Adele wrote:
A couple of years ago I bought 3 'traditional' pillows from a fellow in
LePuy. He has a web site. The pillows have rollers. The pillows are
pretty but toxic to pins! The rollers are made with carpet scraps.
Indoor-outdoor carpet with rubberized backing
Please, Adele, can you post
Beautiful lace, Sally! And i think your method of pinning the pricking
down is pretty smart too. I'll have to try it next time.
I've also had patterns moving up, so now I use a flat pillow when I do a
wide pattern rather than a cookie, even if the slope is not too much. Or a
roller pillow, of
Good morning All,
back from Prague, (minus luggage at the moment) and trying to catch up
on all of the discussion, I have been intrigued by the many solutions
to the problem of lace which rises up off the pricking. I have a
feeling that part of the problem is the length of thread which
Dear Karisse, Clay and others,
Since you're working with Midlands bobbins, you're in luck! The easiest
way to keep your pillow tidy is to go out to your nearest craft or knitting
shop and buy a bunch of stitch holders
There's an even better way which works in a similar fashion. Got to your
Dear Friends,
In this past week I have started a quite large piece of Chantilly because I
definitely needed something to relive the stress and tension of conducting
a big concert last Sunday.
For those of you who have Ulrike Loehr's book called Schwatzarbeit, it's
the one on p.73. I've scanned
on 7/25/04 9:29 PM, Tamara P. Duvall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gentle Spiders,
On Monday, 11 July, on the stroke of 9, I appeared at my workshop. That
was Freehand Lace (lace made with pins on the sides only, but other
than Milanese)
I have also, somewhere along the line, developed a
Welcome back, T, and it is fun to read your funny account of your trip and workshop.
We've missed you. And David, my love, it is great to see your posting as well. Maybe
I'm missing stuff by not being on Chat and this probably should be there. No...it
shouldn't...
All IOLI members need to
In obedience to Betty Ann's email, I went to the revised by-laws on the
www.interenationaloldlacers.org site, but can't seem to get past the first page. Is
this just my ineptitude?
Devon
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The lace list is hardly the place to express one's political
opinions...especially to an international audience...it is very inappropriate and i
hope that
i will see no further evidence of this bad taste...carole walker scott
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Well, Devon, you're lucky to have got that far!
I've had five tries now and each time the PDF page comes up and then that's
it. A blank. And three times my computer has frozen.
Are there really 20 pages of bylaws to download?
Jacquie, one of the newest IOLI members
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In obedience to Betty Ann's email, I went to the revised by-laws on the
www.interenationaloldlacers.org site, but can't seem to get past the
first page. Is
this just my ineptitude?
Devon
I was just now able to download the bylaws -- haven't had a chance to
read them, but I did have all 20
I had no trouble getting in and looking through the twenty pages. It may be
there are too many people trying to log onto the site at one time. Or
perhaps it needs a very recent version of Adobe Acrobat to read it (I think
I have v. 6). But it is there, honest!
Robin P.
Pittsburgh,
At 10:14 AM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
I was just now able to download the bylaws -- haven't had a chance to read
them, but I did have all 20 pages.
I tried three times, and couldn't even get in. There's too many of us
trying at the same time. I think I'll wait a day or so, then try again.
Alice in
Mary,
What version of Adobe do you have? I have Adobe 5. Do you have 6?
Devon
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I wonder how this gave the sellers daughter many years of pleasure.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=57202item=81207519
64rd=1
or search for item number 8120751964
Jean in Poole
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Hi everyon
I have had trouble with the lace lifting, but not the pattern lifting
except when placing a flat card on a curved (i.e. cookie) pillow top -
there are a couple of things I usually do, might be worth considering:
I use a workcloth with a hole cut in the middle, to place the bobbins
I am sad to tell you that my friend in Spain, who made beautiful lace with
one hand, died on Saturday. At the time of telling you all about our
difficulties doing one handed sewings I felt unable to tell you all that she was in
fact
dying. Only Eva knew and I asked her to keep it to herself.
It seems from many of the messages I've received that Tuesday evening
after the Teacher's Showcase will be the best time for arranging a
get-together. At the moment, we have the event room from 8:30 to 10,
but I will check back on Monday to see if the IOLI Board will be
needing this room for a
Well, one explanation is that she was a masochist?
Clay
Clay Blackwell
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Date: 7/26/2004 3:32:01 PM
Subject: [lace] EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO MAKE LACE on ebay
I wonder how this gave the
Yes, we're glad to have ALL our Prague visitors back... But I hasten to
add that each summer, we see the same thing... our seasoned lacemakers go
off to their higher pursuits, and the newbies who have lurked all year have
the courage to speak up and get help for questions they were hesitant to
Hi David -
I'm assuming, when you say plastic, that you're talking about a wire hanger
that is encased in plastic?
Clay
Clay Blackwell
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There's an even better way which works in a similar fashion. Got to your
Welcome to a new Oz spider to Arachne - Margaret in
Echuca, Victoria. Hope you enjoy this group of friends
as much as I do.
Noelene in Cooma
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I must not be getting all the emails. I haven't seen anything like that. I
like to read all the messages, so I hope I'm not missing anything(lace or
otherwise!).
Karen
Ontario, Canada
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As one of the lurkers, it's difficult not to fall back into lurkdom as the
chatter becomes so much more intense and hard to follow, you tend to feel
intrusive asking questions which to many are really silly.
I will, however, endeavour to ask the questions that I may need to, even if
I think
At 04:39 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
I will, however, endeavour to ask the questions that I may need to, even if
I think they're so basic as to be silly to the pros.
Never 'silly'. While there are a lot of people on this list, and many of
them are experienced lacemakers, there are also many who are
The lace list is hardly the place to express one's political
opinions..
I think we decided that anyone who had a complaint about the list
should address it **privately** to Avital, who would deal with it.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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On Jul 26, 2004, at 14:38, Antje González wrote:
For those interested, Ebay offers on sale these books. I don't know
anything
about the second one.
BASIC TECHNIQUES OF BOBBIN LACE published 1979 1st ed. A small but
comprehensive book with color photos, illustrations of how to make
lace,
Dear David,
That is a beautiful pattern! How long will a square take you?
Love, Ruth (Sydney, Australia)
David Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Dear Friends,
In this past week I have started a quite large piece of Chantilly because I
definitely needed something to relive the stress and tension
Hi Karen -
Sometimes the talk on [lace] achieves what my DH and I refer to (in
numerous contexts) as total heaviosity - an expression borrowed from
Woody Allen. So the questions from new lacemakers brings the talk back to
the midline... where the majority of members can have input!! So NEVER be
On Jul 26, 2004, at 20:07, Alice Howell wrote (in response to Karen's
message):
If you have a question about your lace, there's probably several more
out there with the same question but too shy to ask it.
Or, like me, don't even realize there's a question to ask, but learn
from the answers
I always find that PDF pages take ages to download - so if you think your
computer's frozen, and if the file is 20 pages, maybe you're just not allowing
enough grunting timeI have the same problem with our local council
web site - got very, very cross with it several times, before I
Yes, this one didn't make sense to me either!! So either I'm also missing
emails, or different people have differing ideas of what constitutes political
comment.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- nerakmacd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must not be getting all the
emails. I haven't seen
Please don't ever think your questions are silly - if you don't ask, how on
earth are you supposed to learn? And I believe the purpose of this group is
to help people learn. Because of being scattered all over the world, we can't
*see* what difficulties you may be having, so we rely on your
I also had trouble with the download, and then decided to check which
version of Adobe I was using. My computer was using v.5.? because I had
downloaded v.6.?? and had forgotten to install it. DUH!! Once that
oversight was corrected, I had it in seconds... so check your version
before you do
Hello,
I've enjoyed the lace pillow survey and learned a lot from reading about
what types of pillows you all have and how you store them. I am a newbie of
only a few weeks and own just one pillow, a 20 ethafoam cookie from
Snowgoose. Is there a prize for the least amount of pillows??
Since
At 06:30 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
Since it's summer and many people are traveling, I was wondering:
1. What kind of pillow do you travel with? (travel pillow?)
2. Do you use travel bobbins?
3. Is there any problem going through airport security with a million pins?
1. Travel pillow -- small oval
Naw, Alice, it's a courgette, but you're in the ball park. A marrow is a summer
squash and bigger than a courgette. I do miss my kitchen garden. I only have elephant
garlic and jerusalem artichokes.
Betty Ann
...Alice in Oregon -- headed out to the church garden in search of a zuchini.
I couldn't make sense of this email. In fact I was so concerned I had
missed some emails that I went to the lace archives and couldn't find
anything there either.
Jane
Portchester UK
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Hi, first time here on the lace chat. I was wondering if any one could
please tell me how they stiffen the lace book marks they have made Thank
you
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She was probably referring to Tamara's signature referring to a No Carb diet...
Betty Ann in Roanoke who is *very* happy to see T's signature, No Carb or HI Carb.
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Oh, I did not know that was political statement. I only recognize one name
of them so I don´t think that is disturbing. At the first look I thought it
was a carb-free diet, a real one :-) and was going to ask what one ate. Well
I stick to my round behind and lace any way.
Regards
Ann-Marie
At 09:48 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
Hi, first time here on the lace chat. I was wondering if any one could
please tell me how they stiffen the lace book marks they have made Thank you
Since my bookmarks are not heirloom candidates, I just use spray starch. I
pin them out on cardboard covered
What actually happened in the centre of Poole the other day has finally
emerged. The bucket of a digger on the building site hit an object which
split and white gas came out, which then burst into flames, giving off
fumes. Three workmen close by were overcome by the fumes and had to be taken
to
Dear Friends,
Last Sunday was the big performance and it went off like a dream.
Although I didn't feel particularly nervous or stressed, inevitably I was,
as proved by the 12 hours' sleep I had yesterday. I haven't done that since
I was a teenager out on the town! :)
The choir sang like
Forwarded from Helene in Melbourne:
Noelene wrote:
As soon as I showed a sign of getting arthritis in my
top finger joints, my DH insisted I have a pinch of
epsom salts every day - I drink it in my first cup of
tea (I like my tea sweet) every morning.
My friends'mother, whom I lived with for a
A guy gets shipwrecked. When he wakes up, he's on a beach.
The sand is dark red.
He can't believe it.
The sky is dark red.
He walks around a bit and sees there is dark red grass,
dark red birds
and dark red fruit
on the dark red trees.
He's shocked when he finds that his skin
is
At 02:44 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
Then, a friend of hers told her to stir a heaped teaspoon of
powder gelatin into half a glass of orange (or any fruit) juice, and drink
it every morning.
Just thought you might like to know that you can get the gelatin in
capsules so all you have to do is
David, you remind me of a little darling I had in my Sunday School department
about 35 years ago. I eventually worked out that if I kept him busy, I could
control him, so, as he was always the first child to arrive for Sunday School,
I'd set him tasks to help me - like, moving that pile of chairs
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