[lace] Oh I got so excited I forgot

2013-08-03 Thread Celtic Dream Weaver
to ask my big question...the Dragon pattern called for Coats and Clark size 50. I am wondering if I can use Guttermann silk instead. Anybody know out there in Lacingland? Wind To Thy Wings, Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com http://celticdreamweaver.com/ http://celticdreamweave.blogspot.com/

[lace] Lace Magazine

2013-08-03 Thread Celtic Dream Weaver
  I just got my Lace Magazine in the mail and all I can say WOW...I love that magazine. In the center is a pattern that my brainwaves in circuit excitement. It is a huge Milanse Dragon...let me type that again...a HUGE MILANESE DRAGON...I love it WOW...and then there was the peek for this year's

[lace] New from www.lacecurator.info

2013-08-03 Thread Elizabeth Kurella
New at www.LaceCurator.info An article on the Alencon needle lacce ground in Collecting Lace. Updates to previously published articles: Another piece of cutwork Alencon has surfaced, as well as another fragment of the Art Nouveau fan leaf. Come visit! - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] Tatting

2013-08-03 Thread Joy Beeson
On 8/2/13 8:23 AM, Sue wrote: If I choose to work a tatting pattern which has beans in without, do I replace each bead with a double stitch? (this particular one I am looking at is a string of beads in place of the chain loop between rings. Depends on the pattern, and on how the bead is

Re: [lace] Tatting

2013-08-03 Thread Sue
The particular pattern I am going to attempt is from the be stitched.com site talled Tatted Beaded Ornament. A gorgeous green tatted rings, then loops of chain between the 2nd round of pattern. Thread size 30 DMC cebelia thread and size 11 beads for anyone interested in that level of detail.