According to Brenda Paternoster's Threads for Lace Coat's #40 is 23 wraps per
cm so the equivalent in DMC is #50. DMC #40 is 22wpc.
Jacquie
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Hello Lorelei and Rose-Marie and all Others,
This different ways to make the half-stich comes from the different pillows.
People who start with a roler-pillow was told to do itin one way I think CT
and the others with the flat pillow and unhooded bobbins the other way
round. Meanwhile it is no
From: Lorelei Halley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
All British lacemakers (as far as I can tell) do half stitch CT. Most, but
no all, western Europeans do it CT. Most, but not all, central Europeans do
it TC. Nearly all eastern Europeans to it TC.
I took a Skansk (Sweden) workshop from Marji Suhm
Hi to the Rock Band,
I use a footstand which was originally used for the guitar playing comfort -
I have had it for more years than I care to remember - even longer than I've
been doing lace! - so haven't a clue where I obtained it. But I should
imagine most musical suppliers stores have
Dear Sulochona,
Your work is beautiful! You have inspired me. I don't do needlelace, but have
had a burning passion to do Romanian Point. I probably won't get to it in this
life, but who's to know later...
Happy Lacemaking
Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA
Sulochona Chaudhuri wrote:
On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 03:30 AM, Jane wrote:
I imagine I'll have to make my own varigated to get
the effect I'm after but I'm wondering if there are some thicker threads
(I
think I'm using #80 tatting cotton, it's downstairs) with a short change
in
color. And what does everybody else
Robin wrote:
I used variegated thread for my Chrysanthemum lace class with Cathy
Belleville, and it worked beautifully! I used silk floss (Caron
Waterlillies, Thread Gatherer Silk 'n' Colors, and Gloriana).
Just curious, what size threads do these embroidery thread compare with?
Janice Blair
Dear Bianca Rosa -- The article I mentioned is a two-page piece entitled
Aemilia-Ars Lace. It appears in a little volume called The Gentle Needle
Arts, pages 19-20. This is not quite a magazine, but not exactly a book,
either. It was published in 1977 by Marshall Cavendish Books Ltd, 58
Compton
Another addendum to the thread; obviously, people's experiences with
it are quite, er... variegated g
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Date: Mon Oct 27, 2003 05:55:41 US/Eastern
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Subject: varigated threads
Dear Tamara, Maderia
On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 11:31 US/Eastern, Adele Shaak wrote:
I don't make lace using stitches but just twists and crosses
I do too! Just as, somehow, I managed to drift from the rh side fooside
to lh side one, so did my thinking switched from cloth stitch to
CTC when I wasn't looking g I
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also available in perle 5 cotton which would be thicker
still than the 80 cotton.
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Gidday Jane and all,
You asked about variegated thread thicker than DMC 80. I don't know if
I have a ball of Manuela crochet cotton in a size 20 - quite a large ball
and it is variegated in pastel pinks/mauves/lemon shades. I got it from a
secret pal years ago so I assume it is available in the
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An easy way to slip a lace bookmark into a plastic sleeve is by folding a
piece of thin card in half and cutting it along its length so that it is
just slightly narrower but longer than the plastic sleeve.
in base 13 What is 6 x 9? has the answer 42
Was it ever established whether Douglas Adams knew this when he wrote
Hitchiker? I can't remember.
Regards,
Annette
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In my dialect, the a of orange actually sounds more like the o of
women, and the a in mange is like the ay in day... But there's another
problem: the stress on orange is on the first syllable, and mange is a
one-syllable word.
Yes, that's the way we'd say it in England too.
Annette
To
My first trip to London ('68) I fell, *totally*, in love with the tube,
and especially with the little no-nonsense maps of it.
It's hard now to imagine how revolutionary that map of Frank Pick's was when
it was introduced in - what, the 20s? 30s? I forget. Having seen a
pre-Pick map of the
I always find it most amusing that, when I come for a trip home to England, I
always get asked for help on the tube system from people who, judging by their
accents, have spent all their life travelling on it!!
It's also a source of pride that, because I've spent so long studying that
little map,
I would have thought mange rhymed with orange, doesn't it?
To me, the closest rhyme for orange is door hinge
Pam Dotson
Everett, WA USA
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From: R.P.
Never take a beer to a job interview.
Always identify people in your yard before shooting at them.
It's considered tacky to take a cooler to church.
If you have to vacuum the bed it's time to change sheets.
Even if you're CERTAIN that you are included in the will ...it is still
From: R.P.
The following are answers given by school-age children to each of the
given
questions:
1. Why did God make mothers?
She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
Think about it, it was the best way to get more people.
Mostly to clean the house.
To help us out of there when
Thanks for the web site Patsy. It brings back memories of Januaury here.
Our thoughts are with all affected by the fires
Jenny Rees
Canberra, Australia
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To me, the closest rhyme for orange is door hinge
Pam Dotson
Everett, WA USA
Now I'm having nightmares about the poem which might include orange and door
hinge - wooe!!!
Regards
Liz Beecher
I'm
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