My question now is about bobbins. I know many of you use the spangled
ones but I was wondering if anyone uses the square European ones I have
seen on some websites. They look like the would resist the rolling
problem that has been mentioned and I wonder if they would make a good
starter bobbin
Can someone tell me what this lace is or where I can see samples of it. I
love butterflies and I see that there is a class at the Ithaca Lace days doing a
butterfly with Point Ground. I already have my hotel reservation and hope to
be able to take a class also.
Thanks for your help.
SueW
At 07:53 AM 5/4/2004, you wrote:
Can someone tell me what this lace is or where I can see samples of it. I
love butterflies and I see that there is a class at the Ithaca Lace days
doing a
butterfly with Point Ground. I already have my hotel reservation and hope to
be able to take a class also.
After the Lace Guild Convention Reception on the Friday evening we had a
slide-lecture in the Theatre on furnishings in Elizabethan paintings. This
turned out to be very interesting and although not lace orientated, did give a
lot of information on the embroideries and the table-carpets. At
Perhaps someone who has taken this class before can give you more specific
information. I have no idea exactly what these butterflies are
like. Sounds interesting.
The butterflies are new. I saw the photos for the book when Ulrike was in
Chicago in March. They are beautiful - in colour -
On May 4, 2004, at 16:27, A Thompson wrote:
A little doll was dressed like a Russian bride with the pointed
Kokoshnic (?) crown all in lace.
Kokoshnitsa, or kokoshka. The term comes from the word for hen g
The headdress, supposedly, resembles the tail of a hen when she's
brooding (sitting on
Hi All, Thank you for putting the pictures on your website
Carolina! They're fabulous. The mantilla is spectacular!
If any of you missed it the URL is:
http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/
http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/encajebrujo.html
Look at the Lace Days in Arenys. And Paquita
On May 4, 2004, at 15:42, Alice Howell wrote (in response to SueW from
Morrisonville, NY):
Perhaps someone who has taken this class before can give you more
specific information. I have no idea exactly what these butterflies
are like. Sounds interesting.
I haven't taken the class, and
For all the Oz lacemakers and book enthusiasts:-
DD sent me a Dymocks book voucher for Birthday/Mothers' Day (Beauty!!!), and
after reading about the Lace from the V A Museum, I knew it was Just the
book I wanted, so went into my local branch of Dymocks this morning and
asked if they can get if
Sue W
Please look at one of the pages in my website for photos of various kinds of
point ground lace.
http://www.loreleihalley.com/identification.htm Point ground is one of
the styles of bobbin lace which was made in many countries of Europe during
the 19th century. Each nation's variant
On May 3, 2004, at 14:56, Amanda Babcock wrote:
It turns out that the sewings I'm having trouble with are neither top
nor edge sewings.
I thought that might be the case, when I heard you mention tape... :)
It hardly ever has the 3 exchanging workers necessary to form the line
edge onto which
Hello Angela and list
There is info on Michailov lace here:
http://www.expo.ryazan.ru:8100/interp-e/mikhlace.htm
and here is yet another shameless plug (by me) for a lacemaker-written
book (by Gon Homburg, Christa van Schagen and Lia Baumeister)
Tamara.I was going to send you a message anyway
about postage. The Royal Mail is proposing changing its way of charging for post,
moving from charging by weight only to charging by size *and* weight. This
has horrified mail order firms with at least one, a film
Tamara
I'm sending this to you and cc'd to chat. Hope you get them both.
We should be getting broadband here at the end of the mont, and much as
want it I'm not looking forward to the changeover!
On 3 May 2004, at 23:46, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Gentle Spiders,
Can someone do me a favour,
Just to remind you:
Today is Star Wars Day - May The 4th Be With You
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http://yarntree.com/036alpht.htm
http://yarntree.com/035alph.htm
http://www.freepatternsonline.com/chart/alphabets.htm
The last address has quite a few alphabets on it. There's lots available
out there. I love the internet!
Heather
Rainy Abbotsford, BC
At 04:40 PM 03/05/2004 -0700, John
Hi all
If it helps anyone, yesterday was a poor day for connecting on-line for a
lot of servers. Maybe to do with the current virus fright. When I could
get on, the downloading was slow, and some sites weren't accessible
either.
--
bye for now
Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada)
Cdn. floral
I want my SW 3-disc set right now!
LOL - I remembered that Ep. I had been released
on this date
--
bye for now
Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada)
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Actually I only remember about 2 people being in line and it was
just business as usual. When I got to the front of the line, I
didn't know to expect anything other than a $10 bill for my $10
withdrawal, so I guess we did have ordinary queueing, but no special
rules.
Lisa in Dallas
Date: Mon,
Don't know if the ISPs are being extra cautious because of this latest
virus. A few weeks ago Freeserve (now Wanadoo) was slow due to extra
vigilant filtering in their system. The current Sasser virus isn't spread by
email, but through the internet.
Here, the Maritime and Coastguard agency
Larry, the Wedding dress guy now has his own web site:
http://www.weddingdressguy.com/ there's a link from it to his band website
as well.
A lot of it's still under construction, But there's a picture of him,
without his face covered, wearing the dress on the 'About me' page:
Yes, but did he sell the dress? It was up to $25K last time I looked. Or
maybe
now that he's all famous and stuff he'll keep it! :-
Vasna
Larry, the Wedding dress guy now has his own web site:
http://www.weddingdressguy.com/ there's a link from it to his band website
as well.
A lot of it's
At 11:25 AM 5/4/2004, you wrote:
Yes, but did he sell the dress? It was up to $25K last time I looked. Or
maybe
now that he's all famous and stuff he'll keep it! :-
Vasna
Yes, it sold for a little over $3000. I knew there was a problem with the
bidding when I looked at it, and the amount
What a wonderful group we have on arachne!! Thank you one and all for all
the alphabets. I had no idea there were so many choices of styles. Thanks
especially Judy, Jean, Heather and Clay!
Jane O'Connor
New Lenox, IL
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Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul
To
I kind of wondered about the bidding, too. But, I saw a tatting shuttle
once have a bid on it of $2500, which I thought was an error, but what do I
know? :-
Vasna, in warm Boulder, Colorado
At 11:25 AM 5/4/2004, you wrote:
Yes, but did he sell the dress? It was up to $25K last time I
Hi Jean and All, Well I was really out of the loop on this one.
Thanks for bringing me up to speed. How funny!
Jane in Vermont, USA where the bright red male Cardinal
came and sat in the hanging plant on the porch! He was a
picture next to the lavender flowers.
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Who is Larry the wedding dress guy? All previous references to him seem to
have passed me by. Why is he wearing a wedding dress?
Patricia in Wales
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On Mon, 3 May 2004 20:40:50 -0400, Tamara wrote:
Curioser and curioser...
Had a phone call from Alice (thanks again, Alice, for taking the
trouble) telling me that a message she tried to send to me *last night*
was rejected -- can't connect to @rockbridge.net -- which seemed to
suggest trouble
At 02:32 PM 5/4/2004, you wrote:
Who is Larry the wedding dress guy? All previous references to him seem to
have passed me by. Why is he wearing a wedding dress?
Larry is a recently divorced guy who was left with his ex's wedding dress
instead of the ring. Instead of throwing it away, he
I always wondered why it was not celebrated when I lived in England apart from the odd
person wearing a rose in their lapel. My children started their education in Wales
where my daughter had to wear Welsh costume, my son could wear any costume and often
went as a cowboy, at school on St.
On May 4, 2004, at 17:58, Steph Peters wrote:
Would you really rather they were handled together so that a problem
with mail in one direction impacts the other?
No ma'm; that I would not. Had slow outgoing mail the night before
though -- about the same the problem started (according to Alice) --
This is not a sparkling new one (though, on second thoughts... Not
new, perhaps, but g), but I'm *sooo* relieved to have my toy
(e-mail) back in working order, that I'm ready to giggle at anything :)
*Many* of you lace-chatters have responded to my please send a
message, any message at all,
But you have to take his story with a box of salt. Here's an interview with
him:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001915316_brodeur29m.html
A
- Original Message -
It was worth a laugh to read his story -- maybe he should be a
writer. Anyway, the whole thing attracted
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