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Dear Lacemakers, Does anyone have any ideas for a 50th Wedding Anniversary lacey present for some very good friends of ours. I only have until the first week in February to finishing it, but I do work better under pressure. We have been invited to celebrate with them and family with in invite saying no presents, but I have been trying to think of what I can make. Faye Owers Tasmania Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Footside-Right, Footside-Left
why do you have to flip the diagram upside down ? I would scan it and print it as a mirror image or am I missing the point somewhere? jenny barron Scotland Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true, up to a point... If it's a Torchon pattren -- no problem. It looks the same if you work it with the pricking upside down. It is also no problem with a Point Ground... Provided you understand the pattern and do not need a diagram. Alternatively, it is also no problem, if you're a whiz at geometry and can -- mentally -- flip the diagram upside down. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: [lace] Re: Footside-Right, Footside-Left
Sorry ment to send this to group not to your private mail Jenny you don't have to scan it and prit out as a mirror, ore flip it, you just have to start in the other end, once upon a time long ago, my first lace books was english and the foot side is to the right, all of my danish lace books the foot side is on the left, so I am used to make picot with my left hand, all what I do when making Tonder is to start on the other end, and to turn the book with the working diagram upside down, what is the big deal? it dossent matter if it is torchon, bucks point, Schneeberger, tape you name it Dorte, from a cold and windy, stay in Denmark, and the first lace evening this year www.spaces.msn.com/members/MrsTee From: Jenny Barron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Footside-Right, Footside-Left why do you have to flip the diagram upside down ? I would scan it and print it as a mirror image or am I missing the point somewhere? jenny barron Scotland Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true, up to a point... If it's a Torchon pattren -- no problem. It looks the same if you work it with the pricking upside down. It is also no problem with a Point Ground... Provided you understand the pattern and do not need a diagram. Alternatively, it is also no problem, if you're a whiz at geometry and can -- mentally -- flip the diagram upside down. - 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: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.16/225 - Release Date: 09-01-2006 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Footside-Right, Footside-Left
Ah, there is one type of English lace that is back-to-front :o) Downton lace (from the Dorset/Wiltshire area) is worked with the footside/headside swapped compared to other English laces. Don't ask me why though, 'cause I couldn't tell you! Helen, Somerset, UK --- CLIVE Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to continue, I learned to make lace in England back in the 1970s, and that is where, at that time, every lace I studie that was made in England at that time, had the footside on the right and the headside on the left. Bucks, Beds, Torchon, and Honiton - no matter what type bobbin we used. We knew that Continental lacemakers did it in reverse. Happy Lacemaking, Right or Left, Betty Ann Rice in Roanoke, Virginia USA ___ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Piper Silks
Dear Lacemakers, Thank you all for your help in my search for Piper Silk that is no longer available, but special thanks to Pat Hallam who has so kindly offered me a reel of the same, thank you Pat I can now get on with the project, have a good holiday and hope you see plenty of lace in Malta. Happy lacing Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] pillow storage/wreath boxes
You might try craft shops and those little scrapbooking supply shops... I've seen zip-loc bags of all sizes in those shops - although not the gia-mongus ones. Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Original Message] From: bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sue Clemenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1/9/2006 10:31:37 PM Subject: Re: [lace] pillow storage/wreath boxes Hi everyone ZipLoc bags (at least, here in the US) are now coming in special garganto sizes, I have been on the lookout for same ever since another kind arachne pointed out that these are available - though not at the grocery store where I was today. But I'll keep looking. the clear plastic storage bags that new comforters or sheet sets come in. I use these. They have zippers and come in many sizes. I store yarns and other 'big threads' in the several I have. And yes they would be good for pillows too - I am now partial to the storage bag from Ikea though, and I can hang it up! ;) - 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] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin
Hello Trish, Yes, I did today but didn't find the time to look in, yet. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Footside-Right, Footside-Left
Helen Tucker wrote: Ah, there is one type of English lace that is back-to-front :o) Downton lace (from the Dorset/Wiltshire area) is worked with the footside/headside swapped compared to other English laces. Don't ask me why though, 'cause I couldn't tell you! I think this is because Downton/Wiltshire is on the way north for many of the Protestant refugees coming from France They would be going to join families, possibly ,who had already arrived and on moved into the E.Mids. where there were settlements of similar sects... A number of Downton patterns are very similar to those done in Normandy. Maybe Shelly Canning could help or Pompi Parry. Sheila in a very, gloomy Sawbridgeworth. www.lace-helpandhistory.info Helen, Somerset, UK --- CLIVE Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to continue, I learned to make lace in England back in the 1970s, and that is where, at that time, every lace I studie that was made in England at that time, had the footside on the right and the headside on the left. Bucks, Beds, Torchon, and Honiton - no matter what type bobbin we used. We knew that Continental lacemakers did it in reverse. Happy Lacemaking, Right or Left, Betty Ann Rice in Roanoke, Virginia USA ___ Yahoo! Photos – NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com - 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] Re:
I have made the arcing 'rose' pattern, the one done in all half-stitch. I did it in gold colored wire, but I think a gold cord would work also. I mounted it on a wire stem with a gold leaf and presented it in a bud vase. I am sorry I don't know where the pricking originated but I am sure some one on the list does. It is an arch with scallops all along the arch (so it is the same width through out), uses a WS on each edge (for stability) and the center is half stitch. It makes up very quickly, and when rolled into a flower and mounted looks TERRIFIC. Lorri - if you think there is enough time I would be glad to send the pricking. Does anyone have any ideas for a 50th Wedding Anniversary lacey present for some very good friends of ours. I only have until the first week in February to finishing it, but I do work better under pressure. We have been invited to celebrate with them and family with in invite saying no presents, but I have been trying to think of what I can make. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin
'Morning'..I am in Texas, USA and my bulletin arrived yesterday.I just picked it up today, so will have a lovely afternoon reading. On my 'flip-thru' I see that Nancy Evans is back. G-r-e-a-t to see you again, Nancy. ;-) The 'flip-thru' also reminds me of how much we owe to the contributions of lacers everywhere. _Never_ feel that your efforts are not appreciated. Thank you all More later, BarbE - Original Message - From: Ilske Thomsen To: Lace Arachne Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin Hello Trish, Yes, I did today but didn't find the time to look in, yet. Greetings Ilske - 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: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.16/225 - Release Date: 1/9/2006 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Knitting books in the IOLI library
K-022.Knitting Tips Trade Secrets, Clever Solutions for Better Hand Knitting...1996...English...121p I have this book (at home). Would you like a precis? Donna in Surrey, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/01/2006 08:08:31 PM: it would be nice if you could give me a few topics it gives info on! thank you!! from suzy in tennessee,u.s.a. Whups! I meant to bring the book to work with me today so I could send you an overview on my lunch-hour -- but forgot the book at home. I'll do it tonight from home. Apologies. Donna [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trick to flying is throwing yourself at the floor and missing. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re:
You could make them a small posy of lace flowers in golds and yellows. Malvary in Ottawa - Original Message - From: Faye Owers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:23 AM Dear Lacemakers, Does anyone have any ideas for a 50th Wedding Anniversary lacey present for some very good friends of ours. I only have until the first week in February to finishing it, but I do work better under pressure. We have been invited to celebrate with them and family with in invite saying no presents, but I have been trying to think of what I can make. Faye Owers Tasmania Australia [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] RE: What to make? What to make?
Dear Lacemakers, Does anyone have any ideas for a 50th Wedding Anniversary lacey present for some very good friends of ours. I only have until the first week in February to finishing it, but I do work better under pressure. We have been invited to celebrate with them and family with in invite saying no presents, but I have been trying to think of what I can make. Faye Owers Tasmania = Hi Faye, Well you could make a card with a piece of lace as the ornament. A calligraphic 50 in white and gold, a flower, I know, going along with the bride's wedding tradition of a horseshoe, how about a properly rigged out 50th remembrance horseshoe? It would be the hit of the party! and it wouldn't be a gift. Have a wonderful time at the party, with lots of love and laughter. Patty - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re:rose pattern
--- Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made the arcing 'rose' pattern, the one done in all half-stitch. . I am sorry I don't know where the pricking originated but I am sure some one on the list does. I'm don't know the true origin of this pattern, but I met up with it at the 1993 Pacific Northwest Lace Conference. It was in a class called 'Lace Flowers', taught by Pauline Collarette. The teacher bio said she taught in Montreal. Then later I found an almost identical pattern that had been copied from a publication, but it didn't have the name of the magazine (or book) on the copy. So.somewhere in an old book or magazine could be the original pattern. (Sorry - right now I can't locate that old copy. It's in one of my files somewhere.) Perhaps, if Pauline is still a member of one of our guilds, she would remember where her pattern first came from. Or someone with a very long memory will have the answer to the origin. In the meanwhile, I think I've made about four dozen of these roses, and am in the process of making more. It's probably my most used pattern. Hint -- If you want a rosebud instead of a full rose, make half the pattern. Also -- if you want a very dainty rose, reduce the pattern 50 percent, and use suitable sized thread. One year our guild made the miniature roses to put on pincushions in honor of a landmark anniversary. I use this pattern with students as soon as they learn the three basic stitches. It gives great practice with the half stitch, makes them think about which thread will be the worker on each row, and makes a finished product that they can show off. Later they can experiment with different color combinations, but the first one is made of a single color. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon -- where we have a very brief break from the rain but more is on the way - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re:rose pattern
I will jump in here too...'cause I have seen it...and in my stuff..(Lordy it is buried). I _think_ I can date about when I saw it and maybe that will help me narrow the number of possible stacks. I will certainly 'yell' when (if) I find it. BarbE - Original Message - From: Alice Howell To: Lorri Ferguson Cc: lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Re:rose pattern --- Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made the arcing 'rose' pattern, the one done in all half-stitch. . I am sorry I don't know where the pricking originated but I am sure some one on the list does. I'm don't know the true origin of this pattern, but I met up with it at the 1993 Pacific Northwest Lace Conference. It was in a class called 'Lace Flowers', taught by Pauline Collarette. The teacher bio said she taught in Montreal. Then later I found an almost identical pattern that had been copied from a publication, but it didn't have the name of the magazine (or book) on the copy. So.somewhere in an old book or magazine could be the original pattern. (Sorry - right now I can't locate that old copy. It's in one of my files somewhere.) Perhaps, if Pauline is still a member of one of our guilds, she would remember where her pattern first came from. Or someone with a very long memory will have the answer to the origin. In the meanwhile, I think I've made about four dozen of these roses, and am in the process of making more. It's probably my most used pattern. Hint -- If you want a rosebud instead of a full rose, make half the pattern. Also -- if you want a very dainty rose, reduce the pattern 50 percent, and use suitable sized thread. One year our guild made the miniature roses to put on pincushions in honor of a landmark anniversary. I use this pattern with students as soon as they learn the three basic stitches. It gives great practice with the half stitch, makes them think about which thread will be the worker on each row, and makes a finished product that they can show off. Later they can experiment with different color combinations, but the first one is made of a single color. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon -- where we have a very brief break from the rain but more is on the way - 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: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.16/225 - Release Date: 1/9/2006 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re:rose pattern
Hands up, who has been searching through their files... waves I found it, says Bev. At least, I found what I thought Lorri meant, and her description reminded me of what I had seen recently from my files:- It is 'Gathered Flower' by Gil Dye, in Lace 87, pg. 31. There are 5 scallops per length. She also described a derivation of the pricking for a blind lacemaker, by cutting out a cardboard template of the scallops with notches along the edges so the lacemaker could know to place the edge pins by feel. She used thicker thread ( pearl 5 ) and the flowers were sold as brooches. Some of the article is missing, but apparently the flowers were made to raise funds for charity. This could be the source of the pattern, or there is a synchronous 'other' source :) On 1/10/06, Barb ETx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will jump in here too...'cause I have seen it...and in my stuff.. -- 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]
Re: [lace] Re:rose pattern
Yippee Skippee Here I am.That saves me looking for it. More lace time ;-) That sounds like what I remember, but mine was just a copy, no name or explanation, I think...but then, as time goes by, I think less and less reliably !!. BarbE .. While am here, Doris Southard...does this pattern method for the seeing impaired, help you with your latest Brailing (sp?) project? Hugs Barbara - Original Message - From: bevw To: Barb ETx Cc: Alice Howell ; Lorri Ferguson ; lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Re:rose pattern Hands up, who has been searching through their files... waves I found it, says Bev. At least, I found what I thought Lorri meant, and her description reminded me of what I had seen recently from my files:- It is 'Gathered Flower' by Gil Dye, in Lace 87, pg. 31. There are 5 scallops per length. She also described a derivation of the pricking for a blind lacemaker, by cutting out a cardboard template of the scallops with notches along the edges so the lacemaker could know to place the edge pins by feel. She used thicker thread ( pearl 5 ) and the flowers were sold as brooches. Some of the article is missing, but apparently the flowers were made to raise funds for charity. This could be the source of the pattern, or there is a synchronous 'other' source :) On 1/10/06, Barb ETx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will jump in here too...'cause I have seen it...and in my stuff.. -- bye for now Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.16/225 - Release Date: 1/9/2006 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE: pillow storage
I'm poking my head out of lurkdum to share some information about pillow storage. I have a Target wreath box that works well for 2 pillows, but it is rather bulky. I also use the Ziploc bags - they are called Heavy Duty Big Bags, hold up to 30 lbs, and measure 24x21 inches. I found them at a chain called Big Lots, the old Pic 'N Save for $4 for 4 bags. Back to the pillow - and thank you all for your thoughts, ideas and creativity. I don't write often, but read every word! Barbara in southern California where it is hot enough for shorts in winter! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace horseshoe pattern
There is a bobbin lace horseshoe pattern in The Torchon Lace Book by Christine Springett in case you are hunting one for the wedding anniversary card. The rose pattern is in two books that I know of, but so far I have not located them. I think one of them is in a Japanese book. If I locate them I'll send another note. Of course you could always make petals and them put them together. That might be the easiest and fastest to do. Annelore Stone in the shadow of Mt. Rainier in the Great State of Washington - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE: lacey anniversary gift/IOLI Bulletin
A nice piece of lace on a card with a 50th anniversary title might be appreciated. Or even just a blank card with a nice lace motif, that they can frame at some point if they so desire. I'd also suggest a cake band if you knew they were having a cake and who was making it, but that might be a bit difficult to find out on the QT. I too, received my Bulletin yesterday and I have glanced at it briefly, but enjoyed the pieces of lace featured from the exhibition room at convention, and the patterns. I'll have to find a quiet spot to read the ever interesting and informative articles :-) Cheers, Helen, Aussie in unseasonably warm Denver - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Chinese Needlelace andHandstitch machine
Dear Brenda and lacy Spiders Many thanks for your comments. I am very taken with the Handstitch machine and have a smallish drawer put aside for examples. I went immediately to have a look and found the piece of imitation Point de Venise. Would you like me to scan the piece of lace and send you by email attachment to put on your web-site? At the present I am so busy with all the writing that I can find no time to set one up on my own. I am pleased to say that the final proof-reading of my new book on is now done and has gone off to the printers. It should come out at the end of March. I once wrote an article for Embroidery Magazine as I was so angry with some man saying that all the Great War Embroidered postcards were done by hand, by widows, orphans and nuns behind the trenches, when of course the Swiss made them on their Handstitch machines for export to the troops. I did a lot of research and found the trade catalogues of the time written in French in the collection of Nottingham Museum. They were send in their thousands, every month of every year, throughout the Great War. I have about 50 in my collection, many bordered with Leavers machine lace. Luckily I bought them some years ago as they are now very expensive. Angela - Original Message - From: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: A Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lace digest lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Chinese Needlelace Hello Angela I agree with you, this needle lace is hand made in sweated workshops and the tension is so regular because they are doing it all day, every day. From what I've read in Pat Earnshaw's books, the handstitch machine is based on a pantograph; there are lots of double ended needles each with a pincer at either end to alternately hold the needle. The master needle is guided and all the others follow mechanically. Yes it can do in and out embroidery stitches, and even buttonhole scallops at the edge of fabric but it's not accurate enough to work buttonhole stitches through buttonhole stitches without piercing the threads sometimes. It's not used for Limerick type embroidered net for the same reason, it's not accurate enough to go in and out of the holes of the net without splitting the threads of the net. Brenda On 8 Jan 2006, at 12:43, A Thompson wrote: I do not know of any machine that can produce 'real' needlelace stitches. A Chinese KNITTING machine cannot produce real button-hole stitches. The Handstitch machine, Joshua Heilman 1826 - I think the date is right - can make a very good copy. However, on close inspection with a magnifying glass, the stitches are all based on an in-and-out weaving stitch, but in various combinations. I have a Handstich machine copy of Venitian Gros Point, that from a distance would fool anyone. I will write more about the Handstich machine when I have time - I am busy proof-reading the final colour proofs of my new book on Central and South American Textiles - very exciting. I believe that all the Chinese needlelace is made by young girls in sweated workshops. They make everything in sweat-shops, shoes, clothing etc - that is why their goods are so cheap and swamping the rest of Europe, I do not know if they are exported to USA. I remember seeing a whole pile of lace mats for sale at a Craft Sale stall, looking down the pile they all looked identical - but the vendor assured me thay were all handmade. I bought two. There is a certain 'stiffness' to the design of these pieces, making them immediately identifiable as Chinese. The same can be said for their white-work embroidery produced in similar circumstances. Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re:rose pattern
Bev said: There are 5 scallops per length. She also described a derivation of the pricking for a blind lacemaker, by cutting out a cardboard template of the scallops with notches along the edges so the lacemaker could know to place the edge pins by feel. From: Barb ETx [EMAIL PROTECTED] While am here, Doris Southard...does this pattern method for the seeingimpaired, help you with your latest Brailing (sp?) project? I have a friend who is blind and does BL. SHe gets someone to prick the card normally, then she turns the card over so the bumps (where the pin pushes aside some paper to go through) face up. She puts her pin into the bump. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA (formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re:rose pattern
- --- Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made the arcing 'rose' pattern, the one done in all half-stitch. . I am sorry I don't know where the pricking originated but I am sure some one on the list does. I'm don't know the true origin of this pattern, but I met up with it at the 1993 Pacific Northwest Lace Conference. It was in a class called 'Lace Flowers', taught by Pauline Collarette. The teacher bio said she taught in Montreal. - I took that class in Montreal. It took me the entire week to make the flower. I still wear it. Paulette, unfortunately, became ill a year or so later and passed away several years after that. A loss to us. Lee Daly Newton NJ where you would think it was Spring! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re:rose pattern
There is a half stitch rose pattern formed in five layers of petals on page 70 of Dentelle aux Fuseaux by Fukuyam Jusai (which seems to have been printed in 1982). There may well be others. One could also adapt the rose pattern from page 83 of Roses in Bobbin lace by Kortelahti and work it all in half stitch. Sue Babbs --- Lorri Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made the arcing 'rose' pattern, the one done in all half-stitch. . I am sorry I don't know where the pricking originated but I am sure some one on the list does. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: IOLI Bulletin
By which time, the Canadian elections -- which seem to be riding, mostly, on anti-US sentiments -- will be long over, and we might know how easy/difficult it will be for us to enter the country (will the new government give us tit for tat?)... Tamara, As a Canadian and one living in the country's federal capital (where most of the hot air is being generated), I can assure you that the borders will not be closed not will Americans be other wise targeted in any other way. Our border guards don't wear sidearms (though they wish they could, but not because of Americans or Al-Qaida, but because some of our Native people can get uppity, grin). That's a good 500 miles away from Montreal (this time) and not likely to affect any of you. As for the horrendous rates, you're right. They're awful but actually quite reasonable for downtown Montreal in the middle of festival season. The organisers got a good discount. But then, we Canadians are used to paying higher prices for things like hotel rooms... Why not share with someone? That's what some of us from Ottawa are doing. Don't take what seems like anti-american spouting too seriously. Its de-rigueur for a federal election. We pay it little mind, except when its not there, grin. And there are other issues, like soft wood lumber, but that's not likely to make it onto american news. Lucie DuFresne Ottawa, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] IOLI bulletin
Devon Thein's article , written with such a nice sense of humor, is a particularly good piece. --- Doris O'Neill--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: 50th Anniversary gift
I don't know where the pattern originated either, but I think it may be the one I used for Miss Haversham's Bouquet, which is printed in this year's Lace Calendar. Malvary in Ottawa - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Footside-Right, Footside-Left (was: Sally Barry's Luton Series)
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:44:06 -0800 (PST), Alice wrote: There can be a problem with some laces that use gimp. Someone once reported that a pattern was almost impossible to do, as printed in a book. The answer was that it was printed upside down. When turned around, the gimp movements were possible. I once tried to make a Binche edging with a zig-zag outer edge from Die Spitze, the Deutsche Kloeppelverband magazine. Without thinking I started it English way round. It was just about doable, but very, very difficult. After a couple of repeats I decided that my estimated reduction of the pattern to fit the thread I wanted to use wasn't quite what I wanted. So I cut off the bit I'd done, redid the pricking at a slightly more suitable magnification and started the other way up. It was ever so much easier. -- Money can't buy everything. That's what credit cards are for. Steph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tatting, lace stitching page http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Re: Footside-Right, Footside-Left
On Jan 10, 2006, at 4:56, Jenny Barron wrote: why do you have to flip the diagram upside down ? I would scan it and print it as a mirror image And Sue T in UK, in a private message, suggested essentially the same solution. Unfortunately... My so-called multi function center, which is supposed to work as copier, scanner, printer and fax, won't co-operate with my MacOSX to that extent. It prints, it copies, it will fax (except that, once I registered it, I never used that function), but it won't scan. Last year, my son installed some extra software (drivers?) which was supposed to enable me to scan -- I wanted to be able to post patterns, not just photos, on my website -- but the process is so convoluted that, despite copious notes I took at the time, I've never been able to do it once he'd left :) And that's just getting it into the computer... I'm sure that, even if I _were_ able to scan it in, flipping it to a mirror image would have been at least 6 feet above my head. Yours, electronically impaired, -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] IOLI Bulletin
Well, the Bulletin has reaches Oz today!! Just had a very quick glance through it, and see a piece of my Radical Reticella is shown inside the front cover. Unfortunately, the caption mentions that it is an adaptation of a Carol Williamson design from Lace - but this is wrong. The neckband I made is the adaptation, Not this piece! This piece, the Aquilegia -or Blue Columbine was made especially for a challenge from my Colorado lace Friends. The Blue Columbine being the State Flower. 5 sided Reticella came straight out of my own head!!! (for better or worse!) 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]
Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin
It hasn't made Canada yet, well not this little corner of Ottawa. Perhaps tomorrow! Malvary - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:23 PM Subject: [lace] IOLI Bulletin Well, the Bulletin has reaches Oz today!! Just had a very quick glance through it, and see a piece of my Radical Reticella is shown inside the front cover. Unfortunately, the caption mentions that it is an adaptation of a Carol Williamson design from Lace - but this is wrong. The neckband I made is the adaptation, Not this piece! This piece, the Aquilegia -or Blue Columbine was made especially for a challenge from my Colorado lace Friends. The Blue Columbine being the State Flower. 5 sided Reticella came straight out of my own head!!! (for better or worse!) 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] Re: IOLI Bulletin
On Jan 10, 2006, at 20:23, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: Well, the Bulletin has reached Oz today!! Just had a very quick glance through it, and see a piece of my Radical Reticella is shown inside the front cover. Unfortunately, the caption mentions that it is an adaptation of a Carol Williamson design from Lace - but this is wrong. The neckband I made is the adaptation, Not this piece! This piece, the Aquilegia -or Blue Columbine was made especially for a challenge from my Colorado lace Friends. The Blue Columbine being the State Flower. 5 sided Reticella came straight out of my own head!!! (for better or worse!) Definitely for better; it's a lovely piece. I've forwarded your message to Debra (the Editor) who may or may not have enough time to read all of the Arachne postings. Hopefully, there'll be a correction in the next Bulletin and, perhaps, one on the IOLI website, earlier. -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] IOLI Bulletin
All of the talk of the new IOLI Bulletin got me to thinking that I hadn't received one in quite some time, so I started doing some checking. I wrote the check in September - a bit past the deadline but had e- mailed with someone, can't remember who and my computer went south in December so I can't go back and look - and the check has never been cashed. Makes me wonder where it went but now it seems clear to me that my subscription was never entered so I didn't receive the last issue and I'm sure I'm not going to receive the issue you all are talking about now. Can someone help me with this? I miss receiving the bulletins. Thanks in advance. Jane Nelson Lincoln, NE USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Knitting books in the IOLI library
don't worry! when ever you get a chance will be fine! thanks!! Whups! I meant to bring the book to work with me today so I could send you an overview on my lunch-hour -- but forgot the book at home. I'll do it tonight from home. Apologies. Donna [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trick to flying is throwing yourself at the floor and missing. from suzy in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 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] Re:
Dorte, it is only the pricking that arches. The pattern is similar to a doily edging, about 3/4 of a circle, in an arch about 6 inches across. When completed the 'arched' strip is rolled and gathered into a 3-D flower. Lorri What is an arcing rose? Dorte - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] coffee
Lace-chat is for chat from lacemakers, not chat about lace. Recipezaar has quite a few coffee recipes: http://www.recipezaar.com/r/82?query=coffee Avital I am here wondering how your New Year is going so far. I have a question, I am almost afraid to ask, it has nothing to do with lace, but something I like to do while making lace. The question is coffee. I have a cappichino (spelling oops) machine, and I love that kind of coffee, but I don't know how to make a good cup from it, does anyone have a recipe that I might have, I love French Vanilla and Italian. MMmmm... Thank you in advance and sorry if this is a no no. Love, Lynn Clarksburg, WV. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] coffee
Lynn, I hope you get lots of answers, because we have a cappuccino machine that we've had for over 10 years and *never* used! I think it's high time to break it out! Happy lacing, Margaret Holsinger On The Wing Mailing Services Presorting List Hygiene Barcode Inkjetting, Tabbing, Mail Prep [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] crochet for table settings in IOLI library
i saw 2 or 3 books on table settings for crochet. i hope one of them has an oval pattern. they are all rectangle or square ususally. i'm looking for a very lacy oval place crochet matt pattern in one of the books. i saw in the manual that you can borrow slides with a fifty dollar deposit! i'm sure it might be worth it, but that is a little scary! the books themselves are a dollar and a half per book or per 4 periodiicals for shipping. that is a nice deal. the periodicals always have a ton of projects to look over. there are some spanish crochet books there too, but do they come in enghlish or do they come written in those drawings that are so easy to follow? the drawings have little symbols representing each crochet stitch and they draw the pattern out exactly as it appears and its easier to follow. you don't need too much translation when working with that type of diagram. i liked the book selection, but i noticed even though many say bobbin lace is not very popular, they had about 3 or 4 pages of books for them and only a one or two for crochet. knitting had only half a page. needle lace had quite a few too. bobbin lace couldn't be a dieing lace craft if you look at that catalog! i'm thinking of getting a book on beginning cantu lace. i would also like to see some knitted curtains. i guess someone would have to just make a row of leaf patterns or some other lacy design. i found something odd having to do with knitting. there is a new club you can join where they will mail you a package of block knitting patterns. some have little baskets in the middle or wheat and a bunch more designs. i thought that was nice. have you ever tried to knit while on a bus? it is not very easy. you can knit block by block as easy as you can crochet. i don't think i'll join the club, but you can rest assured there will be a book out sooner or later full of those patterns! i'll wait for that! from suzy in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
