Hazel,
You will find on Arachne that you can often post something asking a
question and people are, for one reason or another, a bit slow or
reluctant to reply. It can take several days for the message to show up
on Digest, which might be where the best person to answer reads your
message. Or it might be that we are all waiting for someone with more
experience to answer first (in case we make right fools of ourselves!).
This message came through to my machine, which can only cope with plain
text (and frequently puts in all the strange characters - usually a case
where keyboards don't match, US keyboards have certain characters, like
the dollar sign and double quotes, in different places to UK ones, so
show up somewhat strange). So don't worry, no-one is going to shout you
down for it, it's far better that you put your thoughts into writing and
share them with us than keep to yourself - if everyone did that there
would be nothing on Arachne at all!
The reason I haven't responded to the list is that firstly, I was
waiting for Jane Read to reply first, I think she is a little further up
the pecking order (if there is one!) of designers to me, and secondly,
as Hon Sec of The Lace Guild, with a meeting next weekend, I'm a bit
snowed under with trying to get the agenda for our meeting sorted, and
other correspondence dealt with, at the moment!
I've said many, many times on the list that any feedback on design is
helpful, and it always seems to meet with deaf ears. This is
particularly so with patterns that go into Lace, despite the editors
trying to draw out "show and tell" photos. Yet if you put a pattern into
the Canadian Lacemaker Gazette, and ask for suggestions, quite often the
result is not just your pattern being printed but a number of
adaptations are created by the editorial team and it becomes a really
good article. We don't have that sort of resource at the Guild,
unfortunately, as our Editor is a single, paid, part time role so has
little time to 'play' with patterns to that extent. On the other hand,
if you (or anyone!) have made pieces from patterns published, do share
photos either by sending them into the magazine (this applies to any
organisation, not just The Lace Guild) or, in our case, by sharing them
on the Guild's Facebook page.
In message
<[email protected]>, Hazel
Smith <[email protected]> writes
Hello all
For many years I only lurked on this list never posted. The reason was
there used to be some sort of problem with some people's e-mail (HTML
or something?) that meant their posts came out as gobbledegook and I
was afraid mine would be like that and people would complain. Then it
was announced that something had solved this problem so I was confident
enough to post the occasional comment.
Now my last post a couple of days ago about crediting designers is
showing as almost unreadable owing to odd characters and erratic line
changes even though the original message in my "sent" folder is
perfectly OK. Presumably that's why no one has commented on what I said
- I don't blame you. But I don't know what's causing the problem so it
looks like it's back to lurking for me....
Hazel
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