RE: [lace] Irish Crochet

2003-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ooops--I didn't think to add that to the description. I used a .75 mm for the motifs (that's what I carry in my bag most of the time) and a .60 mm for the background. Avital Original Message: - From: John OConnor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avital wrote: I just finished my first Irish

[lace] NEC

2003-11-30 Thread nicky.h-townsend
Hi Spiders Organised a coach to the NEC this year, a very early start for some as the coach made its first pick up at 6.15 am but we arrived at the NEC just before 11.00 am. The trip went without any hitches until we arrived at the NEC, despite having previously arranged and received an authority

[lace] free pattern

2003-11-30 Thread Lorelei Halley
Hi! I have just uploaded a second free pattern from my new book onto my website. Have a look! Go to http://www.loreleihalley.com/bobbinlace.htm and from there go to free pattern 3. Happy Holidays Lorelei Halley [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Lace Guild Web Site Advent Calendar 2003

2003-11-30 Thread Michael Wotherspoon
Hi Jean and David, That is great news! I always look forward to your Advent calendar. I start each day (even at work) by opening your calendar and counting down the days to Christmas. Thanks for taking the time and effort to mount it on your Website. Seasons greetings and happy lacemaking,

Re:[lace] thimble for lacemaking

2003-11-30 Thread Rieko Tamura
Thank you very much to the ladies who kindly ansered my question about a thimble for lacemaking. All your answers were very helpful for me. I will try. Rieko Tamura Shiga, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

[lace] Irish Crochet

2003-11-30 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Very nice Avital, and what a pretty design. Well done. I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

[lace] Looking for information about lace software

2003-11-30 Thread Clare Settle
I'm trying to reach the vendor of Knipling 2.4 (www.knipling.de) so I can purchase the software, and have not received a response. Does anyone know whether the vendor is still selling this software, and, if he is, how to reach him? Clare Milford, CT [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type

[lace] square bobbins raffle end

2003-11-30 Thread Bev Walker
Hi everyone Just a quick note to say that I have ended the raffle - I have 87 names and two prizes. Draw will be tomorrow morning my time (PST). -- bye for now Bev, working on an edging on a small bolster with *midlands* bobbins, 'closed' method (that would be CT) and getting along fine, in

[lace-chat] DID YOU KNOW...?

2003-11-30 Thread Laceandbits
Marilyn Monroe had six toes Just the 6? Or 6 on each foot! Makes me think of her feet looking like Mickey Mouse's hands with three fingers, but without the thumbs of course. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help,

[lace-chat] Re: Article on coal shed! / Tools With a Mission

2003-11-30 Thread Ann McClean
Just thought you might be interested in the following: - Original Message - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shame he threw out all those lovely sounding tools, when he could have recycled them to a charity like Tools with a mission http://www.twam.co.uk/ who refurbish them and send them out to

re: [lace-chat] Thanksgiving

2003-11-30 Thread Bev Walker
Hi everyone Janice wrote: It was two inch squares of some kind of meat in jelly. This sounds like something my mother made, which she called 'head cheese.' If the right amount of salt was in it, it was quite good. If it didn't gel properly, it wasn't much fun to eat :( -- bye for now Bev in

[lace-chat] Re: Did you know?

2003-11-30 Thread M. L. Mouzon
Neat stuff there! The one about the Wrigley gum caught my attention for some reason, and I actually looked it up to check on it. The gum wasn't exactly the first item to have a bar code on it, but the first item scanned! There was no reason it was chosen first... the gum just happened to be the

[lace-chat] The finer points of head cheese

2003-11-30 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Sunday, Nov 30, 2003, at 14:19 US/Eastern, Bev Walker wrote: It was two inch squares of some kind of meat in jelly. This sounds like something my mother made, which she called 'head cheese.' If the right amount of salt was in it, it was quite good. If it didn't gel properly, it wasn't much

[lace-chat] Notice on addresses, reading your mail, etc

2003-11-30 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
This is for everyone (too many to write to individually) on both of my private joke lists (people not on chat and people on chat who're OK with big -- visual -- files, non-PC, smut etc). If you'd like to be dropped, let me know, and I'll remove you (or trim the mailings to suit you better).

[lace-chat] Fwd: Women in the Bible

2003-11-30 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
Gentle Spiders, I bet many of you were happy to be relieved of your daily doses of political/feminist news (as digested by msn) and forget that Toni (Hawryluk) ever existed... :) But I have remained in touch with her even after she's unsubscribed, and ordered her to let me know, once a week,

[lace-chat] Good reading

2003-11-30 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
Hello all Spiders (and beyond), I have just finished reading Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel -- The Namesake -- and would like to recommend it for thoughtful reading. The writer -- and her short-story collection, Interpreter of Maladies -- was first recommended to me by Sulochona (among other