Re: [lace] Multi-part prickings tricky; skeins also tricky

2015-11-06 Thread robinlace
Brenda Paternoster wrote: Julie, it’s not clear what is meant by ‘skein’ I know from the knitting/crochet forum Ravelery that there is a lot of confusion about that word. To me, in UK, a skein means a small hank, but a lot of Americans seem to use the

Re: [lace] Multi-part prickings tricky; skeins also tricky

2015-11-06 Thread AGlez
​​Hello Julie​ ​ and those interested in making the scarf by Brigitte Bellon,​ ​ I wonder why I had no problem making those prickings but for the scarf prickings I had so much trouble getting them to fit together? ​Because you must observe carefully the pattern and watch how

Re: [lace] Skein swift

2015-11-06 Thread AGlez
This is the system I use too! My grandmother used to do this with wool skeins. Regards from Antje in Spain: today the sun is here again, after a week of rain. www.vueltaycruz.es - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For

Re: [lace] Aurifil Thread

2015-11-06 Thread Brenda Paternoster
It’s listed in Threads for Lace as Aurifil Mako. 28 wt is 26 w/cm Brenda > On 6 Nov 2015, at 00:15, Lorri Ferguson wrote: > > I have some Mako Aurifil thread 28/2. Does anyone know the wpc on this?I am > not finding it in my Book 5, or in the Addendum lists. > TIA Lorri

[lace] Updates to Lace Guild website

2015-11-06 Thread Jean Leader
Dear Spiders, I have just done some updating on the Lace Guild website - details of next year’s summer school in North Wales, the new exhibition at The Hollies and a correction for the lovely Honiton pattern by Pat Perryman in the October ‘Lace’. The pricking is on p.39 and should be reduced