I am now attempting petals, my petals look like twigs.
With practice, they'll begin to look like pine-cones, and then like the
real thing :)
my teacher called mine holly leaves, put me off for quite a while and I still
avoid them if I can which is a shame
jenny barron
Scotland
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To
Reply , from a non needlelacer; grab an ordinary sewing needle from
Jean's sewing box and take a picture. Hey Presto, a needle lace
needle. I've never heard of any special needles being used, unless
someone prefers ball-point needles for when they are doing the fillings.
Jean in Cleveland
Hello Lynn
The only way to learn how to make good leaves/petals is to get stuck in
and make them, lots of them. They will improve with practice.
Yes, you do use four threads for each petal, three are passives and the
4th is a weaver. As Tamara has already said *iron control* over the
A friend and I are trying to puzzle out how best to work square
Valenciennes ground (the one in 19th century Valenciennes). There
seem to be plenty of variations for Valenciennes ground in Cook
Stott's Bobbin Lace Stitches and Michael Guisiana's Binche Lace but
none of them give us quite what
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What I do is put in the pin till I've got all the legs anchored to
the ground.
I find the easiest way to remember to do this (particularly for
students, but I occasionally forget too) is to re-use the centre pin for
the last ground pin -
Jean
I have a small half collar, or perhaps it's a cuff, with square
Valenciennes ground that looks very much like that shown in Pat
Earnshaw's Bobbin Needle laces Identification Care, page 58.
Being curved it's difficult to say what the working angle is but it
appears to be 45 deg or
OK, thank you for the replies that I have had regarding the use of the
tools. Now I am thinking that I should have a picture of the needlelace
that the tools and their users produce.
Any volunteers to send me a scan/ picture of a piece of needle lace?
BTW the general consensus is that there
Hello Jean,
1. Angle of the ground - 45 degrees? 50 degrees? or something else?
I didn't find anything about it but I will mesure it.
2. What is the best way of working the plait crossing? There seem to be
several variations.
I remember that when I learned it we did the the round ground in
Hi T. and everyone
After setting in the pin (between the two pairs), make a cloth stitch
(CTCT). Counting from left to right, the 3rd thread is your weaver.
Not wanting to confuse the issue with the name-the-stitch discussion, but
still:
Did you mean cloth stitch (CTC)? I make a CTC (not a
Hi Spiders All,
Yes - I do realise that I'm a bit behind reading the messages, but we've had
a lovely two weeks in the Lake District (UK). However, I don't think I have
seen a reply to this string, which inserts bookmarks the way I do - so ...
I cut a piece of heavyish paper just about double
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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Apologies Arachnes if this is a repeat, but I sent it last week in response
to Magda's enquiry and haven't seen it - yet!
*
Dear Magda
I have a Rosaline Lace course with tutor Judith Cordell in Salisbury, in the
south of England, July
sorry jane, i ment to send the reply to lace. just ignore it or delete
the letter when it comes to you. i have a bad habit of hitting the
reply button instead of writing in the lace email address.
i saw a simple tatting shuttle that i think i will imitate and make
with some thin veneer. it is
Hi everyone, Lynn and other beginners, also for leaf 'improvers'
Here is the site I was looking for - yes, it's in French, but the pictures
speak universal ;)
go to
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dentelle.fuseau/
on the left hand list of links click on Trucs et astuces (tricks and
hints) then scroll down
On May 30, 2005, at 12:15, Bev Walker wrote:
Hi T. and everyone
After setting in the pin (between the two pairs), make a cloth stitch
(CTCT). Counting from left to right, the 3rd thread is your weaver.
Not wanting to confuse the issue with the name-the-stitch discussion,
but
still:
Did
On May 30, 2005, at 5:56, Jean Leader wrote:
What we'd particularly like to know about is
1. Angle of the ground - 45 degrees? 50 degrees? or something else?
Something else, though don't know what it is. I seem to remember
Giusiana saying it was 55degrees, but won't swear to it (nor to
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I have just discovered that I do not have a picture of a real needle lace
needle (as opposed to a doll needle etc.)
Can anyone send me a scan/picture of one please?
Dear Brian,
You have not said
Brian Jean Cooranbong, Australia
- I will contact you off list with some NL pictures etc.
Regards from Liz in Melbourne
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This hasd been around for a long time. It's is a geometric progression.. You
send to ten, who each send to ten (10 x 10), who each send to 10 (10 x 10 x
10) and so on. Bit like a virus - so many emails being generated - can we
clog up the email system? Probably not, but how annoying when you get
Yours, plowing through the entire series (now that I've finally
assembled all its ingredients and can read the books in order) of the
detective feats of the 17th c samurai Sano Ichiro, and learning bits
about the political system of Japan of that time.
that sounds interesting Tamara, I loved
Gentle spiders,
If you all want to participate in this chain letter and clog up your inboxes,
please feel free to do so by private mail. I don't think we need to see this
again on lace-chat. Thanks!
Best wishes,
Avital
Moderator
Sorry, guys, it's quick and for a kid's school project! This
Hi Spiders,
I saw SW Ep III a week ago with 2 of my boys (aged almost 10 and almost 8).
They are SW fanatics - as is their little brother, aged 3 and a half, who was
WAY young to see the movie, but is very cross he didn't get to see it. They
loved it. They found 2 scenes a bit confronting, but
Subject: These are quite funny
Subject: Top Ten He Said She Said
10) He said... I don't know why you wear a bra; you've got nothing
to put in it. She said...You wear pants, don't you?
9) She said...What do you mean by coming home half drunk?
He said... It's not my fault...I ran out of money.
8)
Dear Friends,
Tamara, say gracht (canal)
I'd do my best (imagine choking on a chicken bone twice, with an aaah in
the middle), and the room would explode in friendly laughter; ah...
they'd say, you *might* 'make it' in *Belgium*, but, in Netherlands, you
need to practice a lot more...
I
Dear Friends,
I'm biting the bullet here - don't mean to offend anyone, but it did make
me laugh
David in Ballarat
The train was quite crowded, so the U. S. Marine walked the entire length
looking for a seat, but the only seat left was taken by a well-dressed,
middle-aged, French woman's poodle
Hi everyone and Jenny who wrote:
in 7th century China - are there many books in the series? Is it also a
trait of lacemakers that we have to read books in orderg. I have to
Not this lacemaker ;)
If it happens that I have the chance, I would read them in order, but if
not, I read them as I have
Hi Jane and everyone
No I haven't seen it, yes I'm going to - 2 of my adult sons went and want
to go again. The one, a techno-geek, liked the cool FX; the other
appreciated the story resolution. I don't know if George Lucas can be
saved from himself, I still like the 'second' (= the 5th
Dear Arachnes
To all of those that have notified me that my website was down over the past
year, at last please note the new website address;
www.greatescapes-weekends.com http://www.greatescapes-weekends.com/
After a year of computer problems, I 'think' we are up and running now and
I didn't in fact find the motivation thin - I found it classically
tragic, on the lines of the cause of the murder of Oedipus...
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Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan
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On May 30, 2005, at 3:41, Jenny Barron wrote:
that sounds interesting Tamara, I loved Robert Van Gulik's Judge Dee
series set in 7th century China
I liked those too, but like these better :)
- are there many books in the series?
9 so far: 1) Shinju, 2) Bundori, 3) The Way of the Traitor,
Just so... :)
From: B.R.
Four men were bragging about how smart their cats are.
The first man was an Engineer, the second man was an Accountant, the
third man was a Chemist, the fourth was a Government Employee.
To show off, the Engineer called to his cat,T-square, do your stuff.
T-square
Another Pearly Gates one; they tend to be really good...
From: B.R.
Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the
Pearly Gates.
In honor of this holy season, Saint Peter said, You must each
possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven.
The first man
Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only works in the UK because we know van Gogh is pronounced 'van Go'
in the
US. The UK tends to pronounce it 'van Goff'.
and I replied:
And in the Netherlands, they pronounce it with a difficult, I don't
know, glottal? sound.
and Tamara P Duvall
Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the emails from the list,
Tamara, Joy, Lynn, Pam, Joy and everyone else have all written them in a
slight 'East End of London' accent because that's how I speak so that's how
I read them.
And I mostly hear
Lynn, This site is a hoot! Yes, lots of people around here DO talk
like that -- not so much the college-educated ones, but definitely
the clerks at Walmart's! (One addition: He wonders why it's ink
pen. Undoubtedly that is a result of the immigration of factory
workers from the South, where
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