Re: [lace] pattern and thread size
Thank you Brenda and Jane, I just printed it off bigger, following your suggestions. As it was a pretty small piece, the larger print still looks like it will work and comes up a bit like a large church window which was what I was looking for and I think will still fit inside one of those cards with a circular appeture. I do have Edition 5, but my old maths skills have sadly deserted me, so thank you both for coming to my assistance, g. Brenda, When you talk about the grid size between footedge and grid, I understand perfectly on a straight piece, how do I go about checking that on a bucks circular pattern? Looking at this I can see along the diagonal (which I am guessing is the grid, and straight across the piece which has a slightly wider gape. Obviously with the different angle of bucks verses the torchon examples in the book, its not so obvious to my poor little tired brain, g. Many thanks, Sue t Dorset UK Hi Sue If you have one of the later editions of Threads for Lace have a look at the thread wraps per space - page 8 in Ed5. The finer the thread the more leeway you have in the number of wraps/cm you have, but. for a Bucks (point ground) pattern using a 58 w/cm thread (slightly finer than Brok 100/2) the ideal space between footedge pinholes is 1.8mm. For a 40 w/cm thread (slightly finer than Egyptian 60/2) it's 2.5mm which is quite a bit bigger. 100% / 1.8 x 2.5 = 138.88 so you need to increase your pattern by 139% which is a lot. A4 - A3 increase is 141% which is only marginally bigger. Brenda - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] pattern and thread size
Hi Sue The various working angles of different Bucks patterns doesn't make a huge difference to the size of thread needed. A rule of thumb is that if you make a winding of 10 wraps it should fit snugly between two adjacent pinholes along the footedge (or two vertical pinholes within ground) for point grounds and a winding of 12 wraps should fit between two footedge pinholes for torchon if the thread is the right thickness. Is your pattern drawn over a straight grid? - so that you have to add and subtract pairs to get the circular shape. The diamond shape of four adjacent ground pinholes will be the same shape and size throughout the design. Or is it drawn over a logarithmic/computer generated grid which means that one group of four pinholes is a different shape/size to another group of four pinholes? If your pattern is of the latter type (any sort of lace) you just have to compromise and use a thread size to fit the average density of the pricking and/or go for the thickest that you can squash into the tightest/densest parts without it puckering up. I was told ages ago that the word used by the old Bucks lacemakers for this puckering/wrinkling was twippering. Brenda On 11 Aug 2011, at 10:19, Sue wrote: When you talk about the grid size between footedge and grid, I understand perfectly on a straight piece, how do I go about checking that on a bucks circular pattern? Looking at this I can see along the diagonal (which I am guessing is the grid, and straight across the piece which has a slightly wider gape. Obviously with the different angle of bucks verses the torchon examples in the book, its not so obvious to my poor little tired brain, Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Valentino couture
Thanks for the link Susan. Via the website I also found some youtube videos of a French documentary re one season Karl Lagerfeld Chanel haute couture collection (2005, I think) from first sketches to the show. Focuses on the ateliers, seamstresses, embroiderers, shoe makers, braid-maker (amazing woman) etc etc. It's absolutely fantastic!! Search for signe chanel on youtube. Thanks again, Jen in Melbourne, Australia. On 11/08/2011 12:43 AM, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote: - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Valentino couture
Thanks for the update Jen! I'm sure you are aware of Coco's famous line that lace is one of the prettiest imitations...of the fantasy of nature. Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA Jennifer Audsley auds...@gmail.com wrote: Via the website I also found some youtube videos of a French documentary re one season Karl Lagerfeld Chanel haute couture collection (2005, I think) from first sketches to the show. Focuses on the ateliers, seamstresses, embroiderers, shoe makers, braid-maker (amazing woman) etc etc. It's absolutely fantastic!! Search for signe chanel on youtube. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
RE: [lace] Grafting help
Welcome back David, look forward to seeing more of your poppies now you are back home. Sue M Harvey - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Coco Chanel Quote
Dear Susan, An expanded version of the Coco Chanel quote has been on the front of Lacemakers of Maine's handout for 15 plus years. We believe if you give someone a piece of paper, you should give them a reason to keep it. The handout was so carefully written that it is still current, except for a contact e-mail address, which we pen in. Our handout is a white 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper, folded in half. That gives 4 sides for a lace message. Inside the fold is a list called Care of Lace and on the facing side we tell about Lacemakers of Maine - a description of the group, list of lace techniques, list of places we have demonstrated, and contact information. The back page has information about IOLI and Arachne. Yes! We have been telling people about Arachne for a long time. We individually pick up the costs of our little group. No dues, no officers (all are equal), no complicated obligations for already busy people. Might not work for larger groups, but we are a very small circle of lace loving women who host meetings in private homes. Works for us. Suggest it for the very small isolated lace groups that would be possible throughout large countries like the U.S., Canada and Australia. What we lack is experienced teachers. We rely on Tess a lot. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 8/11/2011 7:10:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hottl...@neo.rr.com writes: Thanks for the update Jen! I'm sure you are aware of Coco's famous line that lace is one of the prettiest imitations...of the fantasy of nature. Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Lacemaking in Tignes
I've just spent a week high in the French Alps and was lucky enough to come across a French lacemaker demonstrating at a Mountain Festival in Tignes. Unfortunately my French has been hard hit by spending time in Austria attempting to use German and the lady had little English but I hope she understood that I was a fellow lacemaker. She assured me that the gorgeous chunky bobbins she was working with were specific to Tignes as well as the hooped pillows she was working on. There was also an exhibition on the development of Tignes as a ski resort due to the downturns of the late C19th and early C20th when the population headed away from the high valleys and farming and other industries such as lacemaking. I was delighted to see a picture of the 'dentellieres' and have included it in my slideshow of the lacemaker and her pillows and bobbins on webshots. Please see the link to have a little look. I won't bore you with the alpine flowers, the wonderful views, the videos of the cows parading up the street and the folkdancers - let alone the high divers jumping from a helicopter into an icy lake! However, in due course those may well make it to another album. Enjoy! http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/slideshow/580711262bzJKdr Lynne Lynne Cumming, back in cold, wet Baldock, North Herts UK [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of image001.jpg] - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Lacemaking in Tignes
Thanks Lynne, for sharing the photos! What a nice thing to see on your holiday. I love those bobbins! I have a few of them - old ones found on eBay - and I think it would be fun to work with them in the way they were designed to be used. Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA USA On 8/11/2011 10:00 AM, Lynne Cumming wrote: I've just spent a week high in the French Alps /snip/ http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/slideshow/580711262bzJKdr Lynne Lynne Cumming, back in cold, wet Baldock, North Herts UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Very smart at making mudjas
Grandma crocheted, and Mother only made 3 sweaters for me when I was little, so my sock pattern comes from a leaflet. The only change I've made is to use 5 needles instead of 4, but I have resisted all other attempts to modernize me. I let the yarn, computer generated, hand dyed, whatever, be the magic. They're a great size for the purse, pickup work, plain and ordinary, no need to carry the instructions around, and I get a lot of colorful socks to wear with my Birks. All plain and sedate until you get to the toes. To relate this to lace, the lacy ones are on other needles, and even with an easy pattern, I haven't hit turning the heel in 4 years on the first sock. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where it is a perfect summer day, cool, 66F, 22C at 10:40 a.m.brilliant sun, slight breeze. If I finish my work in time, it's tea under the deck with a lace pillow or knitting my new PURPLE sweater. Last week was nonstop lace, wonderful time, learned heaps, vacation has 2 lace pillows and 3 lace projects packed, so knitting a bit this week is ok. -Original Message- From: David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au Sent: Aug 10, 2011 9:19 PM To: Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net, bev walker walker.b...@gmail.com Cc: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] Very smart at making mudjas Dear Clay, Yes, David... the term is kitchener stitch. It solve that problem at the end of the sock. It's not your Gran's sock world any more! I know there are heaps and heaps of varieties of sock patterns, but I'm afraid I'll always knit Granny's 'cos she taught me, and I love them. Just need to get the by toe right!! thanks David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Lacemaking in Tignes
Hello Lynne, Thank you for the photos. Yes, bobins, pillow and pricking on your photos are specific of Tignes. Have a look : http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/International/TIGNESFr.html There is a lacemaker group near Tignes. Sometimes they come on lacemeeting : Have a look to pictures 1 and 2 : http://www.lesdiversespassionsdejosi.com/article-les-clubs-exposants-au-couvige-de-crolles-69928802.html and here : http://www.dentellieres.com/Reportage/R2008/Saint-etienne-du-bois/StEtienneduBois2.htm Dentelez bien Sof in France Le 11/08/2011 16:00, Lynne Cumming a écrit : I've just spent a week high in the French Alps and was lucky enough to come across a French lacemaker demonstrating at a Mountain Festival in Tignes. Unfortunately my French has been hard hit by spending time in Austria attempting to use German and the lady had little English but I hope she understood that I was a fellow lacemaker. She assured me that the gorgeous chunky bobbins she was working with were specific to Tignes as well as the hooped pillows she was working on. There was also an exhibition on the development of Tignes as a ski resort due to the downturns of the late C19th and early C20th when the population headed away from the high valleys and farming and other industries such as lacemaking. I was delighted to see a picture of the 'dentellieres' and have included it in my slideshow of the lacemaker and her pillows and bobbins on webshots. Please see the link to have a little look. I won't bore you with the alpine flowers, the wonderful views, the videos of the cows parading up the street and the folkdancers - let alone the high divers jumping from a helicopter into an icy lake! However, in due course those may well make it to another album. Enjoy! http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/slideshow/580711262bzJKdr Lynne Lynne Cumming, back in cold, wet Baldock, North Herts UK [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of image001.jpg] - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Arachne lunch
Apologies to Anita for getting her last name wrong. I did know it was Hansen but my fingers work quicker than my brain. Regards hair, I am the one front left next to Jeri and the spider in the 2003 photo, with bright red hair. I let it grow out in 2008 to see what it looked like, not enough grey yet for my liking. BTW, it may have seemed like I was in charge at the lunch, but I was the one appointed by the convention hosts as they knew my name after I queried whether they had someone local who could be in charge. I was handed the attendance list, but I was not involved with the choice of food. The hosts told me they made no profit from the luncheon so I guess the hotel made out on the deal. I think there was enough food this time but I would have preferred a coffee or tea with my meal. If anyone on the list is involved in 2012 convention, please keep the costs down or give us a meal that equals the cost of the food and room. The staircase worked out well this year for the photo. If anyone has pictures of past luncheons maybe they can post them on the same Arachne Personal page. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] conventions
Hi there :-) My enquiring mind wants to know... What do you all do with the tote bags that you bring home from these conventions? I have 5 now. One has patterns in it. One has my demonstrating kit for the fair. One still has all the stuff I bought at that con in it. How about you? Lauren - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] conventions
I use some for the same purposes you do. When I accumulate too many, I take some down to a knitting shop locally. There are woman that gather who do not have any extra income, but love to have a bag to carry their knitting on the bus! Kim On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:31 PM, L.Snyder l.sny...@aceweb.com wrote: Hi there :-) My enquiring mind wants to know... What do you all do with the tote bags that you bring home from these conventions? I have 5 now. One has patterns in it. One has my demonstrating kit for the fair. One still has all the stuff I bought at that con in it. How about you? Lauren - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/**user/arachne2003http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] conventions
Hi Lauren: Just yesterday I noticed how many I had, too. I don't go to a lot of conventions, but you'd never realize it from the pile of bags. The best ones, the higher-quality cloth, etc, I might use out in public as general totes for library books and dancing shoes and so on. Some have zippers, too, which is really great here in Vancouver because you worry about the stuff in your tote getting rained on. But mostly I use them as project bags for knitting or quilting or sewing. You can get a lot of yarn into some of the bigger ones! Some of the smaller bags have tatting projects, or smaller bits of knitting. A really strong big bag might hold a pile of magazines. If the contents aren't very heavy, you can also store your projects by looping the handles onto a clothes hanger and putting them in a closet. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) On 2011-08-11, at 1:31 PM, L.Snyder wrote: Hi there :-) My enquiring mind wants to know... What do you all do with the tote bags that you bring home from these conventions? I have 5 now. One has patterns in it. One has my demonstrating kit for the fair. One still has all the stuff I bought at that con in it. How about you? Lauren - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace-chat] A wonderful story
It took me to a quick film of Teresa Dair body Knitting not Warsaw at all!! I guess the features must change from one day to the next! Sue sueba...@comcast.net -Original Message- Dear Friends, you will recall watching my sister Christine telling the story of my grandfather some weeks ago. Well, here's another that's well worth watching - about the ghetto in Warsaw. http://www.abc.net.au/canberra/photos_videos/?ref=nav#feature David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace-chat] A wonderful story
If you scroll down you can find David's recommendation Sue It took me to a quick film of Teresa Dair body Knitting not Warsaw at all!! I guess the features must change from one day to the next! Sue sueba...@comcast.net -Original Message- Dear Friends, you will recall watching my sister Christine telling the story of my grandfather some weeks ago. Well, here's another that's well worth watching - about the ghetto in Warsaw. http://www.abc.net.au/canberra/photos_videos/?ref=nav#feature David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace-chat] Postcards
Thank you to Sue, Mary and Ilske for the lovely postcards they sent me. Now the holiday is over and I have working internet connection again and I am almost caught up with myself and work I have got my postcards sorted and they have gone in the post today. I hope you enjoy them. Lynne in Baldock where it's warm and humid and about to pour with rain! Sent from my HTC To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
