Re: [lace] thread protection

2013-03-19 Thread The Lace Bee
This is why I love Arachne so much. A few years ago when I participated in the secret exchange my fellow spider sent me an American product to put round spools and prevent them from unravelling. It is wonderful so when I saw some on a shop I pounced on it to discover it was nearly ten pounds

Re: [lace] More bobbins

2013-03-17 Thread The Lace Bee
It's funny, DH will ask about the price of the shopping, how much I'm spending on fuel. What the vets bills were and can't we negotiate. But a new bobbin? Don't I need a pair? Am I sure I only want that one what about the others? A new pillow? Who makes the best? L Sent from my iPad On 17

Re: [lace] Help me find this book

2013-03-16 Thread The Lace Bee
I think it is sad that there are many sites around the web where people have put p pictures of the lace they have made without a nod to the designer of the pattern. We see the pictures, fall in love with them and can't then make the piece ourselves. However, what is of more of a concern is

[lace] 20th anniversary

2013-03-16 Thread The Lace Bee
Dear gentle spiders, I'm not sure if it was the afternoon learning to crochet or the three Bellinis but I was thinking that I'd love a spider broach to celebrate. L Kind Regards Liz Baker - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

Re: [lace] Bruges

2013-02-26 Thread The Lace bee
Can I commend http://www.eurocrafts.com/index.html. Who run a needle craft shop in Bruges; the Handwerkhuisje. If you have seen the tools and box on my weebly site then you will have seen some of the things we bought there. L Sent from my iPad On 26 Feb 2013, at 19:24, Clay Blackwell

Re: [lace] Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries TV Series

2013-01-18 Thread The Lace Bee
Aha! In the UK on alibi in a month or so. Kind Regards Liz in a rather snowy Oxfordshire On 18 Jan 2013, at 14:32, Linda Walton linda.wal...@cherryfield.me.uk wrote: Thank you - I love to have a good mystery waiting on my bedside table, and a lace theme will be the cherry on the cake! It

[lace] Exchange card received

2012-12-20 Thread The Lace Bee
I've just received my exchange card and it is beautiful. My thanks to Dawn for a card which is beautiful and which has an ornament that we can enjoy for years to come. L Kind Regards Liz Baker - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace-chat] My Library

2012-10-26 Thread The Lace Bee
As my local lace group is having it's lace day tomorrow and I have birthday money I didn't want to go and buy a book that I already had (done that before) so I found an app for the iPhone and iPad that let's you scan the bar code on your book (or type in the ISBN number) and it sets up your own

[lace-chat] Keep calm

2012-10-21 Thread The Lace Bee
If you have access to Facebook then do a search for the Lace Guild. As a bit of a laugh we posted two pictures based in the 'keep calm' mottos. One was KC and make lace and the other was KC and join The Lace Guild. And then we went to bed. They have gone viral. I have posted both on my

Re: [lace] Lace Magazine

2012-07-14 Thread The Lace Bee
It has always amazed me that when the Aussie was on his way over to join me he was able to send a package to me and track it from Adelaide to London but I couldn't do the same because apparantly, it's not possible to track mail in Australia (Royal Mail's explanation ... not mine).   I tried to

[lace] The Hollow Crown

2012-07-01 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   Have any of you watched the new Shakespear trillogy opening play; Richard II.   Yes I know it's machine lace but the gold lace in Ben Wishaws white tunic gown was mesmerising.  The guy can recite shakespear beautifully but I kept tuning out to look at the pattern.   I've googled but can't

Re: [lace] Rosa Libre

2012-06-26 Thread The Lace Bee
I tried to get hold of the book but it is out of print and doesn't seem to be anywhere accessible.   L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ From:

Re: [lace] rosa libre

2012-06-26 Thread The Lace Bee
Unfortunately, the book link is either asking for me to sign up to a site or the direct download says that the book has been removed due to copyright.   L   PS Tamara's work is as always, simply beautiful Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found

Re: [lace] Square binche bobbins ???

2012-06-24 Thread The Lace Bee
I'm a bit behind in my posts so sorry if this has been answered.   Winslow bobbins in the UK do square continental bobbins.  May not be the answer for everyone but thought I should point them out.   http://www.winslowbobbins.com/ Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of

Re: [lace] There's never enough room

2012-06-04 Thread The Lace Bee
I've come into this one late and sorry if it's been answered. I have spent hours arguing with a cutlery manufacturer about ferros metals.  Stainless steel (especially 18/10) should NOT be magnetic reactive.  If stainless steel reacts to a magnet then it's not stainless steel.  We had issues

Re: [lace] lace jacket

2012-04-28 Thread The Lace Bee
No only was the jacket beautiful but the shear number of lacemakers present and YOUNG PEOPLE!   It must have been good because I just showed the Aussie the photos and even he was smiling at the photos.   A real 'feel good' set of photos. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My

Re: [lace] Funny Marks

2012-04-21 Thread The Lace Bee
Actually I have a worse problem.  My email system actually locks ups when I receive these emails and I have had my pc crash.  My browser and ISP see these emails as viruses.   L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website:

Re: [lace] bracelet blank

2012-04-16 Thread The Lace Bee
In the uk these are available from Lacewing designs for £2 plus pp   http://www.lacewingdesigns.co.uk/   I'm currently making one of the bracelet patterns from Jan - simple to work but stunning to look at.  Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be

[lace] Lace Guild Convention pictures on facebook

2012-04-15 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   We have uploaded photos from today's workshops onto The Lace Guild's facebook page.  We would love you to look at them and to comment.  If you have not yet 'liked' us then please do - we are going for our first century of likes only 8 more to get.   The workshops were inspirational. 

[lace-chat] Lace Guild Convention pictures on facebook

2012-04-15 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   We have uploaded photos from today's workshops onto The Lace Guild's facebook page.  We would love you to look at them and to comment.  If you have not yet 'liked' us then please do - we are going for our first century of likes only 8 more to get.   The workshops were inspirational. 

[lace] Uploaded photos to my website of some of my lace

2012-03-18 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   I've just uploaded a couple of photos to my website of some of my lace (both made by me and bought by me).   http://thelacebee.weebly.com/my-lace-photos.html Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website:

[lace] Facebook

2012-03-10 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   I have entered the 21st Century and joined facebook.  On a serious note it's so that I can understand social media better as part of a research into promoting lacemaking through all mediums.   Twitter next   If any of you are on facebook then please link up with me.   L Kind Regards

[lace-chat] Facebook

2012-03-10 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   I have entered the 21st Century and joined facebook.  On a serious note it's so that I can understand social media better as part of a research into promoting lacemaking through all mediums.   Twitter next   If any of you are on facebook then please link up with me.   L Kind Regards

[lace-chat] Something that tickles me

2012-03-10 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   My DH showed me these sometime ago and I got hooked.  I've just found the 2011 one.  Enjoy.   The first Australia day address from Sam Kekovich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWVJikNnx4feature=endscreenNR=1 The 2011 address which explains why the Euro is in such a bad state ...

Re: [lace-chat] alternative project

2012-03-09 Thread The Lace Bee
Don't forget the plasticine garden at the RHS show!!!   For which he won a plasticine award or should that be an award made out of plastacine   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4Gbv9Fan4 Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website:

Re: [lace-chat] alternative project

2012-03-08 Thread The Lace Bee
Minature Wunderland is the run by the guys who came over to the UK to help James May make is record breaking model railway attempt a couple of years ago.   Brilliant. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website:

Re: [lace] Lace trimmed shoes

2012-03-03 Thread The Lace Bee
If you think the fabric could take it, I'd be tempted to dye them something fab.   L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ From: jeria...@aol.com jeria...@aol.com

Re: [lace] Re:Lace trimmed shoes

2012-03-03 Thread The Lace Bee
When I got married I tried to find flat shoes for two reasons; firstly because I was going to be on my feet for a long time and secondly, I'm two inches taller than my husband.   Even though I found a pair with just an inch heel, in all our photos I'm a good 4 inches taller.  2inches from my

Re: [lace-chat] Shopping: was; Green thing

2012-02-08 Thread The Lace Bee
I am going to let you into a secret.  We found two different shoe shop (one in Birmingham city centre and one in Burford) that when did exactly the samething when I went in and said the usual; 'I like those, any chance you have them in an 8 wide fitting', the girl disappeared and came back with

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-03 Thread The Lace Bee
We were trying to work out how long to advise our delegates to wash their hands before starting their cooking session.  Apparantly, signing 'Happy Birthday' for two verses is the right amount of time.   However, we have to remind delegates to sing it IN THEIR HEADS.  16 people singing happy

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-03 Thread The Lace Bee
In the UK, under food handling regulations, people should remove the gloves and dispose of them when handling food.  What makes me spit is that often they prepare your food then hold their gloved hand out to take your money.   As we tell delegates, when you have finished preparing some food, go

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-02 Thread The Lace Bee
My day job involves food.  I have to be current on my food hygiene certification and I have certification on food safety that you would expect for someone running a restaurant.   The last time I phoned up Ocado and told them that putting raw and cooked meat in the same bag was an issue on food

Re: [lace] RE: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-01 Thread The Lace Bee
When we lived in Leicester I was in a rush in Marks and Spencer and had picked up some underwear, two packets of sausages and some loose bananas.  The food tills were full so I went to the underwear section to pay.  The women takes a big bag out and puts my two pairs of knickers into it and put it

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-01 Thread The Lace Bee
I had to give up on on-line shopping.  I have ongoing rows with the different on-line supermarkets for the following reasons that I hate and they don't think are an issue or worse, contravene food hygiene.  What they also don't understand is that when they deliver something broken or substituted

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Green thing

2012-01-31 Thread The Lace Bee
When we moved to sunny Oxfordshire I made the mistake of dropping into my local Sainsbury's (Kidlington) on the way home from dropping hubby at the museum.  As this not a planned stop I did not have my hoard of eco bags with me (I have a whole cupboard of the things including my cool bags - I mean

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-01-31 Thread The Lace Bee
My local Waitrose has refined this system to the point of perfection.  I like to use the self scan handset because I know exactly what I've spent before I get to the checkout and that is the ONLY reason I go through this torture when I go shopping.   I go in, I put my card through the swipe

[lace] Love Lace Exhibition at pwerhouse museum, sydney

2012-01-28 Thread The Lace Bee
I accidently came across this exhibtion whilst looking for something else.  The first link is the museum itself and the second is a slide show of some of the exhibts.   As a 'keep calm and make tea' type of person, I like the idea of 'make lace not war'   http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/lovelace/  

[lace] Build your own lace strip

2012-01-28 Thread The Lace Bee
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/makelace/index.htm   I've been playing on this page and thought you might like it too.   L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace-chat] Soup Stew enhancer

2012-01-27 Thread The Lace Bee
Please be aware that raw garlic can harbour Clostridium botulinum.  This bacterium causes Botulism.  Now I know that whilst some people are thinking, great grow my own botox but Botulinum is an anaerobic bacterium which means that even if you cover it in oil and exclude any air it can still

Re: [lace-chat] Soup Stew enhancer

2012-01-23 Thread The Lace Bee
I'm addicted to sun dried and sun blush tomatoes but all that olive oil that is left ... I use it to cook my onions off for stews and pasta dishes as it has herbs in it and the taste of the tomatoes.   Frugal eh!! Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can

Re: [lace] pillow question

2012-01-22 Thread The Lace Bee
Sue and the spiders (sounds like a fab new group eh!!),   I have always used the SMP domed pillows as my first choice because they are hard waring and were rather inexpensive.  If the centre got squidgey I just treated myself to a new one.  Back in 2002 I bought a whole bunch of them (it was a buy

Re: [lace] pillow question

2012-01-22 Thread The Lace Bee
Fun foam is available from Hobbycraft.  It is a thin foam sheet in bright colours - about 2 - 3 mm thick.  I think sheets are about 99p each. L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/

Re: [lace] pillow question

2012-01-22 Thread The Lace Bee
I just had a look at DJ Hornsby's website and it says that they have stopped doing the domed 18 Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ From: Brenda Paternoster

[lace] Mum's Doll House

2012-01-22 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   Thank you all for your kind words about my Mum's two doll's houses.  We are spending time with my parents late Feb for Mum's 80th so I will drag out all the lace she has, including the miniatures, and photograph them all.   If you are looking for some inspiration for miniatures then alot

Re: [lace] pillow questions

2012-01-22 Thread The Lace Bee
Agnes,   Get thee behind me - I am trying really, really hard NOT to go on that site as they are too tempting.  I NEEED those pillows.   L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/

[lace] Czech site

2012-01-22 Thread The Lace Bee
I was looking for something completely different (I was trying to find who made my pillow stand) and found this lovely site.   http://www.palickovani.cz/start.php?screen_availWidth=1440screen_availHeight =870navigator_is_ie5_5up=truenavigator_is_ie=truelang=en   Have a look at the patterns.   L

[lace-chat] Mum's Doll House

2012-01-22 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   Thank you all for your kind words about my Mum's two doll's houses.  We are spending time with my parents late Feb for Mum's 80th so I will drag out all the lace she has, including the miniatures, and photograph them all.   If you are looking for some inspiration for miniatures then alot

[lace] Some piccies for you to see about my lace etc

2012-01-21 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   I've just been updating my log of my bobbins but more importantly I've uploaded some pictures of other things lace and craft related to the lacebee website below.   Under My Lace Work / Minatures http://thelacebee.weebly.com/minitures.html  I have uploaded some pictures of my mum's two

Re: [lace-chat] Warning

2012-01-15 Thread The Lace Bee
We got a phone call last week.  I picked the phone up and said 'hello'.  I was immeadiately hit with the person on the other end saying very fast; 'you'll never guess where I am'.   As I didn't recognise the voice or the number (we have caller display which shows you the name of the caller if I've

Re: [lace-chat] Warning

2012-01-15 Thread The Lace Bee
In the UK you can register your telephone number with the TPS (Telephone Preference Scheme) which works with all UK based callers - but not international one or scam artists.   Also, once registered, don't let callers tell you that you have to re-register each year.  This is utter rubbish.   I

[lace] Lacemaker box photo now uploaded

2012-01-08 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   I did promise when my husband bought me the box with the picture of the lacemaker on it that I would upload some photos.  These are now at:   http://thelacebee.weebly.com/bruges---chocolate-and-lace.html Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be

Re: [lace] single bobbin unwinding

2012-01-08 Thread The Lace Bee
On a few occasions I have issues with odd bobbin unwinding.  What normally happens is that a single bobbin seems incompatible with a thread - originally I thought it was because the bobbin was an odd bobbin that was of an unusual wood or finish but now I think it is completely random.   Perhaps I

Re: [lace] single bobbin unwinding

2012-01-08 Thread The Lace Bee
Another thought, I was taught to half hitch onto the neck of the bobbin to stop it from unwinding (I think because the person who took the time to help me with unwinding bobbins was a great Honiton lacer) however, when I get rogue bobbins I double hitch onto the head which seems to work.  Now

Re: [lace] lace groups and meeting rooms

2012-01-03 Thread The Lace Bee
Lynn,   A couple of coffee shops that I have seen here in the UK have separate lounge rooms which they are happy to let people borrow in quite times for meetings - one has business meetings in them, another lets a local teen book group meet.   I used to meet with a local coaching group at one of

Re:Snakes was [lace] making lace with my granddaughter

2012-01-01 Thread The Lace Bee
When I was taught to make lace I did the typical worm bandages - weeks of making strips of plain lace in whole or half stitch in DMC30 about 4mm wide.   It was soul destroying.    I vowed then never, ever to put another potiential lace maker through that so I started teaching people to make lace

Re: [lace] keeping the bobbins safe and in order.

2011-12-11 Thread The Lace Bee
OK, so I miss read the email.   I read 'this idea brings to mind light-duty carbines as potential holders'   I have a vision of a group of shock troops rushing in to hold my bobbins during my lace making.    This really does rival my other miss reads.  There was the one where I was walking past

Re: [lace-chat] photocopying

2011-12-05 Thread The Lace Bee
Lynn,   I'm sort of writing this as outraged of Bicester and in support of you.  My husband's initial reaction when I read your post to him was that you should contact the organisers of the lace day to raise the issue with them but as I started to type I realised that it would have been difficult

Re: [lace] Your story

2011-11-29 Thread The Lace Bee
I first saw pictures of lace being made in my father's encylopedia when I was 5 (yes, I was the swatty kid who sat and read the encylopedia at home - it's one of the reasons I have over 5000 books in my house).   I really wanted to make lace because I was enthralled by the mathematically potential

[lace] Present from husband

2011-11-29 Thread The Lace Bee
We've just got back from Bruges late last night so I'm going to taunt you with something before I can get a photo and upload it.  Hubby bought me a workbok by Sew Easy that has a canvas print of Vasili Andreevich Tropinin's lacemaker on it.    I'll photograph it and let you know when I've

[lace-chat] Elf yourself

2011-11-14 Thread The Lace Bee
I can't resist sending you guys this link   http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/   upload a couple of photos then go for the dance - it's just absolutely stupid Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ To

Re: [lace] Jana Novak PDF books

2011-11-08 Thread The Lace Bee
I recently contacted the Moravia site as I was having difficulties trying to buy on it.  My contact was forwarded to Atelier MB who responded.  Apparantly they have taken over the Moravia stock and are now the suppliers in Europe.   Thought you might need to know.   http://www.ateliermb.ch/ Kind

Re: [lace] arachne and photos

2011-11-02 Thread The Lace Bee
I am in total agreement here with Lorelie regarding how important arachne is as a resource, forum and place of refuge.   What we are forgetting here is that social networking is an unsecure place.  Many people will simply not use it.  The ability to loose personal details through such sites and to

Re: [lace] A lace fence

2011-11-02 Thread The Lace Bee
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ From: Witchy Woman wytchy...@sbcglobal.net To: Arachne Group lace@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, 2

Re: [lace] arachne and photos

2011-11-02 Thread The Lace Bee
Yep, I know that and I'm very careful about what I put on.  It is only in recent years I have had my actual name on my posts.  That's my decision to do and since I married my married name is more common than maiden name so to match postings to me is harder as I use a bucket email address and even

Re: [lace] Skype lace classes

2011-11-01 Thread The Lace Bee
In a past life I used to run weekly and sometimes daily conference calls for different departments.  The way we did it was to have a call manager who would invite a person to talk and time the response (we used to pay for calls by the minute).  The person who was the main speaker would talk and

Re: [lace] Re: Diagrams

2011-11-01 Thread The Lace Bee
When I started to make Beds I bought Pam Robinson's excellent book - a Manual of Bedfordshire lace.  This was a revolutionary book as where you had a particular technique you referred to the pullout technique section at the back of the book.   In order to master throwing in and out of bobbins I

Re: [lace] Lace classes

2011-10-29 Thread The Lace Bee
From: Jo yhgr@xs4all.nl snipped Happened to me with one: it appeared she could not bear at all with undoing. If I had known I would have fiddled something but even the first time appeared to be fatal. Lesson learnt by me: _allways_ ask do you want to live

Re: [lace] Lace classes

2011-10-29 Thread The Lace Bee
I've just read this one out to hubby and his response ' Well, Yeh'   This is like the lady I tried to teach to make lace who didn't like spangling (ok you can buy them ready done), didn't like pricking patterns (it does help to understand them but you can buy them on card and prick as you go)

Re: [lace] diagrams

2011-10-29 Thread The Lace Bee
From: Nancy Neff nnef...@yahoo.com full quote is It has colored diagrams for the whole thing, which is sort of paint by numbers, but if you think about what you are doing, and try to figure out why it is planned that way, you learn a lot. I agree with everything said except that paint-by-numbers

Re: [lace] Lace classes

2011-10-28 Thread The Lace Bee
There was a piece I wanted to make for my mum.  I'd been making lace for 6 months and so, I asked my teacher what techniques I needed to learn in order to start the piece and she said; 'oh no, you won't be able to make that'.   I wouldn't have minded if after 6 months of learning I had pulled out

Re: [lace] Lace classes

2011-10-28 Thread The Lace Bee
Linda and the list,   When I trained as a hypnotist (yes ... believe me ... look into my eyes) my trainer said that the best hypnotists in the world were bad teachers.  They were the ones who would say to you that you were useless at something and you would believe them for the rest of your

[lace] Moravia Supplies

2011-10-23 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   Does anyone know of a supplier of Moravia in the UK.  I'm after some patterns (the butterflies and pendants along with the fixings) as well as the super starch.  Some years ago I bought some starch from Roseground but they don't seem to do it any more on their website.   L Kind Regards

Re: [lace] Demo 2 cents

2011-10-23 Thread The Lace Bee
One of my biggest worries with demonstrating is the security of the equipment.  Any time I set up a beginner's try out pillow I use low cost bobbins and not too many of them so if anything happens I'm not too upset.   Back in the 90s there were a spate of thefts from lace days - people were coming

Re: [lace] Re: Vermeer's Lacemaker on Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum

2011-10-18 Thread The Lace Bee
We are talking about an interesting period in Dutch life here.  Simon Schama in his book 'The Embarrashment of Riches' looks at the issues of hard working people suddenly having money (and with money comes leisure time) as they reaped the rewards of trade and investment.   Vermeer, Frans Hals and

Re: [lace] Sign of the times - call for action? (long)

2011-10-15 Thread The Lace Bee
I have realised that as the years progressed I really didn't know what I was buying at the start of my lace equipment purchasing career.  I bought what I was told rather than what worked for me.  The teacher that I had believed in 7 beads to a bobbin (east midlands) and liked very long, wide

Re: [lace] Demise of suppliers

2011-10-15 Thread The Lace Bee
There is also a very sad byproduct of the age of lacemakers increasing which we have seen in the military modeling world.  If those coming in new to the craft are older with more disposible income they bring with them purchasing power.  I believe that suppliers should make a profit - it is a thank

[lace] Help Lace Guild

2011-10-01 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   I thought that I read that you can now join the UK Lace Guild on line but can't for the life of me find how to do this.   Does anyone know how to?   L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/

Re: [lace] Lacemakers in art - Netscher/Vermeer

2011-09-21 Thread The Lace Bee
I thought that one of the names sounded familiar. We saw Gabriel Metsu's lacemaker at the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna a couple of years ago during our honeymoon.   Quite a few of the artist's paintings mentioned are on the web if you look with references to the locations. Kind Regards Liz

Re: [lace] Lace book prices

2011-09-18 Thread The Lace Bee
I'd like to think that all the bidders on ebay are nice people but unfortuantely I think that some may not be.   We have been hit by single high bids on other things as well - I collect Australian WWI sweetheart brooches and have found that when I need to put in a max bid because I won't be able

[lace] lace population in the UK

2011-09-18 Thread The Lace Bee
I was wondering this afternoon, having looked back at some old magazines, just how many registered and non registered lacemakers there are in the UK now?   I found an article in an old 'lace' from the early 80s (don't know which edition as it was on a photocopy that I'd stuffed into a folder) that

[lace] Cluny de Brioude (dentelle polychrome)

2011-09-17 Thread The Lace Bee
Guys,   Your help if you can.  I've just started looking at my copy of Cluny de Brioude and was pleasantly surprised to find that my school girl french is far better when it comes to making lace than it is when trying to buy food in Paris.   however, for the life of me I cannot work out the

Re: [lace] Lace book prices

2011-09-17 Thread The Lace Bee
I just bought a booklet of patterns on ebay (not from Jean) and paid, with postage less than the orgianl cost of the book according to the sticker on the front of the book.   The bidding opened at 99p and I put in £4 at the start of the process.  It never reached my maximum.   We have been bidding

Re: [lace-chat] EU bureaucracy

2011-08-27 Thread The Lace Bee
Jean,   You're OK.  I signed it too so I won't tell anyone if you don't . Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ Many, many, many years ago I worked for a government department, snipped If

Re: Humour me here .... Re: [lace] Kat stitch

2011-08-24 Thread The Lace Bee
Thanks guys for the gentle(ish) reminder that CTC is cloth stitch or whole stitch ... I also have a large number of things that I can also do with CT rather than half stitch.   I can now make lace using CT and have it with cat food in it, along with a picture of Conneticut or the Canterbury Tales.

Humour me here .... Re: [lace] Kat stitch

2011-08-21 Thread The Lace Bee
As I tend to work from a pricking and picture to make lace I've forgotten what CT etc means and can't find it in any of my books.   So guys, humour me and let me know.   L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

Re: [lace] How do you sit?

2011-08-19 Thread The Lace Bee
I was not happy with the idea of a recliner settee when we first bought it, however, I discovered that I could put a cushion on my lap to angle my pillow to the right level and still have my feet up.   For shortish periods of lacemaking; say around an hour or so, this is a perfect way to relax and

Re: [lace] Music and Lace

2011-07-10 Thread The Lace Bee
For me it's not the lace that the people wear but the fact that lace is in the way that it is made musical.   For sometime I've thought that the scoring for music is very much like our prickings.   And the way that I manipulate the bobbins is for me similar to playing any stringed instrument or

Re: [lace] anybody know where?

2011-05-28 Thread The Lace Bee
I have a feeling that there are some in Sandi Woods Special Effects in Bobbin Lace.  However, the milanese theory for this book would allow you to design your own numbers or take them from printing guides and adapt.   L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my

Re: [lace] Pins, thorns and bone slivers

2011-05-21 Thread The Lace Bee
Pins have been around for a very long time but they have never been a cheap item to purchase.    A phrase that you may have come across is 'pin money' used these days to describe a job that pays badly but in the Regency / Victorian period 'pin money' was what was often left to someone to buy

Re: [lace-chat] Postcard storage

2011-05-19 Thread The Lace Bee
One of the best makes of postcard, coin or stamp albums in the UK is a company called Duncannon who make a set of stockbooks and albums (fixed and loose leaf) under the trade name of Lighthouse.  I suggest you google it to find a supplier in the US.    My father migrated his stamp collection

Re: [lace] Hand made crochet - not.

2011-05-03 Thread The Lace Bee
From: Adele Shaak ash...@shaw.ca She immediately pointed out that although it *was* machine-knit, it was *also* hand-knit because a human hand had worked the knitting machine. I'm still wrapping my brain around that one.   As one lady said to me 'it's hand made because I made it' to which I

Re: [lace] Bobbin lace commission

2011-04-18 Thread The Lace Bee
One has to commend her abition.  Because I'm still working I couldn't give the time to this and for me to take time out to do this I doubt she, as a student, could afford the cost.   Hopefully there is someone out there who could.   L Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My

Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow

2011-04-17 Thread The Lace Bee
chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ --- On Sun, 17/4/11, J-D Hammett jdhamm...@msn.com wrote: From: J-D Hammett jdhamm...@msn.com Subject: Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow To: The Lace Bee thelace...@btinternet.com, Arachne lace@arachne.com Date: Sunday, 17

Re: [lace] Inventory???

2011-04-16 Thread The Lace Bee
--- On Sat, 16/4/11, lacel...@frontier.com lacel...@frontier.com wrote: The cost of the art can sneak up on you. I know some people have one pillow and one set of bobbins, and are happy to keep to that. I tend to get over enthusiastic when I'm enjoying myself. I think back to Arachne 98 when my

Re: [lace] First Lace Pillow

2011-04-16 Thread The Lace Bee
I still have my first lace pillow from back in 1990.  It is an 18 SMP polystrene which my lace teacher sold to me for £8 together with a cover and a cover cloth.   It was only when I went to my first Springett's fair that september did I realise that I could have bought direct from them and got it

Re: [lace] Lace@Arachne's Birthday

2011-04-14 Thread The Lace Bee
Dear All,   I think that this summs up everything that is wonderful about Arachne.  I've been off line for a couple days but have come back to masses of topics and chat that I have been looking forward to reading.   I joined Arachne very, very early in it's history and although I have changed

Re: [lace] Fiberglass Safety Warning - an alternative suggestion

2011-04-09 Thread The Lace Bee
When I started to make lace it was in a period when people actually used Overhead Projectors rather than light projectors to show presentations.    The first time that I set up my honiton pillow my fellow lacemakers at the group I attended suggested that instead of just putting on a number of

Re: [lace] Valid point

2011-04-08 Thread The Lace Bee
--- On Thu, 7/4/11, Alex Stillwell alexstillw...@talktalk.net wrote: snipped A year after this I tripped over with valuable equipment in my arms and I sat on my ankle. I could not walk properly for 3 days because of ankle and knee strain but I did not break anything. That was 8 years ago,

Re: [lace] thoughts on the pricking topic

2011-04-06 Thread The Lace Bee
--- On Mon, 4/4/11, bev walker walker.b...@gmail.com wrote: snipped For me, anyway - if used to sight-reading music, and touch-typing, pre-pricking to learn the pattern seems time-consuming when one could be doing the lace and pricking all of a go. It is nice we have choices :) I touch type and

Re: [lace] Not Pre-pricking Lace Patterns, per David

2011-04-04 Thread The Lace Bee
snipped As a side line, it has come to my realisation lately that every time I put a pin in, I am actually holding my breath. Has anyone else noticed this? It only really affects me when I'm putting in a line of 7 or so - LOL David in Ballarat   Hubby has suffered in the past from melanomas and

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