Jane Partridge said:
>
>Ah, but I do that when I go to the railway.... it's 4.5 hours each way
>on the train to get there, plus at least one overnight stay, so I get
>some lace done as well as doing my (volunteer) shift. In September we
>make lace on the train, too! There is quite a link between railways and
>lace - at our railway (a small narrow gauge preserved line in North
>Wales) there are at least six lacemakers who are either volunteers
>themselves or wives/mothers of volunteers, and believe it or not I'm not
>the only one on The Lace Guild's exec committee who is interested in
>trains!!!
>
>I'm lucky in that Phil is descended from lacemakers, and as a datacomms
>engineer works with pairs (there are six pairs in a telephone cable....)
>
Dear Jane, et al,
First, the most pressing question. Inquiring minds want to know if the 6
pairs in a telephone cable are done in linen stitch, half stitch, whole stitch
with a twist... or what? I really don't want to disassemble my telephone wires
to find out. And perhaps in the US the number of pairs are different, or the
stitches are different....Sorry, it was the first and most compelling thing
that jumped into my head.
Alas, my most common trip is from Lancaster, (Pennsylvania) to Philadelphia,
and it's only an hour. And then to drag all that stuff around... Going to New
York is 3 hours by train, but again, you have to drag all the stuff around as
you walk around, no lockers anywhere after 9/11, and I make sure to travel as
lightly as possible, editing the contents of my handbag, even, so instead I
bring socks to knit. Sad, but true.
DH, being descended from mostly Quakers, there is no lacemaking in his
background. There is no lacemaking I know of east of the Rhine near Baden
Baden, nor in Hesse that I know of. I believe my lacemaking bent comes from
the 'Russian' Mennonites ancestors who were Flemish, and left Flanders before
lacemaking became an industry there.
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where it's sunny and 36F, 2C, which is much
more seasonal. No snow.
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