Re: [lace] colour in lace etc.
In a message dated 25/03/2004 19:31:33 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how does Fimo work for making beads for spangles? Some of my very first painted bobbins bought in the early 1980s came with Fimo beads colour co-ordinated with the painting and they still look like new after 20 years. They are a matt finish having not been varnished, but now I work with Fimo myself I know that by using the very fine wet and dry polishing papers it is possible to get a mirror-like surface. Time consuming though and not practical for a commercial enterprise with cost restraints, but for a few beads that you are making for your own special bobbins it is worth it. Lots of polymer clay sites on the internet and a quick google search will find them. Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] The Hat
David - Please wear the hat for your annual lacemaking picture in the outback!! (I know - usually you wear nothing at all, but if you decorate the hat as Bev suggested, it would be perfect!!) Clay - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:52 PM Subject: [lace] The Hat Oh, David, Please wear the hat at Lace Day tomorrow! - (Presuming you will be there.) I am longing to see it! from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] pattern question
A fellow lace-maker would like to do the floral torchon waterlily pattern by Geraldine Stott. Has anyone else attempted this pattern? Is there a picture of the finished piece anywhere? Is this a torchon version of a Bucks pattern? If so, where can we get a picture of that? :) any information would be appreciated. Sharon on rainy Vancouver Island - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Colour in lace,
Hi Sharon, I'll answer your questions instead of having it go through Angela. I used Pipers Silk 210/2 in very light yellow for the rose petals and green for the leaves. It was worked in raised and rolled technique. Idid enlarge the pattern by 10%, but now that the rose is finished and off the pillow, I think that I should have enlarged it slightly more. As to beads made out of Fimo. I tried it once and my results weren't too good. Miriam, in Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Kortelahti prickings
I wonder if anyone can help me, I've just bought Nyplattya Pitsia by Eeva-Liisa Kortelahti and I'd like to get the prickings and working diagrams for the 4 picture-laces at the end of the book. Ms Kortelahti mentions getting them from the book's publisher but it was published in 1981 and I have my doubts that the publisher will still be performing this service-especially for a second hand book. Does anyone know if they are still available commercially? jenny barron Scotland - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Kortelahti prickings
At 12:39 PM 3/26/2004, you wrote: I wonder if anyone can help me, I've just bought Nyplattya Pitsia by Eeva-Liisa Kortelahti and I'd like to get the prickings and working diagrams for the 4 picture-laces at the end of the book. They are listed on the webpage of Van Sciver Bobbin Lace in the USA. Perhaps there is a dealer in the UK who also has them. Alice in Oregon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Beds Lace Cap
Elizabeth- I made this cap many years ago (and now know a great deal more about what I Should have done!!) I made it in navy blue - as I am white haired, and white lace does not show up!! I wear it when I wear period costume for demonstrations. Working from the top (peak) to the ends of the tails is correct. I know a few of us who made it and we all wound up with too many bobbins in the centre! - , but you must just throw out whenever it gets too 'thick'. You are correct in that some work towards the centre, and later they work from the centre out. The theory is that you start at the top and work straight down to the bottom. So some things go in to the centre, and some come out from it. I hope this helps. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] colour in lace etc.
On 25 Mar 2004, at 19:20, rick sharon wrote: I must know...what thread was Miriam using to do colour in her Honiton? :) I've always thought honiton screams for very subtle colouring..is there coloured thread out there that is fine enough? If there is, I wants it!:) The finest coloured cootn thread I know of is Tanne/Cotona 80 - same thickness as Egyptian gassed 80/2. If you want colour in finer than that it would have to be silk. Piper's Fine Twisted silk comes in colours and compares to Egyptian Gassed 140/2 Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] pattern question
There's a picture of the Bucks version in A Visual Introduction to Bucks Point Lace by Geraldine Stott - page 78 in my copy. I've seen the Torchon version, but can't for the life of me remember where - someone else will know. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) rick sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:A fellow lace-maker would like to do the floral torchon waterlily pattern by Geraldine Stott. Has anyone else attempted this pattern? Is there a picture of the finished piece anywhere? Is this a torchon version of a Bucks pattern? If so, where can we get a picture of that? :) any information would be appreciated. Sharon on rainy Vancouver Island - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] colour in lace etc.
Sharon wrote: I must know...what thread was Miriam using to do colour in her Honiton? :) I've always thought honiton screams for very subtle colouring..is there coloured thread out there that is fine enough? If there is, I wants it!:) The finest coloured cootn thread I know of is Tanne/Cotona 80 - same thickness as Egyptian gassed 80/2. If you want colour in finer than that it would have to be silk. Piper's Fine Twisted silk comes in colours and compares to Egyptian Gassed 140/2 Brenda === Bjarne has 120 (3 ply) and 250 (3 ply) unboiled silk in colors. I have several of the colors and it is wonderfully fine and wonderfully strong. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] colour in lace etc.
Sharon wrote: I must know...what thread was Miriam using to do colour in her Honiton? :) I've always thought honiton screams for very subtle colouring..is there coloured thread out there that is fine enough? If there is, I wants it!:) The finest coloured cootn thread I know of is Tanne/Cotona 80 - same thickness as Egyptian gassed 80/2. If you want colour in finer than that it would have to be silk. Piper's Fine Twisted silk comes in colours and compares to Egyptian Gassed 140/2 Brenda === Bjarne has 120 (3 ply) and 250 (3 ply) unboiled silk in colors. I have several of the colors and it is wonderfully fine and wonderfully strong. http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph/silkefarver.htm Also Piper's Silks has Fine Twisted Silk, 2/20, 4/20, 6/20 in colors. http://www.pipers-silks.com/ 2/20 silk, now that's what I call invisible thread! Patty Dowden - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Kortelahti prickings
I think Theo Brejaart has some of them. Anne in Austin (temporarily in Nacogdoches) TX -- Original Message -- From: Barron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Kortelahti prickings Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:39:19 - Reply-To: Barron [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if anyone can help me, I've just bought Nyplattya Pitsia by Eeva-Liisa Kortelahti and I'd like to get the prickings and working diagrams for the 4 picture-laces at the end of the book Does anyone know if they are still available commercially? jenny barron Scotland - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: tallies
On Mar 24, 2004, at 22:39, Beth Schoenberg wrote: Many years ago, my lace group (the Lost Art Lacers, in NJ, USA) held a theme pillow contest. [...] My entry was a pun pillow, which was not just a cookie pillow, but a *chocolate-chip* cookie pillow; with bobbins ranging from a bobbin-shop quartet to a worker pear. [...] the pricking I made was a small rectangle with 11 pin-holes pricked about 3/8-inch apart, and the instructions to the lace-maker, written along one side, reading 10 petals, repeat 4 times. [...] All together, they were Ali Bobbin and the Forty Leaves. Good grief! And here was I, in Virginia all that time, missing all the fun, and thinking Americans had no sense of humour... - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] tallies
Ali Bobbin and the Forty Leaves. I enjoyed it so much that I printed it out and pinned it to my pillow. Lynn wildgun004smate Clarksburg, WV Spring has sprung, at least for this week, probably enough to fool the daffodils. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Threads untwisting
I note that the original problem was not really *breaking* so much as the thread pulling apart which happens when it becomes untwisted. I have had students with this problem with the white Madeira and I feel it is maybe something to do with the way they handle the thread when winding or how they move their bobbins, but I have never been able to analyse quite what. They all use spangled bobbins, but as one student will have the problem and another not even though they are using the same spool of thread.. Does anyone have any opinion on which cotton threads best resist untwisting? As I use Bucks Thumpers or Bruges bobbins (not together!) I have this problem. Although I'm controlling the bobbins' rolling to some extent, I still often get threads untwisting after a while. Twisting them up again never seems very satisfactory, as they're never as tightly twisted as they were when they came off the reel. At the moment I'm tending to use more and more silk (often Piper's twisted Silk) because it seems to resist untwisting. Can anyone recommend any other threads? Regards, Annette in London - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Lacemakers T-shirt idea
Subject: [lace-chat] Re: Lacemakers T-shirt idea On Mar 25, 2004, at 15:30, Pene Piip wrote: My idea was for a T-shirt that says something like: Give a person a piece of lace and they will . Decorate something. Lorri To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: Testing, testing
I got 21 of the 29. But it sure is amazing the ones we miss. Some I just didn't read correctly. Lorri - Original Message - From: Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: chat Arachne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:26 PM Subject: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: Testing, testing Since the Programmers or Killers test was so popular, here's two more... :) Both are aimed at US audience, but I thought they might be amusing to soem others as well. Apologies to both sources, but it seemed easier to bundle the two, so each of you will get something old and something new... From: R.P. This is fun (and infuriating) if you have a few spare minutes... http://www.madblast.com/funflash/swf/map_test.swf Failed this one dismally... :) From: C.B. Here's a list of mind teasers... some of it won't make sense to non-US people, but it was fun to take! I got 18. Considering... That the Brothers Grimm version (the one I grew up with, rather than the Disney one) says 7 dwarfs without naming a single one... That a standard pack of matches is an imprecise term (I use a box of wooden ones, and --correctly -- rememberred there are 32. Reason I remembered is that I thought it a rip-off; there are *50* in a Polish matchbox g)... That I'm almost phobic about using the phone, don't watch TV and don't listen to the radio... That I don't like hot-dogs even without buns and don't buy them... In short, that I'm still very much a Yankee at King Arthur's Court, even after 30yrs here... And that I must be a *universal* oddball -- #7 was the wrong answer for me; I checked afterwards... I'd done good, with 15 correct answers. The one I missed and cannot forgive myself for missing is the one about a dollar bill; you'd think, with my ingrained tight-fistedness, I'd know it by heart, but *noo*; instead, I've been thinking in nickel and dimes terms... :) So, see how well you do... The *average* is supposed to be 7 correct answers; must be those lowered standards we keep hearing about, that's supposed to make us feel better about our achievements. Unless, of course, 95% of the test takers are not in the US... :) Mind teasers of COMMON KNOWLEDGE. No cheating! No looking around! No using anything on or in your desk or computer! Can you beat 17?? (The average is 7) Write down your answers and check answers (on the bottom) AFTER completing all the questions. REMEMBER- NO CHEATING!!! LET'S JUST SEE HOW OBSERVANT YOU REALLY ARE. 1. On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom? 2. How many states are there? (Don't laugh, some people don't know) 3. In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch? 4. What six colors are on the classic Campbell's soup label? 5. What two letters don't appear on the telephone dial? (No cheating!) 6. What two numbers on the telephone dial don't have letters by them? 7. When you walk does your left arm swing w/your right or left leg? 8. How many matches are in a standard pack? 9. On the United States flag is the top stripe red or white? 10. What is the lowest number on the FM dial? 11. Which way does water go down the drain, counter or clockwise? 12. Which way does a no smoking sign's slash run? 13. How many channels on a VHF TV dial? 14. Which side of a women's blouse are the buttons on? 15. On a NY license plate, is New York on the top or bottom? 16. Which way do fans rotate? 17. Whose face is on a dime? 18. How many sides does a stop sign have? 19. Do books have even-numbered pages on the right or left side? 20. How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel? 21. How many sides are there on a standard pencil? 22. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's missing? 23. How many hot dog buns are in a standard package? 24. On which playing card is the card maker's trademark? 25. On which side of a Venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats? 26. On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center? 27. There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no digits? 28. How many curves are there in the standard paper clip? 29. Does a merry-go-round turn counter or clockwise? ** Don't look at answers below until you complete all the questions 1. Bottom 2. 50 (please tell me you got this one!) 3. Right 4. Blue, red, white, yellow, black, gold 5. Q, Z 6. 1, 0 7. Right 8. 20 9. Red 10. 88 11. Counter (north of the equator) 12. Towards bottom right 13. 12 (no #1) 14. Left 15. Top 16. Clockwise as you look at it 17. Roosevelt 18. 8 19. Left 20. 5 21. 6 22. Bashful 23. 8 24. Ace of spades 25. Left 26. ONE 27. *, # 28. 3 29. Counter - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia,
[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thank You
Dear Secret Pal, Thank you for this month's package - it arrived the middle of this week. I love the bobbin. I'll have to choose some interesting beads to spangle it with. The notepad and the sticky notes are great especially the really little ones. I run a book club with my 7th graders and they will be very handy for marking passages in the books (I'm always ripping up bigger ones). The ruler is really neat - I haven't seen one like it before. Now I have to figure out what I will put in the center. And I always love any sort of candy and the card is very cute. I'm assuming you made it. I'd be interested to know how you made it. Thanks again, Cindy Rusak - in very foggy Wisconsin To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Lacemaker T-shirt idea
My idea was for a T-shirt that says something like: Give a person a piece of lace and they will . say you could have bought it at Walmart for 20 cents a yard. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] bobbin inventory
Hi Ya'll, Does anyone out there know where I can print out a bobbin inventory list. I saw one somewhere before but I didn't have any ink in the printer. Now I have ink and can't find the site. :) Just my luck. Thanks, Lynn wildgun004smate Clarksburg, WV where I think spring has sprung, at least for this week. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
