Re: [lace] hitches - video for beginners
Not easy to get all this straightened out (scnr) - and since it can be so confusing I tried to avoid to put anything about that into the video. And imagine David who's even doing it upside down! Achim. Am 17.10.2007 um 22:07 schrieb Brenda Paternoster: Achim's right - I should have said It may well be that lacemakers of old who were used to S-twist linen demanded S-twist cotton. Burning the midnight oil! Brenda On 17 Oct 2007, at 19:29, Achim Siebert wrote: It may well be that lacemakers of old who were used to Z-twist linen demanded Z-twist cotton Shouldn't that be S-twist in this sentence? They were used to S- twist linen, weren't they? Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: [lace] bobbins tied or wound loose`
Thank you all for sharing some amusing and unusual stories about why you tie thread to bobbins, it makes a lot of good sense :-) Obviously the cat and the dog story tickled my sense of humour most, so thank you VBG Shame about the lost bobbins. I have a chair that has eaten a needle case! Sue T, Dorset UK Where it is lovely and sunny, but with a chilly nip in the air. Both cats have retreated indoors I tie mine on after a hard lesson: I wound up 200 pair for a project and head a knock on the door. It was my downstairs neighbor. She was having a miscarriage and could I take her to the ER. Of course, I was out the door before the words were totally out of her mouth. Didn't even bother to turn off the lights. They managed to stop her labor and saved the baby (a really cute little girl born 3 months later!) I got home to a surprise. While I had been gone Alanna (my cat) had just a WONDERFUL time!! She had pulled every single bobbin down off the rack and had played with them. There was a blizzard of white thread all over my apartment. By not tying on the bobbins it was even more fun trying to locate where she had taken the bobbins off to. I never did find all of them. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re:Winding Bobbins
Had that teacher in Prague never had any left handed students? how ignorant and discriminatory to not allow for left handedness. No one can help being left handed. I am left handed and can't wind my bobbins any other way than to hold the bobbin in my right hand and then turn it in a clockwise direction with the tail towards me and head pointing away, I have the thread in my left. If I use my bobbin winder I have the thread on the left just the same and turn the handle of the winder with my right hand, winding the bobbin away from me. Whether I wind by hand or winder I put the hitches on my bobbins by wrapping the thread around my left thumb, which lets the thread out easily enough once a right handed person realises that they need to turn the bobbin in the opposite direction to their usual way to release a length of the thread. Easy enough to do you just have to stop and think for a second. My right handed lace teacher, Alexandra Stilwell, back in the 1980s never had a problem with my way of winding bobbins when she had to help me sort out the muddle I had made on my pillow. I have taught a couple of right handed friends to make lace and between us I managed to teach them to wind their bobbins in a right handed manner so that they worked in a natural way for them, rather than my kak handed way. When I have helped another lacemaker who has got stuck or in a muddle I manage to work with her right handed wound bobbins without any problems. The only difference you notice is when letting out thread from the bobbins, I have to unwind the thread from the bobbins in the opposite direction to how I am used to doing with my own bobbins. It may slow you down a very tiny bit but then, if you are teaching someone to make lace, you would not be working too fast anyway, would you? Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. Nothing like as disconcerting, frustrating and annoying as to be told by a teacher, as I was in Prague, 'Oh your bobbins are wound the wrong way round. I can't work like this. You'll have to rewind them if you want my help' And I had to - 40 pairs!!! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] winding bobbins
When I first started lace making I wound my Czech bobbins and since I held them upside down I guess you would say that I was winding them clock wise when turned over again. It didn't cause any problems until I arrived at my first lace course in the UK. With bobbins wound coynter clockwise I was in trouble. The hitches either opened the whole time or I couldn't unwind the bobbins. At that time I gave up my Czech bobbins and from then on it was only winding counter clockwise. Trouble struck again when I went to a lace course in Malta. Yes Karen, Consiglia wound up all our bobbins and they were all clockwise which was rather frustrating especially as the bobbins were not well finished off and the thread was rayon. When I got back home I went back to winding my bobbins the way I was used too and it was a lot better. (Changed the bobbins too and worked with Continental bobbins). Miriam in Arad , Israel - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Vologda
Hi, I don't know much about Vologda. The first time I heard about it was from my Russian cleaning woman. I didn't understand Russian and her Hebrew was rather poor. She wanted to know what I was doing . I was working on a flat pillow with spangled bobbins. Then IO remembered that I had a book with Russian lace in it and I showed it to her. AH! Vologda kakluchi (sp?) she said. She told me at the time that during Stalin's reign a lot of the crafts places have been closed down. But when it cam to Vologda lace he understood that there was money in it and decided to leave the school open. The lacemakers there have been busy all the time. There wasn't much more she could tell me and even this was a lot for our means of communication. Miriam in Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: bobbins tied or wound loose
Just to remind various spiders among us that this is a list devoted to lace topics, not politics. Let us please maintain it that way. Aurelia Loveman Catonsville, MD T, who -- just yesterday -- discovered that Dick (Deadeye) Cheney (US VP) is family; a (rich) relation. Thankfully, 350yrs removed, but... The embarrassment! The shame! -- 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] Vologda
I have been fortunate in finding on second hand books list of the Lace Guild, the item: LACE OF RUSSIA -VOLOGDA LACE Masterpieces of Russian Art Published by Interbook-Business -Moscow 2001- ISBN 5-89164-073-2 It is a must to have if you are a fan of tape laces. The book is sheer delight. Regards from Barcelona. Spain. Carolina -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego Witch Stitch Lace Special Fan Patterns now available - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] hitches - video for beginners
At 06:10 PM 18/10/2007, Achim Siebert wrote: Not easy to get all this straightened out (scnr) - and since it can be so confusing I tried to avoid to put anything about that into the video. And imagine David who's even doing it upside down! Yes, but fortunately I now know that I am definitely ambidextrous :) David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Brugge Jeruzalemkerk Kantcentrum
Greetings, Arachnids! Thought you all might be interested in a brief account of the Lace Museum I stumbled on at the Jerusalem Church in Brugge, during my recent visit to Europe. The Church itself dates from the fifteenth century, and is in private ownership. This website has some nice pictures. http://www.visit-bruges.com/cathedrals-churches/the-jerusalem-church.htm Adjoining it is a small lace museum with some nice samples of antique lace, in various states of quality/repair. In addition to its standing collection, the Lace Museum regularly holds temporary exhibitions from domestic and foreign collections. The exhibit was not fully documented in the brochure I received, but it did contain examples from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries and some outstanding pieces, indeed! The Kant Centre is a vestige of the Sisters Apostelines who started a lace school around 1835. As of 1860, there were 400 students who specialed in Binche or Point de fee. In 1911, a lace normal school was also established there. The Lace School was forced to close in 1958 because not one single student was qualified to become a professional lace maker. In 1970, the Sisters Apostelines founded the non-profit Kantcentrum to maintain the art of lace, and in 1972, the Kantcentrum took over the school. In 1994, the Youth lace school merged with the Bruges Academy for Arts and the non-profit association Lace Centre still continues its activities on an independent basis, offering weekly workshops for working with bobbin lace. The Workshop area is located behind the Museum and it was interesting to see the projects various students were working on. There is also a small shop located there that offers the supplies needed to complete the projects offered in the various workshops. It was a pleasure to stumble on this little jewel! Regards to all, Ricki in Utah Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Opinions?
Can anyone identify this lace on Ebay #180169665519 It says it is silk. Thanks. Laurie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Pricking size change help needed
On Oct 18, 2007, at 21:27, Shere'e wrote: ERROR that should be size 8 perle cotton NOT size 80 I am getting ready to do a demo for the boyscout's tomorrow and discovered that the thread I thought I had is not there (student may have borrowed it and forgot to tell me) I needed to use a 80 perle cotton. I want to use a 80/3 linen. Can someone let me know the % of size change I need to do to the pricking so it would work right? I can't find my conversion book. DMC perle cotton size 8 = 17 wraps per cm 80/3 linen (Fresia, the only easily available 80/3 I can find in Brenda's book) = 26 wraps If your pricking is scaled for perle 8, you need to copy it at 65% (17รท26), to use 80/3 linen. Hope this helps. And, being devoid of all but lace-related content, doesn't offend your sensibilities. -- 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] Re: tied bobbins etc
On Oct 18, 2007, at 15:15, Maxine Diffey wrote: Maxine Diffey - from a excessively blustery, wet and cold spring here in New Zealand - at least the sun is shining this morning. Borrowing a page from Aurelia's book: Just to remind various spiders among us that this is a list devoted to lace topics, not international weather reports. Let us please maintain it that way. *Now*, can we please loosen up a bit? The bulk of my posting *was* devoted to a lace-related topic, *not* to politics and I'm surprised that Aurelia failed to notice that. Or that she failed to object, with equal vigour, to other tidbits contained in various sign-offs. Me, I don't object to those -- I find them interesting... -- 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] Pricking size change help needed
I am getting ready to do a demo for the boyscout's tomorrow and discovered that the thread I thought I had is not there (student may have borrowed it and forgot to tell me) I needed to use a 80 perle cotton. I want to use a 80/3 linen. Can someone let me know the % of size change I need to do to the pricking so it would work right? I can't find my conversion book. Shere'e Seattle, WA USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: lace in prague or warsaw and krakow poland?
On Oct 19, 2007, at 0:38, dtayloe (Vicki) wrote: My husband and I are heading for Prague for a week and then onto Warsaw for 3 days and Krakow for 3 days before returning home. Does anyone know of lace supply shops or recomendations on museusm s etc for us to see while on vacation? No idea about Prague, but we have a few Czech members who, hopefully, will chime in with advice before Monday. There's very little of lace tradition in Poland, so you might as well stop thinking about getting any lace supplies (and never mind lace supply *shops*). In Warsaw, the Old City (and peripherals) is worth visiting. It's full of tourist traps (aka shops), some of which carry lace (mostly tatted). It's also full of old -- restored after the WWII disaster -- architecture, good food, fantastically skillful young buskers (from all over Europe, but mostly from Polish and Russian Conservatories) and mind-bogglingly beautiful (also restored from ruins) churches. In Krakow... Pretty much the same, though the lacemaking (both bobbin and crochet) tradition is much closer there. Also, since Krakow has never been levelled by hte Nazis the way Warsaw had been, there's more to see. Wawel (the castle) is a must see; lace (and related needlework) peeks in most unexpected places; I and a couple of friends visited it in '01 and, in the underground *armoury* saw a breath-taking bishop's cope worked in glorious, metal-thread, trapunto. You never know what's around the next corner :) The Folk Art Museum had splendid paper (very lacy) cut-outs, as well as lace on (for show only g) pillow-cases and some costumes. And patterns for embroidery in the museum store which looked so unpromissing, we nearly didn't stop. And, of course the Old Town in Krakow is something else. The shops (some of which carry lace, many of which carry embroideries and amber/silver work) are located -- on two longer sides of a square -- in what used to be the buildingss of the textile guild (Sukiennice). In between them is Kosciol Mariacki (the Marian Church), with two uneven-height towers (and a legend to explain it) and an altar by Wit Stwosz (1448-1553), which is one of the best pieces of relief sculpture I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a bit. People from Warsaw are supposed to hate Krakow and vice versa, but I fell in love with the cleaned up version of Krakow (it was pretty grim and un-enticing when I saw it before, in '59 and in '70) and would recommend exploration. But don't count on much of a lace-haul. That way, every bit you come accross will be a delight and, if you don't meet any, you won't feel disappoined. Enjoy your trip! -- 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] FW: Pricking size change help needed
ERROR that should be size 8 perle cotton NOT size 80 -Original Message- From: Shere'e [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 6:26 PM To: 'lace' Subject: Pricking size change help needed I am getting ready to do a demo for the boyscout's tomorrow and discovered that the thread I thought I had is not there (student may have borrowed it and forgot to tell me) I needed to use a 80 perle cotton. I want to use a 80/3 linen. Can someone let me know the % of size change I need to do to the pricking so it would work right? I can't find my conversion book. Shere'e Seattle, WA USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Health check
Subject: Tesco Health Check One day, in line at the works cafeteria, Jack says to Mike behind him, My elbow hurts like hell. I suppose I'd better see a doctor! Listen mate, don't waste your time down at the surgery, Mike replies. There's a diagnostic computer at Tesco. Just give it a urine sample and the computer will tell you what's wrong, and what to do about it. It takes ten seconds and only costs five quida lot quicker and better than a doctor and you get Clubcard points. So Jack collects a urine sample in a small jar and takes it to Tesco. He deposits five pounds and the computer lights up and asks for the urine sample. He pours the sample into the slot and waits. Ten seconds later, the computer ejects a printout: You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water and avoid heavy activity. It will improve in two weeks. That evening while thinking how amazing this new technology was, Jack began wondering if the computer could be fooled. He mixed some tap water, a stool sample from his dog, urine samples from his wife and daughter, and pleasured himself into the mixture for good measure. Jack hurried back to Tesco, eager to check what would happen. He deposits five pounds, pours in his concoction, and awaits the results with a grin . The computer prints the following: 1) Your tap water is too hard. Get a water softener. 2) Your dog has ringworm. Bathe him with anti-fungal shampoo. 3) Your daughter has a cocaine habit. Get her into rehab. 4) Your wife is pregnant. Twins. They aren't yours. Get a lawyer. 5) And if you don't stop playing with yourself, your elbow will never get better Thank you for shopping at Tesco Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Birthday Request
Hello all, In the past I know that some of you have sent greetings to friends of people on the list. Well, it's not my birthday, but that of my Grandfather. He will be 88 next month on the 18th and I am asking a favour of my fellow Arachnes. He would be thrilled to receive postcards and greetings from all over the world. He always looks up places on maps and atlases. Whenever I move he checks the address and marks it on a map. So, if any of you care to wish him a 'Happy Birthday', please contact me for his address. I would be very grateful and I know he will be too. Thanks Heather Abbotsford, BC Off to school in a moment. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] OT: Re: [lace] Re: bobbins tied or wound loose
This fits the most recent posting of Tamara in lace-chat (the FCC video - thank you for the laugh) ... some personal tidbits like that after a long mail about lace making are perfectly o.k. IMHO - and make the persons writing here more real for me ... so please don't start to censor everything that's not 100% lace. Just my 2c, Achim (from a country with a bad history regarding censorship) 2007/10/18, Aurelia Loveman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just to remind various spiders among us that this is a list devoted to lace topics, not politics. Let us please maintain it that way. Aurelia Loveman Catonsville, MD T, who -- just yesterday -- discovered that Dick (Deadeye) Cheney (US VP) is family; a (rich) relation. Thankfully, 350yrs removed, but... The embarrassment! The shame! -- 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] OT: Re: [lace] Re: bobbins tied or wound loose
Actually I agree with political comments being kept off the list. Not everyone is of the same agreement politically and some comments that have been posted are quite offensive to others. There have been more than one that I find extremely offensive and I agree that they have no place on this list. Shere'e Seattle, WA USA On 10/18/07, Achim Siebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fits the most recent posting of Tamara in lace-chat (the FCC video - thank you for the laugh) ... some personal tidbits like that after a long mail about lace making are perfectly o.k. IMHO - and make the persons writing here more real for me ... so please don't start to censor everything that's not 100% lace. Just my 2c, Achim (from a country with a bad history regarding censorship) 2007/10/18, Aurelia Loveman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just to remind various spiders among us that this is a list devoted to lace topics, not politics. Let us please maintain it that way. Aurelia Loveman Catonsville, MD To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] OT: Re: [lace] Re: bobbins tied or wound loose
hi everybody lace-chat is devoted to everything but lace actually ... or so i thought .. ;-) dominique from Paris Shere'e wrote: Actually I agree with political comments being kept off the list. Not everyone is of the same agreement politically and some comments that have been posted are quite offensive to others. There have been more than one that I find extremely offensive and I agree that they have no place on this list. Shere'e Seattle, WA USA On 10/18/07, Achim Siebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fits the most recent posting of Tamara in lace-chat (the FCC video - thank you for the laugh) ... some personal tidbits like that after a long mail about lace making are perfectly o.k. IMHO - and make the persons writing here more real for me ... so please don't start to censor everything that's not 100% lace. Just my 2c, Achim (from a country with a bad history regarding censorship) 2007/10/18, Aurelia Loveman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just to remind various spiders among us that this is a list devoted to lace topics, not politics. Let us please maintain it that way. Aurelia Loveman Catonsville, MD To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [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] Confused
I know Tamara put a line below her signature about being related to Dick Chaney. Was Aurelia's post in regard to this line? It was just this single line that provoked Aurelia's mail - I don't think there was anything else she could have meant. That's why I think the rebuke was way over the top. We're not robots - while doing CTCT there's time for many thoughts - political, philosophical, whatever ... and telling us about some of them humanizes this mailing list. I have a little book about women in the Erzgebirge with all those little stories they told each other while working on the lace - not all of those stories were profane. I imagine the lace list to be somewhat similar - some lacemakers sitting together talking ... mostly about lace, but also about things that move them. So better not shut people up. Another 2 euro-cents, Achim. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Confused
There have actually been quite a few little tags and a couple of jokes that could very easily (and in some cases very obviously) been slams at political figures. It is getting to be that time again here in the US for political season to go into full swing. As I have said before, I personally agree with Aurelia about no politics on this list. I really would like to have at least one place in my life that I can get away from that. Not everyone has the same views when it comes to the BIG 3 hot button items (Politics, Religion, Reproductive Rights) and having someplace where they are kept to the minumum/prohibited cuts down on a lot of the hurt feelings and problems on the list. Personally I feel that Tamara's comment is way out of line and quite offensive. Yes, in the US we have the right to critize the government but constant slams against people's personal lives/values is offensive and out of line. If you are against thier politics that is one thing, private life is just not acceptable to me. My 2 pence/cents worth. Shere'e Seattle, WA USA -- www.webeweddings.com Unique Weddings for Unique Couples To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] letters to the editor
*Letters to the editor* Could the Home Secretary explain to me how biometric checks on iris Patterns and fingerprints are going to help keep tabs on Muslim cleric Abu Hamsa. //Les Barnsley // The government tells us that we are eating too many pies and dying of heart disease, then in the next breath they're telling us we are living too long and there'll be no more pension money left for us. I wish they'd make their bloody minds up. //John// ** 'Alton Towers - Where the magic never ends', or so the commercial says. Imagine my disappointment when it closed at 7.30. //Colum Hill // I am married to a Taiwanese lady, and people often ask me if she was a mail-order bride. I find this very insensitive. The Royal Mail lose around 2 million letters and parcels each year, and to suggest that I would trust the delivery of my wife to them is insulting in the extreme. She was sent by DHL next day delivery. //L Palmer, London // ** **The record companies would have us believe that the money made by CD Pirates goes to fund the drug industry. But the money rock stars make from legal record sales ends up in exactly the same place. When they stop breaking the law, so will I. //P Boddington, Ringway // ** **It really annoys me to see these suicide bombers blowing up people as well as themselves. In my day, suicide was done in a more dignified way, such as slicing your wrists in the bath, or hanging yourself from a door with a belt. //Paul Mulraney, Belfast // ** ** My friend's mum recently pointed out that I have the same ironing board cover as her. Can anyone think of a more mundane and pointless remark to make than this? //Alun Daniel // ** ** I'LL never understand my neighbour. He has recently started wheel-clamping his own caravan when he finds he has inadvertently parked it in his own drive! I wonder if he is a sadist, a masochist or both. //Alan Thakray// Did anyone else feel that Mel Gibson's remake of the classic Life of Brian wasn't anywhere near as funny as the original? //Anon // On the BBC website, I read with interest that some scientists in Australia have discovered the smallest fish known to exist. They've obviously never been to the Britannia Chippy on the Gloucester Road . //Alan J., London // Hats off to the American police. They arrive at Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch to arrest him a mere six months after he admits climbing into bed with young boys on worldwide TV. Perhaps they should get some faster cars. //T Barnham, London // HOW come rap artist Dr. Dre can use the 'N' word on his multi-million selling albums and win a MOBO award, yet when I used it at my son's football match I was asked to leave the park? Once again, it's one law for the rich and another for the poor. //Reg Ashcroft, Bradford // The government says that there are nearly 50,000 people with HIV in Britain , a third of whom do not even know that they have it. Is it just me, or is it a bit harsh that the government know and haven't told the poor sods? //John Campbell, e-mail // Never mind ventriloquists like Keith Harris and Roger DeCourcey. What about Professor Stephen Hawking? I saw him on telly blathering on about galaxies for hours and I never saw his lips move once. Genius. //Mike Woods, e-mail // With reference to that series Manhunt where ex-Special Forces soldiers try to hunt down Andy McNab. Why don't the producers include a couple of Iraqis in the hunting team? They found the tw*t quickly enough the last time he played hide and seek with them. //Shuggie, Email // **Hats off to the witty burglars who stole my entire CD collection with the exception of There is Nothing Left to Lose by the Foo Fighters. I hope that when sentencing, the judge takes into account their splendid sense of humour. //Chris Scaife, Jesmond // I see on the news that Lord Hutton says he is satisfied that David Kelly took his own life. He may not have liked Dr. Kelly that much, but isn't this taking gloating just a little too far? //Dave Owen, Edinburgh // I was extremely saddened to hear of Richard Whiteley's recent death. But I was cheered to imagine his life support machine making the famous Countdown da-da, da-da, da-da-da-da! Booo! sound as he took his final breaths. //Tripod // I never worry about the destination when I'm going on holiday. My dad is Iranian and my mum is Irish, so I spend most of the time in customs. //Stan // **What's all this nonsense about that 66-year-old Romanian woman being the world's oldest mum? My mum's 77. Beat that. //Thomas J // // /Hopefully this brings a few smiles on a cold day/ Agnes Boddington - Elloughton 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] letters to the editor
/Hopefully this brings a few smiles on a cold day/ Thanks, Agnes, it did. I'm glad British humour totally lacks the political correctness of American humor. Best, Achim. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] FW: Pricking size change help needed
ERROR that should be size 8 perle cotton NOT size 80 -Original Message- From: Shere'e [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 6:26 PM To: 'lace' Subject: Pricking size change help needed I am getting ready to do a demo for the boyscout's tomorrow and discovered that the thread I thought I had is not there (student may have borrowed it and forgot to tell me) I needed to use a 80 perle cotton. I want to use a 80/3 linen. Can someone let me know the % of size change I need to do to the pricking so it would work right? I can't find my conversion book. Shere'e Seattle, WA USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
