[lace] Lacemaking at the train station
In message 630796.79977...@web81701.mail.mud.yahoo.com, Janice Blair jbl...@sbcglobal.net writes Today I went downtown Chicago on the train along with a group of knitters. We worked on the train knitting, but I did needlelace. Totally unaware of the significance of the day, yesterday I had arranged to take one of the other members of our knitting group over to the narrow gauge railway in North Wales (where I work as a volunteer shedmaster - nothing glamorous, roughly translates to showing passengers round the museum and doing housework between trains!). This involved getting trains from Birmingham to Porthmadog and back - four and a half hours each way, so we took our knitting to do on the train. Lydia was working on squares for a baby blanket (as a group, we knit for a local hospital) and I managed to finish one sleeve and start the other of a cardigan I'm knitting for my granddaughter. I'm now wondering whether there would be sufficient interest amongst the North Wales lacemakers to join me in a make lace on the train day at the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, Porthmadog on National Lacemaking Day (September 11th) - are any there Arachnes living in that area? -- 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] Re: International Knitting Day
For 15 years I haven't bothered to knit anything at all and more years than that since I knitted anything vaguely lacy but recently found some irrisistable colours on sale which I just had to buy, price excellent too:-) I have just finished knitting a cardigan with no lace but a tiny bit of pattern (I could only find a couple of very basic patterns after all this time.) On thursday I stepped out of my door with bags in my hand and ended up doing an elegant sideways roll, badly spraining my right foot and breaking a bone in my left. So my new not very elegant leg and footwear is a tubigrip bandage on one leg, a hard half cast thing wrapped with bandages on the other, a pair of socks borrowed from DH and one of his slippers which is the only thing I can get on at present. But, my ears went up reading this Clay, what are toe-up socks? I think when the cast is changed I wont be able to use his socks any longer and will need something to keep my little toes warm. Thursday I have to have a full cast put onto the broken foot but like all things we have no idea how long before I will be able to take all my weight onto the other one, certainly not yet. I think I need L plates for these crutches which I am not good at driving, g. I am now knitting a really nice twisted rib waistcoat in rich purple, so its keeping me occupied a bit, and I cant get close enough to my lace pillow to work at present but I am also hoping to use some of the time getting better at the needle tatting. DH is a star, and serving me home made strawberry ice cream, VB Grin but not worth breaking anything just for that which I would have got anyway:-) Mind you when I am mended he needs an op on his knee, so then is my turn to take over being chief cook and bottle washer. Sue T Dorset UK I did do some knitting today! I'm working on the second of a pair of toe-up socks, and they're delightful! Clay - 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: International Knitting Day
Hello Sue, what a bad thing to have such a bad fall. I did one recently but got away with a few bruises on my face, hands and knees and scratched glasses. Everything is healed and repaired by now. I got into knitting and esp. knitting socks last year again. Finished 12 pairs last year and 1 this year. Tried toe-up knitting this year, but had no time to get anywhere yet. My exams and DD's wedding last weekend had priority over anything else. I hope you can still make the best of it and relax with your knitting and needle lace. You do sound as if your good mood did not really suffer. Good that DH is such a thoughtful chef. *smile* I wish you a very speedy healing and very little pain. Take care, Martina in Germany who got into knitting and esp. knitting socks last year again. Tried toe-up knitting this year, but had no time to get anywhere yet. On 13 Jun 2010 at 11:27, Sue wrote: For 15 years I haven't bothered to knit anything at all and more years than that since I knitted anything vaguely lacy but recently found some irrisistable colours on sale which I just had to buy, price excellent too:-) On thursday I stepped out of my door with bags in my hand and ended up doing an elegant sideways roll, badly spraining my right foot and breaking a bone in my left. So my new not very elegant leg and footwear is a tubigrip bandage on one leg, a hard half cast thing wrapped with bandages on the other, a pair of socks borrowed from DH and one of his slippers which is the only thing I can get on at present. - 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] books on demand?
Hello, DH has published his cook book via Books on Demand about 10 years ago and it is still selling. Martina in Bavaria, Gemany On 2 Jun 2010 at 13:32, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote: Hello All! While standing in line at Barnes Noble, I overheard a conversation regarding books on demand. I'd never heard of this concept so asked the attendant. Apparently there are publishers who receive (paid in advance!) orders from BN, print the book send it to the store for pick up. What a novel idea! Except we're talking non-fiction G!! The gal in front of me paid for her book the store will call her when it is ready. Is this something that could be pursued with the fine folks at Batsford (or other publishers of lacemaking books)?? Sounds like a win/win solution to the OOP situation we are experiencing. Susan, in Erie - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - 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] Lacemaking at the train station
Jane Partridge wrote: I'm now wondering whether there would be sufficient interest amongst the North Wales lacemakers to join me in a make lace on the train day at the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, Porthmadog on National Lacemaking Day (September 11th) - are any there Arachnes living in that area? I'mnot in the immediate area - about 2 hours away, but it does sound like a fun day, and if I can persuade DH to make a day of it, it might be possible. Lesley - 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: Rescued Bobbin Lacer Picture
Hello Robin and Devon, thank you for the explanation of the expression bar association. I thought on the other German word for bar so I couldn't understand. Now it is clear and make sense. Ilske - 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 in Vietnam
Hello All, didn't we have a wonderful knitting day? We went out with the idea to find people knitting somewhere in the park. But the question was in which park shall I look for first. There are so many here in HH. Than it started raining, it was fresh and windy so we decided to go to one of our museums. In one they show possibilities to survive in case of environment accidents or in further future. And there is such round thing outside the museum in the high of second floor. Three people could go in at the same time, without shoes and loose things like mobilphones or so. First we had to go into a tent like place and wait till they pumped air or what ever in it. than we opened the next zipper and went out of the wall into another transparent tent. It was a normal feeling but our voices sounded strange. I mentioned about knitting day and that there is a chair missing. The young man who was me and another lady said that I didn't like to be inside a longer time still with a chair. That was my knitting day. At home I did some lacemaking instead. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
lrb in Lancaster Pennsylvania [lace] Re: International Knitting Day
I must say that my imagination told me that these would be like gloves for toes, with separate toes:-) rather than just a different way of knitting socks. I did knit a couple of pairs but about 20 years ago but they are too small to wear with my plaster cast or my tubigrip, hense the borrowing of my DH socks. This morning we did go and buy a new pair of slippers in his size, lovely and comfortable on my right foot but he gets them when I am done:-) and also he can wear his old slippers now instead of having to go around with bare feet in the mornings, bringing me a lovely cup of tea:-) I have to say that its is more painful now but obviously the bruising is coming out and they will reduce in size ect over the coming days. Thank you very much for your interest and your information. Sue T Dear Sue, Sorry to hear about your elegant sideways roll. Miserable. There are several books on toe up socks. I knit mine from the cuff down, and have learned that pattern by heart. The socks change by whatever of those computerized variegated yarns I purchase, which make fascinating sock the incredibly simple way. Sock yarn is coming into its own. This is a quite new book, I have the older one and have read it. Toe is no problem, I just can't get my mind around the heel. Perseverance is the key. Hope your recovery is speedy and without incident. lrb, in Lancaster Pennsylvania where the high is supposed to be 88F with a 50% chance of thunderstorms. On thursday I stepped out of my door with bags in my hand and ended up doing an elegant sideways roll, badly spraining my right foot and breaking a bone - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: lrb in Lancaster Pennsylvania [lace] Re: International Knitting Day
Sue, there is a pattern for socks with toes! I'm trying to think where I saw it, and it seems to me it's in a book by a Japanese designer... and I think the socks were shown with the traditional Japanese sandal... sorry, I know that's not the right word for it. So keep looking - you may find one yet. Clay On 6/13/2010 12:54 PM, Sue wrote: I must say that my imagination told me that these would be like gloves for toes, with separate toes:-) rather than just a different way of knitting socks. I did knit a couple of pairs but about 20 years ago but they are too small to wear with my plaster cast or my tubigrip, hense the borrowing of my DH socks. This morning we did go and buy a new pair of slippers in his size, lovely and comfortable on my right foot but he gets them when I am done:-) and also he can wear his old slippers now instead of having to go around with bare feet in the mornings, bringing me a lovely cup of tea:-) I have to say that its is more painful now but obviously the bruising is coming out and they will reduce in size ect over the coming days. Thank you very much for your interest and your information. Sue T Dear Sue, Sorry to hear about your elegant sideways roll. Miserable. There are several books on toe up socks. I knit mine from the cuff down, and have learned that pattern by heart. The socks change by whatever of those computerized variegated yarns I purchase, which make fascinating sock the incredibly simple way. Sock yarn is coming into its own. This is a quite new book, I have the older one and have read it. Toe is no problem, I just can't get my mind around the heel. Perseverance is the key. Hope your recovery is speedy and without incident. lrb, in Lancaster Pennsylvania where the high is supposed to be 88F with a 50% chance of thunderstorms. On thursday I stepped out of my door with bags in my hand and ended up doing an elegant sideways roll, badly spraining my right foot and breaking a bone - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: lrb in Lancaster Pennsylvania [lace] Re: International Knitting Day
Clay Blackwell wrote: Sue, there is a pattern for socks with toes! Here's one http://www.unicornbooks.com/pattern_MWtoesocks-SQL3.asp Lesley in very rainy Cheshire - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
