Oh, dear, Janet's computer has been hacked! Not her fault, but I hope
it gets fixed soon.
Margery.
margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Herts, UK
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From: owner-l...@arachne.com
Yes it came to me as well.
What a shame!!
Daphne Sunny and warm Norfolk UK
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From: janet theakermailto:janet.thea...@hotmail.co.uk
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Sent: 03 June 2011 10:44
Subject: [lace] Pls kindly get back
Hi,
Sorry i
Dear Friends,
I was working on my Chantilly today and wondered what some of you
might do when you find yourself in the situation I did.
This piece is very fine and sometimes the dots are virtually on top
of each other. I was in the middle of a large open area of plain
point ground when
Normally I unwork the lace all the way to the point I think I might have
screwed up to see if I can somehow find out where that pair is supposed to
be. Sometimes that means unlacing an entire row or two. For me it isn't
just getting the lace finished. I am a process kind of person and I like
Dear Mark and other Knotters
What is this favorite knot of yours, may I ask? I sure could use some other
kinds for my fine work I like to do in both tatting and bobbin lace.
Whilst a Bowline or Sheet Bend will always work well to secure 2
threads, they are often impossible to do in a
Dear Friends,
I forgot to say earlier that this knot is extremely useful in day to
day tasks. Because of the extra turn on the first part, that part
will never slip, and as such is ideal for tying parcels (where you no
longer have to find another person to put your finger on it), and
also
Hello All! Mary Corbet's www.needlenthread.com has another blurb about Lefkara
lace today. This time she reviews the book by Androula Hadjiyiasemi, including
some pics of the book itself. Someone replied that new copies of the book are
available she posted the link. Perhaps IOLI or Lace
AI call that a surgical knot. Because a retired surgeon taught it
to me and he was interested in my tatting knot. Sometimes surgical knots
can be double reef knots for both halves.
Thanks for the explanation. Have a good sleep!
Mark, aka Tatman - no frost in sight here! Just trying
In a knitting magazine I bought last week there's an item on wool stashes.
It gives the wraps per inch of the different plies of wool so you can
identify whether you have double knitting wool or 4-ply equivalent or
whatever. They show a couple of wooden gauges for winding the wool round and
Hi Jean
I just use a piece of paper with two parallel lines drawn on it.
The instructions are at:
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/misc/misc.htm
but the photo does really need re-doing as it's not very sharp.
Brenda
In a knitting magazine I bought last week there's an item on wool
Been there...done that. In a complicated lace piece, when I come up with an
extra pair of bobbins, I don't want to spend a lot of time undoing things. A
few stitches...OK, but not lots. I just throw back the most expendable two
threads and just keep going. Sooner or later, I'll come to a
David, in my book thats perfectly acceptable, I always tell my friends that
I teach that its no good learning to make lace well if you don't learn how
to cheat. There is no point in taking out perfectly good work to try and
discover where the extra pair came from - just lose it any way that suits
I tried wrapping threads around both a wooden dowel and cardboard BUT
there is one major problem to that method (sorry Brenda) UNLESS you use
a constant tension on your thread as you wind it you can change the
number of wraps per inch quite significantly. I experimented using a
loose hand
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