[lace] Bedfordshire Lace
Could anyone please pass on any tips they may have when making Bedfordshire lace? I have begun teaching myself, with the help of some friends and some excellent books, but I am having a bit of a problem with plaits and picots, in that when I do a single picot, I sometimes get a little hole under the pin. I think I may be pulling a thread or two too tightly, as it does not always happen. Is there a simple way of avoiding this, please? Thank you in advance! Dee Palin Warwickshire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Bedfordshire Lace
Hello Dee, After making the picot and making the first CTC, try pulling from one bobbin, then from the other... and you will see what happens. When you pull the correct one the little hole disappears, but when you pull the wrong one, the hole appears. So, it is a matter of tensioning, and you get this with practice. But first try to understand from what bobbin you have to pull to close the hole. Plaits look easy to make, but tension is very important to get a good looking plait (straight, and not twisted): the four bobbins have to be at the same length so that you can pull from the four of them with the same strength. Hope this explanation can help you.. Greetings from Antje, in Guadalajara, Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] commemorative bobbins
Hi All, Does anyone know if any commemorative bobbins are being made for the Queen's diamond wedding anniversary? If so - by who. Best wishes Andrea in a cold and dank Cambridge, UK. _ Feel like a local wherever you go. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] commemorative bobbins
Hello to all of you I know of Wins;ow bobbins so far.Daphne Norfolk uk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] commemorative bobbins Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:17:30 + Hi All, Does anyone know if any commemorative bobbins are being made for the Queen's diamond wedding anniversary? If so - by who. Best wishes Andrea in a cold and dank Cambridge, UK. _ Feel like a local wherever you go. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Celeb spotting Play CelebMashup and win cool prizes - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Need pattern for 3 pair Butterfly Class at Tulsa IOLI
Hello Jo Ann and all spiders, I shall point you to Gianfranca Tolloi. She has designed a lot of patterns and 4 different booklets on italian tape lace, including fiandra a tre paia. Here it is her site: http://www.tombolodisegni.it/ Hope this helps. Regards from a very cold Barcelona. Spain. Carolina -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego Witch Stitch Lace -Special Fan Patterns- available - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] commemorative bobbins
I also saw a commemorative on Chris Parson's website. Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA -- Original message -- From: Andrea Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, Does anyone know if any commemorative bobbins are being made for the Queen's diamond wedding anniversary? If so - by who. Best wishes Andrea in a cold and dank Cambridge, UK. _ Feel like a local wherever you go. - 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] Bedfordshire Lace
I haven't done a lot of Beds, and not for a while, but I seem to recall that the picot is wound around the pin differently, depending on which side of the braid it is on. If you have the little hole sometimes, it may be because you're winding it around the pin in the wrong direction. Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA -- Original message -- From: Dee Palin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could anyone please pass on any tips they may have when making Bedfordshire lace? I have begun teaching myself, with the help of some friends and some excellent books, but I am having a bit of a problem with plaits and picots, in that when I do a single picot, I sometimes get a little hole under the pin. I think I may be pulling a thread or two too tightly, as it does not always happen. Is there a simple way of avoiding this, please? Thank you in advance! Dee Palin Warwickshire - 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] commemorative bobbins E P 60th
I think there is one at the Roseground Supplies site. On Nov 17, 2007 8:00 AM, Daphne Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all of you I know of Wins;ow bobbins so far.Daphne Norfolk uk -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] speaking of commerative bobbins
Gentle Spiders, I used to get bobbins from April, lived in the Pacific Northwest (?). Anyway she was doing a series of the 12 days of Christmas, that I'd like to continue. I know she had some health problems, and took some time off, but I haven't gotten a mailing from her this year for her annual bobbins. Does anyone know if April is still painting bobbins? Beth McCasland Metairie, Louisiana where the south wind is blowing again, so it's pleasantly war - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Bedfordshire Lace
Christine Springett teaches picots as follows: - picot on the left: twist pair 5x - lay outer bobbin loosely around pin in a clockwise direction and put back in outer position - lay inner bobbin clockwise around the pin and return to inner position - twist 2x - now gently pull up both threads at the same time and they should twist inside each other - picot on right side - do everything the same, but lay bobbins around pin in anti-clockwise direction - double picot (i.e. one on either side of plait): do either the left or right picot first - cross then twist all threads - do the second picot Works a treat. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK Could anyone please pass on any tips they may have when making Bedfordshire lace? I have begun teaching myself, with the help of some friends and some excellent books, but I am having a bit of a problem with plaits and picots, in that when I do a single picot, I sometimes get a little hole under the pin. I think I may be pulling a thread or two too tightly, as it does not always happen. Is there a simple way of avoiding this, please? Thank you in advance! Dee Palin Warwickshire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] speaking of commerative bobbins
Hi Beth - Coincidentally, I just got a note in the mail today from April who has written to her customers and friends to say that, Due to complications in my right arm from the chemotherapy catheter I have developed an almost constant tremor in my right hand. I can paint on the days when the hand is quiet but I am unable to commit to a holiday flyer. I will continue to paint the designs that don't require the finest precision, but will no longer be able to paint designs such as the Lace on Rosewood, Nutcrackers, feathers, quilt bobbin, etc. Regretably I will not be able to continue the 12 days of Christmas, or the Little Grey Rabbit series. She goes on to say that she will continue to paint and will work out some new designs which are within her restrictions. If you have ordered from her in the past, you will probably get this same letter. Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA -- Original message -- From: Beth Mccasland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentle Spiders, I used to get bobbins from April, lived in the Pacific Northwest (?). Anyway she was doing a series of the 12 days of Christmas, that I'd like to continue. I know she had some health problems, and took some time off, but I haven't gotten a mailing from her this year for her annual bobbins. Does anyone know if April is still painting bobbins? Beth McCasland Metairie, Louisiana where the south wind is blowing again, so it's pleasantly war - 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] snowflake
Thank you Antje for the link it is a very good site just wish that I could understand the language but I can follow the diagrams of the patterns. I have bookmarked it for future reference. 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] Bedfordshire help
My first question is, how did you come to be working in both directions? I realize this is not critical to the answer to your question, but it does make me wonder! One way to deal with the situation is to work beyond the joining point with both sets of threads. After you have lifted the lace from the pillow and overlapped the matching pieces of lace, you join the two layers together with the Lassen technique. The only other option I see for you is to tie off and weave all those threads back through... but you'll definitely see the join because it will be thicker on both sides. I think Lassen would be the best option. But you'd have to find a path that does not include leaves!! Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA -- Original message -- From: Janice Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to ask a question about finishing a piece of Bedfordshire lace. I am coming around a circle from both directions and have the two ends to join together. At that point I will have 10 passive pairs and two sets of workers to deal with. That makes 28 threads all coming together. I decided that the front of the work is down to the pillow so I will be dealing with the ends on the back. I don't fancy trying to weave in all these ends into the cloth stitch, or just tying knots. What do you all do? Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA http://jblace.wordpress.com/ http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Bedfordshire help
Hi Janice, There is a way to do it without tying knots or weaving back in. I have a hard time describing things as I am more of a visual learner, but I will try. I was taught this by a lace teacher from Quebec and I think she got it from one of Ulrike Lohr's books. At a point about 15-20 passes (of the worker) before the end of the lace, unwind the passive bobbins either on one side of the work or alternate from side to side (in your case 10 bobbins), and fold the thread back on itself to create a loop which will end beyond where the piece of lace will join. You need a long enough loop to get to where the lace is being joined plus enough to wind on the bobbin and the leash. Wind the loop onto your bobbin as you would a single thread, leaving the end of the thread above the work to be pulled later. Continue to work the lace to the join. When the workers from either side meet, undo the loops on your passive bobbins, pass the passive bobbin coming from the other side through the loop and gently pull the loop (using the thread end left earlier) back into the work to about halfway back to where the thread end comes out of the work. You can then snip both thread ends very close to the work. The join will be less bulky if you alternate from side to side the looped passive threads . You can use the same method with the workers as well, though you can loop them much closer to the end of the work (one or two passes might be enough). I hope this is clear enough and I haven't left anything out. It has been quite a while since I did it myself. If you are having trouble picturing this and need more help, email me privately, and I can telephone you (I'm in Wisconsin) and talk you through it. Good luck if you chose to try this, Cindy At 04:08 PM 11/17/2007, you wrote: I need to ask a question about finishing a piece of Bedfordshire lace. I am coming around a circle from both directions and have the two ends to join together. At that point I will have 10 passive pairs and two sets of workers to deal with. Janice - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
