Re: [lace] Go see Lace, Not Lace

2018-09-25 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I would like to order the exhibit catalog but I do not see any place on Hunterdon's website to order catalogs. How would I go about this? Amanda in Philadelphia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

Re: [lace] Re: St. Catherine's Day-Cattern Cakes

2017-11-01 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
This website, http://www.cooksinfo.com/flour, supports the claim that you need to add liquid when making a UK recipe with American flour, and subtract liquid for the reverse. Unfortunately they do not say exactly how much to add/subtract. There is also a helpful table showing how different

Re: [lace] FW: Quaker samplers from Ackworth, Doing Research atMuseum Sites

2017-10-12 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
The first message where Ackworth was mentioned is: https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg51394.html Enjoy! Amanda Furrow Philly, Pennsylvania, USA On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 03:05:44PM +0100, Lesley Blackshaw wrote: > I can't find the original thread for this subject heading and

Re: [lace] lace ID?

2017-07-13 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I agree that this does not look like Romanian Point. However, to my surprise there are indeed needle lace stitches, filling in the loops where the cord or thinner tape loops around itself just inside the corrugated, thicker crochet tape around the edge. Amanda in Philly, Pennsylvania, US On

Re: [lace] Google and Pinerest

2017-03-19 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
If you want Google to show you only the original pictures, and nothing from Pinterest, there is a way to do that! Along with your search words - say, "alencon lace", for example - just add: -site:pinterest.com So the full search words would then be: "alencon lace -site:pinterest.com" Don't

Re: [lace] Anne of Green Gables and LACE

2017-03-06 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I enjoy going to meetings of my lace group and making lace together, but I have to admit that it's extremely difficult to make anything complicated with the distraction of company! When I can just sit down alone at home and concentrate, I can get a lot more Binche done. Amanda Philadelphia, PA,

Re: [lace] Re: Arachne Handbook etc

2017-01-02 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I checked one of Joseph's posts and it's not sending any attachment. The link at the end of the post of his that I checked was sent as a bare link. Is it possible that your mailreader is previewing the link for you? Amanda in Philly, PA, US On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 11:06:42PM +, Jane

Re: [lace] Arachne Flickr page

2016-12-30 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
So that means whoever has the email address that our group Flickr account is connected to, needs to change the group password and then let us know. Amanda Furrow Philly, PA, USA On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 04:55:49PM -0500, Martha Krieg wrote: > Yahoo had 2 or 3 serious security breaches, and if

Re: [lace] Memo from IOLI Bulletin Editor?

2016-10-21 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 04:46:11PM +, Diane Williams wrote: > I emailed Katrina the membership chair and she said her email was hit by a > virus.?? It must have hit the whole group.?? Do not follow the link or > download anything.??Diane Williams drswilli...@yahoo.com Galena Illinois USA > My

Re: [lace] Memo from IOLI Bulletin Editor?

2016-10-21 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:07:57AM -0400, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote: > Did anyone else get an email from Google docs? Is this a legitimate > email from IOLI? Susan Hottle USA I inspected the URL in that email - a bit.ly shortened URL - and found that it points to a suspicious-looking,

Re: [lace] Christmas Card Exchange

2016-10-17 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I love Brigitte Bellon's christmas lace books, like Allerlei Geklöppelter Christbaum-schmuck, Geklöppelter Weihnachtsschmuck, or Neue Weihnachts- Klöppelmuster. As you might guess, the instructions are in German, but I find the detailed pictures, patterns and a bit of Googling sufficient to work

Re: [lace] Ithaca Lace and Winterthur Needlework Symposium

2016-10-17 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 05:14:42PM +, Arlene Cohen wrote: > ??Winterthur does not have much of these laces in their collections (you can > go to their collections online and do a search), although here is the piece I > saw: >

Re: [lace] Lace survey results

2016-08-26 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
No, the results were sent directly to the participants, just recently. Amanda Furrow Pennsylvania, US On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 05:03:49PM +, Patricia Runcie wrote: > Were these posted to Arachne? I've seen a response to them from Agnes but > haven't seen the survey results at all. > > >

Re: [lace] Supporting young lacemakers

2016-07-22 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
> knowledge and information widely available. Please come and visit. > http://laceioli.ning.com > Lorelei Halley Administrator > --- > > -Original Message- > From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of > Amanda Babc

Re: [lace] Supporting young lacemakers

2016-07-21 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I had already had some thoughts on this and I had noticed recently that the thriving knitting groups use Meetup.com to get together - that seems to be where the 20 and 30-something crowd look for events. I did think of tatting and Teneriffe as gateway interests, if you will, and I was thinking

Re: [lace] Lace Article in New Mexico

2016-03-13 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
That is almost certainly because the original email about lace in New Mexico was sent from a yahoo.com account, and you are reading from an aol.com account. Yahoo.com broke their users' ability to use mailing lists in 2014 when they changed their DMARC configuration, announcing to all other mail

Re: [lace] Undelivered Arachne Mail / Archives

2015-06-16 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
Hi! It's your friendly local (...ok, Philadelphia-based) lace-making systems administrator. I think I can tell you what's going wrong. Did the disappearing emails problem begin about a year ago? That's when first Yahoo, then AOL, made changes which rendered their users unable to reach

Re: [lace] What is a vectorized lace pattern?

2015-03-06 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
Vectorized doesn't refer to the lace or to the pattern. It refers to the computer image. Any lace pattern you scan in can be converted to a vectorized image. A vectorized image is one that is saved in the computer as a set of drawing instructions - lines and arcs and such - instead of a set of

[lace] Fall IOLI Bulletin?

2014-09-19 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I let my IOLI membership lapse and just rejoined 8/31. I'm wondering if I missed the Fall Bulletin, or does anybody know when it's expected? Thanks! Amanda Furrow in PA, US - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help,

Re: [lace] Quiet?/what lace

2012-11-26 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I'm working on the second little leaf medallion in Lesson 14 of Barbara Underwood's Introducing Traditional Bedfordshire Lace in 20 Lessons. Eventually I may even have something to show for this! Amanda in Pennsylvania, USA On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:49:07PM -0500, pad...@aol.com wrote: I am

Re: [lace] Webshots Smile

2012-10-11 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:17:39PM +0100, J D Hammett wrote: Hi everyone, Have just had a look at the Smile site. It is easy enough to get into it, but the pictures, shown on a grid of over 1100, are all mixed together and not all that useful without their captions, names and tags. You

[lace] Christmas Card Exchange

2010-12-22 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I've been remiss in not posting to the list that I received a lovely Australian Christmas card from our organizer Faye last week, with a beautiful ornament not only decorated by lace, but featuring a silhouette of a lacemaker in the center! I sent mine a little past the deadline, but I hope

Re: [lace] Seeking information TIA

2009-05-25 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 06:04:30PM -0700, bev walker wrote: oh now, - I just googled for the digital archives on weaving, and it looks like the booklet you mention is available online http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html Search Osma's name and find in the selections

Re: [lace] Seeking information TIA

2009-05-25 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 09:49:36PM -0400, Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote: Well, that's Part 2 of the NOL's 1970-1971 bulletins. I haven't found yet where in there the mention is. But check out Part 1 at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/periodicals/nol_7071_1.pdf ! Halfway through

Re: [lace] thread assistance please

2008-07-11 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 08:58:04AM +0800, Jenny Brandis wrote: The pricking calls for Kleines Motiv in Halbschlag 6 Paare, Leinen 60/3 (Beine: je 3 Paare) Again a guess it is in linen 60/3 but which one!! Is it in a book? They may have a section at the beginning or end where they

Re: [lace] Rosalibre

2008-05-09 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:41:47PM -0400, Tamara P Duvall wrote: But, finally, the Rosalibre photo gallery is up. Most of the work -- with two exceptions -- is mine. The designs... Most are either mine or Cathleen Belleville's (modified or not). But there are also two -- one by Robin Panza

Re: [lace] Pillow help needed - block pillow

2008-04-19 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:42:54PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the years, I've been struck by the fact that nearly all of the lacemakers I know have been very involved with needlearts for years. I have also done a lot of embroidery, smocking, and needlepoint. For a number of

[lace] A few German terms?

2008-01-05 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I am running some German bobbin lace instructions through Babelfish and need clarification on a few terms Babelfish doesn't know: Umkehrschlag - is this a turning stitch? It seems to refer to using CTCTCTCT instead of CTCT at the edge despite pinning inside both pairs (for the purpose of not

Re: [lace] A few German terms?

2008-01-05 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:43:06PM +0100, J. Falkink wrote: I just created http://laceglossary.wikispaces.com/ Anyone can improve it, rearrange, add language, split or combine lines. You don't need to join it unless you want to make changes and hide your IP adress. Oh, thank you! That is

Re: [lace] A few German terms?

2008-01-05 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
A reply to two of your helpful emails: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:09:37AM +, Steph Peters wrote: Babelfish, and any form of non-specialist dictionary, is not much help for lace translation. Yes... it's just a little bit of a leg up for me. I know a little bit about how the words go

Re: [lace] Queen Elizabeth II's Lace

2007-05-09 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:08:46PM +0200, Jenny De Angelis wrote: I found this from the Washington Post, a series of photos from the Queen tour and amongst these photos are a few showing the jacket collar and cuffs and the hat but obviously not clearly enought to see what sort of lace

[lace] Le Pompe book 2 up in the archives

2007-04-05 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I didn't notice anybody mention this on the list! Book 2 of Le Pompe, which was not reproduced in full in the Dover edition but had been reprinted in 1879 by a museum in Vienna, is now uploaded to http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pompe2.pdf How exciting! Amanda - To

Re: [lace] Anna and Aenne Burda

2007-03-27 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:27:54PM -0800, JulieO wrote: I too was disappointed to hear of the demise of Anna. It's been one of my favourite magazines for many years (the other being Piecework, with that I was a bit concerned to note that the latest issue was much slimmer than past

[lace] Anna ending

2007-03-24 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I had wondered why I didn't get a renewal notice from GLP, and now the latest issue has no Next month info on the back - I finally confirmed it online; Anna is ceasing publication! Granted, they did not have a great deal of lace info, but they were still the best all-around needlework magazine I

Re: [lace] Re: Book search, and newbie greetings :-)

2006-11-26 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
Michelle, On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 11:37:00AM -0500, Michelle McKenney wrote: I'm a newbie to the list and to bobbin lace, so have been lurking while I get my bearings ;-), but I also would *love* to add Fascinating Bobbin Lace (the 1986 edition by Claire Burkhard with English, French, and

Re: [lace] Kant magazine.

2006-10-08 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:26:41AM -0700, bevw wrote: I bought myself a subscription last Christmas by e-mail, and it seems if one misses a certain window of opportunity, the subscription is applied to the coming year. I had to wait and wait, therefore, but it has been worth it. When does

Re: [lace] lace activities

2006-09-30 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:02:21AM -0700, bevw wrote: Hi everyone, and thank you Janice for the nice report - yes quiet list - so... what's everyone else doing in lace? I've been mostly a lurker on the list for many years (10 or 11), but ironically now that I have a baby and no time I feel

Re: [lace] One Designer's Input on Her Copyrights

2004-09-01 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Clay Blackwell wrote: Hi Amanda ! Hi! Thanks for your reply! Mary Niven's book (republished last year) is an excellent resource for that [Flanders]. This would be the Step by Step Guide? Moving into Binche, one readily available (from lace

Re: [lace] One Designer's Input on Her Copyrights

2004-08-31 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
Hello, everyone. I've lurked on the list for a long time but am making lace more these days and looking forward to my first Ithaca lace day... anyway, I thought I'd respond to Clay: On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 06:12:11PM -0400, Clay Blackwell wrote: So warning... don't try baby Binche to prepare