Re: [lace] IOLI convention

2010-03-28 Thread Alice Howell
Liz...and anyone else who has registered for IOLI this year, The normal time schedule is for the teachers to have notification of whether or not their classes are a 'go' by April 15. Once the classes are determined, then the students should receive their confirmation letters with class info,

[lace] Chaos Stitch

2010-03-28 Thread Jane Partridge
In message 2f5a46be-db9a-4b79-8414-b57d8d6f8...@duckles.co.uk, Sue Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk writes Hello Ilske Can I please ask. what is LS?? Whole Stitch WS and Half Stitch HS I understand, but LS?? whole stitch with twists?? CT is half stitch, and I think everyone agrees on that

Re: [lace] Chaos Stitch

2010-03-28 Thread Laceandbits
In a message dated 28/03/2010 09:46:42 GMT Daylight Time, jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk writes: CTCT is whole stitch (confused yet?), whole stitch twist, cloth stitch twist - I haven't come across linen stitch twist. And you most likely won't as linen stitch is the continental version of

Re: [lace] Chaos Stitch

2010-03-28 Thread Brenda Paternoster
When I first learned BL linen stitch and whole stitch were interchangeable. CT was half stitch CTC was linen stitch or cloth stitch or whole stitch CTCT was double half stitch Double half stitch made. sense, but whole stitch for CTC seemed most illogical. When I started teaching I made sure I

RE: [lace] Chaos Stitch

2010-03-28 Thread Margery Allcock
Jacquie wrote: As far as I know it is only the UK lacemakers who insist on using cloth and whole stitch as synonymous terms. Elsewhere there is a clear distinction between cloth/linen stitch and whole stitch, which as it's name suggests is two half stitches - also very logical and surely

[lace] speaking of math...

2010-03-28 Thread hottleco
Hello All! A blurb in today's Erie Times-News caught my eye. Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Daina Taimina has won the Diagram Prize. Has anyone seen/used the book? A Google search said that the crochet curves apart making a flower-like effect. Sounds intriguing! Thanks

Re: [lace] Chaos Stitch

2010-03-28 Thread bev walker
A reason for calling cloth stitch whole stitch could be derived from the naming of plain weave fabric as whole cloth, to which, in bobbin lace, the CTC is equivalent in appearance. Obscure? I use the alpha code (CTC), not names, where possible. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Brenda Paternoster

Re: [lace] speaking of math...

2010-03-28 Thread Adele Shaak
Hi: I seem to recall that there was an article in one of the magazines about this crochet-work a couple of years ago, with the information that the book was in the works. At the time there was a link to the magazine's website, where I saw a fantastic crocheted creation based on these

Re: [lace] speaking of math...

2010-03-28 Thread Clay Blackwell
Yes, I remember seeing this some time ago... maybe here on Arachne? At any rate, here is one link of many you can find by googling Daina Taimina... http://crochetinsider.com/interview/daina-taimina-crochet-and-math-meet-beautiful-mind Clay On 3/28/2010 11:55 AM, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:

[lace] More on Hyperbolic Crochet

2010-03-28 Thread deanna7 Cohen
If you scroll down this blog, you will see some outstanding hyperbolic crochet work from the Coral Reef Exhibit. http://sydneyreef.blogspot.com/ deanna in Texas And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln My Blog:

[lace] Hyperbolic Crochet patterns

2010-03-28 Thread deanna7 Cohen
Here are some free patterns for hyperbolic crochet, if you want to try it. I had fun with some of these and others quite a while back. Don't remember what I did with them or I would post a picture. http://sydneyreef.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html deanna And in the end it's not the years

[lace] chaos stitch

2010-03-28 Thread Lorelei Halley
Perhaps we could solve the problem by just calling the stitches: cee tee or tee cee cee tee cee cee tee cee tee etc. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

RE: [lace] chaos stitch

2010-03-28 Thread Karen Zammit Manduca
Or what about tee hee hee. Sorry but I couldn't resist that. I find it rather hard to remember the stitches that way, probably becuase ever since I started working lace nearly 30 years ago I always knew them as whole stitch or half stitch. Karen in Malta -Original Message- From:

[lace] Posh Bags

2010-03-28 Thread thelacebee
HI Guys, Been a little while since I posted. Are Posh Bags still going? If so, does anyone have a web or postal address for them? Thanks in advance Liz Baker - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

[lace] various stitch definitions coral reef crochet

2010-03-28 Thread hottleco
Hello Again! Isn't this why the color code was created or am I imagining things again?! g My friend Marjorie, who has a quirky sense of humor, created the Secret (lace) Decoder Ring taught a class at IOLI convention a few years back. The idea was to have a fun stitch reference guide that

[lace] Chaos Stitch

2010-03-28 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Chaos all around, Brenda. Think about Workers, Weavers, Walkers, Leaders and Runners -- All the same thing!!! :) I too, learned Whole stitch (for cloth stitch,) and double half stitch (for cloth twist) when I started lace making. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz lizl...@bigpond.com - To

[lace-chat] Bottle of Wine

2010-03-28 Thread Laceandbits
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold Mondaymorning; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt. God works in mysterious ways. After they crawl out of their cars, the man is yelling about women drivers. The woman