Bev wrote:
We're cheering encouragement from the sidelines,and giving free advice
- such as, get some of the Springett kits for practice - she gives you
word-for-word instruction, and even how much to thread to measure off.
Springetts sold their business to Linda Fountain, who's no longer
I taught myself using Bridget Cook's 'Torchon Lace Workbook' and that's
what I recommend to my students. What I particularly like about it is
that after every 2 or 3 lessons, you're told what other patterns in the
book you can do. The little instruction books published by the Lace
Guild are
Hi Hendrika and all spiders,
The two books that I found invaluable when I started making bobbin lace were
Before Grey Rabbit and Making Lace with Little Grey Rabbit both by Dorothy K
Cox ISBN 0 9508558 1 2 and ISBN 0 9508558 0 4 respectively, they are very
basic and taught me all the
I would caution any brand new learner not to use both books at the same
time. Both are good, (the Torchon book being my favorite), but because
Southard's book is slightly different - it could cause much confusion in
a new learner who doesn't have a teacher close by.
I'm speaking from experience
Oh dear, you sound like metake one book and stick with it until you are
certain in your tracks.l I have had people who buy a collections of books on
ebay and read them all..trying to use them all...and what a mess it usually
is. Not always , but usually. It is always best to stick to one
there also were
some little rolls that looked like rolling pins to roll your continuous
lace on and then one pin hole on each end to pin it to where your lace
pricking begins.
Way behind on digests but I have a wooden one of these, and to get the
lace to 'roll' and stay on, I glued some
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:41:22 -0600, BarbE wrote:
Oh dear, you sound like metake one book and stick with it until you are
certain in your tracks.l I have had people who buy a collections of books on
ebay and read them all..trying to use them all...and what a mess it usually
is. Not always ,
On Nov 26, 2005, at 19:57, Barbara Joyce wrote:
what is hakpar? Could it be a gimp, or even a
pair of gimps? Or . . . ?
Thanks in advance for any insights, translations, or even educated
guesses!
Well, Coene's dictionary doesn't have it, so here's a guess, not so
very educated, I'm afraid
I wanted to thank you for my lovely card and ornament. I received it last
week and it is already on my lace Christmas tree.
My card will be ready to mail to California before the deadline I hope.
Oh a major miracle story to relate to you all (or all ya'll, since I am from
the deep South).
Spider brooch - Pauline raffle
Please take a look at the lovely spider I won in the recent raffle that Pauline
organised.
thank you!
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My knitting bag was made for me by a friend of my mother's back in
the 1950s. I don't do a lot of knitting (probably why it's lasted so
well) but have been using it recently so got round to taking some
measurements. It's a sort of combined bag and apron, and it's not
that easy to explain what
A little holiday fun.
Carol Melton
Arizona, USA
Subject: Christmas with Louise
This is an article submitted to a 1999 Louisville Sentinel contest to
find
out who had the wildest Christmas dinners. This won first prize.
~Christmas With Louise~
As a joke, my brother used to hang a pair of
This may be a wee bit late for Thanksgiving, but is worth keeping for
the next year :) And, of course, there are those who have their turkey
(or goose) on Christmas... What a cruel, cruel joke to play on one's
offspring (or anyone else, for that matter) g
From: R.H.
One year at Christmas
Mine is exceedingly simple -- I carry my socks-in-progress wrapped in
two 22furoshikis. (Think of a furoshiki as a large handkerchief or
small cover cloth.) Size isn't critical -- 22 was as large as I could
get two of from 45 fabric.
Like a hobo bag (seen in cartoons, with the bag, i.e.
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