RE: [lace] Lace projects
Alice Honor to your courage in attacking that particular piece!! Please be sure to post a photo on flickr whenever you get it finished. Lorelei Subject: [lace] Lace projects The project at hand is finishing Miss Channer's Mat. I have about 5 square inches left to do. It's been a 3 year project. Alice in Oregon - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Sorry
I believe I just accidentally sent a reply to David's msg could you please delete. Thank you Sue M Harvey Sent from my iPad - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] New Beginning
Sent from my iPad > On 29 May 2018, at 15:43, David C Collyer wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > FINALLY I've wound some bobbins and begun some lace. It's been 2 years now > since I've made any bobbin lace. > > > > I've chosen a simple Toender edging and later on will be having some maths > questions as I'm planning on gathering this straight edging around a corner. > Something which I've not done before. > > > > As I'm off to Belgium and Vietnam on July 2nd I thought I'd get out a travel > pillow I've had for many years and never used. I know it was made for me by > Maeve who moved to Florida. I think her surname became BROWN while she was > on Arachne. Does anyone know what became of Maeve?? I do know she played > bagpipes! > > > > In the meantime I'm struggling a bit with this pillow. It looks delightful > but the central barrel shaped part keeps rising up out of its slots because > of the weight of the bobbins. I'm only using some 36 pairs. > > Will keep you all posted > > David Downunder in Ballarat, AUS > > - > 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] books and lace
The little book of patterns is MAKING LACE WITH LITTLE GREY RABBIT by Dorothy K. Cox. Mostly edgings in torchon, Beds, Bucks,Russian tape plus a couple of small mats, all short projectswith instuctions, easy to make. - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] more lace references in literature
Another book, one I haven't seen mentioned; my apologies if it was and I missed it. I just stumbled across a book about a young Dutch lacemaker in the mid-1700's who goes to South Africa as a governess, in a Kindle edition on Amazon. (Self-published?) The Lacemaker, by Sukey Hughes. I have read only the first few chapters, but the references to bobbin lace so far are okay. She talks about a pattern held up to the light looking like a pattern of stars, for example. The writing is okay (more sentence fragments than necessary) and the plot so far is predictable beyond the basic conceit, but I'm not very far into it. Nancy Connecticut, USA On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 2:06 PM, Julie Ourom wrote: > For your reading pleasure, here are some titles of books I've come across > that > have more than a brief mention of lace. Apologies for any titles that have > been mentioned previously... > > - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Books and Lace
Hi everyone I don't think anyone has mentioned the children's book little grey rabbit makes lace by Alison uttley. There is a pamphlet of prickings inspired by the book but I'm not sure who wrote that. Alison in sunny Colchester Essex 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] New Beginning
Dear Friends, FINALLY I've wound some bobbins and begun some lace. It's been 2 years now since I've made any bobbin lace. I've chosen a simple Toender edging and later on will be having some maths questions as I'm planning on gathering this straight edging around a corner. Something which I've not done before. As I'm off to Belgium and Vietnam on July 2nd I thought I'd get out a travel pillow I've had for many years and never used. I know it was made for me by Maeve who moved to Florida. I think her surname became BROWN while she was on Arachne. Does anyone know what became of Maeve?? I do know she played bagpipes! In the meantime I'm struggling a bit with this pillow. It looks delightful but the central barrel shaped part keeps rising up out of its slots because of the weight of the bobbins. I'm only using some 36 pairs. Will keep you all posted David Downunder in Ballarat, AUS - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace projects
Oh dear, I hoped it hadn't come out like that, as we all go through times like that in our lives, dont we? Certainly watching our nephew recovering is a very joyful thing and each photo his dad takes has shown an amazing smile from ear to ear so definitely an onward and upward. My flower made using your poppy petals but in blue, is now together and standing proud in my tiny vase waiting for us to make up some sort of mount to hold it up inside the dome while it waits for the other flowers to join it. It now appears that one of my sisters favourite flowers is the poppy, (there were lots about when we were kids out playing, in the 50s) and she had a painting on her wall for years of a field full of poppies so that is the choice for her, so now to make one up as it was meant to be. A glorious red poppy but now to hunt out and buy a nice centre button to finish it off before it is complete. Although there might be a delay sending for the right size thread. Not sure I have Number 8 in my boxes right now. Then I need to decide what other flowers and therefore what other threads I want to use. I think part of my lace doldrums was after making some pieces, leaves, petals or whatever and seeing them less than how I wanted them to look and dull rather than that slight sheen which brings something alive. My forget me not definitely has that and I went off to bed a happy girl, lol. I agree that the joy and the curse of being able to find things for very little money allows people to think that we can do it for similar but of course we cant and we shouldn't. I have sometimes made sure that people are aware of the amount of man hours put into a piece and maybe even gone as far as to ask them to multiply that by their own rate of pay per hour or perhaps the minimum and they begin to understand. Now I just say I dont make to sell as I have always said (although I did sell two pieces some years ago but to pass on the money to a specific charity. First time after the Tsunami in 2004 and then the second for the Shelterbox to get the donation because I feel they do a wonderful job in helping people make a fresh beginning when they have lost everything. I always love to see your finished pieces of lace and drool, lol. I hope you keep making lovely lace for many years:) Sue T Hi Sue, I was reading your long email about your trials and tribulations and how you were in the doldrums of lace making that some of us fall into at different times. I was sorry to hear of your losses in the family and send you my condolences, and Ihope your nephew recovers successfully from his operation. I was also touched that seeing my poppy design helped you get your mojo back. At the present I am making a six pointed Russian star for a Jewish friend who wants a lace donation for a charity event she is helping plan. I started it on Sunday, and not having the correct linen thread, I started making it using DMC Cordonnet 20. It filled the spaces but looks so heavy that this afternoon I undid the two points of the star to start again. This time I am going to use DMC 50, but put in more passives to fill the spaces. I have made this pattern before, probably 20 years ago, and had it mounted between two circular pieces of glass with a simple stained glass red border. I used thin thread, as I probably had no idea how thick Linen 30/3 was back then. It has sat in the window of two homes, each time in full sunlight, and it has not come to any harm yet. It will probably outlast me. I remember that the lady who mounted the lace in the glass delivered it to my home rather than trusting the mail, and I was working on a simple Schneeberger cat designed by ! Lia Baumiester. She was enthralled with it and asked me how much I would charge to make some for her. I enquired of lace friends and they said $25, which is what she charged for the glass piece. Needless to say she never ordered any. :-) At the time, she was mounting those "handmade" Chinese doilies in her glass pieces which she probably got for $3 each. This Saturday my guild start demonstrating at the San Diego County Fair where we were asked to teach fair goers how to make lace. We chose a very simple fish design and the thread will be hung onto large plastic paperclips. Can't use brooch pins in case the little dears prick themselves. The organizers wanted us to do 100 fish per three hour session!! Obviously they have never seen bobbin lace being made. That has been revised to 20 fish, but we will see how it goes. Any bets on how many get made on Saturday. There will only be two of us doing the teaching, and getting the pillows ready for the next students. We will have a have a go snake on a pillow for those who only want to try a row or two. Janice Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, writ
