[lace] Re: lace sitting on pillow
No need to be embarrassedYou are NORMAL!!! It is very common to have an unfinished project waiting for many years. I'm currently working on a piece that was on the shelf for almost ten years. At one IOLI Conference, they gave a prize to the person who had an unfinished project, that they did intend to finish, on the pillow the longest. I think the 'winner' was 23 years. And next to me was a lady who muttered at herselfI shouldn't have finished that thing. It was in progress for 25 years and I finished it last month. So... five? six? years you're just getting started. G Alice in Oregon ... cold, snow predicted (but not much)but the cold weather is letting me do lots of lacing. That old project is 2/3 done now. - Original Message From: Adele Shaak ash...@shaw.ca Now, back to work on that Flanders piece that has been sitting on my pillow for ... what, five years now? Six? I'm so embarrassed... - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Toender Lace
In message 20090213034446.0460ff...@fep03.mfe.bur.connect.com.au, David in Ballarat d.collye...@aapt.net.au writes And if by magic here are the pictures of his exquisite Tønder Lace edging for you to admire: http://www.margorsson.com/David_Collyer_Tønder_Gallery.html How come the link doesn't work for me??? What I found was that the link (which came up as a partially blue underscored hyperlink) only took in as far as the second underscore - noticing this, before clicking on it I copied the whole line. When the page couldn't open (because the address was incomplete), I pasted in the copied address and the page then opened (in Internet Explorer 7) without any problems. It is a very impressive piece of work, David. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] My Toender Lace
An incredible piece of work. thank you for sharing the ongoing work and now the finished piece. Now we are all looking forward to seeing this piece, Sue T Dear Friends, Today I was able to finally complete my piece of Toender lace which I had commenced on 14 Jan 2007!! I have sent the final photos to Julian who will no doubt have them up on the website in a day or two. I do hope you get as much pleasure from them as I did in working this beautiful piece. This evening I have wound a hundred or so pairs of bobbins in the finest black silk from Eva in Spain and at last have commenced the legendary Miss Channer's Mat. This silk came on a large spool and seems to me to be about equal to Pipers 2/20. I have reduced the pricking to about 2/3 the original size and as far as possible am converting the mat from Floral Bucks Point to Chantilly. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Men making lace
That is absolutely beautiful work, David.Vaga, vaga ilus, as they say in Estonia. And while you are at this web-site click on Men n' Lace at the top of the page, then click on the name Priit Halberg just under David Collyer. Priit is Estonian. Make sure that you also look at his photos on Flicker. Pene in Tartu, Estonia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Toender Lace Link Found
Thanks Debbie - I've found it now. You wouldn't believe the upset one little pesky Danish slashed O could cause. Here's the link which now works for me. http://www.margorsson.com/David_Collyer_T%C3%B8nder_Gallery.html Thanks again Julian. David Same here. My computer does not recognize that symbol.So, I went into the archives, and lo and behold, after waiting many hours for the archives to update, the URL there shows up with the symbol. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Toender tallies
Lorelei, A beautiful piece. the design is interesting. I wouldn't expect leaf tallies and cucumber tallies in English Bucks point. But they have slipped into the Danish version. Very interesting. Has anyone else seen this combination of elements in other Toender pieces? I must confess I hadn't seen them elsewhere in Toender either. This pricking dates from around 1850 I believe. I also realised towards the end of the piece that I was not working the raised tallies in the way I learned in Beds lace. Actually I'd forgotten how to do them so made it up and it worked. Here's what I did:- I was working away in half stitch making sure I had plenty of bobbins in there. Then when the point to start the tally was reached, I simply put 2 support pins into the pricking, worked the tally, then put 2 more support pins for the end of the tally, pushing them in a little further. Now back to the half stitch where a couple of passes each way went on top of the tally using my finger nail to guide the worker behind the 2 final pins. Of course this meant that I had to wait a mere 2 years to actually see my raised tallies as they were now on the under side of the work, but it was worth the wait, and did in fact work beautifully. David - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] threads
Yes you're right, DMC Cordonnet 100 is very similar in thickness to Broder machine 30 or Bockens 100/2. Finca 40 and DMC Cordonnet/Dentelles 80 are all a little thicker whilst Brok 100 and Finca 80 are both much finer. Brenda On 13 Feb 2009, at 06:30, Lorelei Halley wrote: Hi Can somebody help with a thread question? I have an internet friend who has Finca 40, Finca 80, DMC 80, DMC 100, and Brok 100. But has a pattern which calls for Broder machine No 30 and Bockens Linen 100/2 I would have said DMC 100, but am not sure about Finca or Brok 100. Any ideas? Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Lace Express index
In 2005 I began my lace making journey and some of you will remember helping me out along the way. One person who inspired me was Jackie Bowhey (dec) of Queensland Australia. Over my first year of lace making Jackie lent me her collection of Lace Express and as a thank you I did up a index for them. I found that index again today and decided to share it with everyone. It covers every issue from 1997 01 through to 2005 04. One day when I have more time I will need to index my copies from then to now, but it will have to wait I fear until I retire. In the meantime, if you want to download it and add the types of lace, or fill in the page numbers or pattern numbers that are missing, I would love to update the copy on the site. -- Jenny Brandis, Kununurra Western Australia URL: www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace EMAIL: je...@brandis.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Barmen lace, straw work and Victorian Farm
These 4 did a previous series which was shown again, so maybe they will. We did record and watch, so that anything missed could be revisited. I asked about Ruths lace which several people mentioned chemical lace. I too enjoyed seeing her working the straw and all the other facest of this fascinating program. Seeing other crafts and ways of life over a hundred years old was enjoyable. They have been repeating the programs on saturday at 7pm. Sue T By chance I recorded last week's episode of Victorian Farm on BBC TV. The farm wife was milking a cow and there was a really good close-up of the lacy tails of her cap. I replayed this in slow motion, stopped it and was able to see that the lacy tails were an example of Barmen Lace. I am 99 percent sure of this. It would have been the correct type of machine lace for her to wear, as it was comparatively inexpensive. Collection for the City and Guilds Lace and Embroidery students. Anne did extremely well, showing the farm wife how to make a straw hat from flait plaited straw, coiled round and sewn into place. This has been a fascinating series portraying 19th century farm life, and I only hope they repeat it. Angela, where the winer snow is fast melting and snowdrops are blooming - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Spanish catalog
Dear Lori, Yes, please! It would be nice to have, as so little is available from Spain. Do you need $ now? Jeri In a message dated 2/13/2009 3:05:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, lacefa...@roadrunner.com writes: You may want this. Do you want me to get it copied and bound? Here are some sample pages. **Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=floristncid=emlcntusyelp0002) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Oops! Catalog message was not for Arachne!
Yes, please! It would be nice to have, as so little is available from Spain. Do you need $ now? Jeri **Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=floristncid=emlcntusyelp0002) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Tonder lace
Congratulations David. That is a Beautiful piece fo lace. I hope you bring it to a Lace Day sometime - soon!! We have missed seeing you recently. Regards from Liz in Melbourne lizl...@bigpond.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.9 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 311 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Re: [lace-chat] CROCHET HOOKS
Dear All This has been a great and timely thread. I'm just about to embark on Vivienne's table cloth pattern and one of the options for joining the pieces is to crochet them together. What size crochet hook would you suggest for Finca 20? Thansk Viv in Worcestershire From: Brenda Paternoster paternos...@appleshack.com To: lucie...@uottawa.ca Cc: viviennewal...@aol.com; Sue Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk; lace-c...@arachne.com; lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2009 10:59:43 PM Subject: [lace] Re: [lace-chat] CROCHET HOOKS There used to be TWO sets of sizes for British crochet hooks. The bigger ones for use with knitting yarns were the same as the old British knitting needle sizes, The steel hooks for use with finer crochet cottons had a different set of sizes although the two sets of numbering did overlap a bit. see: http://www.crochettreasures.com/conversion.htm - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Bushfire Quilts, and Disaster Relief (v. long)
laceandb...@aol.com wrote: For those lacemakers who are also patchwork/quilters, an American who lives in Australia has started a Bushfire Quilt project to make quilts for people who have lost everything in the fires. She has her local quilt group ready to help make up the quilts; I suspect that the response she gets might be better than she hopes so perhaps other Australian quilt groups will help, too. The address for her blog is http://campfollowerbags.blogspot.com/2009/02/bushfire-quilt-project.html and the address direct to the Flickr group with most of the details is http://www.flickr.com/groups/bushfirequiltproject/ snip Jacquie in Lincolnshire Thank you, Jacquie, for this address -- this gal is giving us a good way to contribute at least a little bit (or little bit extra) to the relief effort. For those who dislike piecing, there is this site: http://handmadehelpsout.blogspot.com/ This group has links for all sorts of help, not just crafty stuff, with many posters even making suggestions for timing various kinds of material help. The site also features craft items for sale that the makers are donating profits from (to various agencies involved in bushfire-disaster relief), with links to the sites where the items are listed for sale (eBay, etsy, etc.) I'm taking the liberty of re-printing one of the posts to this site, written by a Canberra bushfire survivor. I was going to just give the link here, but then it seemed that *any* kind of disaster that costs whole families all their possessions could make the writer's advice useful. I hope this is not wasting too much band-width, or filling up the digest too much. Would anyone mind if I send this to the lace list as well? Cheers! Beth Schoenberg --- de-lurking in Canberra, where the cold-snap has encouraged people to fire up their wood-burning stoves -- making for some freak-out odours on the wind in the current state of things! FIRE SURVIVOR LIZ TILLEYS FIRST-HAND IDEAS ON HOW TO HELP /Public relations consultant and writer Liz Tilley writes:/ As a survivor of the January 2003 firestorm in Canberra, my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones, homes, pets, and a lifetime of memories in the tragic Victorian fires. As I sit watching TV news coverage, with my heart racing and my body shaking slightly as I remember the fear, the flames, the heat, the smoke and the knowledge that I would probably not get out alive; I also remember in the days, weeks and months after the fires what support we needed and valued. The victims of the Victorian fires are coping with the loss of homes, possession, pets and property as well as trying to cope with immense grief. A great relief effort is one that is based on the experiences of previous disaster situations, and yet, after the Canberra bushfires, we were so often re-inventing the wheel. I just can't bear to see those victims in Victoria not benefit from what we learned in Canberra. While the aid agencies will swing into action to do what they do best and the State and Federal government will put their disaster planning into action, how can the Australian public, and the Victorian Relief Effort, help in the best way possible? What the surviving victims need, both in terms of donations, and physical and emotional support comes will come in phases. Of course, the first weeks after the fire, in the immediate post trauma phase, these needs will be different from what they will need in six, 12 months or two years time. So, for what it's worth, here are my tips for a great relief: *Notes to the general public: * *Donate cash. *Every little bit counts. If every person in Australia donated just five dollars, imagine what a difference it would make. *Basic essentials*. Please only donate things that are new or of good quality. Don't slow down the relief effort by having the team receiving the donations in Victoria have to sort through linen, clothing or manchester that is soiled, torn, buttons missing or otherwise damaged in any way. Better to donate one item that is new or in good condition rather than several things that you don't wear anymore because they're too out of fashion, have broken zips or are stained. Similarly with bed linen, towels, blankets etc, only donate what is good quality or new. Think of all the things you need every day -- pyjamas, toothbrush, toothpaste, face washer, soap, toiletries bag, deodorant, hairbrush, comb, shampoo, clothes suitable for work, casual clothes, belt, shoes, socks, watch, hair ties, wallet, handbag, keyring, hat, sunscreen, etc. These people have nothing. While they will receive immediate assistance in the form of cash and gift vouchers from charitable organisations for major retail outlets, I remember that every day there was something I needed and didn't have. Within the first few days we needed notepads and pens just to deal with the paperwork and the insurance company.
