At 09:57 PM 8/9/2004, you wrote:
I know there is one, with a lace day and everything, but I can't seem
to locate contact information. A new friend in the area is looking to
get back into bobbin lacemaking. Anyone know who I should send her to?
Thanks,
Emma near Seattle
Direct your inquiry to me.
Welcome, Dorte!
I liked the pictures too, but haven't managed to look at all of them yet, and
now the albums seem to have disappeared! The link no longer works. Did you
move them somewhere else?
Weronika
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Carol wrote:
I recently bought my copy at work - there are several booksellers that
come round leaving remaindered copies of various books/items in offices,
for the staff to look over and order, and my copy was half-price when I
bought it about six weeks ago.
Lucky you, Carol!! I'm waiting for
Minimum, one and a half times the measurement of the bit of the leg where it
is to be worn.
Most people seem to want to wear them just above the knee (where it is purely
ornamental and won't help a lot with holding anything up!) and the average
measurement here seem to be 18. So, that works
In case anyone was interested in this bobbin, the seller has now managed to
get two clearer photos. It is still very difficult to see the words and the
confusing thing is that it looks as if there are 5 letters not 4 in what is
possibly Bull. The W is very clear, the B not bad, and you can
I obviously was too quick or tired putting things into my delted file. What
celtic patterns?
Lynn Scott, in Wollongong where two weeks of touring with a Canadian visitor
during tax time has really taxed me, Australia
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To: arachne
If anyone is interested there is information on hanging bobbins at the two
sites listed below. the latter link is for the Cowper Newton Museum in
Olney, Bucks (there is a lot about lace making on that site).
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/object_of_month/museum/sept2003.htm
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date
Here you can now see all three pictures from Elena's work. All three
are in the Slovenskej Národnej Galérie in Bratislave.
Greetings
Ilske
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... As I say, if you can't speak it, don't write it!!
... Why bother, unless you get it right?
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, still enjoying the rain.
I knew a French speaking Swiss, living in Zurich who never really mastered
German because of such an attitude. He confessed he even
Sorry wrong subject. Couldn't unpress any more.
Jo Falkink
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From: Dr. Jo Ann Eurell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tina, the Little Lacemaker is a reprint of an early 1900's novel about a
lacemaker. Yes, it is the same story that was published on the internet,
but this time the Rocky Mountain Lace Group has added pictures of lace in
the margins of the pages
Lacemakers of Puget Sound just finished a wonderful class in Withof with
Yvonne Sheele-Kerkhof. We found her to be one of the best and most
thorough teachers we have had. I hope the groups hosting her next have
the same good experience as we hope she returns to teach in the US again.
Terri
Thankyou, allI just ordered mine..now to haunt the mail box ;-)))
BarbE
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Subject: [lace] Tina, the Little Lacemaker
Tina, the Little Lacemaker is a reprint of an
hello lace members,
i just ordered some crochet hooks in sizes 11/12,12,13/14,,14,15, and
16 from the needle point joint (i think thats the correct name of the
company), and i started a crochet project in size 50 thread with the
size 12 hook. it is going along fine. i was really happy to find
Can anyone explain why I can't access Dorte's web page. I would like to see
her pictures too but everytime I get a notice that the page is unavailable.
Miriam
Arad,
Israel
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Gidday all,
Came across this today and thought some of you might be interested in this
old Paragon crochet booklet for church lace:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=8123975235ssPageName=
ADME:B:SS:AU:1
Am not into that kind of thing myself but I know a lot of lacemakers do
Hi Susan, I can't help you with your crochet queries - except we get
0.4mm crochet hooks from our lace suppliers, which is about right with
sewing cotton. Don't know what that translates to in US sizes.
Really just writing to say it's good to hear from you again VBG
Jacquie
that is an
i checked again to make sure, and i made a mistake on the american
sizing for the crochet hooks. the 16 is .4mm and the 15 is .5 mm.
sorry about that.
have a great lace making day
=
from susan in tennessee,u.s.a.
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Minimum, one and a half times the measurement of the bit of the leg where it
is to be worn.
and the average
measurement here seem to be 18. So, that works out to 27.
But remember that not everyone is average! The garters I have made so
This conversation is so timely as I have just started a wedding garter for
a friend at work. I had heard the advice on how to work out the length it
should be, but I hadn't given a thought to taking the measurements
standing up.
Thanks so much to Jacquie and Jane for being so informative and
Hopefully Karisse won't mind me sending this to the list again beacase it is
worth a look and Lynn seems to have missed this thread. I was happy to see the
colour use in the gimp of the bucks corner - especially after i was advised
that colour was not generally used for that breed of lace!
ENJOY!
Lydia,
It sounds like you're making a picot - but I may be wrong (I have been
known to be :-) ) I don't have the book handy to take a squizzy at, but
that's what it sounds like you're making.
There are a variety of picots - double picots (where 2 threads are
wrapped around the pin), single
Dear Everyone
What a sad world we seem to be living in. O for happy days when we could
trust all to be honest with us
and Clay
thanks for passing on you word of caution
Viv
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Sent: 09 August
Hello, Fountains of Lace Knowledge Holders,
I've recieved a request for crochet patterns in Spanish. Specifically
Ganchillo
Artistico, # C-021, #C-022, #C-023. Anyone know where one might
purchase these patterns?
Laurie Hughes
Membership Chair, IOLI
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It depends whether she went in the morning or the afternoon. I was
there in the afternoon with my mother and another lady called Janice...
Best wishes,
Liz Pass,In Poole, Dorset, UK
It turns out my mother went to the show on Friday morning, not Saturday after all. I
went last year because I
Thanks very much for all the notes and suggestions about working
hands-up. I've had a go (I had already looked at the picture on Jo
Falkink's website, after Tamara mentioned it in a message about Prague,
so I tried tilting up my cookie pillow as in the picture), and it's not
as good as I
Thanks to all who responded about sources for purchasing bobbins. The two
most frequent recommendations were Holly Van Sciver and Lacemaking.com. I
was getting ready to make an order, but I just found out yesterday that I
will be able to take some classes at the Lace Museum (jumping up and
Hi All,
Am lucky enough to have 2 copies of this booklet and have made a number of
the Altar frontals in it. The Ave Maria cloth I have done twice. For those
doing anything that size, I recommend photocopying the pattern several sizes
larger and taping the sections together, then using a
Following up on Terri's post, I'd like to share some photos of Yvonne's
gorgeous Withof (and Duchesse) lace as well as pictures of the students in
the class. It was an absolutely wonderful weekend!
http://homepage.mac.com/bejoyce/withof
Enjoy!
Barbara Joyce
Snoqualmie, WA
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On Aug 10, 2004, at 15:08, Helen Bell wrote:
It sounds like you're making a picot
Nope; she's not; this is a 5-pair pattern, baby in more ways than one
:) What she has is, more or less, an equivalent of a winkie-pin edge.
It's just that there's right much distance to cover between that pin
and
Following up on Terri's post, I'd like to share some photos of Yvonne's
gorgeous Withof (and Duchesse) lace as well as pictures of the students in
the class. It was an absolutely wonderful weekend!
http://homepage.mac.com/bejoyce/withof
Enjoy!
Barbara Joyce
Snoqualmie, WA
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Helen Said Mother, dear, you forget about the body of Azaria Chamberlain
which was
never found in the Ayers Rock vicinity
Well, after 20 years or so, there has been a new twist to that story, and it
appears she was found - in a dingo's mouth, but as the 4 guys were illegally
shooting in a
On Aug 10, 2004, at 11:11, Dr. Jo Ann Eurell wrote:
RMLG received a grant from IOLI to assist in the publication and 144
copies of the book were sold like hotcakes at the Convention.
Not surprising; the book is an extremely good deal, judging by the
description on
Actually, she was making something similar to a picot, but wasn't supposed
to at all - both of the threads were just supposed to go on the outside of
the pin to make a big loop on the headside.
Weronika
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:08:32PM -0600, Helen Bell wrote:
Lydia,
It sounds like you're
Its a long shot, but I will look in my local college library.
Why I am doing this is that I do not have it on my files! If anyone does
find it, please let me know.
Actually a stool would be very easy to make.
I do have a sketch that was published by a fellow called Richard Barnes, way
back ( I
Dorte's photos are in a Yahoo album, which has to be shared. When Dorte
tried sending the URL to her photos, no one else can see her pictures
because no one else is Dorte. Yahoo users have to create a profile, sign in
with a password, and Yahoo sends a cookie (tiny, harmless piece of code)
to
Howdy all,
I finished a garter not long ago for my sons' dear bride, and it is a
variation of the one in Bridget Cooks Weddings, Christenings and
Anniversaries. I think I enlarged the pattern a bit too. At any rate,
this is the second one I've made, and for the first one I went around
the
Alessandra (or anyone who knows Alessandra in Italy),
Will you please e-mail me, thanks.
April
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I also think the postage was too expensive. I will wait a couple of years,
maybe it will be in paperback or availeble through Amazon or something.
Hälsningar
Ann-Marie
http://community.webshots.com/user/annma1
http://www.ettklickforskogen.se/
But the shipping... Ouch! (yeah, I know; it's a *fat*
On Aug 11, 2004, at 1:01, Ann-Marie Lördal wrote:
I also think the postage was too expensive. I will wait a couple of
years,
maybe it will be in paperback or availeble through Amazon or something.
It already *is* in paperback g; that's what softcover means in
US-English. And, being a
Hi Karisse,
I've just seen your wonderful Celtic Cross Lace. Where did you get the pattern? And
I can't find out where you started and finished (must be underneath somewhere? BG).
The other lace was lovely too, but I do like Celtic patterns.
Best wishes,
Jo in Sunny Cyprus
Yes, you are correct, Sue Ellen. Voting in Australia is compulsory.
When you turn 18, or become naturalized if you are an immigrant, you
register at the Electoral Office, and then you HAVE to vote at every
election - Local council, State, and Federal until you are over 75 (I
think), then it is
Hello, Margret!!
I'm also from Victoria, Australia, and don't know your name. Are you a
member of the Australian Lace Guild? If not, come and join us, there are
local groups in various parts of Victoria, and in Melbourne, we have
meetings in Ashburton every month and lots of other things like
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