Hi everyone and Jenny
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Great fun, and amazing work, witty work!
I will quibble with her statement: "With weaving, knitting, bobbin
lace etc the maker starts at a beginning and goes onto the end." -
traditionally, mostly yes - but the m
Oh, those were so nice! Thanks for letting us know, Jenny.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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In a message dated 10/16/2005 11:10:43 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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most of Europe thinks that "lace" is limited to bobbin and needle
made, thus relegating "all other" - especially tatting, knitting and
crochet - to a less exalted place in lace-life. UK seems to "si
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Jenny Brandis
Kununurra, Western Australia
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I'd make a fabric bookcover, and sew the lace to that. You could make
it like a library book, with thinnish plastic bookcover over the (paper
in their case) fabric and lace one. That would protect the lace from
in-and-out abrasion. Or move the scrapbooks from that style of storage
to stacked
Bravo, Noelene. Another winner!
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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> What is lace
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> Lace is just air
> Surrounded by thread
> Without us lacemakers
> The skill wou
Dying to know what, what, what might that completely different lace be?
Aurelia
I spent some time after that exploring other laces,
this and that...
I'm now very immersed in a completely different form of lace
Clay
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Dying to know what, what, what that completely different lace might be?
Aurelia
I spent some time after that exploring other laces, taking workshops in
this and that...
I'm now very immersed in a completely different form of lace,
Clay
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As usual a great one, Nolene...
I love these, thank you.
BarbE
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From: Noelene Lafferty
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Subject: [lace] New poem
What is lace
Lace is just air
Surrounded by thread
Without us lacemakers
The skill woul
I personally would not use lace on an outer cover, unless it were under
plastic.
But decorating inner pages with lace would be great. For the cover you might
use one of the many 'lace pattern' papers. Check the specialty papers in the
scrap book, wedding depts. and office supply stores. I found
On Oct 21, 2005, at 18:05, Clay Blackwell wrote:
I don't think that the value of the individual member's contribution
can always be measured in the length of their membership.
Certainly not, though, often, the members of longer standing tend to be
less shy about both asking and replying to qu
What is lace
Lace is just air
Surrounded by thread
Without us lacemakers
The skill would be dead.
Lace can be bobbins
Flung about with great speed
Weaving patterns of magic
Just like magic, indeed.
Or needle and cotton
Drawn with such care
Making dainty delights
For lace lovers to wear.
But lac
On Oct 21, 2005, at 18:23, Weronika Patena wrote:
I recently started scrapbooking. I have a few albums, all of which
have boring single-color covers. So naturally I thought about
decorating
them with lace! How would you go about that?
1. How would you attach the lace? Glue? Try sewing it
> Everyone else here who's a beginner seems to be making torchon. Do
> most people start on torchon and am I slightly odd for starting with
> Beds? OTOH, I did buy a torchon book from eBay at the beginning of
> the summer, but none of the patterns have jumped out at me as
> "must-makes", unli
On Oct 21, 2005, at 15:08, Helen wrote:
Everyone else here who's a beginner seems to be making torchon. Do
most people start on torchon and am I slightly odd for starting with
Beds? OTOH, I did buy a torchon book from eBay at the beginning of
the summer, but none of the patterns have jumped
I was one of those "rogue" students to lacemaking. I joined a guild,
attended about six weeks of two-hour meetings (classes), and then was
forced to drop out due to illness. I had already been totally smitten by
the lace bug, however, and since our local teacher did not make "house
calls", I turn
I've been thinking of asking this for a while, and since everyone's
complaining about the silence...
I recently started scrapbooking. I have a few albums, all of which
have boring single-color covers. So naturally I thought about decorating
them with lace! How would you go about that?
1. How
And I joined in '98, which means that I'll forever NOT be a dowager, for
which I am eternally grateful!! (That's just not a title that has ever
appealed to me! ; ) However, I owe our "Dowager Spider Duvall" a huge
debt with regard to my own personal growth as a lacemaker. She, more than
any ot
I was started on torchon and got nowhere - I now know because the teacher
didn't suit me. so I started on Beds, because I liked the look of it, on a
weekend course with a different teacher and took to it. I stuck with Beds for
a
few years before going back to basics of Torchon on another we
Traditionally, new lacemakers learned their local style (Beds in
Bedforshire, Bucks in the Midlands, etc.). In the US, people seem to
mostly start with Torchon. I've always thought of it as the easiest to
understand at the beginning, since it's on a regular, 45-degree grid
and there are fewer
Hi
Everyone else here who's a beginner seems to be making torchon. Do
most people start on torchon and am I slightly odd for starting with
Beds? OTOH, I did buy a torchon book from eBay at the beginning of
the summer, but none of the patterns have jumped out at me as
"must-makes", unlike a
At 05:38 PM 10/20/2005, you wrote:
Hi all, I was browsing on eBay and saw the title "Point de Graz (sic)" and
wondered if another gorgeous Point de Gaze skirt was for sale.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8344399255
The main part of this skirt does look like crochet. It is
The 2006 lace competition in Belgium has been announced, 'Linum' - to
do with creative and artistic applications of linen and lace. I
enjoyed seeing the photos here, especially of the children. The laces
were 'interesting' - particularly what I think are large
interpretations of large pin dots (and
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| As one who travels mostly by armchair, I appreciate comments and
| reports about lace days, conventions, and other get-togethers - not a
| rundown of what the speaker spoke, necessarily, but the little things,
| like how many attended, in what sort of place, and what the weather
| was, if you
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> Jane Viking asked for a report. I do try to report on our Lace Day talks and
> have done so in the past but sometimes the words of the talk are meaningless
> without the illustrations.
As one who travels mostly by armchair, I appreciate
thank you to my secret pal, who once again send me a delightful parcel.
Thank you very much, every item is a pleasure to own and to marvel over.
Micki
Scotland
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Jane Viking asked for a report. I do try to report on our Lace Day talks and
have done so in the past but sometimes the words of the talk are meaningless
without the illustrations. Last year Christine springett talked about
Bedfordshire Lace but her talk was geared to her slides and couldn't b
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