Re: [lace] Vitar recommendation for the exchanges.

[Lin Hudren]

if traveling since 7/11 (still not home yet) and having limited internet
access and computer availability is bad manners, i am guilty as charged and
apologize.

if focusing on helping another couple in the parking lot today because they
were stalled and needed a jump start, bad manners, i am guilty as charged
and apologize.

if not replying to a question of what my thoughts were given less than 24
hours for consideration, is bad manners, i am guilty as charged and
apologize.

if trying to put a positive spin on a devastating situation is bad manners,
i am guilty as charged and apologize.

if focusing on my travel needs as well as Mali's is bad manners, i am
guilty as charged and i apologize.

the question is what are my thoughts.  answer:  at this time i have no
thoughts on this subject.

i send this from my cell phone because my computer is under Mali with a low
battery charge.  i apologize.  ps, must be bad manners.


Hugs, Lin and the Mali



On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:13 PM, janet theaker 
wrote:

> I have received  some emails from  people asking if the any reconciliation
> between myself and Lin   over the exchange  has Lin has posted about
> signing
> up again this Morning.
>
>
> I have sent Lin emails , But she will not communicate ,  I can only put
> this
> down  to bad manners , Sorry I can reply to you all individually but there
> are
> to many.
>
>
> Take Care
>
> Janet.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I am wondering if there has been any reconciliation between you and Lin
> over
> the exchange.  I noticed she posted again this morning but I'm not signing
> up
> unless things have been sorted with you.
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[lace] Voodoo Board

[Janice Blair]

I used an oblong piece about letter size 1" thick polystyrene from a packing 
box for my voodoo board.  I bound the edges with duct tape so that none of the 
little beads would escape.  I have been using it for years, first as a pricking 
board and now to put my enlarged diagrams on for Binche.  I use colored glass 
headed pins to see where I am.  It is especially useful at conventions or 
classes where there is a break for lunch. It would take me ages to find where I 
should be without the board.  Great idea.  Yes, it does slow you down but is 
much better than wasting time trying to figure out your place to restart.

Janice
 
Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, 
jblace.com

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Re: [lace] Colour Coding

[Adele Shaak]

Hi Jocelyn:

I can’t recall any books that mention a ghost pillow, a voodoo board, or the 
concept under any other name. It is something that was suggested to me as I was 
floundering around in Old Flanders, but whether it’s an old idea or something 
fairly recent I couldn’t say. When I use it, I pin an enlarged copy of my 
thread diagram to a cork board, and every time I put a pin in the lace, I put a 
pin through the same pinhole on my cork board. I use drawing pins - the short 
ones with the big round heads - and I just use enough pins so the most current 
rows have pins on my cork board. I can see, right away, exactly where I am and 
which pinholes I have worked.

There are a lot of people who use the Post-It Note arrows, one arrow to a 
pinhole. That would work just as well, I think, and it eliminates the need for 
a surface to pin into. But I’ve never tried it so I can’t really comment.

I haven’t yet needed to do any colour coding on my thread diagrams.

Adele
West Vancouver, BC


> On Sep 14, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Jocelyn Froese  wrote:
> 
> So I looked up ghost pillow and nothing surfaced. Is this term in any 
> instruction book? Perhaps a photo would be helpful. 
> I do colour codes on an enlarged diagram of the pricking on my pillow. This 
> seems to help. It's only for the tricky parts, esp when there's a forest of 
> many pins and best not to undo rows of finished work. Does anyone else do 
> this? 
> Thanks, 
> Jocelyn in Winnipeg, central Canada.

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Re: [lace] Colour Coding

[Lyn Bailey]

One of my many weaknesses is books, and I have never seen mention of a ghost 
pillow.  But when 8 out of 8 people in a Flanders class are using them, it's 
time to sit up and take notice.  I use them in Binche all the time.  Perhaps 
in 20 years I won't need to, but by then I'll be 87, and my eyes may not be 
up to making lace.  It is a very helpful thing.  I began using a ghost 
pillow when I used post-it arrows to point to where I was in a Flanders 
handkerchief which was way above my skill level.  It was the only way I 
could keep track of things.


A ghost pillow/voodoo board is made by putting your diagram, however large 
you want it, on something that accepts pins.  I use my pricking cork board. 
Use whatever pins you prefer, whatever system works for you.


Lyn from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA where it is night.

Jocelyn wrote?
So I looked up ghost pillow and nothing surfaced. Is this term in any 
instruction book? Perhaps a photo would be helpful.
I do colour codes on an enlarged diagram of the pricking on my pillow. This 
seems to help. It's only for the tricky parts, esp when there's a forest of 
many pins and best not to undo rows of finished work. Does anyone else do 
this?

Thanks,
Jocelyn in Winnipeg, central Canada.

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[lace] Colour Coding

[Jocelyn Froese]

So I looked up ghost pillow and nothing surfaced. Is this term in any 
instruction book? Perhaps a photo would be helpful. 
I do colour codes on an enlarged diagram of the pricking on my pillow. This 
seems to help. It's only for the tricky parts, esp when there's a forest of 
many pins and best not to undo rows of finished work. Does anyone else do this? 
Thanks, 
Jocelyn in Winnipeg, central Canada.

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Re: [lace] Ghost Pillow

[Noelene van Iperen]

I started lacemaking in 1969 although I have only mainly done very simple
patterns over the years as I worked fulltime but I love the Arachne emails and
I find the Ghost Pillow correspondence totally fascinating - you are never too
old to learn something new. Noelene

> On 14 September 2017 at 23:59 Ilske Thomsen 
wrote:
>
>
> I agree with Lyn
> > Using a ghost pillow does slow you down,
> I do it in another way. I work along as usual but when I had to stop why
ever I put one or more, it depends, glass head pins on the point I stop on the
working scheme. So it’s easier for me to find later where I was. And I lay
the last bobbins together but away from the flock.
>
> Ilske
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[lace] Vitar recommendation for the exchanges.

[janet theaker]

I have received  some emails from  people asking if the any reconciliation
between myself and Lin   over the exchange  has Lin has posted about signing
up again this Morning.


I have sent Lin emails , But she will not communicate ,  I can only put this
down  to bad manners , Sorry I can reply to you all individually but there are
to many.


Take Care

Janet.






I am wondering if there has been any reconciliation between you and Lin over
the exchange.  I noticed she posted again this morning but I'm not signing up
unless things have been sorted with you.

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Re: [lace] Ghost Pillow

[Ilske Thomsen]

I agree with Lyn
> Using a ghost pillow does slow you down,
I do it in another way. I work along as usual but when I had to stop why ever I 
put one or more, it depends,  glass head pins on the point I stop on the 
working scheme. So it’s easier for me to find later where I was. And I lay the 
last bobbins together but away from the flock.

Ilske

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[lace] Ghost pillow

[Alison Gray]

Hi a while ago made a piece of floral bucks for a friend's significant
birthday. I was way out of my depth with only a minimal knowledge of bucks.
I gave myself two years as I was working full time. I first enlarged the
pricking and worked it in thicker thread using a ghost pillow and then
worked it again proper size still using the ghost pillow. It did take most
of the two years and I made lots of mistakes. my friend loved it and I
learned such a lot. I also kept a notebook and charted my progress. I still
keep notes but haven't used the ghost pillow in a while. Alison in dull
Colchester Essex UK

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[lace] Ghost pillow

[Alex Stillwell]

Hi Sue

Well done. I fully agree with your approach. I am the worst at following
diagrams but they have their place. I was tearing my hair out trying to master
Mechlin using diagrams but suddenly my Floral Bucks skills kicked in and I
understood what to do. I was able to abandon the diagram. If the lace you wish
to make is somewhat beyond your ability to make it then by all means start by
following a diagram. By thinking about the techniques you are following you
gradually rely less on the diagram and more on your ability to understand how
to interpret the pricking. I wish more would follow your example.

Blow the dust

Alex

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Re: [lace] (Lace) Lacemaking.

[susan]

I have used this kind of thing for a couple of pieces of lace, usually bucks 
which were challengingly small and had gimps around flower sections and I 
put the glass headed colour pins in to help remind and guide me.  I also 
still use a red pin head when I walk away from my pillow, which gives you a 
very quick visual when you get back to pick up and work on.  It isn't about 
speed, just about better use of my time.  Lots of lace to make and never 
enough time for all I would love to do.
In my first year of lace learning I used to print part of my pattern really 
big and then look around it to get an idea where I think threads came from 
and where they went next, a bit like reading a map and following roads with 
marker pens.   It really helped me understand where I was going next.  Just 
adding it here to give newer lace makers a chance to try out a variety of 
ideas.

Sue T
Dorset UK

I think if you need to use a helping hand to make lace i.e. Ghost pillow. Do 
so.
It's up to the lacemaker how he or she works the Lace. Speed has nothing to 
do with it.

Enjoying what you are doing does.
I taught  a group and some ladies used the polysteryne and some did'nt. it's 
personal choice.

Happy Lacemaking
Daphne  Norfolk Uk.

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Re: [lace] Lace samples

[Joseph Young]

I was gifted some lace odds and sods. I plan to make paperweights out of 
resin with them.

Regards, Joseph

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Re: [lace] Lace samples

[cadega2]

I have seen lovely framed lace samples

Carolina de la Guardia


> El 13 sept 2017, a las 23:23, Kathleen Harris  escribió:
> 
> I am afraid mine go into a folder and probably never see the light again!
> 
> Kathleen
> In an unseasonably cold Berkshire, UK
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On 13 Sep 2017, at 22:10, H M Clarke  wrote:
>> 
>> I'm wondering what you all do with your lace samples? I'm thinking of 
>> segments of a piece that you decided not to complete; short lengths of 
>> continuous laces where you may have been testing threads, colours or 
>> whatever; working out certain techniques before progressing to the final 
>> piece; and similar. 
>> 
>> I cannot believe that I'm the only one with these pieces. In general, I've 
>> been sewing them onto a cushion cover - I'm on my second one now. 
>> 
>> What do you do? Please share your methods with the list to inspire the rest 
>> of us :-)
>> 
>> Regards, Helen (on the sunny west coast of mainland Canada where it is 
>> beginning to feel slightly autumnal and I'm delighted!)
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