Re: [lace] Need help to get on to Flickr please
The link to Flickr is always at the end of all Arachne emails, and that should be adequate for viewing. You need the login and password for posting your own photos to the Arachne Flickr account. I have been told in the past not to post the login id and password to the list for security reasons. Sue suebabbs...@gmail.com - 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] Need help to get on to Flickr please
I've just sent instructions with screenshots to Vivienne and Brian so that they can get on to Flickr. Hopefully this will work for them. The crucial thing to do first is to LOGOUT of your own Yahoo a/c before trying to log in to Arachne's one with our user id and password. Sue suebabbs...@gmail.com - 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] Need help to get on to Flickr please
I too couldn't get on it. Vivienne > On 30 Jun 2016, at 10:20, Brian Leminwrote: > > I am sorry to trouble you but I do not know how to get on to "Arachne's > Flickr" to view photos. > > > > I would be glad of a helping hand. > > > > Many thanks > > > > Brian > > - > 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/
RE: [lace] need help with one-liner
I think Tamara Duvall originally posted this poem When God made man, He made him out of string He had a little left, so He left a thing When God made woman, He made her out of lace He did not have enough, so He left a space. Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. I really need help with finding a new humorous one or two liner or maybe a short poem concerning lace makers for an upcoming project I have in mind for a friend who could really do with a lift. We all know the one about lace makers do it on pillows. Is there anything different? Thanks. Sharon - 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] need help with one-liner
I've gots lots of longer poems, Sharon, but this might be short enough for you Peacocks and Rainbows Some people knit wool into blankets. Some crochet with treble and chain. Some people cut lovely new fabric Just to sew it together again. But me, I like to use bobbins And weave patterns in thread without fear. And if someone should say it's so useless So are peacocks and rainbows, my dear. .Noelene Lafferty The Angle, NSW, Australia noel...@lafferty.com.au. I really need help with finding a new humorous one or two liner or maybe a short poem concerning lace makers for an upcoming project I have in mind for a friend who could really do with a lift. We all know the one about lace makers do it on pillows. Is there anything different? Thanks. Sharon - 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] Need help with Brigitte Bellon pattern
So excited! I picked up the lace pillow again tonight. A few days ago I had figured out how to leave the loop and work the rose ground, so tonight I finished enough of that to tackle the big stumbling block of sewings as I worked the next section. It all came together this time. I did shread the first thread using a crochet hook that is too small. But that can be fixed. I put a picture on my Flickr account. I'm looking forward to finishing and wearing this scarf. http://www.flickr.com/photos/warpedandwonderful/8932485722/ Thank you all for your suggestions and encouragement! It is really going to work up pretty quickly once I get more practice on this pattern. Vila Cox Warped Wonderful http://www.warpedandwonderful.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Warped-Wonderful-Handwoven-Treasures/241360532566599 On 5/17/2013 2:09 AM, AGlez wrote: I think that you have to keep working, because it does not look as if there are pairs missing. Ask again if you arrive to a problem later, but you should not have it. The patterns of this book are very accurate and in torchon everything matches. Keep telling us if these explanations were useful for you. Best luck! And don't cut the lace off! AS soon as you overcome this part, you will see it is not difficult at all. Antje González, from a rainy Spain with a winter atmosphere again. - 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] Need help with Brigitte Bellon pattern
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions and encouragement! I am turning the pillow as I work, the picture was taken from a different direction than I had been working on the lace. I'll talk myself into a more positive mood about it and try again soon. Even starting the section of rose ground was beyond me a few nights ago and I had figured that section out the first time. I'm going to print out all your emails and highlight the suggestions so I can read them while I'm working on the lace next time. I'll keep you posted. It might be a few days. My weaving turned into a full time job and I spend a lot of time in the evenings finishing up items and preparing them for shipping the next day. Evenings used to be my lace time. Vila Cox Warped Wonderful http://www.warpedandwonderful.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Warped-Wonderful-Handwoven-Treasures/241360532566599 On 5/17/2013 2:09 AM, AGlez wrote: Hello Vila, The pattern is beautiful, and I have made a scarf from the same book, which is made very similarly. I think there is nothing wrong in your piece of lace. (And there wasn't either in the one you cut off, as I can see). - 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] Need help with Brigitte Bellon pattern
Hello Vila, The pattern is beautiful, and I have made a scarf from the same book, which is made very similarly. I think there is nothing wrong in your piece of lace. (And there wasn't either in the one you cut off, as I can see). Number 2 is ok: you must leave the 2 edge pairs plus the guide waiting until you reach that border later again. Now you have to continue working the complete triangle in roseground, which may not offer difficulty because there is a diagram for the unfinished border in the pattern sheet to indicate you how to make it. Once you have finished the triangle, make the narrow cloth stitch trail that follows, then a row of whole stitches and again a row with a trail. You will have to make a joining at the first top stitch of this trail. I think that you have to keep working, because it does not look as if there are pairs missing. Ask again if you arrive to a problem later, but you should not have it. The patterns of this book are very accurate and in torchon everything matches. Keep telling us if these explanations were useful for you. Best luck! And don't cut the lace off! AS soon as you overcome this part, you will see it is not difficult at all. Antje González, from a rainy Spain with a winter atmosphere again. * * *Photography is like life... you can change perspective by changing your point of view! * - 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] Need help with Brigitte Bellon pattern
I did not mean to ask a questions and disappear, but life got in the way of me working on the project and posting here. I put a couple of pictures on my Flickr page. The first one shows my original attempt. The arrow points to the place I got stuck before I cut it off. http://www.flickr.com/photos/warpedandwonderful/8730897654/in/photostream/ The second picture shows my current effort. http://www.flickr.com/photos/warpedandwonderful/8729786431/in/photostream/ Tonight I tried again and still do not feel comfortable with this pattern. I seems like I'm short a pair at both arrow 2 and 3. While I think this is a beautiful pattern, I starting to feel like it is not worth the struggle. Making lace should be enjoyable and I am not having fun with this one. I set it aside and worked on a simple bookmark while I thought about other projects I would like to start. Vila Cox Warped Wonderful http://www.warpedandwonderful.com https://twitter.com/warpedandwonder http://www.facebook.com/pages/Warped-Wonderful-Handwoven-Treasures/241360532566599 On 5/2/2013 11:56 PM, Miriam Gidron wrote: Hi Vila, I made two scarves out of this book. The book is only in German , it is at first difficult to get what she is saying but once you get going it works fin. I have checked the pattern now, Attach the two parts of the pattern and use it as one repeat. Once you turn your pillow remember that you have to sew pairs in as you go along. If you could explain exactly how you got stuck I'll try to figure it out for you. If you need a translation of the introduction I'd be happy to help you out with it too. Miriam in Israel I'm making a second attempt at the third pattern in Brigittle Bellon's Kloppelmuster Fur Schals Und Tischlaufer. The first time around I got the pattern started and figured it out until I turned to go back and attach the lace as I went on that part of pattern. There I got stuck. Since I had some other deadlines coming up I cut it off the pillow and set every thing aside for a while. Now I want to go back and master what stopped me before. First question, Is there a translation of the book anywhere? I've used Google translate for bits and pieces, but that can be more amusing that accurate most of the time. Second question, Is there a working diagram for the patterns? That would help a lot. Or does someone have some suggestions or hints. For me it's hard to figure out where the pairs go in the beginning by just looking at a color picture of the completed lace. For now it's back to more trial and error at getting started again. - 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/
Re: [lace] need help with colors
Dear Tess, This is in Fri Knipling. I cannot read German, but the color picture shows parts of the flowers around the roots are in Violet, and parts of the apple are also Violet (maybe with some gold metal highlights). I can bring book to you next time I'm in Portland area -- maybe late this coming week. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 9/12/2009 6:19:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tess1...@aol.com writes: Has anyone ever done the design by--I'm pretty sure--Jana Novak of the Tree and the Snake (presumably in Garden of Eden)? I worked it a few years ago but all in one color, and now I am making it again and I hope this time to put in the colors. I have the tree and the snake all finished, but I can't remember the colors for the apple at the bottom or for what may be blossoms in the tree. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? This is a very typical example of having a UFO which has been lurking in my closet for over a year now. I have looked through all the books on my shelf, but can't find it anywhere. However, I have complete faith in the wonders of Arachne and know that there must be someone out there who knows the design and can take a look at the color picture in the book. And no, I can't remember the name of the book. Oh dear! Tess (tess1...@aol.com) in Maine, USA, quite frustrated - 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] Need help locating a picture!
HelloAurilia all I think the picture you are looking for is in Lace Number 74 April 1994 Joan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aurelia Loveman Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:33 PM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Need help locating a picture! Dear all -- I am trying to locate a picture that appeared in one of our lace publications not too many years ago. It is a photo of a handicapped lacemaker. She is sitting on the floor, making lace with one arm and one leg. If anybody has seen this photo and remembers where I might find it again, do please let me know. Thank you! -- Aurelia [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Need help locating a picture!
Yes, I saw that one, it would be with a lacemaker using her feet. The photo that Aurelia mentions is probably another one. On 1/22/07, Whitham, Irene Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Wasn't it in Kniplebrevet?.I remember seeing it too! Irene Whitham Surrey, BC -- Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com blogging lace at www.looonglace.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Need help locating a picture!
Joan, thank you ever so much! The picture is indeed as you said, in Lace No. 74, April 1994. What a wonderful resource is Arachne and its spiders!-- Aurelia HelloAurilia all I think the picture you are looking for is in Lace Number 74 April 1994 Joan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aurelia Loveman Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:33 PM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Need help locating a picture! Dear all -- I am trying to locate a picture that appeared in one of our lace publications not too many years ago. It is a photo of a handicapped lacemaker. She is sitting on the floor, making lace with one arm and one leg. If anybody has seen this photo and remembers where I might find it again, do please let me know. Thank you! -- Aurelia [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Need help locating a picture!
Joan, thank you ever so much! The picture is indeed as you said, in Lace No. 74, April 1994. What a wonderful resource is Arachne and its spiders!-- Aurelia HelloAurilia all I think the picture you are looking for is in Lace Number 74 April 1994 Joan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aurelia Loveman Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:33 PM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Need help locating a picture! Dear all -- I am trying to locate a picture that appeared in one of our lace publications not too many years ago. It is a photo of a handicapped lacemaker. She is sitting on the floor, making lace with one arm and one leg. If anybody has seen this photo and remembers where I might find it again, do please let me know. Thank you! -- Aurelia [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Need help with identifying a bobbin winder
Hi Mary, There's an Arachne webshots site where you could post the picture. I'm sure someone can tell you how to do that, and they will! If, however, that isn't an option for you for some reason, I will volunteer to post the photo on my web site. You could send me a digital photo via email. Or, if you don't have it in digital form, you could snail mail the photo to me, and I can scan it and put up. If you would like to pursue this option, send me private email and we'll hash out the details. My email address is bejoyce at mac dot com. I know I won't be able to help you identify the winder, but it will be fun to see it! Barbara Joyce Snoqualmie, WA USA Hi, I recently have acquired what I believe to be an antique bobbin winder. I'm sure it is missing a piece (like a mini-skein holder or something? Would anyone be willing to let me send them pictures to see if you could help me with it? It is allegedly from the late 1700s but maybe more like 1800s. I am current with my virus protection on my computer so they will be safe files. Thanks for any help you can give me. Mary Shue Ann Arbor, MI - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Need help
On 5 Jul 2005, at 16:00, Lynn Weasenforth wrote: Dear Friends, I have a problem and am hoping that someone can help. My son wants a cross done in lace, I have drawn one up for him, the problem is where to start, if anyone wants to see the drawing, please write me and I will send the picture to you. I have designed it with mainly roseground in it, (love that roseground). Hello Lynn There are two main ways of working a (torchon) BL cross: 1, work as an edging half the width of each arm of the cross. working all around the cross turning left and right corners as necessary until you get back to where you started, and making sewings or other connections down the middle of each arm. 2, start at top AND bottom of the cross, then use half the pairs from the top with half the pairs from the bottom to work the left arm, and then the remaining bobbins to work the right arm. Some patterns will only work one way, others only the other way and some will work both ways. If you want to send me a scan of the design (.gif or .jpg) I'll tell you how I'd work it. Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] need help
So far all I've thought of is pre-winding all but one pair of bobbins (I feel they must know how to wind a bobbin properly) and perhaps starting with the Springetts Snake? Any idea what's the average length of time that should take for a beginner? I was hoping that I'd get that done in the first four hour session, but now I'm wondering. Then what do I give? What would be the ideal length of time for something like this anyway? Sharon: I see a difference between what you'd teach in a 12-hour workshop and what you'd teach in a continuing class. For a continuing class, you want to slowly improve skills, so it is logical to move slowly through the basics, gradually increasing complexity over time. That's because they get to practice each week between the classes. With a workshop, they don't have the practice time and the gradual approach isn't so useful. I would plan for at least two pieces. The first is your simple bandage, showing cloth stitch, half stitch, and a ground. This will take up the first section of the class. The second piece would be an edging that uses the same basic stitches in different combinations. I suggest an edging partly because it is open-ended - you don't have to get to a certain point to be finished. People who are going fast can make a longer edging, the slower ones can be happy with their shorter piece. You can devise a simple Torchon edging where one area (like a fan edge, or an area inside the design) is done differently in successive repeats. Don't use a large number of pairs - just enough to make a reasonably nice edging. Of course, make it fairly big and use thicker thread, so they can follow the pairs easily. You might also come prepared with a third pattern, slightly different, for any keeners or people who came with some knowledge of bobbin lace, so they can move on if they've got the first one. You will need complete directions, of course, for the basic movements and for the edging. Then in the class you can just take people through the directions. Also, people get enthused when they see the thing used, so you could make the edging and attach it to something, or coil it up to make a pretty flower. Have several samples available for them to look at. The most common mistake I've seen in beginner workshops is where the teacher plans something that takes 12 hours to make - for the teacher. The students barely get started, and the workshop is over. When you calculate how much actually lacemaking time you will have in the class, remember to deduct coffee breaks, setup time, and the time that you spend explaining things to the class. It is hard to remember how long it took you to do things when you were learning - my rule of thumb is that if I think it will take a beginner 3 hours to do, it will actually take them 6. Good luck. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Need Help
I would guess that it is for making a teneriffe type lace. Carole Dublin, OH USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Need Help
Yes, Carol...It is the retractable arms that make the other modern Basciially it is Tenneriffe lace. Now why did I not remember that. I guess the memories crowded it out. BarbE - Original Message - From: Carole Lassak To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Need Help I would guess that it is for making a teneriffe type lace. Carole Dublin, OH USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Need Help
Betty Ann - Your MIL might not have thrown the directions away, 'cos my Daisy Wheel never had any to start with! I found some instructions in a local magazine (back in approximately 1965, so I haven't a hope of locating them now!) Basically, a continuous thread is wound around the opened-out pins, making loops around each one, from one side of the circle to the pin on the opposite side of the circle, then back to the first side, but moving on to the next pin each time you cross the circle. Once all the pins have been used, the loops are anchored by weaving under and over (a bit like darning) around the circle in different patterns. When the weaving is finished, the daisy is released by turning the pins back inside the two pieces of tin. I made a baby's jacket using this device, but it was a real pain, because it was far too lacy, and the baby kept catching her fingers, indeed whole hands, in the loops... even trying to put it on her was a real struggle. I never bothered doing anything else with it. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Clive and Betty Ann Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Gentle Spiders, I'm going through some of my late MIL's sewing things, and came upon this little box , 2x2 square and 3/4 deep. On the box is Crazy-Daisy Winder for Finer Hand Weaving. It is manufactured by Ralph C. Springer Co. 11411 Joanne Place, Culver City, California. Inside the box is a brass object. Two circles sheets of metal with a knob on top and when the knob is turned, 12 pins pop out from between the sheets of brass (tin?) It looks vaguely familiar; I think my Mother may have had one when I was young, but I don't know how to use it. Dear MIL had a habit of throwing away directions to everything, so there is nothing to tell me what marvelous things I could make with this pretty little Crazy-Daisy Winder. Anyone know? Thanks for any information. Happy Lacemaking, Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia where it is glorious, the mums are blooming beautifully, the nights are cool, and the chestnuts are falling to happy squirrels. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]