seriously, most referenced book in my library.. I need to save up for
the new edition, just to not have to rifle through the generously
supplied addendum)
Thank you all!
I was pretty confident it was a serious duh moment, and I'm delighted
to find that the spool of silk I have here, is basically perfect for
the (very approx) 28 w/cm weight I was aiming for.
Huzzah! Thanks again all.
Heather
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Brenda Paternoster
Pennsic is on my bucket list. Pennsic has been on my bucket list for
20 some odd years, even when I had utterly no affiliation with the
SCA. Now I've been sucked in.
I'm envious of your 10 days in the Middle Ages. Someday!
Heather -- who just returned from 4 days of a gaming convention, so
can't
Goodness, try saying that subject line a dozen times fast!
Anyhow, hello! I've been a lurker around here for many many years at
this point, but as a knitted lace type, always been quite quiet
amongst all you lovely bobbin, needle and tatting experts.
Finally, after long thinking 'oh, perhaps
S'mores are a camping/bonfire sort of treat, at least that's how I
remember them!
You roast a marshmallow over a fire, until its all nice and gooey and
toasty and then you sandwich it and a bit of chocolate between two
graham crackers and enjoy.
Sugar rush extraordinaire. :)
Take care,
Heather
Locally here, they will give you a plastic shopping bag, but at 5
cents each. Generally a reusable bag from them is about a dollar.
But even better we've found is that they also offer these plastic
bins.. about the same size as one of those baskets you can carry
around the shop in lieu of a
Oooh! I remember those from elementary school in the late 70's! Our
class tests and often our work sheets would be printed on those, and
if they were fresh they were warm and you got vaguely high off the
fumes. No doubt these days it'd be the end of the world that 7 yr olds
were sniffing their
Well, we'd already been living together for a year and a half by this
point and we were curled up in bed talking before we went to sleep.
Somewhere in the conversation we decided that we probably should get
married. I remember we got up, wandered out to the living room where
our flatmate was still
This joke got me to thinking of a story I heard about through CBC Radio 3...
Not for the easily offended by er.. representational gestures of the angry
kind. ;)
http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html
laugh
Heather in SW Ontario, Canada
http://jazminknits.blogspot.com
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Of course it's lace, and beautiful too. I know how to knit from an
ordinary
pattern, but I find those diagrams in the lace knitting books quite
incomprehensible. I'm wondering what you do if you misread the pattern or
make a
I've got Marianne Kinsel's Rose of England Tea cloth on the needles. Knitted
lace is my lace of choice. I'm 129 rows of 152 rows down, but I just agreed
to doing lace for a wedding hankie for the last week of August.
So what I'm /really/ doing is swatching up edging patterns and trying to
find
Okay.. being a Canuck to whom it never even /occured/ to that maple syrup
wasnt a universal substance.. I have to ask..
What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Heather -- who remembers pouring fresh hot syrup on clean snow in the sugar
bush as a
Any lace okay? Ie knitted/crocheted? If yes, then I'm in:
Heather Davies
37 Raglan St.
Guelph, ON, Canada
N1H 2S4
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1 ornament
Overseas is fine.
Thanks,
Heather
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Alice,
Before you let Heather (Jazmin) take part, let me tell you that she was my
secret pal a couple of years ago in the last exchange I took part in and
didn't
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Alice,
Before you let Heather (Jazmin) take part, let me tell you that she was my
secret pal a couple of years ago in the last exchange I took part in and
didn't
I think for lacemaking to take off as a hobby it needs to be sold as
enjoyable and trendy to young people in their 20's and 30's. I think a
marketing
campaign on MTV or in the kinds of magazines young people with
discretionary income
read might be a good idea. Knitting is becoming very trendy in
Mmmm, chutney. :) I should put up some more chutney, but I've been too busy
with 6 jars of brandied peaches, another 11 of salsa and 6 of bread and
butter pickles. Canning season is here in full force! Minted pears next,
just coaxing the pears into softening a bit before I start futzing with
them.
Good morning everyone.
I hope this is alright going to lace, I'm on a hunt for something to mount
lace on. :) Does anyone know of a good source for hankie blanks, preferably
linen, and ideally in Canada? Shipping from anywhere else, and exchange is
starting to prove expensive, but I might have
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