[lace] Bones for making bobbins

2003-06-19 Thread Jean Nathan
I love bone bobbins, but the expression of my enthusiasm was curbed by a vegetarian member of my lace class, who will not consider using or collecting any bone items. Until then it hadn't occurred to me that anyone could have an objection to bone in general or even to bone from particular animals.

[lace] Bones for making bobbins

2003-06-19 Thread Jean Nathan
I love bone bobbins, but the expression of my enthusiasm was curbed by a vegetarian member of my lace class, who will not consider using or collecting any bone items. Until then it hadn't occurred to me that anyone could have an objection to bone in general or even to bone from particular animals.

[lace] Lacemakers from Beyond the U.S. Coming to IOLI?

2003-06-19 Thread Jeriames
Dear Lacemakers, This is not official IOLI business. It is personal, and your participation is optional. I have not heard of any plans similar to what is offered below. I have started to make a list of lacemakers from beyond the U.S. coming to the August IOLI Convention. To date, my list

[lace] Paris lace

2003-06-19 Thread Lorelei Halley
Ruth I know of two authors who have written pattern instruction sets for Paris lace. L. Ceulemans N. Andries PARIJSE KANT Vol I, II, III 1985-1988 Irma Neyrinck-Van Herck PARIJSE KANT (KANT TE TURNHOUT) no date, multiple volumes. Personally, I think the first is better. But both are sets of

Re: [lace] help maybe?(left hand tatter)

2003-06-19 Thread Louise Hume
The booklet used when I took 1st tatting instructions had both right and left handed tatting. I cannot locate the booklet now, but it was something like Aunt Ellens Tattingand sold in craft store along with crochet and knitting books nead the counter where hooks, needles and shuttles are sold. It

[lace] Angela back on line

2003-06-19 Thread A Thompson
My son loaded new anit-virus software for me last weekend and forgot to re-connect the phone line. It has taken me all this time to sort out the spaghetti mess of cables under the workbench to find what had happened. I have to catch up on Digests now, so will not be posting till next week. As

[lace-chat] Re: May I be excused

2003-06-19 Thread Lynn Carpenter
(Devon) wrote: It seems to me that most of the respondents who adhere to the practice of excusing themselves and others from the table are Europeans or former Europeans. Hmm, my parents adhered to it, and family on both sides has been in the US for 200-400 years. My grandmother would have

re: [lace-chat] How to get rid of deer

2003-06-19 Thread Bev Walker
Sharon asked about deer repellent. A person can try all sorts of topical stuff - cayenne pepper on the plants for instance; human hair scattered about; cougar poop among the fronds (or get a cougar - they get rid of deer. But then you'd have a cougar). Eventually the deer will get at the plants

Re: [lace-chat] An Obituary

2003-06-19 Thread Joy Beeson
At 03:29 AM 6/18/03 -0400, Lorri Ferguson wrote: This came to me in HTML, so I have retyped it to share here. I can remove the HTML codes from a message without re-typing it -- so the next time one of you is in this situation, send it to me. But I can't see what the original message looked

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Angela back on line

2003-06-19 Thread Jeriames
In a message dated 6/19/03 2:49:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As requested, I will send the Mountain Adventure to Lace-Chat only and anyone else on Lace who wants it separately. --- To Whomever Requested Angela Write to Chat Only: Why was Angela told she could