Fwd: [lace] Re: Christmas Ornament
Somehow (doubtless through the magic of the intertubes) the following message, although meant for the list, ended up in my inbox only (I think). If anyone can help Bonnie, please use reply all or else write to her directly. Begin forwarded message: From: Bonnie Berg bonb...@bellsouth.net Date: January 25, 2013 12:30:01 AM EST To: t...@rockbridge.net Subject: [lace] Re: Christmas Ornament I am trying to purchase a Brigette Bellon bobbin lace pattern of 2 shephard, 2 sheep and 2 stars. By any chance can you tell we what book it is in? Thank you, Bonnie Berg, Shreveport, La. -- 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 arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Re: Christmas Ornament
On Oct 23, 2005, at 2:41, Alice Howell wrote: A question recently came to me about Christmas ornaments and their patterns. So.I put the question to all of you. What is the source of your favorite Christmas ornaments? For Christmas patterns, I like Brigitte Bellon's Kloppeln zur Weihnachtszeit (Bobbin Lace Christmas Patterns). Until I started designing my own ornaments, the favourite source was another Bellon book (that makes it a 3rd, with the one Barbara is using g): Weihnachtliche Kloppelmotive (Christmassy Bobbin Lace Motifs - as far as I can decipher the title), published by Barbara Fay in '93. Lots of angels and stars, but also several candles, some bells and some odd ones, like a tree and a mushroom (Poland obviously shares the mushroom on the Christmas tree tradition with Germany; I have several - glass ones). All fairly simple, using few pairs, but very effective. Like in the other two books mentioned, all the text is in German - no English - and my German was never great, and has rusted out altogether through 35 yrs of disuse. But, for most of the patterns, the knowledge of the language is not essential; the photographs are _superbly_ clear and the prickings are marked not only with the paths of the workers but the direction of movement, where to add and remove pairs, etc. Not for a total novice to lacemaking but, mostly, because she's not likely to have been exposed to the many differing notations. In some ways, I found Burkhard's patterns harder to guess at, despite the English... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Christmas Ornament
Hi Tamara and other lacers, I have two of Bridgetts books. Both have angels in them. I love her angels and stars she has in the books that I do have by her. I bought them last year with the intent of making the nativity patterns up which I also like alot. I have done a couple of the angels that are in one of her books. At the moment I just started laying bobbins on my pillow to do the one ( 3 kings for X-mas time) pattern that was in the Lace magazine. I also want to do the the other pattern that is on the opposite page of the same issue. Both patterns are Schneeberger lace. I have monkeyed with Schneeberger lace before. I did one of Lia Baumeister's angels in the past. Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 23, 2005, at 2:41, Alice Howell wrote: A question recently came to me about Christmas ornaments and their patterns. So.I put the question to all of you. What is the source of your favorite Christmas ornaments? For Christmas patterns, I like Brigitte Bellon's Kloppeln zur Weihnachtszeit (Bobbin Lace Christmas Patterns). Until I started designing my own ornaments, the favourite source was another Bellon book (that makes it a 3rd, with the one Barbara is using ): Weihnachtliche Kloppelmotive (Christmassy Bobbin Lace Motifs - as far as I can decipher the title), published by Barbara Fay in '93. Lots of angels and stars, but also several candles, some bells and some odd ones, like a tree and a mushroom (Poland obviously shares the mushroom on the Christmas tree tradition with Germany; I have several - glass ones). All fairly simple, using few pairs, but very effective. Like in the other two books mentioned, all the text is in German - no English - and my German was never great, and has rusted out altogether through 35 yrs of disuse. But, for most of the patterns, the knowledge of the language is not essential; the photographs are _superbly_ clear and the prickings are marked not only with the paths of the workers but the direction of movement, where to add and remove pairs, etc. Not for a total novice to lacemaking but, mostly, because she's not likely to have been exposed to the many differing notations. In some ways, I found Burkhard's patterns harder to guess at, despite the English... -- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: Christmas Ornament
So, OK... I measured the pin distance on the pumpkin pricking and it's about 4mm between pins. That's the distance Cathy recommends for Moravia linen 40/2 which is shown in Brenda's book as having 22 wraps per cm. I don't know what crochet threads you have in your stash, but 22 wraps corresponds to various cordonnets 40 in cotton. Ah, yes, that reminds me of the olden days when we had to calculate our own thread sizes, before Brenda and Martina came out with their wonderful books. I seem to remember that you want 10 wraps of thread to fit between edge pins on the pricking. Brenda's 22 wraps per cm would be 2.2 wraps per mm, or 8.8 wraps in 4 mm between pins. That's not so far off from 10/pinhole. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA (formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
