Gentle Spiders,
As of about a week ago, I've been a proud possessor of a Christmas/Year
End gift to myself -- a laser colour printer/copier/scanner which
aknowledges the existence of Apple puters without tying itself into a
pretzel. I've been playing around with it some (between the kitchen
duties, the pillow and the problems -- now fully resolved -- with the
catalogue) and, keeping fingers crossed and knocking on wood, am
totally "with angels" (you will *not* catch me trying to write that in
the original French <g>) as far as it's concerned. (Next step is to
find someone to dispose of the hateful ink-jet MFC for me, since I'm
told I should not just kick it to the curb for trash pickup).
Today, just before I let "my little boy" (edging on 30) fly off back to
San Francisco, I got him to help me with some things I couldn't figure
out for myself. I think (and hope <g>) I'm all "set up for business"
now. He even showed me how to *create* pdf files (something Bev Walker
recommended as worth learning) -- on the new! improved! Adobe 7, which
he, somehow, made to appear and obey with a few keystrokes and mouse
clicks (*quite* a difference between it and my old Adobe 5!).
So, here I am, with all this baby-tender "knowledge", which I need to
solidify into "skills" before it all leaks through the rusted-out sieve
of my well-aged memory (like the instructions on uploading to the
website had)... So I thought of a "plan" -- I'll use y'all as my guinea
pigs :)
In my signature, there's a URL; it's for my website (admittedly, a very
sketchy, old, no frills one. And it's not going to get updated before
next Christmas -- and Danek's next visit -- since I no longer remember
anything about adding to/removing from it). On the website, there are
photos of lace I designed in the past (missing all the new stuff,
designed since '03, but it can't be helped). Click on the "thumbnail"
photo of the lace and you get a larger one, with a comment which tells
you if the pattern had been published. Those patterns which *had* been
published, are likely to have prickings and (sometimes) diagrams
mouldering somewhere; they'd have been on the website long ago, if I
had been able to make the scanner part of the MFC communicate with my
Mac. Now, I can communicate but can't upload (pox on technology and the
aging brain-cells)... But, if you find a -- published -- pattern you
like (but don't have), write me and I'll try to e-mail you the -- ta
da! scanned! -- pricking and the diagram/s as well as the verbal
instructions. Hopefully, that will help me fix the procedures in my
defective mind before they flee...
Yours,
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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