[lace] Fine Irish Linen for centres

2011-12-05 Thread David C COLLYER
Dear Friends, Just letting you know that I've have many more than 9 expressions of interest in these linen hankies and so ti will be a raffle. I'll make the deadline the same as for the classical music survey: i.e. 8th Dec at 11:59 p.m. Australian Eastern Summer Time David in Ballarat, AUS

Re: [lace] Beveren lace

2011-12-05 Thread Laceandbits
When in doubt, ask the lace fairy! _http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/BeverenID.html_ (http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/BeverenID.html) for pictures, description and a link to the Beveren lace school. Jacquie in a very chilly Lincolnshire, where they are replacing all our gas pipes

Re: [lace] lace shoes men's shoe buttons

2011-12-05 Thread Bridget Marrow
Now I'm wondering if there were lace spats??? . There certainly were! They may have been the most impractical garments ever thought of, but I have a pair. They were in a bag of bits and pieces given to an amateur drama group I belonged to. The wardrobe mistress could see no

Re: [lace] Beveren lace

2011-12-05 Thread Susie Johnson
Dear Diane, I'm looking at the class list for the IOLI convention next summer and am interested in Beveren lace. All of the answers you have received are correct but lots of your questions will be answered when you get your next IOLI bulletin. Helena Fransens has written a lovely article

[lace] The ad-blocker that stole Christmas

2011-12-05 Thread Jean Leader
We've had a couple of emails from people using Firefox not being able to see the pictures in the windows of The Lace Guild Advent Calendar. After consulting with the Forensic Department at the North Pole we have ascertained that the culprit is a Firefox plugin, Adblock Plus. The genius who

[lace] Lace Event Calendars on LaceNews

2011-12-05 Thread Laurie Waters
I've finally come up with a format that I'm happy with for summarizing lace events, worldwide, including exhibitions, lace days, conventions, etc. I've got them listed in a monthly calendar format, and you can click on each event to get to the formal blog writeup. This is to be found in the

[lace] Beveren lace

2011-12-05 Thread Jo Ann Eurell
I second Susie Johnson's comments. Helena is an awesome instructor and her class is very interesting. You will learn technique that will be useful in all the point ground laces that you work. Beveren is worked with the footside on the left. You pin outside the gimp - this is unique to this

Re: [lace-chat] photocopying

2011-12-05 Thread The Lace Bee
Lynn,   I'm sort of writing this as outraged of Bicester and in support of you.  My husband's initial reaction when I read your post to him was that you should contact the organisers of the lace day to raise the issue with them but as I started to type I realised that it would have been difficult

[lace-chat] photocopying

2011-12-05 Thread Jane Partridge
One lace fair I went to, a friend was looking at a pattern and I was looking at another and she said we should buy one each and photocopy them.  They were only 50p.  I bought both. This has been a problem for many years - likewise with magazines published by the larger guilds and societies,

[lace-chat] The Scouser´s Bank Loan

2011-12-05 Thread Agnes Boddington
Subject: Fwd: The Scouser´s Bank Loan A Liverpudlian walks into a bank in Hope Streetand asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to Australia on business for two weeks and needs to borrow £5,000. The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of