Re: [lace] honiton lace

Hi Friends I've just returned from a Honiton lace course with Pat (Perryman). We all saw a copy of the transmission from ITV in the West Country. It was wonderful to see the exhibits in the museum with Pat's unique insight into their history, provenance etc. I note that several of you have honed in

Re: [lace] Re: Crochet Hooks

Thank you all for your postings. I've got crochet hooks from the 1.25mm I mentioned in the post down to a  0.35mm Japanese hook a friend got for me in Bruges to help with Honiton sewings. I'll look out for threads at Solihull and share your wisdom with a crafter friend of mine who's also returning

[lace] Crochet hooks

Hi Everyone I'm dipping my fingers back into crocheting and wondered whether to crochet with come of my lace threads.   I have only ever crocheted with wool or with a no 20 crochet cotton for which I use a 1.25mm crochet hook.   Does anyone know where there is a guide as to what hook size to use wi

Re: [lace] everybody helped!

There's also a full set of numbers in "new Patterns in Honiton Lace" by Caroline and Barry Biggins Viv in Worcestershire - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: htt

[lace] Calling Lace teachers in the Midlands (UK)

Dear Friends I've agreed to attend an "Open Farm Sunday" event in Coleshill near to Birmingham in the UK to show and demonstrate my bobbin lace. Apart from a farm walk and talk, the farmer is trying to gather together groups of local, country crafters to provide extra interest. Some friends reco

Re: [lace] Edwardian Farm

They are. If its the episode I have been told about Pat Perryman (keeper of lace at the All Hallow's Museum in Honiton) will be teaching Honiton lace. From: Claire Allen To: Linda Walton Cc: lace-c...@arachne.com; lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, 2 December, 2010

[lace] Posh Bags - testimonials sought

Dear All i'm lucky to be in possession of birthday money and want to buy a toolbox/bobbin holder for Honiton bobbins and tools (pin pusher, pin lifter, 2 prickers, hackle pliers, pins etc). Friends (whom I only see twice a year) who also make Honiton have said that Posh Bags make a bobbin bag that

Re: [lace] polystryene pillows

Hi Maureen How close are you to one of our lace fairs (can you make Harrogate?) I know some later answers have suggested getting a new block for a pillow and cutting it to shape.  But, if you can, how about treating yourself to a new pillow and use the "squidgy" one for projects that don't have m

Re: [lace] Starts and Finishes

I think it might be better described as "the beginning determined by how we're going to do the end"  I know the book's English sub-title is "The Beginning of the End" but from my reading of the book Ulrike's view was how/where you start a piece should be governed by how you're going to finish it. I

Re: [lace] Favourite pattern

My favourite pattern - well what a question There are so many contenders! I love Tamara'sswan - it's one of the few things I've attempted twice, although those of you who've seeen my scrap book know that the first attempt wasn't successful! Dabbling with Design - my first design, used for the ara

Re: [lace] Photos uploaded

Brilliant Clay in the heart how did you make the leaves/leadworks  all have the same colour? Viv Worcs UK From: Clay Blackwell To: ARACHNE Sent: Wednesday, 22 April, 2009 10:09:43 PM Subject: [lace] Photos uploaded Greetings, lacemakers! Martina's query about

Re: [lace] Thread choices questions

From: Brenda Paternoster To: Arachne Arachne Sent: Monday, 20 April, 2009 11:34:29 PM Subject: [lace] Thread choices questions I have been asked which threads I think lacemakers would most like to have available.  I know my choices, but they are possibly not

[lace] Birthdays, pins, arthritis & wow!

Dear Friends I know I joined the list in 2000. I found out about it from Jacqui Southworth who taught me bobbin lace through her brilliant beginners book. I know I've met 4 of you in person (please accept my apologies to those I've met, but haven't remembered as fellow arachnids!) but there are ma

Re: [lace] Garter - I've finished the lace but!

Dear All Thanks for your advice. I'll find a safe place to keep it for 3 - 4 months! For Sue and others who may be interested It's a new pattern - a little more complex than the last one Half stitch heart edging with blue weaver, half stitch spider, roseground and a blue thread down the centre. I'

Re: [lace] tatting beginner

Dear All Thanks for your replies. Apart from answering my questions you've identified a load more sites where I can get help and patterns. Thank you Viv - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. Fo

[lace] Garter - I've finished the lace but!

I've just completed the lace for my niece's wedding garter and I'm not sure whether to make it up now or not. The wedding's not till September. I'd welcome your thoughts. Also - Would you starch the lace? (The only other garter I've made was completed much closer to the wedding date, so the quest

[lace] tatting beginner

Dear All I went to the sewing for pleasure exhibitionat the weekend and bought one of the LACET tatting beginners kits.I've complete the patterns in the kit and found several other free patterns that look fairly straight forward on the Internet, but I have a query about some abbreviations that I co

[lace] New web-site - round tuit

Rhiannon and Sue's new sites are so good, I've got the bug to try and put "Viv's lace pages" on to my "round tuit" - along with all those other lace projects, and recovering my designs. (New computer processor last week and I accidently deleted everything from our external hard drive. Fortunately I

Re: [lace] Re: [lace-chat] CROCHET HOOKS

Dear All This has been a great and timely thread. I'm just about to embark on Vivienne's table cloth pattern and one of the options for joining the pieces is to crochet them together. What size crochet hook would you suggest for Finca 20? Thansk Viv in Worcestershire ___

Re: [lace] lace projects on the go

Ihave 3 pillows on the go too     A lace garter for my niece (half stitch hearts and spiders - my own design in pale cream with blue & silver) I've done 45cm and am resting it for a while!      A gravenmoerse bookmark coral and green, adapted from the "Bob-in" pattern book of the 12 months Â

Re: [lace] searching for thread

Sorry I've got 668 and 610 in yellow, but no 602 From: Rick & Sharon Whiteley To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, 10 December, 2008 6:04:45 PM Subject: [lace] searching for thread One of the lacers in  our group is working on a rather large project and now she

[lace] Bookmark tails was Gravenmoerse, 10th anniversary and sale price

Dear All Thank you for your kind comments. I've had a couple of requests for how I do the finishing off so here goes! This bookmark has a straight edge so as I go down the sloping edge I work from the body of the bookmark in cloth stitch (CTC) until the two outside pairs are reached. Tw1 the wea

Re: [lace] Large lace patterns

Dee I can sympathise. In 2002 I started to make a Lace Fan from a design by Bridget Cook. There were two other arachnes making the same fan at the same time and we all had issues with the design. But what finished me was the stretching to get to the bobbins I was working. I had to sit at a table, n

Re: [lace] [Lace] My tablecloth

Daphne The tablecloth and edging are brilliant Envy envy envy!!! I've got a table cloth pattern to start - need to bump it up the "to do" list Viv Worcestershire UK - Original Message From: Daphne Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Arachne Sent: Wednesday, 1 October, 2008 3:50:08 PM Subject

[lace] Gravenmoerse, 10th anniversary and sale price

Dear all Some time ago I asked your advice on what I was doing wrong with some Gravenmoerse half-stitch blocks. Following advice from Clay I've tried again and I've put a picture on the webshots album. The new one is "B55-03" http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2466894840048870129xmfNwu - I

[lace] Re: lace hankie

Dear All You've done it again - re-inspired me! I've only made one hankie - for the groom's Mum when a cousin got married recently. I did a simple Buck's Point edging - straight with gathers to go round the corner. The hankie fabric was 8 ins square - I actually had a pre-hemmed white cotton handke

[lace] Gravenmoerse update

Dear All I've finished the second Gravenmoerse Bookmark - October I've uploaded the full picture for those interested. But I had some trouble with the special half-stitch netblock things when taking pairs in and out, there seems to be too much thread!. I've put a high resolution detail of the book

[lace] Re: Honiton was Miss Channer's mat

I've "gone off" Miss Channer's mat - especially since I began my Honiton adventure But does anyone know if a copy Liz Warley's Honiton mat as pictured on the front cover of "Lace 114" - April 2004 is available antwhere? Viv Worcestershire UK - Original Message From: Barron <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [lace] Gravenmoerse - translation please

Dear All Thank you for your helpful replies I've just completed my first effort from the 's Gravenmoerse book - Bookmark "Mei" I've loaded onto my album on "webshots" so you can see it if you're interested I've taken Ruth & Pamela's advice and e-mailed "Bob-in" with a query on one of the pattern m

Re: [lace] Gravenmoerse - translation please

The book I bought is the 's Gravenmoerse 1, [published] by "Bob in" available in the UK fromRoseground supplies The forward is by Julie van der Wolf but on the front cover it says Ontwerp: Corrie Versluis Realisatie: Hille Hartman, Ine van IJzeren, Esther van Winen en Julie van der Wolf The book

Re: [lace] Variegated threads

Thanks, Barb But I'm beginning a wedding lace group project Hankies for two Mums + garter for the bride & bookmarks for the bride & groom plus the church readers (If I have time!) -snip . Please can one of you complete the white hankie edging I have on the pillow so I can start something ne

[lace] Gravenmoerse - translation please

I bought the book 1 of gravenmoerse patterns this weekend and I want to make them all NOW. I've found the prickings clear and some of the words easy to translate, and feel confident that I can make the patterns "work" with my knowledge of torchon and the general instructions at the back of the book

[lace] Variegated threads

I love them! I know you have to experiment to see what works and what doesn't. My faoured uses of variegated are for trails in mats and book marks. I sometimes use variegated throughout on a bookmark with a contrast plain colour in fans or waevers I was at the Chepsrow Lace Fair on Saturday nad re

Re: [lace] Needles & Thread

Thanks, Brenda I'll look at the web-site for more goodies! Viv I've just found all that on her website: http://www.stef-francis.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=17_29 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to

[lace] Needles & Thread

Dear all Earlier this week I visited the needle museum in Redditch, Worcestershire. The museum was a working needle factory until 1958. What an enlightenment. I'll never look at needles in the same way again! (Those who sharpened the needles got paid what seems a massive guinea per week (£1.05 GBP

Re: [lace] Lace "Buddy" map

I tried a picture too, and it said it was loading, but all I got was the question mark! Viv Worcestershire, UK - Original Message From: Jennifer Hester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, 13 September, 2007 6:18:45 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Lace "Buddy" map Hi Spiders,

[lace] beeswax

Dear all thank you for your responses. I've cut a small chunk off the end of the block and put it into a 35mm camera film tube cut in half (ie to make a small tub about the size of the wax) I've made my first pricking with it - It's wonderful not to hear that popping noise as the stuck needle dra

[lace] beeswax

Dear Friends There was a farmers' market at work today, and one of the traders was selling honey and other "bee" products. I saw a block of beeswax that seemed quite inexpensive (GBP 1.25 for a block about 1cm x 2cm x 8cm ish!) I know that beeswax has something to do with cleaning pins, so I bou

[lace] Help for Prospective Lacemaker in Tenbury

Hi Everyone While at work today I met someone who lives and works in Tenbury Wells at the "join" of Worcestershire & Shropshire UK. She wants to start making lace. I'm compiling a list of links for her ( UK Lace Guild, suppliers etc.) but does anyone know of a lacemaker who lives nearby a local cl

Re: [lace] Val Dewar garter

I have to confess it's one of my own that I designed in despair! I'd started one of the Biggins ones but, although it was going to look brilliant, it was taking too long. So I changed to simpler, narrower and thicker threads! This one is madeira 30 and equivalents. Jenny (and interested others)

Re: [lace] bucks garter lace

Hi sue I haven't done a Buck's garter, but I did a torchon one last year and made a metre (39ins) of lace. It was only just enough. I think you need at least 2 x the circumference of the thigh concerned! Viv - Original Message From: Sue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Arachne Sent: Tuesday, 30