[lace] I need some lacing help Torchon Pendants by Susanne Thompson

2005-11-28 Thread Celtic Dream Weaver
  I have the book Torchon Lace  Purse Pendants by Susanne Thompson. I have to 
say that first of all Torchon lace is not one of my favorite laces to 
make...but I love these pendants. I have had this book for years nowand I 
keep picking it up and putting it down...and wanting to make some of these 
little purses. The one I want to make is A in the book. It has half stitch 
trails which cross. If anybody has this book can they look at it for me and 
maybe scan the page and make notations on the page to point me in the right 
directions on how to get started on the trails. Does anyone have a how to 
make these trails in any of their lacing books? I hope someone can help me. I 
really want to make these little bagsThank you in advance for all the help 
someone can give to me...
  Sherry
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[lace] BEWARE - Gorgeous Antique Beaded Bone Lace Bobbin * Circa1830 (6224228813)

2005-11-28 Thread kenn van dieren
I just noticed that the bid price on this bobbin has reached $61.00 with 1-1/4 days left for bidding.  While I 
have bought a couple of bobbins listed by her that do look authentic ( I have the same research book too!) I 
think anyone buying this one is getting ripped off.  I did write to her.  What follows is what I stated to 
her.


Gorgeous Antique Beaded Bone Lace Bobbin * Circa1830 (6224228813)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gorgeous-Antique-Beaded-Bone-Lace-Bobbin-Circa1830_W0QQitemZ6224228813QQcategoryZ114QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Concerning the maker of the bobbin and its age, you should note a couple of 
things.

One - the wire looks to new but may have been replaced
two - the bobbin was made to receive the small beads that did not exist in 
Haskins time.  They are new beads.
three - the head style of the bobbin is not like any other of his bobbins.  As a bobbinmaker I would reject 
this bobbin out of hand on this point alone.
four - Even in the photo the bone looks to new a 175+ year old bobbin.  While it may have some age I would 
place this at the 50 - 75 year age tops.  I can create wear, it is the colour that gets you.
five - unless you are traveling to the UK and purchasing these bobbins, you tend to handle far more Haskins 
and Abbots then ever traveled to the US.


This is what I noted and stated as an opinion.  What you do with the information is up to you and your 
conscience and morals.


Kenn Van Dieren
bobbins01

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Bobbins by Van-Dieren
Kenn Van-Dieren
2304 Clifford Avenue
Rochester, NY 14609
Tel: 585.654.5711
Cell: 585.750.8842
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[lace] Help in trying to contact

2005-11-28 Thread Martin and Pam Sharples
I am trying to make contact with Masako Imai from Tokyo, Japan.

If you could contact me directly by email, I would be very grateful as I
only have your mailing address.

Sorry to post this to Arachne lists.

Kind regards

Pam Sharples
England



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[lace] French Translation wanted

2005-11-28 Thread Jean Leader
As usual we are doing a French version of the advent calendar for The 
Lace Guild website, although this year we've had to share out the 
work between different volunteer translators. We are most grateful 
for their efforts, and all is ready for the launch day; however we 
still need someone to translate one of the patterns that comes later.


If you are a native French speaker and have the time to translate a 
lace pattern from English into French we'd like to hear from you.


Jean and David (in Glasgow)
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Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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RE: [lace] I need some lacing help Torchon Pendants by Susanne Thompson

2005-11-28 Thread Clay Blackwell
Hi Pam -

I have the book, and I have actually worked that piece.  But I'm not sure I
understand your dilemma, so if you'll write to me privately, perhaps we can
work this out!

Clay

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 Date: 11/28/2005 1:07:29 PM
 Subject: [lace] I need some lacing help Torchon Pendants by Susanne
Thompson

   I have the book Torchon Lace  Purse Pendants by Susanne Thompson. I
have to say that first of all Torchon lace is not one of my favorite laces
to make...but I love these pendants. I have had this book for years
nowand I keep picking it up and putting it down...and wanting to make
some of these little purses. The one I want to make is A in the book. It
has half stitch trails which cross. If anybody has this book can they look
at it for me and maybe scan the page and make notations on the page to
point me in the right directions on how to get started on the trails. Does
anyone have a how to make these trails in any of their lacing books? I
hope someone can help me. I really want to make these little bagsThank
you in advance for all the help someone can give to me...
   Sherry
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[lace] more joy from New Orleans

2005-11-28 Thread
Gentle Spiders,
I discovered I have a DISGUSTING little problem.  I pulled down my box
(cardboard) of Christmas ornaments that was stored on an upper shelf in the
garage.  No water damage, but roaches, lots and lots of roaches moved in. 
Nasty, disgusting mess that I immediately took outside.  I put on latex
gloves and went through it sorting things.  I have crochet ornaments that I
made over the years (the lace connection) that have yellowed, aren't very
stiff, and frankly any textile in the box that I can wash, I want to.  So,
my question - I used fabric stiffener (glue type) after I made them.  Can I
wash them then restiffen them?  I really don't want to wear latex gloves
when I decorate the tree, but I will this year!  The ornaments have been
wiped off, and are in plastic storage containers with tight fitting lids -
to contain any more evil bugs that I didn't find.  How can I or should I
fumigate and/or clean the ornaments?  My collection is a mix of of all
mediums (paper, glass, fabric, metal...) that I've been collecting over the
past 30 years.

For future storage I'll be investing in a plastic tote that SEALS!

Beth McCasland
Metairie, Louisiana, USA
where rain is coming off the Gulf of Mexico

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[lace] A gorgeous rainy day :)

2005-11-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall

Gentle Spiders,

The temperatures have risen somewhat since yesterday, and we decided 
not to turn on the heat. So I was sitting and shivering, then looking 
out the window and shivering some more - we're having another non-stop 
rain (26 hours to date) - when DH brought in the mail, and in it 
something with a Spanish stamp he said, as he tossed it on my pillow.


It was my Christmas exchange card from Pam Mattioli and, oh, what a 
splendiferous thing it is! I hope that Pam has sent a scan of it to 
Barbara, because I'm not sure my photography will do it justice, though 
I'll do my best (couldn't do it today; the light was just too dismal, 
and I don't like using the flash for lace).


I think the whole card is home-made. At least, I've never seen anything 
like it anywhere. It's a Christmas-red three-fold, with a cathedral 
window cut out in two of them. On the front, the window is outlined 
with an ornamental, gold, paper (?) braid, there are 4 gold ornamental 
corners and Happy Christmas above the window.


Between the two cut out folds, there's a stained glass window: red, 
royal blue, green and yellow panes, soldered together in gold, 
surround a figure of a praying angel (mostly white glass, with yellow 
wings). It's lovely already, and yet, it's only the environment... :)


On top of the stained-glass angel, there's the real one - in lace! An 
8cmx5.5cm (3.25x2.25) piece of Point Ground lace, white, with a gold 
thread woven into its frame,  has an angel at its centre. The piece 
matches the window (all but the arch) and the angel (head and torso in 
net, wings in honeycomb ground, skirt in mayflowers) matches the one in 
the window - it took me a while to realise the two windows were made 
independently... :)


In her note, Pam wrote: The design is one I did for PBLC in 1997 and 
she sent me the pricking as well. I don't know who or what PBLC is, but 
he/she/it is lucky :)


She also wrote: I hope you like the card. Like You don't apply 
a bland word like that to something as beautiful as this :) DH, when 
shown it (took me a couple of hours to contain myself g), summed it 
up beautifully: You _scored_. Big time. You'll need to do better 
yourself next year.


Many, many thanks Pam; I'm _enchanted_; you've turned a dismal rainy 
day into a glowingly happy one. I'm not yet sure where she'll (I agree; 
it's a she g) end up dwelling - I think she's too fragile to hang on 
the tree by herself; I may hang the whole card. At the moment, she's 
propped up near the pillow, so I can gloat :)


And thanks to Bev for organising this exchange and giving me such a 
wonderful sender. Though I feel almost guilty for having received this 
card; I'd have been happy with less,  honest, I would... And I now feel 
bad about someone else _not_ getting it, as well as worrying about my 
recipient, who'll be getting a pretty card, but nothing as beautiful as 
this. And it's still raining :)


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Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
 
 


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Re: [lace] A gorgeous rainy day :)

2005-11-28 Thread Helen
Poole Bobbin Lace Circle??  Perhaps someone who's actually a member 
rather than someone like me who only grew up in the area can agree or 
disagree with me! :o)


Helen

At 01:13 29/11/2005, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
In her note, Pam wrote: The design is one I did for PBLC in 1997 
and she sent me the pricking as well. I don't know who or what PBLC 
is, but he/she/it is lucky :)




Helen, Somerset, UK

Forget the formulae, let's make lace



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[lace] Marg. Hamer Books.

2005-11-28 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Helen referred to the Margaret Hamer booklets.  There are 6 of them, 2 each 
in Torchon, Beds, and Bucks laces.
They are designed for complete beginners, and some have pattern sheets at 
the back.
There is also a similar booklet on Mounting and Finishing Lace, by Hamer and 
Waller.


Regards from Liz in Melbourne
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[lace] BEWARE - Gorgeous Antique Beaded Bone Lace Bobbin * Circa1830

2005-11-28 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
I, too, don't think it looks That old!   If it is - well it has not made 
much lace! :)


I browsed the sellers other stuff  (clicked on the Elegant ArtsAntiques, - 
Needlework tools)- and on Page 2 of the list, I came across another bone 
bobbin dated 1850 which Does look to be that age.  I had to click on the 
little camera to get the picture, but it is going for $9 at the moment.


Regards from Liz in Melbourne
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[lace-chat] Lace license plates

2005-11-28 Thread Jean Nathan

Tamara wrote:

For non-US Arachneans who, doubtless, are reading this and are
*appalled* at our frivolity... :)

Not really. In the UK the price of personalised number plates varies, but 
you can only choose from plates that already exist but are not assigned to a 
car already. You can sell your plate if you happen to get one that's worth 
selling.


Even with a personalised plate, there are rules about the quantity of 
numbers and letters, and the spacing of them is fixed. The plate is illegal 
if it doesn't confirm to the correct spacing, and you can be prosecuted. 
There's a combination of letters and numbers, with the older plates having a 
space between the groups of letters and groups of numbers. The age of the 
car and where it's registered is coded in the plate.


My previous car's plate was L 639 PYD, and the spacing's fixed. The L at the 
beginning indicates the year it was first registered (1994), the following 
year was M and so on. The numbers are random, and the group of three letters 
shows where it was first registered to those who know - you can look them up 
to see where if you're that interesteds. During the 70s and 80s, the single 
letter was at the end. When they were all used up, the single letter was 
moved to the beginning.


My current car is HD 54 BJV - H means it was first registered in the 
Dorset/Hampshire area, D is the registration office in the town of 
Bournemouth (A-J is Bournemouth, K-Z is Southampton). 5 indicates between 
September and April (0 is between April and September), the 4 indicates 2004 
(April to September 2005 would therefore be 05, September 2005 to April 2006 
would be 55). The three letters are random.


You can buy a personalised plate, or transfer one you you already have to a 
different car, but it must not give the impression that the car is younger 
than it really is. So I could transfer the number from my previous car to 
the new one, but not transfer the number from the current car to one first 
registered in say the year 2000.


So-called celebrities frequently have personalised plates Bruce Forsythe has 
the plate BF 1 (from before year letters were included) - to most people BF 
means 'b* fool'. Dudley Moore had DUD 1.


The Department of Vehicle Licensing has a whole list of plates available for 
sale, prices depending on whether they think the combinatiom of letters and 
numbers would be really popular or not.


Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 


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[lace-chat] Arachne etc

2005-11-28 Thread Laceandbits
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the address but you have to sign on and I don't 
remember how I did that!
Try sending an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  with a line reading subscribe 
lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]  If that doesn't work come back to me and I'll try 
to find out another route.  You should get a post with the courtesy rules for 
the board and the address for the archive etc.

Is this the same Sutton where the Cheffin's Sutton saleground is?  I think it 
must be.  We go there a couple of tiems a year to their vintage tractor 
sales.  My DH collects various assorted vintage farm stuff.

The circular sock machines are dating from the 1870s to the 1930s (there are 
a few newer ones, but very few) and work basically like a normal knitting 
machine but with a cylindrical layout.  Have a look at this website 
(http://www.oldtymestockings.com/SockMachineMuseum.html) to get an idea what 
they look like. 
 We have just come back from the first UK meeting of 
C(ircular)S(ock)M(achine)ers which was in Bournemouth.  We had people from 
across the country and 
Switzerland, the US and Canada.  An excellent weekend.  Mostly very expensive 
to 
buy on e-bay but we have got most of ours from farm sales and the like, at 
sensible prices.  They knit socks and anything else you can think of that needs 
a 
tube.  They can also do flat knitting but only narrowish strips so for a 
cardigan you'd have lots of seams :-(

I do and teach mostly bobbin lace but can do and teach needlelace.  I teach 
most bobbin laces, but Milanese is what I am in most demand for.

I'm 54 and newly married since Valentine's day (corny, I know, but it was the 
start of half term week and Richard's a teacher too) with husband #2, after 7 
years together.  Live in Stamford, but would love to be very, very rural.

Bye for now, as I'm supposed to be catching up on washing and other boring 
stuff after not being at home much for what seems like weeks now.

Jacquie

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[lace-chat] Re: Lacy car licence plates

2005-11-28 Thread Clay Blackwell
Mine is BBNLACE, BA's is DOLACE, Kay's is MKNLACE (mine before I learned that 
it was her email address and people assumed my car was hers!)  Any time you go 
to the NCRL meeting, there are always a lot of tags in the parking lot, but I 
don't remember most of them.

C

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Sent: Nov 27, 2005 10:46 PM
To: chat Arachne lace-chat@arachne.com
Subject: Lacy car licence plates

On Nov 27, 2005, at 16:31, Janice Blair wrote:

 I know that Tamara has T N LACE on her car plate but I was wondering  
 if anyone can think of a good lacemaking personalized plate.  I used  
 to have ALIEN when I first came to the U.S. because I had to carry an  
 Alien card around with me.  I am now a citizen so that does not apply  
 but the only thing I can think of is LACE MKR and that has been taken  
 in Illinois.  Do you have a personalized lacemaking plate in your  
 state or can you bright spiders think of anything related to Bobbin  
 Lace or Tatting that would make a good plate?  Send them to the chat  
 list as it has been quiet in recent weeks, maybe we can come up with a  
 list of them for future reference. I believe if it includes a number  
 the plate is cheaper.

First off... Congratulaions on your citizenship - it's a heady feeling,  
when you exchange that Visa card/drivers licence look-alike for a real  
passport, no? g

I actually wanted TLACE for my car (once I learnt to drive, that is  
g) but, can you believe it? It was already taken in VA (I think by  
Tamara Webb, near DC)... You probably should come to Ithaca one year -  
the parking lot of the hotel is *full* of cars with personalized  
licence plates related to lacemaking and all are imaginative - you  
could maybe find one from another state that you could borrow for  
yours.

I'm Bcc-ing this to two Virginians - both of whom have lace-related  
plates and both of whom have loads of imagination, so might create more  
plate suggestions. Also to some other US-Arachneans who are not on  
lace-chat and of whose car plates I have no knowledge, but who tend to  
have bright ideas. And, to my DS, who's a long-suffering lace-orphan,  
with an unseemly liking for puns and other word-games... :)

As far as I know, in VA, it makes no difference whether it's all  
letters/symbols or all numbers - the price for a personalized set of  
plates is the same. But, if a number is likely to lower the price in  
Illinois... How about:
LACE4ME
TAT4FUN

No numbers:
B-L-ACE (alternatively: BL ACE, but I like the first better)
BLDZINE
JANSBL
LACEBUG (best on the smallest Volksvagen, to keep 'em guessin' g)

I'd also talk to teenagers; what with their cell texting, they're  
real whizzes at scrunching words down to the absolute minimum :) I  
don't know what the limit is in Illinois, but in VA it's (I think) 8  
characters (letters, symbols, numbers, spaces) for most plates, but 7  
for some others, so I stuck with 7 as the limit, to be on the safe  
side.

For non-US Arachneans who, doubtless, are reading this and are  
*appalled* at our frivolity... :) Unlike in many other countries,  
personalized licence plates here are dirt cheap. The prices vary, from  
state to state, but no state charges enough to feed an African village  
for a year as one of my UK correspondents wrote once, fulminating...  
In VA, they're probably cheaper than anywhere else - $50 on top of the  
usual plate fee, but only the first time around. Afterwards, you pay -  
once a year (a small discount if you pay for 2 yrs at a time g) -  
only for the stickers, like everyone else. So, we play around with the  
plates' messages a lot...

My first set was: NU2THIS - a fair warning, though only people who'd  
seen me try to parallel park fully understood it :)
My second set was MBVLENT - I learnt to drive late and against my  
better judgement.
The third set I wanted I never got; my DS still shared the car with me  
at the time, and he objected to driving one which said FMK9 (a femme  
canine = bitch). So I came up with TNLACE, and was asked: why  
Tennessee lace, if you're in Virginia? (TN is short for Tennessee,  
like VA is short for Virginia). The next - and last - set was T N LACE.

My DH is only on his second set of personalized plates; he resisted the  
craze for quite a while :) The current one, which he acquired at  
retirement, says: 2DLDDUV. Nobody can interpret it correctly, which  
ticks him off, but he's too lazy to  think up another one :) He *says*  
that, when he was young, toodleedee meant goodbye. So the whole  
says goodbye, Duv (all). I'm too young and too foreign to either  
confirm or disprove his claim :)

My favourite licence plates...

QT. Seen in Norfolk, VA, and the girl driving the car was really good  
looking :)
PB4UGO. Spotted in Lexington. The man said they had 4 kids, all under  
12, and that that was what his wife said every time they were planning  
to go somewhere as a family.
TH8ER. Another local plate, on a car 

[lace-chat] Whoops - Apologies to all

2005-11-28 Thread Laceandbits
I am so sorry to send a private message to chat!!!

As you may be able to deduce, I got the arachne address from my address book 
to copy and paste into the body of the letter, and then forgot to change it at 
the top.  Good job I didn't  say anything rude.

Jacquie, red-faced in Lincolnshire

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[lace-chat] Fairy help

2005-11-28 Thread harlequin lace
Hi All
Thank you for your offers of help with obtaining a fairy.It is very much
appreciated.
Happy Lacemaking
Sue (in Southampton U.K.)
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Re: [lace-chat] Lace license plates

2005-11-28 Thread Scotlace
The car with the number plate ER 2 lives in my small town.  it belongs to 
local restaurateur Eddie Rabbiotti.

Patricia in Wales
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[lace-chat] Help in trying to contact

2005-11-28 Thread Martin and Pam Sharples
I am trying to make contact with Masako Imai from Tokyo, Japan.

If you could contact me directly by email, I would be very grateful as I
only have your mailing address.

Sorry to post this to Arachne lists.

Kind regards

Pam Sharples
England



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[lace-chat] Re: Lace license plates

2005-11-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall

On Nov 28, 2005, at 17:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patricia in Wales) wrote:

The car with the number plate ER 2 lives in my small town.  it belongs 
to

local restaurateur Eddie Rabbiotti.


And _not_ to Queen Elizabeth the 2nd when she's off to Wales for 
holidays??? How funny... :) You figure there's more to it than just 
intitials? Like, maybe, a play on the word queen? An whence the 2?


Love it, thanks.
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[lace-chat] Fwd: Lacy car licence plates

2005-11-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
OK, you've seen a direct response from one of the people I'd BCCd  the 
message to. Which, BTW, is something worth of note: it confirms the 
old rule, which goes back to the original split of Arachne into 
Arachne-lace and Arachne-lace-chat: you have to be subscribed to both 
lists in order to _read_ the messages posted on both, but subscrition 
to only one list gets you _posting_ priviledges on both.



From: R.P.


I always wanted the plate
1 2 PLAY
but in California you pay extra every year for vanity plates, like
$35/year.

For lacemakers?
BBNLACE
MAK LACE
BOBNTAT
CTC
SHTLBUG

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[lace-chat] Asterisks: Was: Re: [lace] Re: Danish translation, please?

2005-11-28 Thread Joy Beeson
Moved to Chat for topic drift:  

At 12:49 AM 11/28/05 -0500, Tamara P Duvall wrote:

In the old  PC language, stars signify italics, and it's _xyz_ which 
signify underlines, so I've  been PC un-PC until y'all called me on it. 
But the PC PC underline is both harder to achieve and less visible, so 
I'd as soon return to the old - PC-wise un-PC - version... 

Current usage seems to be to use asterisks for *emphasis* -- because, as you 
note, they are more visible than underscores, and because they have a history 
of being used for emphasis in print media -- _*H*Y*M*A*N*   *K*A*P*L*A*N*_, for 
example -- and to use underscores when _underlines_ are specifically wanted, 
which allows a useful distinction between emphasis and, for example, the titles 
of books.  

A word which is starred in ASCII would be underlined in handwriting or  
typescript, but would be set in italics if printed, so using italic codes to 
indicate underlining doesn't strike me as any more reprehensible than using 
underlining to indicate italics, which is the convention in typescript.   

I don't know what the manuscript protocol is if you really do want the passage 
underlined.  There are special underlines to indicate ~boldface~ and =small 
caps=, but my abbreviated list of proofreaders' marks doesn't say anything 
about underline.  I don't, just offhand, recall ever seeing an underlined 
passage in a printed book -- maybe you *can't* indicate underlining in a 
manuscript.   

(There is also an ASCII code for strike-through:  put a string of ^Hs after the 
word to be stricken.  This is a remnant of an early system in which control-H 
was a backspace.)

The only difficulty with using stars as emphasis is that it leads to confusion 
when stars are also used as asterisks.  I try to use [1] instead of * -- 
which works, really, only when you also have a [2].  Sometimes I remove the 
breathless emphasis when I add a footnote.

Speaking of footnotes -- there's an interesting convention on the SF hierarchy 
of Usenet of using a star in square brackets ([*]) as an abbreviation for I 
did not understand that remark; please provide the footnote.   

OB off-color:  I used to know a bit of doggerel that ended:  Wasn't Mary a 
perfect fool, her little *.

-- 
Joy Beeson
http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/
http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM 
http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ 
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
where it's wet and cold

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