Maybe I'm preaching to the converted here but when pricking using a cork
board or polystyrene after every few pricks run your thumb and fore finger
down the point, this makes it easier by removing the static which makes the
needle cling.
Diana (Northamptonshire, UK)
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I was very surprised (and pleased) to see that the Webshots album already has some
photos in it!
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
I hope someone will tell us about the pieces in VivDewar's album.
Avital
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Regarding Kitchen Witches:
Here in Maine, where many Swedes settled, it was possible (and may still be)
to buy dolls that are witches on brooms - in craft shops and kitchen shops.
They were meant to hang, like a mobile, from the ceiling. I doubt many people
knew the story behind them. They
Thank you all so much for your kind response to my plea for pictures of
Endymion's dog on the Belgian coverlet at the Met! I now have a wonderful
set of very detailed pictures to study at my leisure, and I greatly
appreciate everything I was sent!
Devon, bless her, told me that if I came up to
For some time the OIDFA UK group has had its own website, authored by
Kate Canter. Kate has had to give this up, and David agreed to take
over responsibility for the site, which is being hosted in our
domain. He has redesigned it and added preliminary information about
the 2004 Congress in
Dear Friends
mea culpa!
When I saw Avital's message I thought I'd have a go! I've started to scan
all my lace with a view to creating a web-site or updating my pages in the
Lace Fairy Gallery, but I've never tried to upload anything before!
The pieces are
Dabbling with Design - my first ever
In a message dated 8/13/2003 12:06:23 PM GMT Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hadn't noticed these insects before, but recently I've been lace making
non stop for about 8 months (instead of picking it up and putting it down
for
a year!!), so I noticed them.
Is there any way of
This looks more like a fat stiletto to me rather than an honest
lacemakers' bobbin:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3238172372category=114
or search for item number 3238172372
Jean in Poole
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At 07:19 AM 8/18/2003 +1000, you wrote:
Someone on Australian Ebay has a copy of Malmesbury Lace by
Joan Blanchard, starting price $AU12.50.Does anyone have a
copy of this book and can describe what's in it for me please?
The book Malmesbury Lace concentrates on the lace that was made in the
At 09:27 AM 16/08/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, can I suggest you are not using the right sort of blue film. The one me
and my friends use is not shiny but matt and does not make your pins sticky.
Dear Friends,
Can I also suggest that the shiny transparent plastic we get here is less
There does not look to be much room to wind on the thread, does there?! :))
It looks more like an embroiderers awl (or stiletto) to me, too.
from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, Where it is cold (12C)and grey, today, with the
promise(or threat) of hail, from the weather bureau.
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To My Secret Pal,
I was dleighted with the Cathedral postcard - I tend to keep ones like that in
my Missal, so every time I use it I will beb thinking of you.
The stamps were a delight too - I wonder whether the UK postal service will
ever get round to an issue with stamps on them, as these are
Dear Secret Pal,
Thank you for the parcel that you sent to me for this month. I love
everything that you sent, as usual :-) The little frame is just so cute,
I've just finished Tatting a very small doiley in 120 thread and it will fit
beautiful. The Violet note cards are great as well. You and I
Thanks Jean for starting this interesting thread - (just spent much longer
than I intended at the Bookcrossing site ;-)
Bev - keep your eyes open! at the latest count Canada has 1,893 books
registered as left in the wild in the last 3 days! admittedly just 490 of
those are in BC but there is 1
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Gill Hare wrote:
those are in BC but there is 1 in Sooke!
If I catch it I'll be sure to let you know ;)
bye for now
Bev in (a location near to but not really in)Sooke BC (west coast of
Canada)
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Oatmeal-Chocolate Chip Cookies 1.5 cups unbleached whole wheat flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup canola oil
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 banana
1/4 cup soy or oat milk
3/4 cup raisins
1 cup chocolate chips
1.25 cups old-fashioned oatmeal, uncooked
Hi All, This website was brought to my attention a week or so before it
appeared here. It does appear that the same website works for all countries
(or however many take part). What an intriguing idea! Since we've been
talking about it maybe I'll take part too. There are so many books to
Yvonne said Don't forget to rinse the hair with a mild solution
of vinegar as this
disolves the gel that holds the eggs onto the hair shaft. Killing
the egg
and making it drop out of the hair.
You can use neat vinegar on your hair - I use it to keep my
dandruff under control. G
I use the white
We get our water from Detroit, and are still having to boil it. This
may last until Wednesday, depending on what the microbiological tests
show. If we're lucky, we'll be clear tomorrow. However, things could
have been so much worse. At least we HAVE water to boil, and even
those with electric
Dearest Spiders,
Apologies for not responding to everyone personally -- I'm still under
siege with visitors, and free time is rationed in unpredictable blocks.
But I do want to thank everyone who took the time and responded to my
plea for freaky cookie recipes; between the recipes y'all sent
On Sunday, Aug 17, 2003, at 23:57 US/Eastern, Malvary Cole wrote:
How funny those in authority are - on Friday morning, when the
majority of people
still had no power the instructions were: Check our web-site at
[EMAIL PROTECTED].
Sounds like a Polack joke, doesn't it? g
I'd love to have had
Gidday Tamara and all,
Spiders... Do any of you know of a recipe for cookies which doesn't
require any dairy products or eggs? Sara *can* eat chocolate (as long
Not biscuits (our word for cookies!) but a cake recipe for you that is dairy
free and really easy, and pleasing to any child:
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