Re: [lace] Contributing / helping build community

2014-08-20 Thread Catherine Barley
I had someone local tell me I was doing my tatting joins wrong (it was different than how this person prefers to do them) Robin the next time someone says something like this to you just quote There's more than one way of skinning a cat! You might also tell them that you'll try their method

[lace] Surprising Lace Conference

2014-08-20 Thread pene piip
Yesterday I was invited to attend a conference being held on 18th-21st November, 2014 in Riga, Latvia as it celebrates the 'European Capital of Culture'. The title of the conference is Surprising Lace: Art Craft Creativity in Europe. Here is more information about the accompanying

[lace] Baby piece

2014-08-20 Thread Sue
Hi spiders My neighbour, who I have been helping to learn to make lace over the months of this year has just become a grandmother again to a new baby girl and my husband suggested she might like to make a small piece of lace for the new baby. Now had we started a couple of months ago we might

Re: [lace] Baby piece

2014-08-20 Thread jviking
HI All, I'm thinking I have seen a tape lace rocking horse by Janice Blair. I may be dreaming but Janice can tell us. What a lovely idea! Jane in Vermont, USA where we are having exquisite weather! jvik...@sover.net Hi spiders Anyway I spoke to her this morning about the baby lace and she

[lace] Wedding Day

2014-08-20 Thread Sue Harvey
At last my lace ring pillow has been used. My Gt. nephew married his lovely bride on Saturday and their son Charlie carried the pillow and carried out his duties really well. The whole day was lovely. I tried to upload to my album but it went on to the Arachne flicker site ( probably did it

[lace] Lincoln exhibit?

2014-08-20 Thread hottleco
Hello All! A friend just returned from a visit to the UK saw a sampler exhibit some lace in the Lincoln area. I'm assuming from her comments that these were in the same venue. Does anyone know anything about an exhibit there? She was impressed by the dozens of bobbins laid out on the

[lace] Help with mystery lace bonnet

2014-08-20 Thread Vickie
Hello everyone, I have a friend that purchased a very old appearing, unusual lace bonnet made with metallic thread from an eBay vender. Since I have never seen anything like it I turn to your wonderful knowledge to help her guess at the age, style, and material etc. There are two heavy

[lace] Sacramento Arachne Photo

2014-08-20 Thread Janice Blair
Hi All, Sue Babbs kindly put the photo  that was taken using Janet Goodacre's camera at our get-together in Sacramento onto Flicker. You can find it in the Photostream or in Albums, Arachne Personal. I am sure we all will recognize who is who but I don't want to name everyone as I am sure to

Re: [lace-chat] Pennsic Wars

2014-08-20 Thread Sue
Our group was an informal lot, and met up in a piece of privately owned ancient woodland with a big field attached. For a number of years it worked very well with a few competitions of hawk throwing and knife throwing. One session where they were working with flint and steel to light a

Re: [lace-chat] Pennsic Wars

2014-08-20 Thread Janice Blair
Seems odd to me that you in Britain are reenacting American history and over here the SCA are doing reenactments loosely based on European history.  I guess whatever appeals works.  Kind of like lace where we all have our own favorite type of lace. Janice   Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, 60 miles

Re: [lace-chat] Pennsic Wars

2014-08-20 Thread Sue
There are many re enactment groups in this country. Many different times in history and includes American, Roman, Tudor and any other time you can think of.It amazes me how much time and effort goes into researching to get things right and so many times crafts come in as well. We had someone