[lace] Getting to NEC Lace Fair from NA
Bev wrote: i propose you all in the UK adopt one of us in NA and we go on a road trip to next year's NEC. you can then watch us contribute to your local economy vbg Unfortunately the only airline travelling from/to the west of the UK into Birmingham International airport (which has a shuttle service into the National Exhibition Centre) appears to be Air Transat out of Toronto. Don't know if it's a no-frills organisation or not. I know that quite a lot of people fly to New York for Christmas shopping, so there must be some cheapish flights to/from there to somewhere in the UK. Trouble with the rest of the US would be the cost of getting to New York to then get a cheap flight across the pond. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Godmother's present
Hi everyone I made an initial C for a little girl called Calista in Honiton in 120 thread, put it in a silver frame on red velvet. It looked marvellous, you could make a letter in a different sort of lace and it would be quite effective Good luck from sunny Australia - Yahoo! Personals Let fate take it's course directly to your email. See who's waiting for you Yahoo! Personals - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Godmother's present
Hello Julie Is there a chance to see a picture of it? Dorte - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: winner of Advent Raffle (stamps)
Hello Lacefriends, Here I am again after a wonderful weekend in Berlin with three very interesting art exhibitions. There were nearly fourty lacers intersted in winning the stamps before I left HH. I put them all in my little top-hat which was full now. Yesterday evening I found new ones in my mail-box and the last ones arrived during the night. At the end 53, oh dear, and only one stamp-block. Because they were to much for the hat I pulled out a big wonderful treasure-box blue outside, white inside. I did all names in it and after breakfast ask DP to find out the winner. And the winner is:tralalala:Lisa McClure CONGRATULATION And for the others.: to take part is the pleasure Lisa please send your snail-mail-adress that I can send the stamps to you. Greetings Ilske from Hamburg in Germany - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Christchurch
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 22:49 +, Jean Nathan wrote: Helen wrote: To me, Christchurch has always been part of Dorset! :o) Poole has always been Dorset. Bournemouth, which is next door to (east of Poole) used to be in Hampshire, but is now in Dorset, much to a lot of people's disgust. So I'm not sure if Christchurch, which is next to Bournemouth (east of it) is still in Hampshire or if it 'moved' west with Bournemouth into Dorset. Jean in Poole, definitely in Dorset, UK My daughter lives in Christchurch and her adress names Christchurch- Dorset Alix reom Luxembourgh - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lace-digest V2005 #380
another version is he told the father to put the girls' shoes/socks (it varies) outside - and the next morning there were gold coins in the shoes/socks. I like to think that is the source of the tradition of putting gold-foil-covered chocolate coins in the children's stockings at Christmas. Hi all, As kids we always put our shoe in the window and in the morning there was chocolates in it. We did this for about 10 nights before Christmas. My parents are Danish so it must be a tradition there/then! Thanks for bringing back this memory!! From a snowy Surrey, BC Irene Whitham - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] New Book by Angela Thompson
Our Arachne, Angela! Her book has finally been published by Batsford in England, ISBN 0-7134-8953-7, and is available there. It will come out in 2006 in the United States. It is called Embroiderer's and Quilter's Sourcebook. Excellent photography. Ninety percent of 1,000 color images are of items in Angela's private collection. A beautiful book, but with a limited presentation of lace. Contact me privately for further information. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Collecting lace
Hi, Does anyone know the highest price ever payed for a piece of lace? Tiny - Original Message - From: Jane Viking Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:52 AM Subject: [lace] Collecting lace Hi Tiny Dell and All, You didn't say what country you live in but in the US I find some nice pieces of lace in Junque stores. Not antique shops but places with old stuff, some have different dealers with booths in one large store. I've gotten some nice pieces from eBay but you have to be very careful. Ithaca Lace Days and the IOLI Conventions always have lace dealers in the vendors room and it's wonderful to see what they have! One of the best things I've done is to make sure everyone I know (and have ever met) knows that I love lace so I've been given some amazing pieces. I've always done fiber arts and many years ago a friend gave me a box of lace she found in the trash behind an antique store. It's only been the last few years that I've known what I have! As has already been mentioned, a good lace ID book is also needed. I particularly like Guide to Lace and Linens by Elizabeth Kurella ISBN 0-930625-89-7 and The Identification of Lace by Pat Earnshaw ISBN 0-85263-701-2. Santina Levey's book Lace - A History is fabulous but quite expensive, you could try getting it through Interlibrary loan. Being a book collector I like to have as many as I can because they all have different things to say about the laces and different pictures. I love having bits and pieces of different kinds of lace and they're very handy if you do a demonstration. You can show people the different kinds when they say my aunt used to do that. Now I *try* to focus on the tape laces like Battenberg though I found a cool piece in Denver that is cut work - one corner of the pattern is finished and another is started with a heavy piece of something basted behind it. I love partially done pieces of lace G. I also bought myself a little Point de Gaze butterfly. Since I took Irma Osterman's class in Ithaca last year I have a new appreciation of PdG and the Butterfly wasn't too expensive. I also know it will be some years (if ever) before I make my own PdG butterfly! Taking a lace ID class will really open the world up for you too!! I don't seem to sit down and read the books I have and it's not the same as having a teacher and many pieces of lace to look at while you're hearing about how the lace is made and how it differs from other laces and about its history. Arachne is a good place to learn about different laces too!! I was so happy with the recent Sprang discussion - the piece from the museum was fabulous!! But the name always makes me smile for some reason so I love when it resurfaces G. Jane in Vermont, USA where the leaves outside my windows are all yellow - looks like a sunny day even when it's cloudy! [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] card exchange
Hi Bev, I know the deadline is tomorrow for the card exchange, and I have sent and received my cards already, but I cannot find the email that I know I saved regarding the email address that we are to send our scans to for the web page. Can you repeat that information as I am sure I am not the only one to be forgetful. I will send a scan of the card I sent to Martina De Wille, in Schmidmuhlen, Germany. Jeanette, in Kleinmond, South Africa, would you like me to scan the card I received or have you sent a scan off already? Your card will go up with my other lace cards tomorrow as I am in the process of decorating my home for Christmas as I have a big party for my English group next Sunday, 29 for dinner! Lots of lace already on the tree but I have to collect other pieces that are on permanent exhibit around the house to add to them. Thanks, Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] card exchange
I can fill in a bit of the information, and it's probably a good idea to furnish it to all. Please send a scan or photo of your lace--the one you made and/or the one you received to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. It would be interesting to learn a little more about the lace, such as who made it, to whom it was sent, what thread, the name of the designer, etc. I'll be happy to post almost anything you'd like to include. I have received a good number of scans (can't recall if I received one from Jeanette, and I'm not at the computer that has the scans on it, so I can't check right now), but am eager for more. So please get out that camera or scanner and join in the fun! Today I received an absolutely wonderful card from my lace exchange partner in England, Andrea Lamble. It's a darling multi-colored robin, and you'll all get to see him in a couple of weeks when the web site goes up. Bev, thank you so much for organizing this year's exchange. What fun! :-) Barbara Joyce Snoqualmie, WA USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Bev, I know the deadline is tomorrow for the card exchange, and I have sent and received my cards already, but I cannot find the email that I know I saved regarding the email address that we are to send our scans to for the web page. Can you repeat that information as I am sure I am not the only one to be forgetful. I will send a scan of the card I sent to Martina De Wille, in Schmidmuhlen, Germany. Jeanette, in Kleinmond, South Africa, would you like me to scan the card I received or have you sent a scan off already? Your card will go up with my other lace cards tomorrow as I am in the process of decorating my home for Christmas as I have a big party for my English group next Sunday, 29 for dinner! Lots of lace already on the tree but I have to collect other pieces that are on permanent exhibit around the house to add to them. Thanks, Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ - 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] card exchange/send digi-photos
Hi everyone, Thank you Barbara for the photo destination again: Please send a scan or photo of your lace--the one you made and/or the one you received to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. It would be interesting to learn a little more about the lace, such as who made it, to whom it was sent, what thread, the name of the designer, etc. I'll be happy to post almost anything you'd like to include. Bev, thank you so much for organizing this year's exchange. What fun! :-) You are welcome - it has been for me, and fun to have someone willing to post the pictures! Great to hear from you, Janice. I have high hopes that everyone else has sent theirs, and all the cards will be received soon! -- bye for now Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] last reminder for lace card exchange!
Hi everyone, most especially those in the lace card exchange - you've all made your cards right? and sent them, or getting them to the PO asap?!! If you forgot to take a scan or digiphoto before mailing, perhaps your recipient can do so, and e-mail the picture to Barbara [EMAIL PROTECTED] who will post them to her website later on, after everyone has received their cards. Yes it has been fun. There were 53 pairings; some were in the cycle of A sending to Be sending to C Z sending to A - and others were directly paired when the cycle system got complicated. Now my Christmas wish is that everyone completed their part of the exchange ;) If, by December 20 you haven't received a card, please contact me -- bye for now Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] card exchange
Hi all, I sent my exchange card away to Australia today. I hope it has a safe trip overseas. I received a lovely card in the mail today from Dianne Taylor of Dunlap Tennessee. I will hang my red and gold BL candle on our tree when we get it up. I love having a new lace treasure to hang on the tree. Thank you Dianne, it is very pretty. Please e-mail me your e-mail address so I can thank you more personally? Now I'm really getting in the Holiday spirit, getting a pretty Christmas treasure on top of the very cold snap that has hit here. Puts me in a very Christmassy mood. Well, back to knitting furiously on the latest sweater project, this on for a young nephew. I think I may add a star to this one even though it isn't on the pattern. Suede yarn feels sooo good! Michele Hitch in chilly Salinas, California [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Antique Bone Fansticks
I have bought two sets of antique fansticks, both made of bone, one of which has gold paint decoration on it. They both have the old, very dirty and torn, fanleaves on them, which I want to remove so that I can make my own bobbin lace to attach. Could anyone please tell me the safest way to remove the remains of the old fanleaves without damaging the bone? Thank you. Dee Palin Gloucestershire To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Antiwue Bone Fansticks - Again!
I forgot to mention that one of the sticks is broken about an inch from the top. What glue can I safely use to repair it, please? Thank you. Dee Palin Gloucestershire To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Peeling mushrooms
Hi Jane et al, My mum also still peels mushrooms, but I don't - but mum still does the mushrooms her way when she comes to our house!I am a bit too impatient to peel them, and I decided long ago that the heat in the cooking would kill off any bugs that are lurking, and washing them will get rid of the mould they are grown in! Carol - in Suffolk UK. - Original Message - From: Jane Viking Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: chat lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 10:11 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Peeling mushrooms To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Observations...
Hi All, I was demonstrating on Friday evening, after a horrendous trip back to Suffolk from Wales on Thursday, so probably not at my best but There I was, showing some youngsters on the 'Have-a-Go' pillows how to make lace, and explaining as they went along. Imagine my surprise to be tapped on the shoulder by a lady I had not seen standing behind me, who asked why the workers on the snake were black. (I had just told the child that the workers were the ones which did the work, and they went back and forth down the pricking.) I told the lady in question they were black because I wanted a different colour for the workers, and the bobbins on that pillow were ordinary wood, but if she looked at the other 'Have-a-Go' pillow, the workers were medium coloured wood. and the passives were ebony. She pursed her lips, and 'hmmm-ed' a bit, and when I asked her why she wanted to know, she said that she had hoped that the workers were not black because the slaves were black and did all the work. I am still not sure whether she was taking political correctness to extremes, whether she was being humorous (?), or whether she really did feel that making lace had racist undertones - but she did stop me in my tracks, and made me wonder if I ought to think carefully about what colour and shape my worker and passive bobbins are in future. Carol - in Suffolk UK. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Observations...
was the woman black? i think she might have taken the political correctness a little too far. although i have not researched lace so thouroghly that i would know for sure, but i have never seen an article where lace was made by the slaves or maids. it was the aristocrats who were only allowed to make lace for a while. the poor were not allowed to make lace at all. maybe she was just being a little crazy over the situation. --- Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I told the lady in question they were black because I wanted a different colour for the workers, and the bobbins on that pillow were ordinary wood, but if she looked at the er 'Have-a-Go' pillow, the workers were medium coloured wood. and the passives were ebony. She pursed her lips, and 'hmmm-ed' a bit, and when I asked her why she wanted to know, she said that she had hoped that the workers were not black because the slaves were black and did all the work. I am still not sure whether she was taking political correctness to extremes, whether she was being humorous (?), or whether she really did feel that making lace had racist undertones - but she did stop me in my tracks, and made me wonder if I ought to think carefully about what colour and hape my worker and passive bobbins are in future. Carol - in Suffolk UK. from suzy in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs 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
Dear Brenda, Please write to me, since we have changed from dial up to dsl. I have lost most all my contacts, I need everybody's addresses to fill up my address book. But I need my secret pals address one last time so I can mail out her package. Thank you, Lynn [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: Peeling mushrooms
Hi All, Thanks for all the comments on peeling mushrooms. Except for old ones I have now peeled my last mushroom VBG. I even bought a mushroom brush today (I was in the hardware store and it appeared right in front of me). Anything to make cooking a little faster is much appreciated! Regarding Perfectionism- I think it serves no useful purpose. I try to strive for perfect only when I'm making lace and then I know there is really no such thing as perfect so I do the best I can. I can't remember if my mother peeled mushrooms or not. It just seemed like what my family would have done so there is no rut there. I know my mother peeled the carrots before cooking them. That I stopped doing after I met DH and found out not everybody does. I just give them a scrub. Actually he would like some peels left on the potatoes when I mash them but I usually forget and peel them completely. He's a good DH though because he just wants his dinner and doesn't complain about what it is VBG. Jane in Vermont, USA where it got into the 40s today (5+C) and melted some of the snow. [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] Observations...
Dear Carol, I just came back on lace-chat after being away awhile - have stayed on lace, and want to make a comment on this. Bloody well use whatever you want! I would have asked the dolt, I wonder why anything black bothers you...Do you have black kin in your heritage? She would have crept away never to comment to a lacemaker again... We meet this sort of inuendos constantly in the South and ignore it as most of the educated, non-militant blacks do as well. The militant whites are worse than the militant blacks. Here in Virginia, my close friend is black and I do not call her Afro-American any more than I call Friend Husband English-American or Haslemere-Surrey-English-Conneticut-American. . We ignore the militant whites who use the Confederate Battle Flag to incite and stir a pot that has been off the fire many, many years. So...Ignore Happy Lacemaking Betty Ann Rice in Roanoke, Virginia USA where it is happily snowing - Original Message - From: Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Hi All, There I was, showing some youngsters on the 'Have-a-Go' pillows how to make lace, and explaining as they went along. Imagine my surprise to be tapped on the shoulder by a lady I had not seen standing behind me, who asked why the workers on the snake were black. She pursed her lips, and 'hmmm-ed' a bit, and when I asked her why she wanted to know, she said that she had hoped that the workers were not black because the slaves were black and did all the work. ...but she did stop me in my tracks, and made me wonder if I ought to think carefully about what colour and shape my worker and passive bobbins are in future. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Peeling mushrooms
Hi Jane, I remember being told not to wash mushrooms but I can remember why, maybe it was if you were going to fry them. I usually cut of the end of the stem and rinse them under running water as I always forget that I have a mushroom brush at the bottom of my sink untensil jar. I had a decorative vase for putting my scrub brush and cloths, etc., in that I kept on the corner of the sink top, very hand, but being clumsy recently I broke it. I replaced it with a smaller white vase and the mushroom brush took up too much room and the other stuff tended to fall out, so this evening I stuck the brush in the cupboard under the sink. Maybe I should rescue it and add it to my pillow tools. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Teddy bear game
Does anyone know the URL for the stack of teddy bears that you click on and they fall down? An inane game that keeps tiny minds occupied for a while!! I have the bubble wrap game, but can't find the teddy bear stack. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz [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: Observations...
On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:19, Carol Adkinson wrote: She pursed her lips, and 'hmmm-ed' a bit, and when I asked her why she wanted to know, she said that she had hoped that the workers were not black because the slaves were black and did all the work. I am still not sure whether she was taking political correctness to extremes, whether she was being humorous (?) My bet would be like Betty Ann's (welcome back to chat, BA. I'll adjust your joke-list membership in a minute) - a PC fa-nut-ic, taking a (basically decent) principle to absurd lengths. And fanatics have no sense of humour, either individually or as a group... *Especially* as a group g It may be an apocryphal story, but I've been told that, at an early point of 'puter explosion, some spell-checks were also PC-checks; some replaced *every* black with Afro-American, coming up with text absurdities such as Afro-American ink... she did stop me in my tracks, and made me wonder if I ought to think carefully about what colour and shape my worker and passive bobbins are in future. Cheese, Louise... Surely, you have more commonsense than worry about a nut? She'd have found something to carp on no matter what colour or shape (whips, anyone?) your bobbins were... Brown ones - Latinos, Native Indians - aren't any better than black ones as workers, if you're gonna push the idea to the extreme edge. Come to think of it... There's *no* PC-safe solution :) If all your bobbins (passives and workers) are black: of course, you want all your work done by the downtrodden, without dirtying your fingers If your passives are light wood and workers are black: you put all the work load onto the downtrodden, with the whites living the life of Riley If your passives are black and your workers are white: sure, keep the blacks passive and voiceless, with the single white lording over them If your pillow is dressed in a mix of white, black and brown bobbins: you pretend to be without prejudices, but I notice that some -- the whites -- have a lighter job than others Given a true fanatic, it's hard to win an argument. Given a true fanatic with a modicum of brains (a rare occurence, but happens), it's almost impossible to win... I'd store it as one of those priceless experiences, to dine out on for years (have some of my own, mostly collected from the citizenship application form. Unfortunatley, very few Americans find them funny, though Europeans invariably do g)... On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:52, suzy wrote: although i have not researched lace so thouroghly that i would know for sure, but i have never seen an article where lace was made by the slaves or maids. it was the aristocrats who were only allowed to make lace for a while. the poor were not allowed to make lace at all. Um... Suz, I think you got the wrong tiger by the tail... The sumptuary laws (in Europe) forbade anyone but aristocracy to *wear* the lace; anyone was allowed to *make* it and, indeed, the poor often did - it was one way of relieving poverty. As for slaves making lace... There's very little record that they did, but neither is there any record to the contrary; there was very little lace made in US at the time, period. The domestic slaves did things like mending and sewing and some embroidery (how likely is it that the lady of the house embroidered all the big ticket items like testers, bed-covers, etc?). There's no reason why a domestic slave with skill for textiles might not have been taught lacemaking, if the owner could teach it. A skilled slave was worth more in a re-sale value than a field-hand (it's the same today; college-educated folk earn, in general, about twice as much as highschool drop-outs, according to the business/economy sections of NYTimes), so it was in the owner's interest to push such education (even discounting the immediate profit in the form of what such slave would produce for the owner's use). On the slave's side, having a skill was a way to eke out a slightly higher standing as well as a slightly less onerous lot in life, so they would not have objected to being trained... My husband has some furniture which had been slave-made on the plantation his ancestors used to hold. It's known as Uncle Alexander's table (chairs, bed, etc), made by Jimmy. The Jimmy in question was a highly-prized slave, because he could carve wood into beautiful shapes. But, when he could carve no longer, he wasn't sold off into a more physically demanding servitude; he stayed at the estate, teaching other slaves. -- 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]
[lace-chat] Re: Peeling mushrooms (and other things)
On Dec 5, 2005, at 16:57, Jane Viking Swanson wrote: I know my mother peeled the carrots before cooking them. That I stopped doing after I met DH and found out not everybody does. I just give them a scrub. Given the reports on how good the peel is for you, I considered doing the same.No matter how much I scrub, the d...d carrots taste earthy if not peeled, so, unless I'm aiming at that earthy aspect, I peel them. Ditto the taters, beets, and all other root veggies. It's all a mater of balance between the efficiency (speed) and taste and, for me, the taste takes precedence. Actually he would like some peels left on the potatoes when I mash them but I usually forget and peel them completely. The only taters I don't peel are the new ones, with the very fine skin. But since those are out-of-sight expensive in the US (in Poland they were special, but not unreasonable), I don't do it but once-twice a year. At which point, they're *so* special, I'm not likely to forget to leave them un-peeled :) For mashed potatoes, I use the cheapest available and they have to be peeled (and the bad spots removed). Jane in Vermont, USA where it got into the 40s today (5+C) and melted some of the snow. We got your snow. First fall of the season, and not quite enough to make a problem regarding the driveway, but it did blind my car, so I postponed running errands till tomorrow -- to lazy to sweep it odd the windows :) -- 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]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Peeling mushrooms
At 04:57 PM 12/5/05 -0500, Jane Viking Swanson wrote: I even bought a mushroom brush today (I was in the hardware store and it appeared right in front of me). Anything to make cooking a little faster is much appreciated! If it's anything like the brushes I buy, reserve the mushroom brush for removing cornsilk, reserve the cornsilk brush for scrubbing potatoes, reserve the potato brush for removing rust, and buy a horsehair complexion brush for cleaning mushrooms. I just wipe them with a paper towel -- on the rare occasions that I buy them. I like them best in a butter, chicken liver, and mushroom gravy served over rice -- and we are much too fat to eat butter gravy as a main dish. If fresh mushrooms are to be used in a wet dish, I hold them cap up under running water -- even when they are to be used in soup, I try to keep water out of the gills -- and rub them with my bare hands. Then towel dry immediately. As for peeling them -- heavens to murgatroyd! The skins are the best part! -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where our first serious snow is on the ground -- and I stayed in all through a rare sunny day. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] card exchange
Hi all, I sent my exchange card away to Australia today. I hope it has a safe trip overseas. I received a lovely card in the mail today from Dianne Taylor of Dunlap Tennessee. I will hang my red and gold BL candle on our tree when we get it up. I love having a new lace treasure to hang on the tree. Thank you Dianne, it is very pretty. Please e-mail me your e-mail address so I can thank you more personally? Now I'm really getting in the Holiday spirit, getting a pretty Christmas treasure on top of the very cold snap that has hit here. Puts me in a very Christmassy mood. Well, back to knitting furiously on the latest sweater project, this on for a young nephew. I think I may add a star to this one even though it isn't on the pattern. Suede yarn feels sooo good! Michele Hitch in chilly Salinas, California [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
