Re: [lace] Favourite pattern
Dear Arachneans, there were various patterns I really liked when I did them and they turned out nice. They are rather simple because I am still not all that advanced. One of the largest pieces was the unicorn I did for DD. Now I have a triangular Milanese lace piece on my pillow and I am really stuck, because there are no explanations with the pattern as how I am supposed to work the corner. I am very dissapointed because I really like the pattern. It is meant to hung up in the window when finished. AND I really need all my pillows for the children's summer lacemaking course - at the end of August. Well, maybe can find out, how it works. Happy lacemaking, Martina in Germany, whose DD will have 2 girls from Israel in from Wednesday on. We are looking forward to them. - 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] Favourite pattern
What is your favourite lace pattern out of the ones you have worked, (whether your own design or one that has been published) and which pattern/type of lace have you found most challenging? It's difficult to decide which one is favourite, but have recently made some russian tape lace from the book 'Motieven in kleur' by Sebastiana Van Den Herik. I have made the sailing ship and the hat on a stand which I think is fab - I used purple and yellow threads and mounted it on black to show the colours. I also love to make patterns by Eeva-Liisa Kortelahti and have made the lacemaker, some of her large table centres and pictures of a VW car and a Mini. I'm waiting for hubby to post more of them on our family website ( www.acsandj.co.uk) and hope they join the others very soon.. Type of lace most challenging has been a return try at Honiton - was a nightmare - trying to use a needlepin instead of small crotchet hook plus the pattern size, and also tatting - tried for a whole afternoon and only managed 2 inches of hitches so decided to stick to either a crochet hook or some bobbins. might try again one day but... Celia Mulhearn. in dull and overcast Plumstead SE London UK - 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] Favorite Lace
On 13 Jul 2009, at 03:27, Susan Reishus wrote: Do we have to have worked the piece if we are new to bobbin lace? *snif* LOL I have a thing for swans, amongst other things, have you seen Tamara's swan pattern? It's on my to do list - absolutely beautiful jenny barron NE Scotland, UK - 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] Favourite pattern
I was dared to say this by Jane!! Morning fellow Arachneans. My new favourite pattern hasn't been converted into a pricking yet I found it yesterday at a papercraft show!! Jane and I were demonstrating bobbin lace along with Anne from the guild of needlelaces. What did I find?? A beautiful peacock in, of all things, a Parchment Craft Magazine! Anyone got a better one?? Sue in Ey - 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] Favourite pattern
Everyone on Arachne, When you are stuck - please give the name of author/designer, title of book or pattern, and page number if in a book. It is possible someone on Arachne can help you. Once you have found a rescuer, you can take your correspondence private. A lace rescue is a unique act of friendship that members of Arachne have been providing since its beginning. Jeri Ames Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 7/13/2009 2:23:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, martina.dewi...@web.de writes: Dear Arachneans, there were various patterns I really liked when I did them and they turned out nice. They are rather simple because I am still not all that advanced. One of the largest pieces was the unicorn I did for DD. Now I have a triangular Milanese lace piece on my pillow and I am really stuck, because there are no explanations with the pattern as how I am supposed to work the corner. I am very dissapointed because I really like the pattern. It is meant to hung up in the window when finished. AND I really need all my pillows for the children's summer lacemaking course - at the end of August. Well, maybe can find out, how it works. Happy lacemaking, Martina in Germany, whose DD will have 2 girls from Israel in from Wednesday on. We are looking forward to them. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com **Looking for love this summer? Find it now on AOL Personals. (http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove0003) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Favourite pattern now converted patterns
I cant say better, but I did try creating a pattern several years ago to put into one of the candleholders, (not the ufo). I wanted the representation of the native american ever hungry bear, so attempted to make it. I spent many hours drawing pencil lines and an image programe and got something reasonable, but due to a wrong choice of gimp colour and also lack of experience of course, it didn't quite work out. I also attempted a bear paw imprint, again it sort of worked but I wasted completely happy. My DH put that one into a dreamcatcher and it has hung outside our tent a few times at living history camps. Not wonderful but I did try!! Sue T, Dorset UK, back after a soggy weekend in a tent, back looking like rudolf. We had lovely mornings and very wet evenings, so have rusty hinges. I was dared to say this by Jane!! Morning fellow Arachneans. My new favourite pattern hasn't been converted into a pricking yet I found it yesterday at a papercraft show!! Jane and I were demonstrating bobbin lace along with Anne from the guild of needlelaces. What did I find?? A beautiful peacock in, of all things, a Parchment Craft Magazine! Anyone got a better one?? Sue in Ey - 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] Favourite pattern - help with pattern
Hello Jeri, thank you for the reminder. Of course I know that there is a lot of potential and willingness to help out here on this list. It was only I was really frustrated about this pattern. I bought it as an individual pattern in Schneeberg/Germany 3 years ago. It is very pretty, worked in variegated orange-yellow DMC thread. The Designer is Steffi Schmat. I have been offered help already and I will follow the instructions I get from members of this list. But not this week. DD Dorothee has 2 exchange students from Israel arriving on 15th of July till 25th. It is very exciting to meet young people from a different country. Then Dorothee has to have another surgery because the shunt isn't working propperly and there are some more demands on my schedule this week. I am rally looking forward to August when school holidays start. The great thing about Arachne is, that I know you are there, when my time allows to ask again. Thank you for the fast and kind replies, Martina in Germany On 13 Jul 2009 at 8:29, jeria...@aol.com wrote: Everyone on Arachne, When you are stuck - please give the name of author/designer, title of book or pattern, and page number if in a book. It is possible someone on Arachne can help you. Once you have found a rescuer, you can take your correspondence private. A lace rescue is a unique act of friendship that members of Arachne have been providing since its beginning. Jeri Ames Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - 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] lace lingerie
If anyone wants to make lace for lingerie have a look at Alex Stillwell's book titled All about making - Geometric Bucks Point Lace. In Chapter 17 there are 3 projects for making lace edgings for a Camisole, a Half-slip a pair of French Knickers. BTW Alex is travelling to the US - heading for Texas first before going to LAX. Kenn, she'll probably answer her email when she has some free time. And my IOLI Bulletin (Summer 2009) arrived today. Cindy Tiger has done a great job. I simply love Penelope Boston's Cave Isopod which is on the backcover. It is hard to tell how big it is as there is no measurement included in the description or an item to give viewers an idea of scale. It looked real enough to make a friend squirm with repulsion. Have a good week, Pene, an Aussie lacemaker 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] Favourite pattern
Sue found a lot of things on that stand... thread, beads... she was very tempted, and probably needs to borrow Tamara's snake Happy birthday Sue! The idea that I have been planning to turn into a pattern one day is the photo I took of the stained glass window next to the back door at The Hollies - and I'm sure I'm not the only one! I'm also (very long term) working a Honiton piece of a basket of flowers using one of Ann Orr's prick and pounce quilting patterns for the pricking - these have the pinhole spacing right to start with! For me, I think the most challenging piece I have done is Marguerite, the mat I designed and went into Lace a few issues ago - and the piece on my roller pillow at the moment - both concentrating on the technique of working three overlapping gimp rings with only one pair of gimp threads - it is possible (I have done it many times now), but finding a consistent way of doing it and drawing out the thread path for others loopy enough to follow is proving very challenging. (This requires very loopy gimps!). Other than that, the piece of unfinished needlelace that Mom was working on (she died nearly two years ago) - what was she planning to do where, and which of the two thickness' of thread she was using were to go where? I'm not even sure if the pattern was a published one or one she had drawn out herself. My favourite pattern - I'm not sure I have one - possibly Giles (my dog bookmark), probably my butterfly bookmark, definitely my Castle Class Loco and Tender (Branscombe point) - but that is because it is railway related and I like steam trains! There are also many amongst the Retournac patterns that I like, but haven't enough hours in a day (especially now I'm working two days a week again!). In message 415f05d0-71f6-4ab9-ba55-caab7eee5...@duckles.co.uk, Sue Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk writes I was dared to say this by Jane!! Morning fellow Arachneans. My new favourite pattern hasn't been converted into a pricking yet I found it yesterday at a papercraft show!! Jane and I were demonstrating bobbin lace along with Anne from the guild of needlelaces. What did I find?? A beautiful peacock in, of all things, a Parchment Craft Magazine! Anyone got a better one?? Sue in Ey -- 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
[lace] Favourite pattern
The question was asked What is your favourite lace pattern out of the ones you have worked, (whether your own design or one that has been published) and which pattern/type of lace have you found most challenging? I had to think about this a bit. I've dabbled in a wide variety of lace styles. Each one is a bit of a challenge when starting it. It's the ones that remain a challenge the longest that stick in my mind. I think the two most challenging have been 's Gravenmoerse and Cantu. With 's Gravenmoerse, it was the diagonal half stitch that was challenging. I had to think it through and analyze the different steps of the process before I could apply it to different shaped areas in a pattern. I have enjoyed working this lace, however, and plan to do some more of it. The Cantu was different. The whole process was a challenge because I had to learn and absorb four distinct stitch sequences all at once, and be able to constantly switch back and forth between them as the pattern progressed. I have to admit that I had thread that didn't fit the process very well (even though I got one the teacher said would work) and it made the experience more difficult. I only did the one project, but would like to do another with the proper thread to see if it goes more smoothly. The most favorite.h a harder question. Whatever I'm working on at the moment becomes a favorite, and I savor the pleasure of it's growth and progress. In thinking back over the years of lacemaking, I find a couple patterns from Kortelahti that I have made many times, so must be favorites. These are a bookmark featuring a burning candle, and the two angels holding a torch. The angels pattern I have copied in five different sizes for different purposes. My five inch wide Kortelahti edging is also a favorite. It was my demo piece for several years. I'm sort of sorry it is finished because it was such a great piece to work in public. It attracted lots of attention. I must conclude that every piece of lace is a challenge when I start it, and is a favorite while working it. How long it remains a challenge and a favorite varies. Enjoy whatever lace you are working on. Alice in Oregon -- cold and gray, but the sun is supposed to come out later. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re: Favourite pattern
Tamara's snake Sounds interesting!! What snake Tamara? Giles is finished!!! Just have to lift him from the pillow!! He turned blue with the cold yesterday! LOL. Thanks for lending me the pricking Jane! The threads were Gutermann Sulky metallic in 14 different colours! And the beads were brilliant glass bottom bobbin beads! How is a lacemaker with lots of unspangled bobbins supposed to resist those?!? (I also bought a Gutermann metallic 'ribbon' reel just to see how it works on something) Sue in EY On 13 Jul 2009, at 18:09, Jane Partridge wrote: Sue found a lot of things on that stand... thread, beads... she was very tempted, and probably needs to borrow Tamara's snake Happy birthday Sue! The idea that I have been planning to turn into a pattern one day is the photo I took of the stained glass window next to the back door at The Hollies - and I'm sure I'm not the only one! I'm also (very long term) working a Honiton piece of a basket of flowers using one of Ann Orr's prick and pounce quilting patterns for the pricking - these have the pinhole spacing right to start with! For me, I think the most challenging piece I have done is Marguerite, the mat I designed and went into Lace a few issues ago - and the piece on my roller pillow at the moment - both concentrating on the technique of working three overlapping gimp rings with only one pair of gimp threads - it is possible (I have done it many times now), but finding a consistent way of doing it and drawing out the thread path for others loopy enough to follow is proving very challenging. (This requires very loopy gimps!). Other than that, the piece of unfinished needlelace that Mom was working on (she died nearly two years ago) - what was she planning to do where, and which of the two thickness' of thread she was using were to go where? I'm not even sure if the pattern was a published one or one she had drawn out herself. My favourite pattern - I'm not sure I have one - possibly Giles (my dog bookmark), probably my butterfly bookmark, definitely my Castle Class Loco and Tender (Branscombe point) - but that is because it is railway related and I like steam trains! There are also many amongst the Retournac patterns that I like, but haven't enough hours in a day (especially now I'm working two days a week again!). - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re: Favourite pattern
On Jul 13, 2009, at 13:26, Sue Duckles wrote: Tamara's snake Sounds interesting!! What snake Tamara? It's a pocket snake, which keeps my spending in check. When I put my hand in my pocket to reach for the money, it bites :) Nothing much to do with lace per se, except when it goes into a hissy fit at Lace Days and such. But it's grown much more tolerant of lacy and book (especially lace books) expenditures, over the years. We have a truce of sorts now: I don't spend much on clothes and eating out and it allows me to buy almost as many books as I want :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Help for Flanders Lace
A beautiful teaching book and patterns are available from Vera Cockuyt in Belgium= you can reach her at vera.cock...@belgacom.net. She has written instruction books and taught Flanders and other laces for a long time. Marilyn Jensen, Whidbey Island, WA. - 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] Don't blame me...
Don't blame me if you don't get any work done! Here's another addictive puzzle! http://www.members.shaw.ca/gf3/circle-the-cat.html Clay To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Don't blame me...
I managed it a number of times once I got going, but I wish there were bells and whistle when I succeeded! thanks for stopping my housework. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org From: Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net To: Chat lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 9:08:39 AM Subject: [lace-chat] Don't blame me... Don't blame me if you don't get any work done! Here's another addictive puzzle! http://www.members.shaw.ca/gf3/circle-the-cat.html Clay To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
