Re: [lace] Finishing a handkerchief

2011-02-23 Thread Laceandbits 
Find a copy of Mounting and Using Lace, by Jean Withers.  IOLI library 
perhaps?

Jacquie in Lincolnshire

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Re: [lace] Finishing a handkerchief

2011-02-23 Thread lynrbailey 
Thank you, Jacquie in Lincolnshire.  After I sent the email, I googled my 
question, and came up with an arachne thread from 2004, where someone was 
giving a talk on the subject, and listed all of the books she knew of with 
information on the subject.  I have one of them, but I much prefer a variety of 
instructions, as then I have the most choices, and the best combined 
explanations for my feeble brain.  

I am quite sure the internet has expanded lacemaking geometrically, simply 
because the resources are so easy to come by.  Neither of my two major lace 
suppliers have the book, I would go to them first simply to support their 
business, nor does Amazon.com, BUT amazon.co.uk had a used copy for what I 
consider a relatively reasonable cost for a lace book, and I have ordered it 
there. I am a sucker for books, especially lace books, which tend to disappear 
after a while.  No need to write for a catalog, and hope the place is still in 
business, or go to used bookstores in major cities hoping they had what I 
wanted, which wouldn't be so in the US, simply because of the dearth of 
lacemakers.   

Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where it is a beautiful but cold morning, 
12F, -10C, and hoping our New Zealand lacemakers are ok.  I assume there are 
New Zealand lacemakers as well as Australian?  


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Find a copy of Mounting and Using Lace, by Jean Withers.  IOLI library 
perhaps?

Jacquie in Lincolnshire

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[lace] Finishing a handkerchief

2011-02-22 Thread Lyn Bailey 
I have 3 adult children, 28-35, none married.  But I want grandchildren.  So,
to be prepared in an instant, I began and am almost finished with a wedding
handkerchief.  Nothing too demanding, Louise Colgan’s very pretty Torchon
wedding hankie.  But I need to get that scrap of handkerchief linen into the
middle without ruining the whole effect.  Where can I find information on how
to get that piece of linen neatly into the square made by the edging?

Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where it snowed and it’s really cold
this evening 26F, –3C, but optimistic about spring.

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