RE: [lace] Re: aussie bobbin winder THE ANSWER
Maybe you need a humidor (like they use to keep cigars moist) for the rubber bands! Diane Williams Galena, Illinois USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Carolyn Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure hope the rubber bands I've kept in the box all these years (although in a dark cupboard) are still stretchy when they arrive at their destinations. I last used a replacement in late May and it **seemed** ok, and they look ok to me now, but I hope I'm not sending rotten rubber bands to people! Carolyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamara P Duvall Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:11 PM To: lace Arachne Subject: [lace] Re: aussie bobbin winder THE ANSWER On Nov 17, 2005, at 7:57, Carolyn Hastings wrote: I replaced my bands years ago. I purchased with (here in the US) Sparco size 31. 2 1/2 x 1/8. And, the best of friends that she is, she sent me some, too. And they did fit/work to perfection (I tested). I then left them in the original (paper) envelope, therefore they're now dust, like the original ones. OTOH, the orthodontal rubber bands that I scrounged off my son's doctor 17 yrs ago (twice as long at least as I've had the bands from Carolyn), and which I use to carry two bobbins as one when replacing a thread, are still in perfectly snappy shape. The lesson there is: keep your bands in a tightly sealed (one of the zip-lock kind) plastic pouch, and in a dark place... -- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - 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] Diane Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galena Illinois USA __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] lace card exchange
Wire gimp! I wish I thought of that. I'll have to try it on my next one. What kind of wire did you use? Starching was such a pain, and I live in a humid climate, I'm never sure how dry things will stay. Beth McCasland New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Where it's clear and chilly today. There were LOTS of ducks on the Mississippi River this morning! Alice in Oregon wrote: snip Otherwise, I've been making a variety of ornaments. It's been a bit fun going through all my notebooks for patterns that are different, and trying some of them. I've also added soft wire as the headside gimp on some of them. The wire makes them firm enough that they don't need starched. The wire can also make a loop to use for hanging - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace making in the Kimberley
I have updated http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace.html for those who would like to look. Jenny Brandis Kununurra, Western Australia Bad spellers of the world, untie! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/173 - Release Date: 16/11/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Filet Lace
I have been doing Filet Lace for about 3 years now...my mentor is Marie Jo Quinalt from Filet Lace by the Sea in Florida. She told me that I had to wash it, even if it was only to wet it good when I was done stitching it. I too thought what can this do...but I did it anyway. The change was striking because the fibers of the threads 'fluff up' and fill in the areas for a more denser appearance. What I did before washing it was to measure it and write down the measurements. Then I washed it and as I was blocking it out I kept working until I had the wet piece blocked out to the original dimensions it was while tensioned in the frame. I usually don't use any soap when I do this...I just get it good and wet. You are right in that the lace is very usable. It washes up well. You just have to put some time into blocking it. What book/working technique did you use to work your filet lace. I have studied every technique I can get my hands on and have come to the conclusion that Marie Jo's book on Filet Lace is the only complete book on technique. There are several ways to approach the working of this lace type...none are wrong. However most of the techniques/authors will take you only so far in working complexity and then stop. If you learn Marie Jo's approach you will be able to work your way up to being able to stitch even the most complex of designs. I have been teaching this technique at stitching shows (stitchingfestival.com) for several years and tell my students that it will take them 10 minutes to learn the stitch...the real heart of the technique is learning the rules of the technique to apply them to more complex patterns as you progress. I had wanted to learn and do this form of lacemaking but didn't want to make the net myself and didn't like the 'net' that I had found. Then one day there was a note on this list about Filet Lace by the Sea and how they had cotton net commercially available. Within a half an hour I had spent a sum of money and bought some net and one of Marie Jo's earlier books. She was very persistent in telling me 'how' to learn the technique which involved using graph paper and pencil to map out the path and then to stitch the path onto the net. I have enjoyed many hours of learning the technique to get to where I'm today. It's really a relaxing project to stitch. After several years of talking to Marie Jo on the phone and internet, I finally got to meet her this summer at the IOLI convention. She is a doll...it was like seeing an old friend that I've never met before. I'm a satisfied customer and student and now friend. I'll be teaching Filet Lace technique at Stitching Festival shows in 2006. Las Vegas in April; Nashville, TN in August; and Hershey, PA in September. The shows are predominantly aimed at cross stitchers...but I'm trying to sneak lace into their lives by teaching tatting and needle lace techniques. Last year and previous years I taught Filet Lace, Carrickmacross Lace, Romanian Point Lace, to name a few techniques. I've had to retire some techniques for a while because the show attendance is going down (slump in the market) and my classes are showing the 'been there, done that' syndrome. So I've had to evolve to stay alive in the market. Better get back to work. Karen Bovard The ShuttleSmith Omaha, NE On 11/17/05 6:20 PM, Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just completed my first serious piece of filet lace. - and enjoyed it!!! However, instructions in one of the 2 books I have on that type of lace tell me to wash and/or bleach the lace, - to matt it up a bit. That gives me a fit of the horrors!!! My question is - should this type of lace be washed immediately after finishing or not? My 2nd book does not mention washing it! I plan to enter it in a competition. Most shows/competitions do not like laundered work unless laundering is part of the process, and I never wash my lace - unless it gets really soiled from use. With this piece, I have just pressed it under a damp cloth. Regards 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] knitting and crochet
We have just finished proofing the Modern Priscilla booklets on cotton knitting and Irish crochet. I know that someone was asking recently about knitted doilies: there are a lot of them in the knitting book. And someone else is a specialist in Irish crochet: if she doesn't already have this booklet, it is well worth looking at. The Professor is finally going home today, after two months (!) in the hospital and rehab. He has been working hard in his hospital room to get all the summer and fall scans up on his web site, so it might be worth taking a look. The process of moving his web site to a more permanent location is in the works. It will look different, but the material is all there. I'll let you all know when any changes take place. For now, everything is the same. Tess in Maine, USA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] thanks, and decorating bobbins
Thank you to all those who answered my question about the elastic bans for my bobbin winder :) Isn't modern technology wonderful? :) Anyway, all the men in my family are into model making and one of their new magazines featured an exciting new product. I immediately saw it's worth for lacemaking :) Testors, the company that manufactures plastic paints, has come out with a kit for making your own decals using your computer :) Well, wouldn't that be handy for decorating bobbins? :) You could scan and use family photos, famous paintings, paint full size pictures you painted yourself and reduce them down..the possibilities are endless! The product is Testors Custom Decal Maker. It is quite inexpensive, around $9.99US and that includes the computer software you may need in addition to several hundred guy type designs and two sheets of decal paper. The web-site where there is more information is www.decalgear.comSharon on Vancouver Island -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/174 - Release Date: 11/17/05 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace on TV
Did any of the other UK arachnes watch Bleak House last night? The housekeeper at Chesney Wold, Mrs Rouncewell, was wearing a beautiful Bedfordshire lace collar, on the right sort of dress in the right time period. Kudos to the researchers for getting it right. This production of Bleak House is being shown on the BBC but also has production credits from a US TV company, can't remember the exact name but has Boston in it, so US arachnes should get the chance to see it. Having read the book (by coincidence) immediately before the series started, I can report that it is keeping very close to the book. Worth watching even if it didn't have lace in. -- A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from? Steph Peters, Manchester, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] thanks, and decorating bobbins
Thanks, Sharon! That DOES have some possibilities! Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Original Message] From: rick sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Date: 11/18/2005 2:51:21 PM Subject: [lace] thanks, and decorating bobbins Thank you to all those who answered my question about the elastic bans for my bobbin winder :) Isn't modern technology wonderful? :) Anyway, all the men in my family are into model making and one of their new magazines featured an exciting new product. I immediately saw it's worth for lacemaking :) Testors, the company that manufactures plastic paints, has come out with a kit for making your own decals using your computer :) Well, wouldn't that be handy for decorating bobbins? :) You could scan and use family photos, famous paintings, paint full size pictures you painted yourself and reduce them down..the possibilities are endless! The product is Testors Custom Decal Maker. It is quite inexpensive, around $9.99US and that includes the computer software you may need in addition to several hundred guy type designs and two sheets of decal paper. The web-site where there is more information is www.decalgear.comSharon on Vancouver Island -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/174 - Release Date: 11/17/05 - 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]
Re: [lace] thanks, and decorating bobbins
Oh my, I missed the original post and this **does** sound like fun. BarbE - Original Message - From: Clay Blackwell To: rick sharon ; lace@arachne.com Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:07 PM Subject: RE: [lace] thanks, and decorating bobbins Thanks, Sharon! That DOES have some possibilities! Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Original Message] From: rick sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Date: 11/18/2005 2:51:21 PM Subject: [lace] thanks, and decorating bobbins Thank you to all those who answered my question about the elastic bans for my bobbin winder :) Isn't modern technology wonderful? :) Anyway, all the men in my family are into model making and one of their new magazines featured an exciting new product. I immediately saw it's worth for lacemaking :) Testors, the company that manufactures plastic paints, has come out with a kit for making your own decals using your computer :) Well, wouldn't that be handy for decorating bobbins? :) You could scan and use family photos, famous paintings, paint full size pictures you painted yourself and reduce them down..the possibilities are endless! The product is Testors Custom Decal Maker. It is quite inexpensive, around $9.99US and that includes the computer software you may need in addition to several hundred guy type designs and two sheets of decal paper. The web-site where there is more information is www.decalgear.comSharon on Vancouver Island -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/174 - Release Date: 11/17/05 - 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] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.4/175 - Release Date: 11/18/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace in the movies
it's about 4 or 5 years old. i have the dvd, and if you want the exact date i can look it up. if you do a search on the internet for the original sin with antonio banderas it will give you all the statistics on the movie, but i have tried to get info on the lace and i had no luck. they made a big close up of the lace, so i thought there should be something about it in the credits or an article of the desinger or something. the movie is probably rated R, so don't be shocked!! antonio and angela jolie go a few rounds and it would make any one blush!! --- Diane Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't heard of that movie. I'll have to look for it. Is it fairly new or been around a few years? Diane from suzy in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Spider raffle - winners
Dear friends, I am sure you will be pleased to hear, that my husband kindly drew two names out of the bag, of 99 names, on pieces of paper. I took the opportunity of adding those of you, who continually brighten and enthuse Arachne, but did not ask to be entered in the draw, thinking if one of your names were picked, you would really have a surprise, or could put it forward for raffling again, if you really do not want it, and unbeknown to all of you, there are two Spider pin/broaches. I am happy to say that the winners are first Micki Cameron, if you would please let me have your snail mail address I can post it to you. The second is for Tess, which I was so pleased, as I thought it was something for you Tess, after all your hard effort and the Professor of course, for Arachne. If you can also please let me have your snail mail address, I can post it to you. Thank you all for taking part, Kind regards, Pauline in Somerset. U.K. www.wincanton-uk.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Lace making in the Kimberley
Hi All, Have just had a look at Jenny's site - would be an excellent resource for someone teaching lace with minimal access to resources mary Carey Campbelltown, NSW, Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] getting my lace stuff organized???
Hi all, My lace stuff is all over the place, a little box here, a bigger box there, some in this room, some in that room and that's not talking about the pillows!!! Does anyone have a good organization system that they are willing to share? How do you store all these treasures? Thanks, Irene Whitham Surrey, BC Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] wire gimp
The wire I have is from Michael's Craft Store. It's a box from Toner Plastics, called Fun Wire. It has 22 and 24 gauge wire in 15 coils of about 120 each. Each coil is a different color. This is very soft wire that is easy to bend and shape, yet is strong enough to hold a lace shape when the project is done. The package refers to www.tonerplastics.com so you can probably get more information from the web. Since I didn't buy this from the store, but got it in a class, I can only tell you what I was told about the source. Since I have the package of wire, I decided to try using it in different patterns. Alice in Oregon (new email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Beth McCasland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wire gimp! I wish I thought of that. I'll have to try it on my next one. What kind of wire did you use? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] I'm Away
Dear Spiders Friend Husband and I are off to Georgia for the week, and I will be unsubscribing as soon as I post this. I won't have access to e-mail for the week so want to only have private postings awaiting when I return. You all behave... Happy Lacemaking, Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] G.R.I.T.S
Tamara wrote: Please look at the last paragraph carefully: Just because your children were born in the South doesn't make them Southerners. While I was teaching we had a problem with the son of two of our teachers. They had four sons and been in Australia for a couple of years. The youngest of their sons was born while they were there. He was going on a trip with a group from the school in England to Italy and was going on a group passport as he didn't have one of his own - he'd come back to England from Australia on one of his parents' passports. He didn't go on the school trip because he couldn't be included on the group passport. As far as the authorities were concerned this was for British citizens and he wasn't - his birth certificate was issued in Australia so he was Australian. It had never occurred to his parents that there might be a problem, and they did get his citizenship sorted out (think he might have dual citizenship), but not in time for that school trip. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thanks
Hi Secret Pal, Thanks for this months parcel of goodies. I love the needle case and my aunty who is a lace maker and a bobbin maker will be very jealous when I tell her about the rescued trees! The bobbin is very unusual and I don't have another like it. I also love the spangles and will put them to good use. I had guessed in the end that you must of been here or sent someone else who was over. What a great pity that I missed you and Faye it would of been so lovely to meet you! I was at work but only work a mile away and could of popped home if I'd known you were coming. I'm surprised that you found our house at all ! Friends here have a problem with the aptly named Wigley Road and I'm not surprised you got lost trying to return ! What a fantastic trip you made and you were very lucky to visit so many countries and so many lace places! The past months have gone so quickly and I can't believe next month is the last. Until then, Your Secret Pal, Anne Nicholas Hanworth Middx. England To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Soil or Source
Hello all, Regarding 'place' of birth over 'source' of birth - quotoed from What Makes Canada Cool? www.canadacool.com Ottawa, Ontario - In 1943 Princess Margriet Francisca (younger sister of Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, the current Queen of the Netherlands) was born at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. She is only royal ever to be born in North America. The Dutch Royal Family had fled to Canada in 1940 after the WWII invasion of their country. Among their problems - the expected royal child needed to be delivered on Dutch territory to be a Dutch citizen. So, this one hospital maternity room was temporarily ceded to the Netherlands. Each year Ottawa receives 20,000 tulip bulbs from the Royal Family and the Dutch Bulb Growers, as a thank you for sheltering the Royal Family, and for Canada's help with liberation of the Netherlands during WWII. Each May the gardens of Ottawa burst into bloom and the city celebrates the world's largest tulip festival. About three million flowers blossom in the region, 300,000 of them at Commissioners Park near Dows Lake. As far as ambassadors' children are concerned, is not the embassy considered 'home'land? That is, the Canadian Embassy in whatever country is Canadian soil. Heather in Abbotsford, BC (Pure Canadian soil) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] SP thanks
Thanks to my secret pal in Belgium. The lovely package arrived and was waiting for me when I got home from vacation. Thanks for thinking of me while you were in Spain, I love everything you sent. I can't wait to show my lacemaking friends at our meeting on Sunday. They will be as excited as I am. I'm looking forward to knowing who you are next month. I have thoroughly enjoyed you as my secret pal. Many thanks, Irene Whitham Surrey, BC Canada To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Soil or Source
Hi All, Thank you so much for sending the note about the tulips Heather. What a charming story! I've always seen huge gardens full of tulips on postcards of Ottawa but never knew the story behind them! Jane in Vermont, USA who would love to see all the tulips in bloom in Ottawa some day! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Deja Vu!
On Nov 17, 2005, at 11:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deja vu Very interesting... Year 1981 1. Prince Charles got married 2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe 3. Australia lost the Ashes 4. Pope Died Year 2005 1. Prince Charles got married 2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe 3. Australia lost the Ashes 4. Pope Died In future, if Prince Charles decides to re-marry please warn the Pope!! Can't say about the first 3, but #4 statement in the frist series is incorrect. John Paul II (the Pope who died earlier this year) became Pope not in 1981 but in 1978. I remember it very well, because we - DH, 18months old DS, and I - were in Poland for 5 months (DH's sabbatical) at the time, and the whole country went wild, when his election had been announced. We (the 3) were planning to go to Italy for a couple of weeks to visit friends and had to postpone the trip, because it seemed like half of the country wanted to go for the installation, and not a compartment was to be had on any of the trains going to Rome. And we had to have one, because Danek was so little, and likely to prove a nuisance to other passengers, otherwise. By the time he was 3.5 (1981), he was a seasoned traveller and a very well-behaved child (we took him with us everywhere, which he loved, but with the proviso that he behaved appropriately to the situation, which he did, so as not to be left behind) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
