[lace] Arachne Anniversary

Back then, my DH wanted to update my computer experience so he set up a computer just for me.  He sat me down and told me "type in something".  I typed Bobbin Lace. Arachne was one of the first things to come up.  I checked it out, subscribed, and am still here.  I was on the Digest to start

RE: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

Dear Miriam, I think I joined Arachne in 1998, not sure any more. I have met a lot of lace makers this way,visited them in their homes while travelling and made many new friends. I will always treasure the beautiful bookmark you made for me back around 2000. You even worked my name into it.\

Re: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 at 9:40 PM, miriam gidron wrote: > Hi, > > Miriam said: I have met a lot of > lace makers this way,visited them in their homes while travelling and made > many new friends. > > > I was lucky enough to meet Miriam when she came to Malta several years

[lace] Arachne Anniversary

Hi, I think I joined Arachne in 1998, not sure any more. I have met a lot of lace makers this way,visited them in their homes while travelling and made many new friends. Arachne was a life saver for me as there was hardly anybody in Israel who made lace at the time. I could ask for help and

RE: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

Dear Friends, I joined Arachne in late 1995 and made lots of friends throughout the world. B I even visited their homes in Canada, Denmark, New Zealand and the UK This comment from Janice reminded me that I've often meant to tell you all that now that I am retired, if ever anyone wants to mind

Re: [lace] Arachne Anniversary-history

Hi, Devon and fellow listmembers I just tuned into this thread. I joined Arachne sometime during its first year. I remember when someone downloaded the membership list from 'the major', and found we had reached a membership of 400! Most impressive, at the time. For a number of years, a

RE: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

HI, I have no idea when I joined or how I joined, but I do know this that my early effort to study bobbins were a very collegiate approach with Arachne members. I have always remembered your willing help and contributions. There is no doubt as to the value I put on my membership of this

[lace] Arachne Anniversary

I joined Arachne in late 1995 and made lots of friends throughout the world.  I even visited their homes in Canada, Denmark, New Zealand and the UK.  It is nice to put faces to names and is something we always do at our Arachne get togethers at the IOLI convention.  I believe the first one was

RE: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

G'day Karen, I still have your most beautiful solid silver tatting shuttle which I'll treasure for life. I reckon I got that in 1996 and believe it was the first one you'd sold outside the USA. Nice to know you're still here too. David Downunder in Ballarat, AUS (No ranting/ravving/crying over

Re: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

(No ranting/ravving/crying over the loss of the 'old Arachne' in this post!) I got involved with Arachne in the mid 90's, pretty close to it's arrival on the internet and it has been a vital part of my life for all these decades.  I'm a tatter and needlelacer and I can say I learned a lot about

Re: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

I’m really enjoying reading everyone’s lace origin and Arachne stories! Thank you all for sharing. 3000 members on Arachne - wow, that’s impressive! I’m wondering, Avital, if you might be able to give us an updated count? I’m curious too! Best, Elena - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Arachne Anniversary-history

I was at an Arachne gathering at the Salt Lake City IOLI Convention and I realized that many of the younger members were computer gamers and some of the older members seem to have been part of the Dungeons and Dragons crowd. I found myself wondering if the founding of Arachne had occurred because

Re: [lace] Arachne Anniversary

I whole heartedly agree with everything Alice has said about Arachne, especially Liz and Avital. I have made many friends around the globe through this list as my husband makes aluminium bobbins though not on such a large scale as he did before. I was introduced to Arachne (after our son, who

[lace] Arachne Anniversary

I found Arachne just after it's first anniversary so I'm not quite a charter member but it was soon after I started making lace. The discussions gave me lots of good information and helped my lacemaking. Then the group decided they wanted a conference so Arachne 98 was born. Thanks to Pat

[lace] Arachne Anniversary

On this special anniversary I would like to thank everyone for the help and guidance they have given so many over the years. If it was not for Arachne I would probably not have started my lace making journey in the mid1990's -- long before Facebook. It is through internet searches about lace

[lace] Arachne anniversary - was Holding spangles

In message af9d7c2e0904132148m5a70173fhabc9f585b0e24...@mail.gmail.com, Avital spind...@gmail.com writes The list is 14 years old? Then I must be mistaken about when I joined. I guess those diapers were older than I thought! OK, I have to join the group that hasn't a clue, but I think it was

Re: [lace] Arachne anniversary - was Holding spangles

My GOODNESS! Tamara knows the *day* she joined Arachne! I must say that I remember very well the circumstances around my joining, and so can pin it down to the month and year, but I'm sure I'd never remember the day!! Clay, a member since May 1998. Tamara P Duvall wrote: On Apr 12, 2009,

[lace] Arachne anniversary - when joined

I joined May 24, 1996. I remember because it was known on the list as Black Friday. Majordomo crashed.When I got signed on, it was back up but all the messages for 3 days were What happened? It was several days before conversation got back to lace topics so I could see what the List was

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Hi Jacqui Yes, I remember Pat's gavel! That was a very special Convention in Nottingham. It must have been about the same time as you that I joined Arachne. I also read about it in 'Lace'. I have remained a member all these years and it was wonderful to meet some Arachnids in Groningen

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I can't remember the decade I joined, never mind the day, month or year. Hubbie and I even have to check with our vet to see if our beloved dog is 12 or 13 today - never mind Arachne. Although mostly a lurker, I have learned so much from this list and made some very lovely friends. Lynn S (expat

Re: [lace] Arachne anniversary

I can't remember when I joined, but I was on the Lace Guild Exec at the time; Sally Chapman told me about it. I did two stints, 1992-1995 as an ordinary exec member and 1996-1999 as Hon Sec. I don't remember the arachne convention in 1998 - probably had Exec business that evening. On 13

Re: [lace] Arachne anniversary - was Holding spangles

The list is 14 years old? Then I must be mistaken about when I joined. I guess those diapers were older than I thought! OK, I have to join the group that hasn't a clue, but I think it was probably at most 12-13 years that I've been on Arachne. Even with my housekeeping standards I can't imagine

[lace] Arachne anniversary, housekeeping

Hi all Has it really been 12 years since Liz started this list... I'm really glad she left it open, that lacemakers could benefit exchanging discussion on many topics of interest in a cooperative atmosphere. When it became necessary she designated one of us as board administrator, thank you Avital

[lace] Arachne anniversary - was Holding spangles

Bev wrote: Hi all Has it really been 12 years since Liz started this list... Noelene Lafferty and writes And Happy Birthday to us all, 12 years is pretty good going. I always thought 2009 - 1995 was 14, not 12 :-) (Or am I not quite so long in the tooth as I thought I was - it was July 95

Re: [lace] Arachne anniversary - was Holding spangles

I knew that wasn't quite right, just wondered if anyone was reading carefully vbg Probably Noelene thought the same v v bg It was last year there was a brief discussion of a commem. bobbin for the 13th anniversary. A few came forward to say they would buy one if there was one, one or two came

RE: [lace] Arachne anniversary - was Holding spangles

Thanks Jane and Robin, 14 years it is, and I've been a member for 13 of them. It's a shame we don't have commemoratives any more, but it really is hard work trying to organise it, so for the last couple of years I've made my own, by writing on a plain bobbin with a micro tip pen, putting on a

Re: [lace] Arachne anniversary - was Holding spangles

On Apr 12, 2009, at 19:32, Jane Partridge wrote: Bev wrote: Hi all Has it really been 12 years since Liz started this list... Noelene Lafferty and writes And Happy Birthday to us all, 12 years is pretty good going. I always thought 2009 - 1995 was 14, not 12 :-) That's what I thought too