David
I never simply work on one thing, I have a challenging pattern usually
teaching myself a new technique, any easy pattern to do just for fun, a
project eg gifts for family members, and at least 2 others all of
different types of lace. I love going from one to the other as the mood
and
Let me assure you all that Teneriffe is alive and well and flouricing in
my part of Australia. I happen to love that type of lace and am
cnstantly experimenting with it.
Anna from a cold but sunny Sydney
On 5/07/12 10:27 AM, Debora Lustgarten wrote:
Hello all,
I'll venture the suggestion
Hi Jo
The only pitfall I can think of is organizing the half stitch in the
motif. Remember that in Flanders the worker in each row changes and
becomes a passive while another worker takes over. If you can manage to
do that type of change over then it should be fine. Experiment.
Anna from a
Most of the replies have answered you question regarding hook size for
threads.
I've crocheted everything from mohair through all the different wool
types, silks, synthetics and all types of cotton.
The specifically produced crochet cotton gives the best results, as well
as the tatting
On two trips to OIDFA Congresses in Europe my roommates purchased large
lace-related collectibles that would not fit in a suitcase and that the shops
had not wrapped securely for air travel. Those times, the plastic bags
came in handy for bringing home something much-treasured as carry-on
Had already made the decision to work towards my Teaching Certificate in
Crochet when I heard this week that Betty Franks collapsed and died a couple
of days ago in Brisbane. Oh to be able to display the same generosity and
quiet confidence. I met Betty for the first time in October at the
There is an excellent resource for all of us courtesy of LOKK. Go to
their site under their free patterns. take a look at the archive. they
have all sorts of wonderful tape patterns and others that would more
than suite your needs. If you get the child to research it herself then
you have not
Clay thank you so much for making the comment using continental laces as
your example. I agree with all you say concerning the need for coloured
diagrams. Further when working lace from the Dutch 17th century where
the pricking consists of a few isolated pins, the diagram is essential.
I
And 'The Little grey Rabbit Makes Lace'
And what about 'The Hunting of the Snark? Beaver is a lacemaker.
Anna from a warm and sunny Sydney
On 20/10/11 11:04 AM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
You might suggest the Children's librarian put out The Lace Snail by Betsy
Byers.
Devon
In a message
Thai is a simple REDOX reaction and I'm even lazier. I place the silver
in a huge aluminium pot, add loads of bicarb, add a few strips of
aluminium foil, cover with water and let simmer for a while.
Anna in a cloudy Sydney
On 24/09/11 4:31 AM, Jean Nathan wrote:
Gave up on silver polishing
I hope I'm not just repeating what others have said. I feel that books
are a precious resource and need to be protected. Paper books are great
but expensive to produce and keep in stock. Ebooks in whatever form are
excellent as well.
May I suggest that authors keep a master print copy of
I wash my lace but only when needed. For allergy reasons I use only a
pure soap powder for all my washing.
I have a piece of silk lace on my silk winter nightie and that gets a
hand wash whenever the nightie is washed. I do iron the nightie and the
lace. Since the nightie is now 6 years old
Your mail box may register some of the mail as spam or may junk it
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'JUNKED' by your mail system, simply look in the junk folder and they
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the aether (I
I have recently bought a number of out of print Lace books through the
Lace Guild in the UK, they have second hand books with a catalogue
online (ie you can download it from their web page). The prices
including postage to Australia was quite reasonable and the service was
super excellent.
On 6/06/11 11:27 AM, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
The beauty of Brenda's book, is that all the wpi are done by her, -
therefore the same hand and the same tension. This means it is a better
comparison than each of us doing our own measure!
Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz
lizl...@bigpond.com
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To
I tried wrapping threads around both a wooden dowel and cardboard BUT
there is one major problem to that method (sorry Brenda) UNLESS you use
a constant tension on your thread as you wind it you can change the
number of wraps per inch quite significantly. I experimented using a
loose hand
On 20/05/11 4:11 PM, Sister Claire wrote:
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
some thorns are very thin such as cactus needles.
Anna
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The point is well made. Pins have been around since the bronze age so
the question begs to be asked why use thorns, fish bones etc when you
have access to pins. Now since lace making as we know it came into being
around the 15th century (please correct me if I'm a bit early here), but
pins of
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