Sharon wrote:
My only camera is a cheap point and shoot and the cushions are too fat to
scan :(
I scanned mine and sent the scan to to Lori. The result of my scan is on the
Arachne heart pages of Lori's web site. It took a bit of adjusting the
brightness and contrast, but it scanned fine by
Hi to all,
I don't very often write to the list but am in the same situation as others.
I have completed my edging for my heart but unfortunately do not have the
means nor the knowledge of forwarding a picture to include in the photo
gallery of completed hearts.
I did contact Pauline when I
Jean in Poole wrote she scan her Arachne heart...
I just want to share.
I scan my heart with the bobbins as well and you can scan a lot of things in
a flat bed scanner not just paper etc.
I always scan my lace and other crafts I make to show friends back home.
The pictures on my webshots
Does anyone know what this 'Antique Laceworking Tool' is?
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Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
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Janis, I think that keeping a work in progress on your
pillow would satisfy Pauline, given her generosity of
spirit. I doubt that instilling guilt was ever a motive for
her.
Clay
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My guess is that it was actually used for stretching doilies after they were washed
and not for making the lace. If the seller was young when she saw her grandmother
using it, it would be an easy and logical mistake to make.
Avital
(apologizing for the weird characters in the quoted
There is a new quilt show that will be airing on PBS starting in June called
M'Liss's Worldof Quilts. The crew and star came to the Ratti Textile yesterday
to film it as a place of interest to quilters. Our boss asked me and Gunnel
to come in and examine some lace under the video microscope in
It looks like a mini curtain stretcher..???
BarbE
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Subject: [lace] ebay
Does anyone know what this 'Antique Laceworking Tool' is?
Bobbin it is, bone it looks like, but scrimshaw? Not the sort of
scrimshaw I think of :-) Pity there is too much light on the bobbin to
clearly show the markings - I found it hard to verify the name on it.
Cheers,
Helen
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i'd say that if the tension is good you don't *have * to startch your lace
..
but if i do starch i use a spray so the piece of lace stays on the
pillow ..
dominique from paris
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Sorry to be a late comer to the thread concerning the Twined gimps...but I
am curious --
Is the twined gimp a development of the Russians in their Torchon study, as
I do not see it mentioned in my small collection of Torchon books?
Susie Johnson
Morris, Illinois where we are still blanketed in
Dot wrote:
I have just started a piece of Withof and was discussing it with anotherArachne member
who remembered there had been a suggestion on the list of an alternate way of rolling
the edge. I was unsubscribed at the time so could the spider please e-mail me
privately and let me know her
Do any of the NL-ers on the list buff their NL? I have been checking out
Aficots.
I have never buffed my NL, and wonder if it really makes very much
difference.
Do you only buff the raised work, or the fillings, too?
I would appreciate any thoughts on this, as I wonder if it makes the thread
Here's a weird thing: anyone know what this is?
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I haven't heard anyone else comment on this - so I'd say, No, no one
has any idea what it is.
I'm pretty sure its not for tatting, because something that wide, even
if
Dear Becky,
First of all, all beginners get confused at this point!!
To come back: Use the four bobbins on the right-hand side of your work.
Number them 1 - 4 as before from *left to right* - i.e., No 1 is the left-hand
bobbin of the four, and number 4 is the right-hand one of the four.
Work
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Does anyone know what this 'Antique Laceworking Tool' is?
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The Item looks like a knitting board I was shown once upon a time. You
would make
Thank you so much for your wonderful package. Just one complaint, why only a
picture of your beautiful cat - I want to adopt the real thing!
Seriously though, I love the calendar, I did not have one to keep on my desk
this year, so he will be accompanying me to the office. The chocolate will
Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of the sugar maple tree.
The sap is collected in the Spring, when the nights are below freezing
and the days above. Then the sap is boiled for ages to make the syrup
or boiled forever to make maple sugar. It's a staple in my kitchen. I
use it on
My friend's favourite Easter-time question is:
What do you get if you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole?
wait for it
you've probably guessed by now
HOT CROSS BUNNIES!!
Malvary in Ottawa, where it is snowing again this morning.
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To my more experienced lace friends--
I have just finished making my first heart from the book 24 Hearts In Bobbin
Lace and I now have to starch it. I have starched items before by taking
them off the pillow and then having to re-pin all over again (sometimes not
even putting the pin in
Barbara I don't know where you are and how easily you can get a plastic
carrier bag. UK supermarkets use them. simply cover your pillow with the plastic
bag, cutting out a big enough hole to show your completed lace and spray
starch it. I have done this successfully without starching my
G'day All,
Has anyone in the US seen their copy of English Lace yet? I keep
hearing about the fans on the cover from Mum in Oz - so hers has arrived
- but mine hasn't.
Cheers,
Helen, Aussie living in dazzlingly brrr-isk Denver
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No, but the Young lacemaker has arrived a couple of days ago. I recall
someone in the UK saying that their YLM arrived a few days before Lace. So I
am waiting with enthusiasm for today's mail!
Sue
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At 05:04 AM 2/12/2004, you wrote:
Do you remove the item from the pillow first or not?
Barbara,
I remove the item from the pillow and re-pin it on cardboard covered with
plastic wrap or wax paper.
After reading about people who starched things on the pillow so they didn't
have to be
Well, I know some of the statements are true,
but I know that the Canadian two dollar bill when
it existed had a Canadian flag flying over the
parliament buildings. Depending on the year of
the bill it would have either a union Jack or
the Ontario flag flying over Parliament, never
the
Okay.. being a Canuck to whom it never even /occured/ to that maple syrup
wasnt a universal substance.. I have to ask..
What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Heather -- who remembers pouring fresh hot syrup on clean snow in the sugar
bush as a
Hello all,
I thought I'd address this one.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Babies are born with many of their bones at the stage of calcified
cartilage. Knee caps included. As they grow up ossification occurs and
cartilage is
When my daughter was taking some post-secondary education, it came out
(reliably, though off-topic) that maple syrup can serve as emergency
rations. Evidently a person can survive for 30 days on one tablespoon
(presumably per day).
Just a piece of trivia.
Rose-Marie
Abbotsford, BC, Canada
sunny,
What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup?
Maple syrup is available in England - and the best always seemed to come
from Canada. Before I discovered maple syrup, I would have used Golden syrup
( a cane sugar derivative) on Scotch pancakes (i.e. small, but thick
pancakes, similar
Okay.. being a Canuck to whom it never even /occured/ to that maple syrup
wasnt a universal substance.. I have to ask..
What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup?
Ditto on this question! Born and raised in Michigan, I made
my own maple syrup in the girl scouts, and can't imagine
On Shrove Tuesday (traditional pancake day in the UK to use up fat and
eggs - rich ingredients - before Lent), large thinnish pancakes are
traditionally served with sugar sprinkled and lemon squeezed over them, and
then they're rolled up into a tube before having mouthfulls cut off with a
fork and
Ok ya'll,
I don''t want to sound stupidbut, what exactly are hot cross buns. Are
they only available through a bakery or can one make them thereselves? If I
could make them myself, where would I get the recipe? Sorry so stupid. :)
Lynn
Wfalconsmate
Clarksburg, West Virginia
To
Well, I'm not known as the starching queen for nothing :)
I starch just about everything in sight..and not successfully :( Starching
lace is great, it makes lace look so crisp that it hides all kinds of
mistakes :) Anyway, while I can't tell you the correct way of starching, I
can give a few
When I lived in Montreal, I had 3 visitors from Texas. I took them out
to a Creperie and they wouldn't even try maple syrup on their crepes.
They ate them dry. Ugh.
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 02:50 PM, Jazmin wrote:
What do you put on pancakes and waffles? Jam? Corn syrup?
Margot
A bit of trivia for you!!
True or False
Can you guess which of the following are true or false?
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
I don't understand this one. Was he BEAMED here from
outer space or something??? Hatched from an egg? How
can any person born of a woman not have a navel?
Vasna Zago
Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
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Prince Charles and Prince William don't usually travel on the same plane in
case it crashes - we can't have the next in line and th next in line to the
throne both killed at the same time. BUT They were allowed to travel on the
same plane, and did, when Diana died. so never is incorrect.
Jean in
It is surely not possible to be without a belly button given that is where
the umbilical cord, providing sustenance to the baby from the mother, enters the
baby. I would have thought no umbilical cord no viable baby.
Or does this simply mean there is a tiny protrusion rather than an
Inquiring minds want to know... and so they google...
According to the first site I found,
He had his bellybutton surgically removed, because,
according to him, he thought they were disgusting.
And we thought his films were bizarre...
Clay
It is surely not possible to be without a belly
Well, the *best* pancakes (IMHO) are topped with lemon juice and castor sugar!!
But my adult children like them with honey.Maple syrup is available in
Australia, but I find it too sweet (which is probably why I don't like the
honey on pancakes).
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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About 40 years ago, I had a go at making my own Hot Cross Buns - and the cross
was made of a mixture of plain flour and water, mixed to a stiff paste.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of
recipes for hot cross buns on the web, but the ones I
For Lynn, and others who would like to see a variety of
recipes, I highly recommend the following website... just
enter Hot Cross Buns in the search, and you'll get several
options. I do a fair amount of bread baking, and swear by
these people!!
The most succinct definition of mathom I've heard was on Star Trek --
Scotty said he'd tested the transporter with assorted mathoms, and it was
working. Someone asked him what a mathom was, and he said, A useless
object -- more's the pity.
It was a popular hippie word in the sixties.
--
At 07:13 AM 2/12/04 -, Linda Walton wrote:
recently, my next-door neighbour went on holiday to Canada, and has brought
me back a gift of some maple syrup. What is it? Please will anyone suggest
how I might use it?
Pour it on anything that you want to taste sweet, but sparingly -- it's
Jean,
Just for a moment, and I mean a moment, this coeliac could taste the
slightly burnt and sweet caramel and sharp lemon of a pancake - all in
her head - boy now there is something I miss not being able to eat ...
but I've got some gluten free pancake mix in the cupboard and from next
Never - this is heresy to a true-blooded Canadian.
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 08:54 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
If the flavor is too strong to suit you, dilute it with
any bland syrup. (It's often sold mixed with cane syrup or corn syrup
to
make it cheaper.)
Margot Walker in Halifax on the
Hi All, I have to add that Vermont maple syrup is also very good!
After all there is a guy out checking his sap buckets on our state quarter.
Here's the official website http://www.vermontmaple.org/
I googled for recipes and there are a lot out there. I have a very good one
for Maple Cup
Came from a chat-list member privately, but I think it's funny (and
respectable enough) for everyone...
From: T.W.
A cardiologist died and was given an elaborate funeral. A huge heart
covered in flowers stood behind the casket during the service.
Following the eulogy, the heart opened, and the
I used it in my message; Tolkien popularized it (hobbits gave gifts
to OTHERS on their birthdays, and most people gave mathoms). However,
he did not invent the word. It exists in Middle English (see madmes
in the Middle English Dictionary), coming from Old English mathmas
(sorry, the th here
A squeeze of lemon, and a spoonful of sugar, are the best on
ancakes!! -Roll them up, and enjoy
Jam is a good substitute, though!! - or Marmalade.
from Liz in Melbourne, Oz,
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Bev said: learn in Lord of the Rings (on or about pg. 65), is an item
which is not
necessarily useful but which you don't want to throw away.
In that case Bev, I think I will rename our house as Mathom Mansion.
Lynn Scott, in another hot day in Wollongong, just happy to have found a
friend to
Some years ago a friend visited Canada and brought us back a sealed jar of
the real thing. I opened it and used it once but next time I looked it had
gone mouldy. The question is should it be refrigerated? (It didn't say so on
the label) and if so it can't be much good as rations.
Anyway lemon
Well, pancakes to me (before I came to the US) we like crepes, so you
rolled them up with a jam filling or sprinkled on sugar and a squeeze of
fresh lemon (The Best :-) ). But since coming here, my horizons have
expanded to include flapjacks/pancakes. As a kid, you'd go to a
birthday party and
Alas, I was raised on plain sugar syrup (at first, made at home with
brown sugar, white sugar, and water, now store-bought)... and I've
never QUITE gotten used to real maple syrup. But I absolutely love
plain maple sugar candy (often molded into small men and women -
somewhat like gingerbread
And here in Australia, Liz in Melbourne has had her magazine for days now, and
I'm still waiting!!! Boo Hoo!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:09, Helen
Bell wrote:
Has anyone in the US seen their copy of English Lace yet?
Not
THE KNOB:
A woman told her surgeon that she wasn't pleased how she looked. The surgeon
told her about a new procedure called The Knob, where a small knob is
placed on the back of a woman's head and can be turned to tighten up her
skin to produce the effect of a brand new face lift. Of course,
My DH occasionally does pancakes the Hungarian way (or so he says) and
makes a stack of them (they are thin like crepes) with a different filling
between them - jam, honey, nuts, etc. and pours over some liqueur, cream,
ice-cream, whatever!. It is then cut in wedges like a cake, and each person
Yes, once opened maple syrup should be refrigerated.
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 11:09 PM, Helen Keld Frederiksen
wrote:
The question is should it be refrigerated?
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