[lace] Royal wedding dresses

2011-04-28 Thread janeread
Hi all, I get the digest version of lace so I don't know if anyone has mentioned that the BBC has a short (5 min) audio slideshow about an exhibition of 6 royal dresses at Kensington Palace? It includes close up shots of some of the lace on Q Victoria, Q Alexandra and Q Mary's dresses. URL:

[lace] re: Orenburg lace advice needed (re-send)

2011-02-27 Thread janeread
I sent two messages on Friday but they haven't appeared in the lace digests. I thought I'd better send the gist of them again. Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:38:46 + Dear Bev, Thank you for this, and the photo as well. While the latter is better than the photo I have, it is still not really

[lace] Orenburg lace advice needed

2011-02-24 Thread janeread
Hi, I wondered if anyone has experience of Orenburg lace knitting? I am trying to knit the pattern 'Olga's Indiski (indian) Shawl' from Piecework May-June 2009. I have got to the point where I need to pick up the slipped edge of the outer border to knit the inner border. However, the 'pick