[lace] Question

2008-09-17 Thread Jean Nathan
DVDs in the UK and Europe are region 2. USA is region 1. Some specialised DVDs do not have a region code. US DVDs can't be played on UK DVD players unless the DVD player is multi region or if instructions are followed from a DVD region hack web site to change the region of the DVD - haven't

[lace] Help needed

2008-09-17 Thread Jane Nelson
Good morning all - There is a pattern for Angel of Peace by Brigitta Gornik in the Fall 2007 issue of the IOLI bulletin that I have been wanting to start ever since I first saw it. Now I'm getting serious and doing it. But, because I am green to projects that are worked in sections, I'm

Re: [lace] Help needed

2008-09-17 Thread beth
Hi Jane I haven't seen that particular pattern, but normally where you have a half stitch section with a different-coloured edge pair, the edge pair are the passives nearest to the edge and you work through them in cloth stitch (CTC) or cloth stitch and twist instead of half stitch (that way

Re: [lace] Question

2008-09-17 Thread Clay Blackwell
I bought a foreign movie on eBay several years ago, and it would not play on my DVD player here... But oddly enough, it was just fine playing on my laptop! So... if you have problems using the DVD player, just pop it into your computer and see if it will work. Clay Jean Nathan wrote: DVDs

Re: [lace] Help needed

2008-09-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Sep 17, 2008, at 7:48, Jane Nelson wrote: Good morning all - There is a pattern for Angel of Peace by Brigitta Gornik in the Fall 2007 issue of the IOLI bulletin [...] So - first question beginning at number 1: 1 edge pair - metallic Why just one pair? Because each thread of that pair

[lace] Lace in Literature

2008-09-17 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Devon said-the name Doretta Davanzo Poli coming up in my mental file ... Devon, this is the person who wrote, or edited, il Merletto Veneziano a beaut book I have, which I bought with some prize money from a lace competition. As the text is all in Italian, I can only understand a few words, -