My daughter brought my mail up from my home in the valley and I was
surprised to find two bookmarks. One lovely pink and lavender bookmark from
Mary Carey the other one is a very cute cat bookmark from Jolie in Canada in
a clever "bookstore" card. Thank you both and thanks to our organizers.
I have received two lovely Torchon bookmarks. The first is from Robyn Denny in
New Zealand and the second from Sue Vossier in France, her own design. They are
so different, which shows how versatile Torchon lace can be. Many thanks to you
both.
Kathleen
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Hi Fellow Arachnids,
Today I received a lovely Torchon bookmark from Carole Attarde Montalto as
well as a postcards of a landmark in Malta. Both were much appreciated, the
former for the thoughts and work that had gone into it and the latter as I had
actually been in the building depicted, a few
I am particularly interested in the technique used in one of the bookmarks.
It's the blue one, fourth one in, from Sharon Morrison/Kathy Hensel. It says a
pattern is available, but I don't know how to get it. There are others of
interest as well, so it might be helpful to know how this is
Today's post brought a lovely, multicoloured, tatted bookmark.What a
marvelous way to start the week which should be sunny but is very cloudy.
Sheila in Sawbridgeworth
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I also received a lovely tatted bookmark from Robin D! She told me that she
sent it before she'd taken a picture of it... I can do that for you if you
would like me to Robin. It is so pretty, and needs to be admired by others
besides my small circle of friends!
As long as I am talking about
This is just to let you know that the ACP_Associació Catalana de
Puntaires in Barcelona, has put to sell a batch of bookmarks which every
year publishes for its members, commemorating St. George's Day, which is
the patron saint of Catalunya. The main motif is always a rose, or
anything related
I have received several very interesting points with regards to bookmarks
for ladies and for gents. I loved some of the ideas for specific men folk
but agree that in this case it will be sort of pot luck so the better way to
go is pleasing to the eyes of both men and women, so thank you for
Hello Sue and everyone
I wondered what to make for a gent, when I made two for an aunt and
uncle. I showed the uncle one I was making in blue thread, a Torchon
pattern. He liked it. The aunt preferred one that was a cross.
I think as long as the colours are neutral or in the green/blue/brown
When I make something for a man, I try to avoid flowers or flowery patterns. I
try to find something geometric, mechanical or animal. The train engine sounds
good. Cars, planes, tools, fish, elephants, dogs, books, snakeswhatever
you can find. If the donated bookmark is for a church
On 10/6/10 11:48 AM, Sue hurwitz...@talktalk.net wrote:
While we were away visiting my Mum in her sheltered housing complex they had a
function with a raffle and other prize things happening and were talking about
holding another one in the spring. I offered to make a couple of lace
bookmarks
Personally I agree with the idea of geometrics, and repeating patterns rather
than motifs for men as I find mens things to be stereotypical and not of
interest to all men unless it's for a special interest club or group
eg: a golf themed bookmark wouldn't appeal to someone who'd never played
Dear David,
In that same vein, I recall several years ago when Arachne had a bookmark
exchange. I sent my pardner, she was in California, two bookmarks, one bobbin
lace and one tatted. I got nothing in return and after I posted that message
on the List, you, Dear David, sent me a beautiful
I use the same method as mentioned in other messages for inserting bookmarks
(using a folded piece of thin card) but I usually cut the tassle short on
the piece of lace itself. I then use a hole punch to make a hole at the base
of the plastic sleeve and use the left over thread from the bobbins
I found that sandwiching a bookmark between two rulers worked quite well. It
did need a bit of jigging around but not as much as I think you'd need with a
knitting needle. I have this feeling that I also used a clean chopstick to
poke the tassle on the end straight.
Helen in Dorset who really
I always use a wooden ruler to slide my bookmarks into the sleeve as it
usually holds the full width of the lace and does not distort it.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Thank you Clay! Definitely worth sharing ahead of the event.
In today's e-mail I got the latest newsletter from Retournac with the link
to the bookmark news
*http://tinyurl.com/99ft2o
*It is the same as Adele Ward sent, except *en francais *and another picture
on the web page.
I'm glad they
At Bev Walker's request, I have just uploaded to the Arachne Webshots
page two pictures which she sent me which she received with the press
release about the bookmarks. I have captioned the bookmarks with the
file names which were on the photos when she received them.
It is my impression
I can't find the article, but if someone wants to send me the link, I'll
translate the relevant parts and post it.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Clay Blackwell
clayblackw...@comcast.netwrote:
At Bev Walker's request, I have just uploaded to the Arachne Webshots page
two pictures which she
/actualites/2009/news1/goog_1232494371541
news1_09I.htmlhttp://www.ville-retournac.fr/musee/anglais/actualites/2009/news1/news1_09I.html%20
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Adele Ward adelem.w...@mac.com wrote:
The Museum at Retournac is sending President Obama a set of lace
bookmarks made by the lace
The best way to share a long URL on Arachne is to go to the website
www.tinyurl.com
and make the long URL into a short one - the link to the retournac site
becomes
http://tinyurl.com/8gslc3
Noelene in Cooma
nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au
Be sure to add the end of Adele's link, which may get pushed
On Jan 20, 2009, at 19:38, Noelene Lafferty wrote:
The best way to share a long URL on Arachne is to go to the website
www.tinyurl.com
and make the long URL into a short one - the link to the retournac site
becomes
http://tinyurl.com/8gslc3
And that's the only link that worked for me; thanks,
@++
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laura_ros...@yahoo.com
http://lauraslace.blogspot.com/
--- On Tue, 20/1/09, Tamara P Duvall t...@rockbridge.net wrote:
From: Tamara P Duvall t...@rockbridge.net
Subject: Re: [lace] bookmarks from France
To: Lace Arachne lace@arachne.com
Received: Tuesday, 20 January, 2009, 6:32 PM
On Jan 20
Hi all
I have just received a press release from Musée de Retournac about the 12
bookmarks sent with 12 books from la Ville Retournac in France to the US
Presidential Inauguration. There are two lovely photos, one of a bookmark in
progress, and the other of several of the beautiful bookmarks, on
I think there are no photos because the press release says the the
museum will be making the bookmarks. In other words, they aren't
made yet.
On 19 Jan 2009, at 14:43, bev walker wrote:
Hi all
I have just received a press release from Musée de Retournac about
the 12
bookmarks sent with
They are made, perhaps they aren't uploaded yet. But they must be somewhere,
maybe at the Museum site itself. I'll try to find them to share the link,
because they are really beautiful.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Margot Walker
marwalk...@ns.sympatico.cawrote:
I think there are no photos
Bev,
the text says that they will be made not that they are finished.
Sorry , we have still to wait.
Ilske
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I put up a picture of the tatted bookmark I sent to IOLI on my brand-new
blog, and I wonder if anyone on Arachne received it.
http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/
(It's a made-up-out-of-my-head pattern, but I think anyone who has tatted
for a while could approximate it.)
Lynn Carpenter in SW
way of inserting the bookmark.
I hope this helps.
Carol - back in flat (tish) Suffolk, after a lovely two weeks away in the
Lake District - already missing the hills and lakes!
Subject: [lace] bookmarks sleeves
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Hi, best idea I have hear yet. Will try it next time,
Vivienne ~ Biggins Finca
Keep Lacing - Tatting - Crocheting -Embroidering - Sewing - Quilting and
being crafty
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My solution to put bookmarks in sleeves is to starch them to the point of
being lethal weapons..they slide in very nicely then :) If the bookmark is
made of a nice crisp linen I will assist it's passage with a bread knife
instead. Bread knives are long and have a rounded blunt ends, very handy
In a message dated 5/11/05 12:58:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear Aurelia,
Now *that* is amazing! Please clarify--are we talking about the Gift Shop in
the Baltimore Museum? And they being *offered* for $30 apiece, or are they
actually selling (being purchased)
The bookmarks are selling for $10 - $30 depending on the quality of
the individual item. So you see, a certain amount of education is
going to the bookmark-buyer along with the bookmark. That will make
Devon, among others, so happy! -- Aurelia
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I have had lace bookmarks laminated without a lot of success, they tend to
leave bubbles as Carol said and it spoils the look of the bookmark, I prefer
to use sleeves.
Shirley in wet ( hooray ) Corio, Oz.
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I have made a lot of bookmarks, each one different and each one pretty
gorgeous (even if I do say so myself!), using the same pricking for all of
them, namely, Christine Springett's fan bookmark on p. 81 of her book The
Christmas Lace Book, published in 1991. I think the book was
self-published;
I have been asked privately about bookmark prickings - since I sent in an email or 2
to the list about bookmarks - asking where to find prickings for them.
I know that one Arachnean - April - has a booklet of prickings - I have her catalog.
Usual disclaimer.
Could other bookmark makers please
Hallo Rose-Marie,
In the book 101 torchon-patterns ten of them are bookmarks.
Greetings
Ilske
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In a message dated 1/8/2004 11:34:28 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I know that one Arachnean - April - has a booklet of prickings - I have her
catalog. Usual disclaimer.
I have both of April's(April Lind) booklets and they are wonderful. I worked
every pattern in the
Dear Lacers -
Thank-you for all the responses I got, privately and over the list, to the questions I
asked about determining the length of thread to use in any given pattern (but
especially the bookmarks I'm working at) and ideas for a footstool for when one is
making lace. I was given some
This made me think about how I have always put lace into my bookmark sleeves
- I grasp the sleeve by the sides, with one hand and 'pop' it open - ie
squeeze it so that it opens up.
I then take the lace and put the end into the opening. Then I push it up the
opening with a plastic
In a message dated 27/10/2003 20:05:01 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
An easy way to slip a lace bookmark into a plastic sleeve is by folding a
piece of thin card in half and cutting it along its length so that it is
just slightly narrower but longer than the plastic sleeve.
Hi Rose-Marie !
In answer to your question about the bookmarks, a year or
two ago someone initiated a bookmark exchange among members
of Arachne. People who were interested in participating
signed up with the person who volunteered to coordinate
this, and in short order we had our partners
Hello Spiders,
I was paired with Holly Anne in California and was foolish enough to send two
bookmarks, one bobbin lace and I believe one was tatted, to her after very nice
postings between us. She notified me that she received them, but that was it. I
did not receive a bookmark from her. She
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