Re: [lace] Puncetto help
Hi, all, Unfortunately I don't have the Anchor Manual of Embroidery! That seems to be the only English publication with Puncetto lace. I'm really glad to see that some of you have experience with this kind of needle lace. I knew Arachne would come through! OK, here are my questions: 1. In the YouTube video, you can see that in addition to the usual filled and unfilled squares, there are also diamonds. Are the diamonds worked from the point, going back and forth and getting wider, then narrower? Or are they worked along one of the straight edges, back and forth, like a square? 2. The stitch itself is rather short and wide. So how do they work the filled squares? Do they work back and forth in rows? Or do they make a tall stitch and then knots going up the side, the way they do for separating empty squares? 3. Someone on Flickr told me that she begins her Puncetto with a 3-stitch ladder (worked on a supporting thread wound around the finger, like in the video) until it's long enough. It looks as though the lacemaker is calculating the squares at 3 stitches (skip 2, make the bar on the third stitch). Is this correct? 4. What kind of thread is recommended for Puncetto? Thanks, everyone! I even brought my tapestry needle and some perle cotton with me to work. ;-) Avital - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] California fires OT and evacuation
Although it is very off topic and not lace - except that you would need to decide how much/if any of your lace/lace equipment came into the essentials cetegory - on the flylady website there is a very good page on preparing for evacuation. She suggests things such as keeping all your important documents together in one transportable container, having a single CD/DVD with copies of all your important photos, having an emergency food packetc etc; all obvious if you can think about it in the cold light of day, but not so obvious when a considerable element of stress is included in the equation. The other thing that I would never had thought of (living at the top of a hill away from flooding areas, which seems to be our greatest UK risk) was that you need to practise your evacuation. That everyone should know where each of the to-take items is kept and that you should go around the house pretending you are collecting them up, until it can be accomplished in a sensible time with as little panic as possible. Jacquie in Lincolnshire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Puncetto help
Avital, We used a number 30 crochet cotton and worked onto the folded edge of a small piece of fabric while learning. To make fabric just work stitches close together and on the return row, stitch in between every stitch. You can work pyramids on an edge by decreasing a stitch on each side in each row etc. To make holes, you work a post eg. Across 3 back 3 across 3 then miss 2 stitches by making a larger stitch across the space. This is really difficult to explain in words without pictures but work 3 stitches up the loop to make a spoke, throw across again etc. Work back and forth without turning your work. Enough for one virtual lesson? Annette Meldrum Australia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avital Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 6:38 PM To: Lace Subject: Re: [lace] Puncetto help OK, here are my questions: 1. In the YouTube video, you can see that in addition to the usual filled and unfilled squares, there are also diamonds. Are the diamonds worked from the point, going back and forth and getting wider, then narrower? Or are they worked along one of the straight edges, back and forth, like a square? 2. The stitch itself is rather short and wide. So how do they work the filled squares? Do they work back and forth in rows? Or do they make a tall stitch and then knots going up the side, the way they do for separating empty squares? 3. Someone on Flickr told me that she begins her Puncetto with a 3-stitch ladder (worked on a supporting thread wound around the finger, like in the video) until it's long enough. It looks as though the lacemaker is calculating the squares at 3 stitches (skip 2, make the bar on the third stitch). Is this correct? 4. What kind of thread is recommended for Puncetto? Thanks, everyone! I even brought my tapestry needle and some perle cotton with me to work. ;-) Avital - 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] Puncetto help
On 10/24/07, Annette Meldrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Avital, We used a number 30 crochet cotton and worked onto the folded edge of a small piece of fabric while learning. Thanks! At first I thought the knot was like the Armenian knot, but now I see that it isn't. To make fabric just work stitches close together and on the return row, stitch in between every stitch. You can work pyramids on an edge by decreasing a stitch on each side in each row etc. To make holes, you work a Are diamonds worked like inverted pyramids, that is, starting at a point and increasing? Or are they worked like squares (starting from one edge and working back and forth), only tilted? post eg. Across 3 back 3 across 3 then miss 2 stitches by making a larger stitch across the space. This is really difficult to explain in words without pictures but work 3 stitches up the loop to make a spoke, throw across again etc. Work back and forth without turning your work. How do you build up the webbing beside the large holes? I understand from the video how to work up the spoke but how do you do the filled squares? By working back and forth upwards or by doing a vertical spoke in each stitch? Thanks very much! I think I'll dig that tapestry needle out of my bag Avital - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] California fires OT and evacuation
Very sensible advice in the light of a news item on BBc where a lady said they had thought they were prepared but ended up just throwing things into the car. She thought they had one shoe - but didn't qualify that one. Patricia in Wales - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Preference of book format
I'm doing an informal survey and would value your opinions. Would you purchase a pattern book on CD if the CD insert showed thumbnail photos of the finished lace? If you had the choice of a printed pattern book--let's assume that it is not a hardbound volume--or a CD, which would you purchase? If you opted for the CD, how would you use it--to print out the entire publication, or only those patterns that were of specific interest to you. What would you consider a fair price for a pattern book on CD? Thanks for your responses!! I'll keep track of the responses and offer a summary in a couple weeks after folks have had time to respond. Carole Dublin, OH USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Preference of book format
I would prefer to buy it on CD and only print what I would need to use from it when I need to use it for various reasons. - Space - Environment Are the main two. Karen in Malta -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carole Lassak Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lace@arachne.com Subject: [!! SPAM] [lace] Preference of book format I'm doing an informal survey and would value your opinions. Would you purchase a pattern book on CD if the CD insert showed thumbnail photos of the finished lace? If you had the choice of a printed pattern book--let's assume that it is not a hardbound volume--or a CD, which would you purchase? If you opted for the CD, how would you use it--to print out the entire publication, or only those patterns that were of specific interest to you. What would you consider a fair price for a pattern book on CD? Thanks for your responses!! I'll keep track of the responses and offer a summary in a couple weeks after folks have had time to respond. Carole Dublin, OH USA - 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: [lace-chat] Preference of book format
My preference would be for a CD as well. They store much easier than a large book and I also like the ability to only print off what is needed directly onto the card stock I use for my prickings. There is a pattern book on EBay for $7.95 that is simply an emailed file. I would expect a CD to run a bit more but if it was over $20 US I would want the ability to see the patterns before purchasing it to decide if it has anything I would use frequently enough to make the cost worth it to me. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Preference of book format
Hi Carol I would purchase a pattern book on a CD. I would expect to see the pattern, a pricking and hints for working. How much to pay would depend on how many patterns I am getting on the CD and how detailed the instructions are. EX: If I am just getting prickings with no instructions, I should pay less. Several patterns handled with prickings, sample workings, and a working description for each pattern may mean the cost would be higher, much like we see in the paper media. Susie Johnson Website: http://home.comcast.net/~cjohnson0969/ Morris Illinois [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm doing an informal survey and would value your opinions. Would you purchase a pattern book on CD if the CD insert showed thumbnail photos of the finished lace? If you had the choice of a printed pattern book--let's assume that it is not a hardbound volume--or a CD, which would you purchase? If you opted for the CD, how would you use it--to print out the entire publication, or only those patterns that were of specific interest to you. What would you consider a fair price for a pattern book on CD? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE: [lace-chat] Preference of book format
I would plump for a book every time because sometimes I don't want to make anything but just to sit and browse through my lace books to decide what to do next and I do not think I would get the same pleasure with cd's 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] Re: [lace-chat] Preference of book format
I don't know which eBay offering you're referring to, but I would really like to take this opportunity to advise all Arachnids that in the not-too-distant past, the Professor's website at the University of Arizona was easily accessible to all. No one ever imagined that people interested in weaving and lacemaking would steal the work of others and sell it to others. However, there is good evidence that during that time, a number of people downloaded many files and compiled them into disks of books about weaving, lacemaking, and in some cases, a combination of the two. These offerings on eBay are almost certainly illegal downloads from the work of the Professor, and the work of Tess Parrish who scanned most of the lace documents involved. The website now requires registration in order to download for your own use, but this helps prevent the wholesale download of the entire library. CDs are available for LESS than the eBay selling price when you consider the quantity (and quality) of the information you get on your legal CD. So I fervently ask all lacemakers to avoid the offerings on eBay, and instead to support the work which was begun by Professor Ralph Griswald, with the assistance of Tess Parrish, and which is ongoing under the careful webmastery of Professor Griswald's successor (whose name escapes me... I am so sorry!). Sincerely, Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA -- Original message -- From: Shere'e [EMAIL PROTECTED] My preference would be for a CD as well. They store much easier than a large book and I also like the ability to only print off what is needed directly onto the card stock I use for my prickings. There is a pattern book on EBay for $7.95 that is simply an emailed file. I would expect a CD to run a bit more but if it was over $20 US I would want the ability to see the patterns before purchasing it to decide if it has anything I would use frequently enough to make the cost worth it to me. 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 [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] Preference of book format
I really, really, really dislike 'reading' a book on the computer. So I rarely buy CDs, since I have to print them out and the cost of ink is more than buying a softcover book! For me to buy a CD, the patterns would have to be spectacularly spectacular. On 24 Oct 2007, at 18:09, Carole Lassak wrote: I'm doing an informal survey and would value your opinions. Would you purchase a pattern book on CD if the CD insert showed thumbnail photos of the finished lace? If you had the choice of a printed pattern book--let's assume that it is not a hardbound volume--or a CD, which would you purchase? If you opted for the CD, how would you use it--to print out the entire publication, or only those patterns that were of specific interest to you. What would you consider a fair price for a pattern book on CD? Thanks for your responses!! I'll keep track of the responses and offer a summary in a couple weeks after folks have had time to respond. Carole Dublin, OH USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] RE: [lace-chat] Preference of book format
Hello Sue - and Carol!! I am totally in Sue's court on this one! I savor my books. I love to take them to bed for a read or a look-through. My eyes get tired much quicker when I'm reading off a screen than reading a book, and I don't enjoy reading a book on my computer. However having said THAT... I think that there is a tremendous market for a combination of the two!! Without thumbing through my books, I know that there are a few already out which do this. (Anny Noben-Slegers' Bevern folio comes to mind). The ideal, in my opinion, is a folio which would give, in printed form, a booklet with information about the lace which is the topic of the book. Suggested information includes history (if applicable), notes regarding color code for the diagrams, index, bibliography,. AND clear pictures of the projects presented in the folio. The CD would contain full-color (printable) diagrams, prickings (a variety of scales for each project would be a bonus if alternate threads were indicated!!), and close-up diagrams for tricky sections, with additional explanations. Not asking for much!! ; ) Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA -- Original message -- From: Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would plump for a book every time because sometimes I don't want to make anything but just to sit and browse through my lace books to decide what to do next and I do not think I would get the same pleasure with cd's 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] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Emergencies
Hi All, www.flylady.net has a list of 11 points of preparedness for any time you need to evacuate your house. It's quite thorough. I hope none of us have to do that! Sorry to send this to both lists but it's got good information. I just saw that Jacqui sent FLYlady's name but I will send this along with the URL. Jane in Vermont, USA where we had warm rain today. [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: [lace-chat] Preference of book format
Another thought on what Clay wrote. How many of you remember 5 inch floppies, or 3.5 inch disks? My point is, we don't really know how long the CD technology will last, and as computers seem to konk out after only about 5 years, will your new machine be able to read the old format, or open the disks. So I vote for books, or at least as Clay suggests, a pamphlet/booklet with reference information, then you can go to the CD for complete details, and print what you want. I'm another one that prefers to read something printed on paper. Or rather, I have difficulty reading long things on a computer monitor. Call me old fashioned, or a relic! Beth McCasland Metairie, Louisiana [Original Message] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Carole Lassak [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lace@arachne.com Date: 10/24/2007 5:51:41 PM Subject: Re: [lace] RE: [lace-chat] Preference of book format Hello Sue - and Carol!! I am totally in Sue's court on this one! I savor my books. I love to take them to bed for a read or a look-through. My eyes get tired much quicker when I'm reading off a screen than reading a book, and I don't enjoy reading a book on my computer. However having said THAT... I think that there is a tremendous market for a combination of the two!! Without thumbing through my books, I know that there are a few already out which do this. (Anny Noben-Slegers' Bevern folio comes to mind). The ideal, in my opinion, is a folio which would give, in printed form, a booklet with information about the lace which is the topic of the book. Suggested information includes history (if applicable), notes regarding color code for the diagrams, index, bibliography,. AND clear pictures of the projects presented in the folio. The CD would contain full-color (printable) diagrams, prickings (a variety of scales for each project would be a bonus if alternate threads were indicated!!), and close-up diagrams for tricky sections, with additional explanations. Not asking for much!! ; ) Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Preference of book format
On Oct 24, 2007, at 17:09, Carole Lassak wrote: I'm doing an informal survey and would value your opinions. Would you purchase a pattern book on CD if the CD insert showed thumbnail photos of the finished lace? Probably not, though thumbnail photos might make a difference. If you had the choice of a printed pattern book--let's assume that it is not a hardbound volume--or a CD, which would you purchase? A book, most definitely. I can read it -- with a flashlight or a candle -- even if the electricity goes out. And I can snuggle with it in bed, in full comfort. I already spend a lot of time sitting -- either at the pillow or at the 'puter -- and, since my backbone has never been in a great shape (due to childhood scoliosis), it objects, sometimes quite painfully. As do my eyes. Like several others who'd responded, I get pattern books not so much because I plan to work the patterns, but to relax with, to glean some new techniques from the diagrams (oh, so *that* is how she's done it!) and to stimulate new ideas (if I were to move this there...) The computer screen doesn't offer me the same options. If you opted for the CD, how would you use it--to print out the entire publication, or only those patterns that were of specific interest to you. I probably shouldn't be answering this part, since I've already said I'd be unlikely to opt for for a CD over a book format but... I'd probably print out the whole shebang, because my tastes change over time and -- like Beth -- I might be worried that I'd be unable to print out the rest later on (always supposing I still remembered there was something else there). And, of course, a book printed out at home uses twice as much paper (it's usually, printed out on one side only) and is hard to manage, unless you invest in having it bound somehow. By the time you do, it'll cost more than buying a printed and bound book; you don't get a discount on binding a single copy. I hate the electronic equipment which, nowadays, always comes with a manual on a CD. My -- otherwise beloved -- HP Color Laser Jet multi-function came that way. I printed out ca 200 pages of it (table of contents and, based on those, the pages which were most likely to be needed, like changing an ink cartridge) and hope it'll be enough until the machine dies. But, it's *not* convenient... -- 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]
Re: [lace] What's going on in Brazil?
On 10/22/07 10:39 AM, Aurelia Loveman wrote: Two by-the-ways: 1) Although the geographic place is certainly spelled Tenerife (with one f), the needlework is properly spelled Teneriffe with two f's. Don't ask me why. English spelling was very ad hoc in the eighteenth century (and, presumably, earlier); you'd find several different spellings of the same word in a single document written all at one sitting. It's not surprising that people talking about the place and people talking about the lace would choose different spellings when consistency came into style. It's lucky that it is that way: people in Tenerife can make any kind of lace, and people anywhere can make Teneriffe Lace, so it's nice to have even a small clue when discussing Tenerife tatting or California Teneriffe. It would be nice to take the capital off teneriffe, too -- we don't capitalize Tatting. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Fw: Book or CD?
Christine J [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Christine Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:02 PM Subject: Book or CD? Hi Carole, I will buy a book every time. I look at a lot more patterns than I use and it's so much easier to just go and get the book off the shelf. I know postage is making CD's much more attractive, but I suspect most people (me included) will forget that the cost of printing is minor compared to the creative effort of designing the patterns and working the samples and be relatively mean about what they will pay for a CD. Christine Johnson (Sydney, Australia) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Ellen Byerrum
Jane, glad you liked them. I've read all 5 that are availabe in paperback, and must say that I enjoyed them even better than Monica Ferris. I, like you, would love to get into her trunk full of 40s patterns, but I particularly liked the fashion bites at the end of the chapters. Lots of humour and good sense which applies no matter what your age. Looking forward to the next one. Jean in Poole. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Preference of book format
I'm doing an informal survey and would value your opinions. Would you purchase a pattern book on CD if the CD insert showed thumbnail photos of the finished lace? If you had the choice of a printed pattern book--let's assume that it is not a hardbound volume--or a CD, which would you purchase? If you opted for the CD, how would you use it--to print out the entire publication, or only those patterns that were of specific interest to you. What would you consider a fair price for a pattern book on CD? Thanks for your responses!! I'll keep track of the responses and offer a summary in a couple weeks after folks have had time to respond. Carole Dublin, OH USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: [lace] Preference of book format
I would prefer to buy it on CD and only print what I would need to use from it when I need to use it for various reasons. - Space - Environment Are the main two. Karen in Malta -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carole Lassak Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:09 PM To: lace-chat@arachne.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [!! SPAM] [lace] Preference of book format I'm doing an informal survey and would value your opinions. Would you purchase a pattern book on CD if the CD insert showed thumbnail photos of the finished lace? If you had the choice of a printed pattern book--let's assume that it is not a hardbound volume--or a CD, which would you purchase? If you opted for the CD, how would you use it--to print out the entire publication, or only those patterns that were of specific interest to you. What would you consider a fair price for a pattern book on CD? Thanks for your responses!! I'll keep track of the responses and offer a summary in a couple weeks after folks have had time to respond. Carole Dublin, OH USA - 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-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: [lace] California fires OT and evacuation
Have now moved my correspondence to chat - All the very sensible replies that I have had to my query as to what you would take in an evacuation has seriously made me think about all the important documents, deeds, insurance etc and to get them all together where they are easily accesible, although we would never have bush fires and as I live on high ground would probably never get flooded we are as likely as anybody to have a household fire, so it is on high priority list to do a.s.a.p. Sue M Harvey Norfolk 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] Preference of book format
My preference would be for a CD as well. They store much easier than a large book and I also like the ability to only print off what is needed directly onto the card stock I use for my prickings. There is a pattern book on EBay for $7.95 that is simply an emailed file. I would expect a CD to run a bit more but if it was over $20 US I would want the ability to see the patterns before purchasing it to decide if it has anything I would use frequently enough to make the cost worth it to me. 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]
Re: [lace] Re: [lace-chat] Preference of book format
I don't know which eBay offering you're referring to, but I would really like to take this opportunity to advise all Arachnids that in the not-too-distant past, the Professor's website at the University of Arizona was easily accessible to all. No one ever imagined that people interested in weaving and lacemaking would steal the work of others and sell it to others. However, there is good evidence that during that time, a number of people downloaded many files and compiled them into disks of books about weaving, lacemaking, and in some cases, a combination of the two. These offerings on eBay are almost certainly illegal downloads from the work of the Professor, and the work of Tess Parrish who scanned most of the lace documents involved. The website now requires registration in order to download for your own use, but this helps prevent the wholesale download of the entire library. CDs are available for LESS than the eBay selling price when you consider the quantity (and quality) of the information you get on your legal CD. So I fervently ask all lacemakers to avoid the offerings on eBay, and instead to support the work which was begun by Professor Ralph Griswald, with the assistance of Tess Parrish, and which is ongoing under the careful webmastery of Professor Griswald's successor (whose name escapes me... I am so sorry!). Sincerely, Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA -- Original message -- From: Shere'e [EMAIL PROTECTED] My preference would be for a CD as well. They store much easier than a large book and I also like the ability to only print off what is needed directly onto the card stock I use for my prickings. There is a pattern book on EBay for $7.95 that is simply an emailed file. I would expect a CD to run a bit more but if it was over $20 US I would want the ability to see the patterns before purchasing it to decide if it has anything I would use frequently enough to make the cost worth it to me. 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 [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] RE: [lace-chat] Preference of book format
Hello Sue - and Carol!! I am totally in Sue's court on this one! I savor my books. I love to take them to bed for a read or a look-through. My eyes get tired much quicker when I'm reading off a screen than reading a book, and I don't enjoy reading a book on my computer. However having said THAT... I think that there is a tremendous market for a combination of the two!! Without thumbing through my books, I know that there are a few already out which do this. (Anny Noben-Slegers' Bevern folio comes to mind). The ideal, in my opinion, is a folio which would give, in printed form, a booklet with information about the lace which is the topic of the book. Suggested information includes history (if applicable), notes regarding color code for the diagrams, index, bibliography,. AND clear pictures of the projects presented in the folio. The CD would contain full-color (printable) diagrams, prickings (a variety of scales for each project would be a bonus if alternate threads were indicated!!), and close-up diagrams for tricky sections, with additional explanations. Not asking for much!! ; ) Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA -- Original message -- From: Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would plump for a book every time because sometimes I don't want to make anything but just to sit and browse through my lace books to decide what to do next and I do not think I would get the same pleasure with cd's 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] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Emergencies
Hi All, www.flylady.net has a list of 11 points of preparedness for any time you need to evacuate your house. It's quite thorough. I hope none of us have to do that! Sorry to send this to both lists but it's got good information. I just saw that Jacqui sent FLYlady's name but I will send this along with the URL. Jane in Vermont, USA where we had warm rain today. [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: evacuation
On Oct 24, 2007, at 17:17, Sue Harvey wrote: has seriously made me think about all the important documents, deeds, insurance etc and to get them all together where they are easily accesible, All our -- important but small -- documents (birth certificates, marriage certificates, my naturalization certificate, passports etc) are in a bank's lockbox. Well worth the price, since the bank's vaults are much better protected than anything we could provide at home. Also, banks' assets are the first, sometimes only ones, to be rescued (the root of the animosity betwen Mayor Giuliani and the NYC fire dept, post 9/11) For the rest... Just about everything is much beyond trying to rescue, even if we could decide what's most important (we both love books and the house is lined and littered with them). Like Sue, I'm neither in a flood plain nor in an area prone to wildfires. So, I'm very, very careful to make sure that every cigarette I smoke is fully extinguished :) Though, a near fire we once had was not started by my smoking, but by our (then) 5yr old... Who made himself a reading nest on the top bunk bed, in storage in the basement (TV room). He nailed to the wall a wool blanket, which made a kind of tent around him and his pillows. From there, he could peek out at what his father was watching on TV but could also shut himself off and read, if it was of no interest to him. His reading light was a naked bulb. Which touched the blanket, sometimes. And which he forgot to turn off one evening... The next morning, as we descended from the top floor to the ground one, we were met by clouds of smoke coming up the staircase from the basement... Really scary, since, at the time, I was still into miniatures (dollhouse) and my workshop -- full of combustible and potentially explosive -- stuff was down there too... Only the TV room ended up being a total loss (some becauuse things burnt, some because of the water), but we've been very, very careful about turning off the lights since, too :) -- 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] :) Fwd: blonde joke
I can't decide whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that my memory is like a rusty sieve... I think I may have seen this one before, but I'm not sure. From: R.P. Two tourists were driving through Wisconsin. As they were approaching Oconomowoc, they started arguing about the pronunciation of the town's name. They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch. As they stood at the counter, one of the tourists asked the blonde employee, Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are--very slowly? The blonde girl leaned over the counter and said, Bur,gerrr, kng -- 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] California fires OT and evacuation
Moved from Lace: On 10/24/07 4:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She suggests things such as keeping all your important documents together in one transportable container, having a single CD/DVD with copies of all your important photos, having an emergency food packetc etc; all obvious if you can think about it in the cold light of day, but not so obvious when a considerable element of stress is included in the equation. But the contents of that CD should *already* be in a remote location. Anything that easy to copy should have back-ups. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
