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Subject: Re: [lace] Girl Guides and lace
1972 is the date in the Badge (Australian) Book a friend gave me so cannot
really say when it was removed in Australia. I think you would go quite a
long way among adult lace enthusiasts to find one who could cope with "
Dear all, especially the guiding lacemakers,
The first time I saw lace was here in Brisbane at the Centenary (I think)
celebrations of the Anglican Cathederal in 1981/2 or thereabouts. At that
time I knew this was something I wanted to do.
The first time I "had a go" was at an international
I thought that most of you already do mending. . .
Love Roslyn
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Hi Roslyn,
This reminds me that I once spent a whole summer of my free time, as a new
mother! mending my husband's socks and his jeans. It came into my head to
decorate t
I thought that most of you already do mending. It is the most
interesting to
make the fabric look again as if it were only another piece of
fabric without the blotched look.
I have done more repairs of jeans ever since I had boys big enough
to wear them.
Having learned that you go to emb
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sue Babbs
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>For interest's sake, I've just dug out my guide handbook from 1968, and
>found the badge requirements:
It's a bit daunting, isn't it - even having passed City & Guilds Part 2,
I could do clauses 1, 3a,b,d and e (could do c but
Hi All,
1972 is the date in the Badge (Australian) Book a friend gave me so cannot
really say when it was removed in Australia. I think you would go quite a
long way among adult lace enthusiasts to find one who could cope with "that"
syllabus.
England and Australia can claim one former Guid
ell or pointed edges.
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From: "Helen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] Girl Guides and lace
Okay, let's see how wel
Okay, let's see how well my brain works right now :o) Please delete this
email if the combined history of lace and Guides in the UK doesn't interest
you at all.
I think that the lacemaker badge went out in the mid-80s. I went up to
Guides in the winter of 91-92 - just as all of the major cha
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carol Adkinson
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>Hi Helen and Spiders,
>
>I used to be a Guide Captain, running a very successful group of girls in
>Hertfordshire but, just before I finshed, the Bobbin Lace proficiency badge
>was discontinued.
Rooting through some thing
w in Suffolk UK, where it is very hot and humid - was it King
Geirge II who said the British summer is three hot days and a thunderstorm?
And will that come tonight or tomorrow ...?
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Once of the books which bought at a Guiders' training weekend a while ago
was a facsimile copy of "How Girls can Help to Build up the Empire - the
handbook for Girl Guides" by Miss Baden-Powell and Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(1912). It's the first Guide handbook, the equivalent of "Scouting for
B
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