[lace] Lace Advent Calendar 2022
Once again David and I have produced a Lace Advent Calendar which you can find on my website: https://www.jeanleader.net/calendar/index.html For anyone not familiar with it, starting from December 1st there is a window that can be opened with a new lace picture every day, patterns on two of the days (they have different coloured numbers), and a competition that you can complete when all of the days with clues have been revealed. Spread the word and have fun Jean - 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-chat] myth mystery
Nicky wrote: I've had a look at the Lace Guilds site and was able to look at Gallery's 2 and 3 (couldn't access gallery 1 via either web site address). There's no problem with Gallery 1. It's a menu item along with the other two and if you click on it you'll get the first page. Sometimes if you have a slow line and a page fails to load the browser 'remembers' this and thinks the page does not exist. Try doing a refresh/reload next time you visit the site. And it's best to go slowly through the galleries, at least giving time to read the text. I've made a few minor changes unrelated to this, double-checked everything, so if you have problems, try refresh first or test with your second browser before assuming there is a fault. If anyone still has problems they should let me know their operating system (Mac or Windows) and browser (Explorer, Mozilla, Safari etc) and the version number (see About). David -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] English grammar book
We've just got the following from our DS - he's moved to Italy and is working hard at his Italian. Can you recomend a technical book on English grammar? Modern, logical, with examples. As they never taught it to us at school, I am going to have to learn now, as it is too hard trying to talk about Italian grammar when I don't know it in English. Any suggestions gratefully received. Jean in Glasgow, Scotland where today has been pleasantly warm and sunny To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Tiny Url
Joy wrote: Should I tell him about the typo in the second paragraph of the opening page? Yes, yes a thousand times yes! How else is a webmaster who maintains hundreds (and I mean hundreds) of pages on a purely voluntary basis going to know of errors? and Violates the first rule of publishing: ...and if you know anything about publishing you will know that however much effort you put in, the typo-free publication does not exist. The typo hits you in the eye as soon as you open the printed page. The typo mentioned is probably the result of quick and dirty editing a couple of years back of info that was pertinent five years ago. Some of the original concerns are no longer relevant (the web-safe colour palette has died a death with improvements in displays), and as I no longer teach that particular class, the updates were made to patch those aspects quickly so my enemies could not use this as ammunition against me. (Web design is a war.) David PS Although I think these pages are an excellent example of website design for easy navigation, the way they are coded is out of date and is not what I would use now. However life is too short to recode them just for aesthetic purity. -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: Editing and Graphic Design: was Re: Tiny Url
Joy wrote: I don't think the information about web-safe colors is at all dated. You don't have to worry about it *much*, nowadays, but the unsafe colors he showed were not distinguishable to the naked eye from the safe colors. If you are, for example, color-coding a lace diagram, why not pick colors that will come through bright and clear to the backwoods orphan using a hand-me-down monitor? It might even be easier to choose clearly-contrasting colors from a limited palette. There's not much harm choosing from the 216-palette (aka web-safe) if it has the colours that you want, but there's no virtue in sticking to it for the sake of people with old monitors. Someone with a hand-me down monitor is more likely to only be able to see (or have the monitor set at) thousands of colours rather than only 256. Trouble is that those thousand do *not* include the 216 - Honestly! I was surprised a bit at his comments on Mac vs. PC monitors -- I hadn't been aware that there was enough uniformity in monitor settings for such a slight difference to show up. There definitely is. I discovered this the hard way when I first launched The Lace Guild website back in 1997. Gary Peach, who used to contribute to the list took me to task about it. Sometimes I look at my pages on PCs at work and realize that my images are still too dark. I've been using a little piece of free Mac software called GammaToggle http://www.thankyouware.com/gammatoggle.html for years to emulate the PC gamma on my Mac, and then adjust the brightness as a compromise between Mac and PC gamma. Both Adobe's ImageReady and Macromedia's Fireworks (web graphics manipulation software) have inbuilt facilities for doing this, so they believe in it too. Supposedly the png graphic format has the capability of compensating for this but its current implementation in Internet Explorer does not take advantage of this. (I don't understand this well enough to explain further, but there are some articles on the web.) David -- Jean Leader Glasgow, Scotland, UK Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag
My knitting bag was made for me by a friend of my mother's back in the 1950s. I don't do a lot of knitting (probably why it's lasted so well) but have been using it recently so got round to taking some measurements. It's a sort of combined bag and apron, and it's not that easy to explain what to do so if anyone wants a diagram please contact me privately. Take a length of fabric approx 17 by 35 and at one end fold over first 0.25, then 3 and stitch 2 seams across (one about 2.5, the other about 3 from fold) to make a channel for a drawstring. Measure along about 21, fold over and stitch 2 more seams (again about 2.5 and 3 from fold) to make a channel for a drawstring. Fold so that the two channels are opposite each other and stitch side seams (do not stitch over channel openings). You will be left with an end of fabric about 5 long - gather this into a waistband and attach apron ties. Make fabric drawstrings (or use cord) and insert through channel - best to use two so you can pull up from both sides. Put knitting in bag, fold apron part over, pull drawstrings tight and off you go. When you're ready to knit, open bag, tie apron strings round waist, take out knitting - the yarn stays in the bag so doesn't roll around the floor. My current project is a lacy shawl with 1-ply cobweb wool which I could finish by the end of the month if I had nothing else to do! Jean in Glasgow where we had snow yesterday but rain today To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Need a good functional wrist and thumb brace
Everyone's different but from my experience... When I had thumb tendonitis the physiotherapist suggested I wear a thumb brace and rest my thumb (no lacemaking etc). The thumb got worse and I ended up with a trigger thumb. Only when I gave up wearing the brace did my thumb start to improve! The trigger thumb went away and although the thumb still aches a bit at times it is much, much better. I do make an effort to rest it when it gets sore as I think that's the real answer. Jean in wet, grey Glasgow To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
