Re: [lace] OT, Tatted fern etc.

Dear April, While shopping for some garden flowers, I came across a Tatted Fern. Very cute! About 12 inch fronds with 1/3 inch flat half circles (with ruffled outer edges) alternating up the stems. No botanical name, but was not a Maidenhair (Adiantum). Anyway, a must have for all us gardening

Re: [lace] Lace jacket on ebay

I just read my own post and realized that you might not understand what my question mark was about! I was not questioning that it is beautiful or that it is Russian lace, I was questioning whether it is a jacket - or a vest? Sorry! Clay Just in time for the banquet at the IOLI Convention

Re: [lace] Lace jacket on ebay

I was questioning whether it is a jacket - or a vest? 'Waistcoat' is the English equivalent of the US word 'vest'. The photos show it quite clearly as a sleeveless jacket. But what do US people call the undergarment (worn under shirts blouses, in colder weather), which the English call a

[lace] Undergarment

On Saturday, May 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Sue Babbs wrote: But what do US people call the undergarment (worn under shirts blouses, in colder weather), which the English call a 'vest'? In Canada, when I was a kid we used to wear 'undershirts' in the winter Margot Walker in Halifax on the east

[lace] Honiton Lace

Dear Friends Thank you to everyone who replied to my questions about Honiton. They were varied and all helpful and encouraging. I'll follow everyone's advice at some stage or other! I've begun by enlarging the prickings in the book I have to work them in tanne 80. I've finished patterns 1 2 and

Re: [lace] back again for a while

Nice to see you back here., Bjarne. have been following your latest experiments in the silk ribbon list...;-) BarbE - Original Message - From: Bjarne og Leif Drews To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:45 PM Subject: [lace] back again for a while Dear

[lace] Re: Lace jacket on ebay

On May 22, 2004, at 20:00, Carolyn Hastings wrote: I wouldn't think that the garment in question is either waistcoat or vest (depending on your side of the pond) since it has very short sleeves. I think it is a short sleeved jacket. Waistcoat or vest to me denotes sleeveless. To me too, but

Fw: [lace] Undergarment

On Saturday, May 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Sue Babbs wrote: But what do US people call the undergarment (worn under shirts blouses, in colder weather), which the English call a 'vest'? Hi All, I call them undershirts or camilsoles. The latter usually has a little bit of lace or something.

[lace] Ring saga

Hi All, Thanks Jo for your website. That looks like an excellent way to make rings! I have two questions though - what thread size are you using and how big is the finished ring? At the moment I'm using #12 Pearl but I will be (someday) moving on to 100/3 cotton for classic NL. Rosaline

Re: [lace] Lace jacket on ebay

Can't tell you what the Americans call it - but I still call it a vest, but when I use that term out here, the Aussies think I mean either a waistcoat or a sleeveless jumperthey call a vest a singlet. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Sue Babbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote'Waistcoat' is the English

[lace] Thanks new magazine

Thanks to everyone for their replies to my question about Fantasy Flowers. (Also thanks to Sue B. for her generous remarks about my bobbins). ANYWAY 2 things, first I picked up a new magazine called Hallmark (yes it appears to be related to the card company) that is perhaps a cross between

[lace-chat] :-)) Flogging a dead horse

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in today's government and in big corporations, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1..

[lace-chat] INNER PEACE

INNER PEACE I am passing this on to you because it has definitely worked for me... the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace the article read: The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started. So I looked around the house to see

[lace-chat] what kind of 'lace'?

Greetings, Here is a tablecloth with 'tape lace' that I don't think is that. I'm thinking that it's more like cutwork and whitework. They claim it is 150 yrs old. You stilll have a day and a half to bid if you collect whitework.

[lace-chat] long lace curtains

I'm still browsing on eBay. Here are some tambour lace curtains 140 long. Very pretty, but WAAY too big for my windows. Anyone making a wedding dress? Or a wedding veil? There's two pair of these on sale, and that's alot of yardage.

[lace-chat] Question of language, again...

Gentle Spiders, Need y'all's help again... :) I'm trying to do the write-up on the infernal 2-Pair Inventions booklet, and have got a knot which I'm unable to untie by myself, not being mathematically inclined... From 45+ years ago, I seem to remember that there was a term when things moved

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Mother's Dictionary

I'll take the Polish tack on this one; *our* Mother's day is... May 27, I think? So, it's still in time... g From: M.A. Amnesia: condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again Bottle Feeding: an opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2am, too Defense: what you'd better

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: ... and that's the truth !!

From: T.H. Late one Friday night a policeman spotted a man driving very erratically through the streets of Dublin. He pulled the man over and asked him if he had been drinking that evening. Aye, so I have. 'Tis Friday, you know, so me and the lads stopped by the pub where I had six or seven