Jeri - I tried to send you a reply to yesterday's messages this morning and
again this evening but it has been returned three times.
Please e-mail me.
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Hi Jane,
Paula Harten and I were invited to demonstrate lacemaking at a Sci Fi
convention a couple of years ago. I dredged up lace in Star Wars. I don't
know what Padme wore to her wedding, but I do know that her travelling
costume that is reminiscent of Russian peasant dress had a huge piec
I am intrigued to find a lot of older knitted lace patterns reinvented
bobbin lace patterns. However I think I'd like to come up with a
completely different lace in knitting -
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bye for now
Bev, armchair knitting in sunny, green Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island,
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Actually you CAN drive from England to Shetland! You just drive through
Scotland to Aberdeen and then take the P & O ferry from there to Lerwick,
Shetland. The ferry takes 11 hours to get there! When I went there with a
friend, Sandy Millikin, we had a sleeping room which was located below the
deck
Hi All, I picked up an issue of "Ornament" magazine (Vol. 29, No. 1) a
couple days ago because it has an article called "Dressing a Galaxy" and is
about Trisha Biggar who did the costumes for the most recent three Star Wars
movies. Alas, the only mention of lace in the article to to say that she
FYI, Amazon.com has copies of this book in the $14 -$15 range with shipping
additional unless your order totals $25, then it is free. Seems I can never
go to Amazon.com and only buy one book!
Betty Ann Rice in Roanoke, Virginia USA
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Hi Patsy and everyone
Nice idea about the ornament boxes for thread!
I meant to post earlier about seeing wreath storage containers
advertised in the flyers for Canadian Tire. I have yet to examine one
to see if it would be suitable - often the stuff in the flyers is
delayed getting to the stores
Greetings, arachnes,
I also do knitting, apart from learning my bobbin lace, and last year I
wanted a book on lace shawls because I got loads of alpaca wool to spin as
fine as I could (1/2 mm each ply) and wanted to make myself a shawl or a wrap.
Here's the book I got: "Traditional Knitted Lace
On 26 Dec 2005, at 18:40, Edith Holmes wrote:
A handspun gossamer has up to 1400 yards to an ounce 1280m per 28g and
is made up of a doubled ply so actually contains 2800 yards, 2560m of
yarn.
If it's 1400 yards per ounce and then doubled/plied surely that means
that the finished yarn has 70
Some spiders may be interested in this information about handspun gossamer
wool.
A commercially spun 2 ply lace weight thread has approximately 230 yards to
an ounce, 210m per 28g.
A commercially spun shetland one ply cobweb has approximately 430 yards to
an ounce, 393m per 28g.
A handspun
Hi,
Went shopping today for storage boxes. Here in California, USA our Target
and Kmart stores had big sales on different kinds of plastic storage boxes.
The wreath boxes sounded great for storing your bobbin lace pillows. The
ones at Target seemed to be the biggest and nicest until I looked
Season's Greetings everyone
I thought during the holiday lull I might pick up knitting needles and
practice lace knitting, something non-bobbin-lace that I could learn
more about. I've had two titles on my bookshelf for years:- Margaret
Stove's Hand Knitted Lace and Barbara Abbey's Knitting Lace. M
There are a couple of good knitted lace (shetland subvariety ) books out,
but the only one my pre-caffeine brain is coming up with is Sarah Don's,
which I actually have (got it on ebay). And Shetland-inspired patterns show
up in most knitted-lace, and lace-shawl books. We've discussed others on
t
Batiste is also a really, really fine fabric--almost transparent, and
definitely translucent. Could the translator have been trying to use a word
that indicated very fine cotton thread?
--Sue in foggy/sloshy Montana (our snow is melting...weird winter weather!)
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you are welcome to take the mickey any time you like Avital, I have 2 boys at
home at the moment whose main pastime is just that sport - sigh. Seriously a
lovely island to visit would be Lindisfarne
http://www.lindisfarne.org.uk/
that is off the north east coast of England. No lace though.
OH NO You mean we won't be able to drive there from
Manchester on our next trip to England? I was looking forward so much to
visiting the Shetland Wool Brokers.
Just kidding!
Avital,
who's not trying to take the mickey out of you
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From: Jenny Barron <[EMAI
Yes, the Shetland Isles are to the north east of Scotland, about half
way between Scotland and Norway.
Lot's of knitting books have a chapter about Shetland lace, but there
aren't many just about lace knitting. Sarah Don's "The Art of Shetland
Lace" Bell & Hyman Ltd 1980 is the one that fir
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> Shetland wool, Shetland knitting patterns, and Shetland ring shawls
> come from the Shetland Islands, home of Shetland ponies, in Great
> Britain. Off Scotland, I believe, but possibly off northern England.
Hope you didn't hear my sharp intake of breath and subs
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