[lace] Xmas mail
Tamara wrote: (or seems to; the older generation tends to put the return address at the back of the envelope, rather than in the upper left corner of the front, and the PO doesn't seem to bother to check for that)... I think putting the return address on the front is an American habit, I've never seen anyone do that in France or in Australia, apart from companies who have printed envelopes and usually a if cannot be delivered, return to sender request. Personally, I never have room to put my own address on the front of an envelope, what with airmail stickers and lots of exotic stamps which I always use instead of those rubbishy printed stickers from the P.O. Fancy encouraging people to collect stamps on one hand, and making it so easy for them *not* to use them on the other! Cutting their own throat, I think! Anyway, I would be extremely mad if I ever found out that any P.O. chucks my letters out wihtout bothering to turn them over to check if I've put the sender's address on. This is really taking the the only way to do something is to do it the way we do it so we will ignore everything else attitude. It's going to be interesting to see how the Xmas mail moves this year! I usually send about 80 letters and calendars overseas, and 30 in Australia. Costs me a fortune, but it's the only way to keep in touch with some people I seldom see. Don't say, you can phone them for less, I hate using the telephone, and neve would use it instead of a Xmas letter! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne 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] digital cameras- against
Hmmm. That sounds like someone who never got comfortable with a digital camera or who tried one when they first came out and were more temperamental. My $200 Olympus takes very good pictures and I am delighted with it. I took it to Paris when my company sent me there for 48 hours. I took 78 shots without worrying about running out of film (I have a card large enough for 500 photos) and I can get better quality shots on it than on my Canon 35 mm camera because it has more settings. My FIL, formerly a hobby photographer who used to shoot weddings for extra money, traded in his entire high-end camera outfit (expensive large 35 mm single-reflex plus all the lenses) for a digital camera and he is extremely happy. I'm glad that I don't have expensive printing costs and bags of negatives all over the house. I can upload all my photos to the Web for relatives abroad to order their own prints and I can burn them to a CD for storage. Because of the preview function, I can tell fairly quickly whether I got a shot properly framed or not and I can delete the bad shot on the spot, instead of having to pay for printing an entire roll. I use both a small 35 mm and a digital camera and I have to say that I get more use out of the digital camera. The only thing I have to remember to do is to recharge the batteries if I'm going to take it out the next day. For prints I have not noticed any difference in printing quality between a digital and a regular film camera. Of course, you have to make sure that the resolution is set high enough for the digital camera, but that's not a setting I change very often anyway. I like being able to alter my shots with Photoshop. A couple times I've gotten some good shots of my son but the background is a little too dark or there is something intruding in a corner. With Photoshop I can crop extraneous details and change the colour values of the pictures. I use my digital camera for photographing lace and textiles because it can take better closeups (to 7) than my regular camera and because I can see right away whether the shot turned out. Another plus is that it's instant gratification. I am *terrible* about remembering to take pictures with my regular camera. I once had two of my son's birthday parties on a single roll of film! With a digital camera I can take the picture and immediately upload it to the computer or print it. My son likes to make K'nex models but hates to take them apart. We made a deal: I photograph him with every one of his models, put it on the computer as wallpaper or a screen saver, and he takes apart the model. I could never afford to do that with regular film. Different strokes for different folks--I love my digital camera. Avital On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:01:23 +1000 (EST), Helene Gannac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dot wrote: I know there was a long discussion on digital cameras a while ago, when the possibility of my aquiring one was nil. I am now in the market for one and would like to ask who ever posted at that time to forward their very interesting articles to me. Hello, Dot, like you, I've been thinking about a digital camera, and after seing the beautiful prints of lace exhibits from our Adelaide exhibition, taken by one of our Committee members who also owns a camera shop, I asked her which digital camera she used to get so close to the lace. Her answer was: Unless I had about 10,000 dollars to spare, I wouldn't touch a digital camera with a barge-pole! They are dreadful, and only give you very mediocre results. If you want to send your photos through the Internet, get your films done on CD as well as printed, and you will have much better photos. So I'm listening to her and sticking to my 35 single lens!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] digital cameras- against
Oh Helene, I have to disagree here! Whilst I think there is a place for both types of cameras, I find that my digital does an absolutely fantastic job. I bought an Olympus 3.2 megapixel, with (for photographing closeups of lace) a x10 zoom lens.. Previously I had a very good, top of the range Pentax - and the digital does a MUCH better job!! I'll email you privately with just one of my photos from the exhibition to show you what can be done by just setting it on auto and pointing it in the general direction of the subject and clicking. The other thing I like about the digital camera is the freedom to try a shot - and if you don't like it, you can just delete it from the memory card. I no longer have to carry rolls of film with me...a tiny card about the same size as the SIM card in the mobile phone stores *hundreds* of photos, which in turn can either be printed, or downloaded onto the computer to use as screen savers, and then the card can be reused again. In Adelaide, all the photographic equipment I needed was in one small bag about 5 x 2 - and the photographs are wonderful!!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Helene Gannac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Dot wrote: I know there was a long discussion on digital cameras a while ago, when the possibility of my aquiring one was nil. I am now in the market for one and would like to ask who ever posted at that time to forward their very interesting articles to me. Hello, Dot, like you, I've been thinking about a digital camera, and after seing the beautiful prints of lace exhibits from our Adelaide exhibition, taken by one of our Committee members who also owns a camera shop, I asked her which digital camera she used to get so close to the lace. Her answer was: Unless I had about 10,000 dollars to spare, I wouldn't touch a digital camera with a barge-pole! They are dreadful, and only give you very mediocre results. If you want to send your photos through the Internet, get your films done on CD as well as printed, and you will have much better photos. So I'm listening to her and sticking to my 35 single lens!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne 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] 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]
[lace] digital cameras - for
I have a low end digital camera that does all I want it to do BUT, IMHO the answer is in the software manipulation of the images. It is just amazing what you can do with a good graphic package, even free ones ( The Gimp) Sure they do take a farley steep learning curve, but then on the results are great. Brian and Jean from Cooranbong Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] digital cameras- for
I wouldn't touch a digital camera with a barge-pole! They are dreadful, and only give you very mediocre results. Sorry, I have to disagree with your Committee member. I have a Canon digi (not bottom of the range by any means but nothing even approaching 10,000 dollars!) and if you are interested I can send you a couple of photos I have taken of my lace. No flash, no tripod, just quick photos to be able to show students work in progress. And not only are the full frame photos excellent, they are still crystal clear if I zoom in on details. Yes I did get excellent photos with my Olympus SLR, but I also got a lot of not quite clear enough for lace purposes and one of the main benefits your advisor has omitted is that I can immediately see my photo, take more if it's not good enough (if I need to, which I don't usually), and only have the expense of printing those I need in photo format. And I have it immediately, not when I've finished the film and had it developed. With the cost of film and developing here in England, this has meant I have been able to take far more photos in the last 18 months than ever before and even just counting the films I would have used I have a big chunk towards the cost of my camera (which is now a lot cheaper anyway than it was then). Another reason I love it (which was not a factor I had thought of when I bought it) is that because of the pull-out multi position screen, I can be very discreet when taking photos. No obvious camera-in-front-of-my-face. This has meant I have been able to get shots of my grandchildren which would have been impossible otherwise as they don't pose and/or hide. And I can take high and low level photos without having to perform gymnastics. Finally in this quick review of why I'm glad I jumped in and bought a digi is that in a once in a lifetime situation I can be sure of having good photos (having lost my photo opportunity at my first grandson's Christening because the film wasn't in the camera properly, duh). taken by one of our Committee members who also owns a camera shop I know I might be suspicious, but there is a lot in the media here about Kodak having to close down factories due to lack of demand for film etc. The same will possibly apply to the owner of a camera shop. Once you have bought a digital camera you won't need to buy anything else from the shop unless you want to upgrade at some unspecified time in the future. Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] digital cameras- against
Hello Lacefriend, It is always difficult to say this or that camera is the right for you. First you must find out what you personally want, a very small one, or the best what belongs technical data-which of them are the most important for me, could it be expensive or better not and so on. I first wanted one with the highest Pixel-value and found out that a certain Canon has all I was looking for. The man in the shop said ok but why do you want a big one, when you can get a smaller with the same luxury? And he showed me the Sony Cyber-shot 5,0 Mega Pixels. It can do so many things I have to learn the next two years but it works very well and I am satisfied with its quality. And the prize wasn't either the highest nor the cheapest. I can recommand it to people who have the same wishes as I have. What's important, I think, to buy a bigger stick and a second batterie so you can be away somewhere for a longer time. But it could be that the stick in nearly full with carbage, that means on it are all possible PC-programms. So look which one you need and let put out all others before you go in a travel. Otherwise it will happen what happened to me. Good luck finding the right digital-camera. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Story about The Horror
didn't lend her one of my good pillows and bobbins! I've only taught 2 students and both of them disappeared on me! I recommend asking for a deposit on pillows etc which you lend to new pupils. Then at least you can buy replacements if you never see pupil or pillow again. They don't seem to be offended by the idea and get their money back if I get the stuff back Sue - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Looking for someone
In Ithaca this past October in Lenka's wire class there was a woman there that I was talking to about making bobbins for wire lace making. My husband has made me 2 dozen aluminum bobbins very nicely done just for me to use with wire. I was not able to take Lenka's class so I will be winging it on my own. I have tatted with wire so I kinda know about being slow and gentle when using wire as a medium. My problem is this and it is why I am looking for this person and hoping she is an Arachne Lace List member. I am trying to find the eyes that are really small like this woman had. This woman gave me one of her bobbins that she turned herself. I am so bad with names that I don't remember her name. My husband made my bobbins using her bobbin as something to go by. Could this person that gave me the bobbin please contact me off list? I need to be able to get these eyes for my bobbins so I can start doing something in wire lace...which I am dying to try doing. I hope you are out there somewhere...also I will show you a picture of the bobbins my husband made for me. They are I feel really nice. Thank you. Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://celticdreamweaver.com - Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Springett bobbins?
Dear Holders of all Lace Knowledge, I heard that Christine Springett's bobbins are going up for auction. Did I miss it? Any info? Lace in Peace, Laurie -- Laurie J Hughes Senior Research Associate New England Research Institutes, Inc 9 Galen Street, Suite 117 Watertown, MA 02472 v: (617) 923-7747 x341 f: (617) 926-8246 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.neri.org - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lace-digest V2004 #353
Dear Bev and the list-- This was my experience exactly. i made one rather nice little piece of Torchon, figured out that there were better tools out there and began searching the web, which led me to a whole new world of lace makers and their toys. And, of course, this very helpful list. I do agree that someone could do quite well with a better basic kit. I use my old stuff as a pricking board and gimp bobbins. Regards--Madelin Ukiah, CA Although I wouldn't recommend The Kit to anyone, particularly, let's give people who do crafts the benefit of the doubt - not everyone who tries this kit thinking they will learn bobbin lace will necessarily be turned off. If they have any curiosity at all about the craft they will turn to their library for books, or the internet for links, and take it from there. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] THK
I do not think they even made kits, horror or otherwise, when I started. I started with a magazine artlcie, a 'pillow' made of excelior** stuffed into a sack and into which I inserted a round board...about 12 diameter. For thread, sewing..as were the pins. The bobbins.sewing machine bobbins wound as directed. I quickly abandoned those in favor of pencil stubs with elastics wrapped around the end.and I made lace!!! The article mentioned Rachel Wareham and National Old Lacers.. A quick inquiry and a wonderful answer and I was hooked. Oh, so long ago Still doing it. BarbE **excelior: also called 'wood wool' and it was used as packing for breakables long before we had plastic peanuts!!! Made a great pillow. long since loaned out and not returned! - Original Message - From: Madelin Holtkamp To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:45 AM Subject: [lace] Re: lace-digest V2004 #353 Dear Bev and the list-- This was my experience exactly. i made one rather nice little piece of Torchon, figured out that there were better tools out there and began searching the web, which led me to a whole new world of lace makers and their toys. And, of course, this very helpful list. I do agree that someone could do quite well with a better basic kit. I use my old stuff as a pricking board and gimp bobbins. Regards--Madelin Ukiah, CA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Re: Thread and Pricking chart
Here Here! (or is it Hear Hear!?) Brenda, this is brilliant! Thank you. Viv -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamara P. Duvall Sent: 23 October 2004 01:46 To: lace Arachne Bless ya, Brenda! :) I usually manage to puzzle my way out of conversion problems following your booklet, but, although I've not yet fully digested your addition, it seems to be the ultimate thread conversion for Dummies, ie exactly what's needed at least as far as I'm concerned. I've printed it out and will stick it in my copy of your booklet. But I hope you'll also include this cheat sheet in the next edition... --- Tamara P Duvall 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] Postage Stamps
Helene, how do you get your Overseas mail posted with a variety of stamps on it? Since the GST came in, there are special stamps (GST free) for Overseas mail, and local, stamps are illegal on overseas mail. Our P.O. won't let you post overseas with anything but the 'Proper International stamps on. Dianna, your tatting Zoo is great, and I love the use of the multicoloured thread. Well Done. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, where it is a cold, wet and windy, wild day today. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE: digital cameras
I have to say that I have 2 excellent cameras. My first love is my Canon EOS Rebel, a 35mm, which serves me very well. It will do macros for me, plus portraits, landscapes, and sports shots, and I can use auto or manual focus, and I have a variety of lenses for it. I've done some delayed photography with it at night in the winter, to get pictures of our Christmas lights (yes, I go out and stand in the snow - if we have it - to get the shots), and whilst I have some ordinary shots from it, I've also taken some fabulous ones of flora and lace, and other things - but it's usually 1 or 2 shots per roll that turn out great. I do a little scrapbooking, and now I'm past my phobia of taking scissors to my photos, I can turn an OK photo into something better. But, for my Big 4-0 this year, DH bought me a Fuji S7000 Finepix digital camera, and I really like it. I take tons of photos, and I can just shoot and dump to my pc, deleting the bad pics. It does macro and supermacro - to within 1cm (stunning for lace!), and shoots in chrome, colour and bW, and can shoot in a variety of modes up to 12 megapixels, so to get a print quality photo is easy. He bought the extra card for it, and I can shoot up to 500+ pics at 3 megapixels. It also shoots movies (short ones - I burnt 2 1/2 minutes of movie last week when the Colorado National Guard landed a chopper at my kids school). I've noticed that the last few times we've had team photos taken of DS's baseball teams, the photographers have had digital cameras, and the results have been very acceptable. I think a number of studios use them now to take the mug shots for student ID's at school, and also the commercial places like kiddie candids (or whoever they are) use digital as well. They then add borders and all sorts of post photo stuff prior to printing. Part of me still prefers the 35mm, as it just appeals to the more traditional part of me, and the photos are on emulsion, and not ink on paper. But by the same token, with the digital you don't have negatives to get damaged by processors, thereby preventing reprints (happened to me - can't get a reprint of one shot I want to frame, as the idiots scratched the neg down to the emulsion). You can get very good little digital cameras, and you can get not so good ones. Same goes for 35mm ones. At least with digital you don't have to worry about opening up the back before you've rewound the film! (done that before!). Horses for courses, but I wouldn't not buy a digital camera on the advice of one person. Both sorts of cameras have lots to offer. Just my 2 cents worth. Cheers, Helen, Aussie in Denver, where Fall is stunning this year. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thank you
Dear Secret Pal, Thank you for the wonderful parcel, it arrived today. It was full of so many lovely things, the needlecase such a clever idea and so useful, the pin cushion is so cute I don't know whether or not to stick my pins in the little cat, the thread is always a bonus, the perfume sachet will make my lace cupboard smell lovely, and I love the lace bobbins they are truly beautiful and will hang with the collection that I have from other countries, but my favourite was the beautiful book on costumes in Breton, it is superb and I am eager to finish all the housework to start reading. Thank you very much, I am waiting until next month to find out you name. I am planning atrip with a friend next year and would love to meet you for a coffee. Regards Faye Owers Shearwater Tasmania Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black squirrels
i was wondering about all those squirrels everybody's writing about . are they all tree squirrels ? The black, red, grey and fox squirrels are all tree climbing and dwelling squirrels. (The black ones are prettiest, but the fox ones are rather cute, with orange tummies, and round here are definitely the largest and most prosperous. We don't have any red ones) Sue (In the north suburbs of Chicago) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: Mouse plague
Dear All, The mouse plagues that have occurred in the central west of NSW, during my nursing experience have been particularly horrible. Babies bassinets were stood in dishes of water to prevent mice running up to join the babies in bed. A small country town did have a case of a baby receiving chewed fingers. Our long term quadriplegic patient also had a dreadful time with the mice in his bed. The stores had to have all foods in bins. My DH (in his younger pre-married days) was working at Condobolin, must have had a few drinks, states he fell asleep in a lounge chair, woke later to find his fingernails had been nibbled by mice. Off to do some more polychrome flowers to wear to the Australian AGM Sept.05!! Barbara To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
At 09:48 AM 25/10/04 -0400, Webwalker wrote: Are the Koalas as much beloved by their human neighbors as they are by those of us who see them only on TV and occasionally in a zoo, or are they considered destructive, etc. Are they protected? Dear Susan, Yes they are protected, and Yes, most of us love them. I know they were a real nuisance down on my Granny's farm because there were too many of them and they were killing the beautiful Eucalyptus viminalis trees. But here they're great to have around David in Ballarat Susan David Collyer wrote: Dear Susan, Do any of you have black squirrels, and if so, do you know if they drive out the other squirrels? No. Sorry - only grey Koalas. Do they count? David in Ballarat :_ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] digital cameras-vis slide shows
As some people know, I recently did a slide show at Ithaca. When I began to prepare for the show, my initial thought was that I should go digital. Then I looked at the price of a digital projector, the cheapest about $1000 and thought again. I didn't want to rent a projector, also not cheap. I figured I needed to practice with the equipment and that the day of the talk was not a good day to learn about digital projectors. My camera guru at the camera shop also pointed out to me that most digital projectors only project an image of about 2300x 2300 pixels and that if my projected image were going to be large, ie. 3 or 4 feet, it would be badly pixelated. He seemed to feel that the kind of resolution required for close up lace photography would not be possible with this pixelation, which incidentally is about the maximum I get on the super high quality setting of my camera. You may never switch to digital, he said. And he is a graduate of the photography department of the Rochester Institute of Technology. I know for a fact that on the super high quality setting of my camera the image is rarely clear enough to be printed at the size of 8 x 10 which caused me to think he might be right. As a result, I ended up buying an expensive new lense for my SLR and spending a small fortune processing slides at exactly the same moment in our history when slide processing went from a day long process to one taking 2 weeks, due to lack of demand and the closure of the Kodak slide processing center in Fairlawn, NJ. The expensive custom lab that I found during this hair raising process asked me curiously why I was using slides since apparently his entire clientele, such as it is, is artists making slides of their work. Have others tried to do digital slide shows and were the dire predictions of my camera guru correct? Devon To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Black squirrels
I must be lucky. I get black gray and red squirrels in my back yard. Although, I have only had one red squirrel. It chewed it's way into my bird house one day and when we took the bird house down to fix it, the red squirrel disappeared. The blacks and grays chase each other up and down the trees, along the fences and around the yards all year long. I have had a bird feeder and bird bath out for years so my backyard is a major feeding centre. We had to take the feeder down this year as there have been some major problems with both birds and squirrels doing damage to the houses. The neighborhood has requested that people stop feeding the critters as they have become a serious problem. They haven't done anything to our house, but a number of our near neighbors have had a lot of trouble. So in the interest of keeping peace we have taken the feeder down. I still throw out the occasional handful of food, sunflower seeds, not mixed food. I used to get the wild bird seed mix, but I found that it was full of seeds that a lot of birds don't eat. The feeder was positioned over the concrete patio to cut down on the amount of bird seed taking root in the garden I used to have to shovel up a lot of the stuff the birds wouldn't eat. When I switched to sunflower seeds I got the same type of birds using the feeder and only seed shells to shovel up. The squirrels really like it and they love the peanuts I throw out for the blue jays. I think part of the reason they chase each other through my yard is to lay claim to the peanuts. The grays are bigger and bolder, although both types that hang around my yard are fat and sassy. Sharon Briggs in unseasonably warm Toronto Ontario To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] SP THANK YOU
Thank you for the lovely gifts You are so nice!!! I have never seen a so wonderful thing for the scissors, I put on the Carriemacross-scissor a wonderful Australian friend gave me. I am looking forward to knowing who you are. Thank you again. Alessandra Italy To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] a stork, and cats
Hi, My neighbor's yard has sprouted a six foot stork. It's made of wood, stands on one leg, wears a pink coat, and holds a baby bundle. The bundle has Olivia written on it, and the date, etc. I had never seen one of these before, but it sure announces the latest arrival in the neighborhood. On another subject, I just acquired twin black kittens about six months old. It has livened up our house. G So far, a lace pillow has been dumped twice, but no serious problems. Best wishes, Alice in Oregon To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Lace Problem
Evelyn wrote asking about thread for 100 Traditional BOBBIN LACE PATTERNS BY Geraldine Stott and Bridget Cook. Hi, When I bought that book about 10 years ago I went to England to the NEC Lace Fair in search of DMC Retors d'Alsace No. 60 and Coats cotton a broder, No. 18. I was told that it had not been available for quite a few years. I also think #18 has been discontinued so I use 16. Quite often threads have been discontinued even before the books get into the market. I wanted a bright white thread and was disappointed that the threads I bought looked dingy (grey) next to the hankie fabric. I found that DMC make a Machine Broder size 50 in a bright white as well as their regular white. I think the number is 2500, but I could only find it in England at the time. It might be available in the US now as that was probably about 3 or 4 years ago. I have even made the pattern you mention and I think I had a problem with working the corner. Without the book to check, I seem to remember that the pricking had more pinholes than the working diagram in one of the gimp surrounded areas, or visa versa on the corner. Printing errors do happen unfortunatley. With more experience you learn to make changes where necessary to get the look you are trying to achieve. I have just completed the Seascape design on the cover and I am sure each corner was worked differently as I approached it but it looks just as good as the picture. I use DMC Machine Broder 50 for a lot of my Buckspoint patterns. Your letter should have been addressed to Lace rather than Chat so it could be answered by more experienced lacemakers, Chat is usually for other subjects. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
