G'day fellow Arachneans,
Several weeks ago I received replacement copies of the OIDFA Bulletin
(No. 2 - 2021) because my original copies had never arrived. BTW I
currently receive 2 copies because I am an Administrative Council member
for Estonia.
Then on Monday, the original copies finally
The lucky wiinner of the needles is Lorri Ferguson. Please msg me your
address Lorri
Regards
Sue Harvey
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I was lucky enough to find at a car boot a very old sewing case which also
contained several packets of large darning needles, each packets holds 25
needles so plenty to share. Considering how old they were the needles are
perfect and very useful for sewing knitting etc as they have large eyes.
Hello everyone especially the 43 entrants in my bobbin raffle :)
It is Easter Sunday already for many of you; close enough to it in my time
zone. Into the Easter bonnet went the names. DH was the person nearest the
computer to do the draw The winners are
Lily Douglass, the bobbin.
Julie Todd -
Hello Everybody,
It’s Monday afternoon the Raffle closed some hours before.
My friend who is also my neighbour took three little paper out of the hat.
And the winner are……..
Carol Adkinson
Jeanette Fischer
Martha Osgood
Congratulation!
Please send your snail mail address to my private
Hi everyone
I have an narrow old pricking to raffle off, free to a good home. As is, in
an envelope, ready to mail postage paid to anywhere in the world.
It is for a point ground edging about 3/4 inch/20 cm. wide. The pricking is
18 inch/45 cm. long, of some vintage, a conventional three-loop
Dear Lacemakers-
Today is the day to pick a winner in the Dragon and Cat pattern raffle.
Seventeen names went in to the hat. Drum roll...and the winner is Shirley
Meier. Congratulations to Shirley - the patterns are in the mail.
Thank you to everyone who entered.
Kathy Hensel
-in Marcola
Well Done Shirley!!! Enjoy the patterns!!!
Sue in UK
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Thanks Jeri for the information about Dorothy I knew it was Royal Doulton but
have never investigated it's origins.
You are right to think it is quite easy and I made mine in about 2 months
although I was making other things at the same time.
Sue
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Thanks Jeri for the information about Dorothy I knew it was Royal Doulton but
have never investigated it's origins.
You are right to think it is quite easy and I made mine in about 2 months
although I was making other things at the same time.
Sue
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Just been having a bit of a sort out and found a pattern for a cross stitch
lacemaker called Dorothy I made this several years ago and it's hanging in
my workroom, if you want to see a photo of the chart I have down loaded it to
our photo stream. So anyone who wants to join in the raffle
A lovely offer from Sue.
This is an image taken from Royal Doulton's 1987 figurine HN 3098, named
Dorothy - if anyone wants to look her up. The figurine is dressed in a
simple 1600's Pilgrim style dress of light gray/blue, with large white
'falling-style' collar. She is making lace on a
A lovely offer from Sue.
This is an image taken from Royal Doulton's 1987 figurine HN 3098, named
Dorothy - if anyone wants to look her up. The figurine is dressed in a
simple 1600's Pilgrim style dress of light gray/blue, with large white
'falling-style' collar. She is making lace on a
Have now posted 3 of 4 raffle prizes but not heard from Susan Reishus TIA
yet with postal address please.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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My prize arrived today, thank you Sue.
Celia x
From Woolwich in the newly named 'Royal Borough of Greenwich'.
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Have now posted 3 of 4 raffle prizes but not heard from Susan Reishus TIA
yet with postal address please.
My prize arrived today, thank you Sue.
Celia x
From Woolwich in the newly named 'Royal Borough of Greenwich'.
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Have now posted 3 of 4 raffle prizes but not heard from Susan Reishus TIA
yet with postal address please.
Hallo all,
I had 17 names for the raffle and tonight we had a draw and the 4 winners
of the darners are:
Susan Reishus - TIA, Laura
Laura - New Mexico
Celia Mulhearn - London
Jenn Mohr- Washington
Thanks for joining in the fun, please could you email me with your full
names and
Whoops, forgot to say, will draw raffle on Tuesday 27th March to give digest
people a chance
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Bit quiet on the list at the moment, so shall we have a little raffle to
liven things up. Had a sort out and have found 4 x packs of antique John
James Long Darners each containing 25 needles,in original paper
wrappers,still nice and shiny despite their age, useful if you have
anything heavy to
There were 29 entries to my raffle of philatelic items on the topic lace and
today my husband drew the winner: Anne Rawlings, UK.
Thank you everyone who entered.
Kind regards from Sweden
Ann-Marie Andersson
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I have some philatelic items on the topic lace that I donât need and would
like to raffle. They didnât sell on ebay but I donât like to throw them
away. I will pay the postage to anywhere in the world. You can see all items
on five scans here:
17 of you asked for your names to be put in the raffle and I numbered each
in the ordered they arrived in my in-box. I asked DH for a number between 1
and 17 inclusive last night and he picked number 1, which is Sue Eddy.
Don't know where you are Sue. If you let me know your snail mail
Oh my goodness, I never win anything and have been trying to find this chart
for some time.
Thank you very much for your kindness and generosity, Jean, and I am tickled
pink with this news.
All the best,
Sue.
Cornwall. UK
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While clearing out a drawer earlier, I found a pair of bobbins I've had for a
while and never used.
they are lovely but just not quite my cup of tea, so if anyone wants them I'll
be happy to pass them along anywhere in the world for free.
It's better they go to someone who'll use them than
Hello Lora and everyone
They are nice bobbins (and I, too, hope they find someone who will use
them) and now the background - I see what it is, a print based on
prickings, but what is it? Fabric? a placemat? paper? It is neat!
On 8/31/11, Lora lorabutter...@btinternet.com wrote:
While clearing
Just to add that they were very well made by van dieren
And the background is actually the back cover of Ulrike Voelcker's grammar of
point ground
Im sending a little note to everyone who's name has gone in the hat so far, so
if you've sent a message and havent got a note to say I've got it, feel
I have some items issued 1985 byThe Bobbinmaker of South Africa that I would
like to raffle:
A newsletter of 17 pages in a stamped envelope decorated with a lace picture
Two stamped envelopes with advertisements for The Bobbinmaker
The envelopes may be of interest to collectors of philatelic
DH picked the winning ticket for the raffle tonight, I had 37 entries and
the lucky winner is:
LONNIE FOLEY
Harlem
GA
Hi Lonnie, can you please send me your full snail mail addy so that I can
post it to you.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk
UK
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Hi everyone!
DD has just pulled a name out the hat and the lucky winner of the lacemaker
blouse is Micki Cameron in Scotland.
Micki, if you could let me have your address, I will post the blouse to you.
Hope you enjoy wearing it.
It was great fun doing this raffle - hope to be able to offer
Hi everyone
My turn to offer an opportunity for you to enter a raffle!
I have a lovely condition (I think I only wore it a few times - washed after
each wear) Lacemaker blouse to offer.
It is light blue in colour (sort of a light denim look), 100% cotton and has
short sleeves. It is Ladies
I had loads of entries for my double raffle. So this morning I turned them out
off the box, gave them a good stir round, and drew the winners:
For the HONITON TEA TOWEL - Shere'e Robinson
For the LACEMAKER CROSS STITCH CHART - Vickie Green
I'm sorry to dissappoint the rest of you, better
Hi everyone
Just a note to announce that the winner of my honiton grids raffle is Susan
Reishus.
I made a separate mailing list just for the raffle entries; they will have
received the news already.
There were 14 entries. Honiton is still vital!
If anyone would like some fun with e-mail, do a
CC: What!?! Wow! Thank you! What a wonderful surprise! I have been sick
for a few weeks and this has cheered me up! Bless your heart! Do you want me
to contribute to shipping?
Again, thank you so very much!
Bev also was very considerate to all rafflees, and I hope her goodness returns
to
Someone mentioned the lace in Luton Museum recently. I have got some photo
copies of Bucks and Beds lace that the former owner says she bought in Luton
Museum in the 70s. There are 33 pages size 30 x 42 cm (about 12 x 16 inches)
each. I would like to give them a new home. Please send me an email
Hi everyone
Having had these since I won them in our one and only fundraising raffle on
Arachne, lo these many years gone by (1997? or so), and only one of the
grids used, that was just one time, to put a too-large pricking pin into one
of the holes (I was horrified at myself), these are now up
Dear Spiders,
I am offering for raffle a copy of the BBC video Cranford which was
discussed at length on the list some time ago. The copy I have was
given to me by a dear friend in the UK who did not realize it was in
PAL format which is not generally playable in the US. I now have
gotten
I have just used www.random.org to generate the winning numbers for my
Threads Ed5 raffle and the winners are:
No 4 - Trish Fisher
No 38 - Judith Smith
No 14 - Patricia in Wales
Sorry to the other 68 entrants, but thank you all for joining in.
I have postal addresses for Trish and Judith, your
Brenda
My original reply to you has bounce back to me for some reason. I have
just tried again.
Patricia in Wales
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Sorry to keep posting to the list. Brenda, I have sent my address yet
again - that is twice this afternoon.
Patricia
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Brenda
My first afternoon message has been returned with 'permanent fatal error'
as the reason. As I am simply hitting reply it is not an error of copying
on my part. Another member has offered to send it to you. If that doesn't
arrive can you send me your address direct and I shall
Brenda
I have sent the two test messages as requested.
Patricia
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Brenda
The Kent message got through as I have received an automated reply.
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I got DH to give me two numbers from 1 - 41 (the number of names held for
this pattern raffle) and although there are names from various countries in
the world the two lucky names drawn are both in the UK.
I listed all the names that came through to join this raffle, in the order
they came in
Hello Sue
That sounds similar to what I'm doing with my raffle. I'm filtering
all the entries into a separate mailbox and then I'll re-arrange the
list alphabetically by the email addresses - that way there can be no
advantage or disadvantage to the early or late entrants - and I'll ask
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Subject: Re: [lace] raffle has been drawn
Hello Sue
That sounds similar to what
8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] raffle now Luton museum
Debbie wrote
This is so kind of you! You don't need to add my name to your raffle, but
do
tell us more about your trip to the museum!!
As I said in my original email because I was on my way to visit a very
sick
aunt whose care home
Brian Lemin wrote.
Luton Museum is quite my favourite, whilst Bedford museum has an excellent
layout it always seems less personal than Luton.
I hoped you managed to find the drawers that have a small but amazing
collection of bobbins. Their reserve bobbin collection is very extensive.
The
.
It sounds as though Luton is a very good alternative visit.
Janis Savage
in Honeydew
South Africa
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To: Lace@arachne.com
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] raffle now Luton museum
Luton Museum is quite my
Debbie wrote
This is so kind of you! You don't need to add my name to your raffle, but do
tell us more about your trip to the museum!!
As I said in my original email because I was on my way to visit a very sick
aunt whose care home is close to the museum, we called in very briefly for me
to buy
Yes please Sue, I love Bucks Point so would love my name to go into your
raffle
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Hello to all the spiders
I just arrived back today from a visit to my Mum, and managed a very brief
look into Luton museum at the new lace gallery. I have been before and
unfortunately didn't have time for a proper look, but went to buy some
patterns. I bought the bucks point booklet of
I received my pin from the IOLI convention in the mail. Janice sent along a
bobbin book as well as a scissors fob and 2 marker pins. I was thrilled to
get it.
I had hoped to go to the convention since it was fairly close to me. Just
the whole length of the state. But life intervened and
address. Thanks,
Janice
Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
www.jblace.com
http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org
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To: Janice
On Friday I received the two little lace ornaments that I won from Bev's
lace-chat raffle.
Thank you so much, Bev. I'm looking forward to uniting them with my
other lace
ornaments when I unpack the Xmas boxes.
And while I'm writing I'll add another little reminder about this year's
Card
I second all that. Mine has just arrived, and indeed is a collection of
lovely Idrija patterns. I have already worked some Idrija lace and enjoyed
it so am thrilled to have more patterns, especially 2 wonderful cockerel
designs. What fun!
Thank you so much for doing this
Sue
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My pattern packet arrived today also (9-19-08). What a wonderful treat. I
can hardly wait until next week to see if our Guild Library has the Idrija
instruction book.
Looking at the pictured laces, it looks very much like Schneeberger. Is this
valid or what are the differences?
Thank you,
Dear Alessandra,
Your package arrived this moning, thank you.
The lavori a fuselli is just what I thougt it will be a lot of easy
pattern to work and relax a pause betwen 2 bigger and mor challenging
projects.
The Ricamo was an extra surprise, I have never seen one in a shop and it
is
The draw has been done!!
And the winner is
Alix Hengen Gran Duché de Luxembourg
Many thanks to all the 50 lacemakers, who took part to the raffle.
I had a big fun!!!
Alessandra
Friuli - Italy
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I am raffling an Italian booklet Lavori a fuselli (Bobbin lace works) -
Casa Editrice Mani di Fata
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Draw will be on 9th February 2008 with the help of my friend Tiziana.
Have fun
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Subject: [lace] raffle
Hello all,
I am raffling an Italian booklet Lavori a fuselli (Bobbin lace works) -
Casa Editrice Mani di Fata
If you would like to enter the raffle, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Draw will be on 9th February 2008 with the help of my
Hello all,
I posted a raffle on lace-chat, but it was suggested to post it on lace too.
I am raffling some Hungarian stamps (2 lots) with the most wonderful
lace pictures on them.
I am selling my child hood collection of stamps and came across these.
If you are interested, send me details.
I would love to be included in the raffle please Agnes.
Karen in Malta
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Hello all,
I posted
My granddaughter Leah stayed over last night, and just before we took
her home she did the honours and drew four names from the hat - we used
a sun hat which hasn't had much use this summer!
The lucky names are:
Beth Stoll in USA
Janette Humphrey in Australia
Judy Tucker (Australia)
Sue Fink
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the subject line.
Carole
Dublin, OH
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The current raffle sounds very tempting. It's always
great when someone is willing to share something
impartially.
Arachne raffles are really just drawings since no
money is collected. Entries are by simple emails and
the generous member chooses some method of selecting
one name. If no person
I had 45 entries for the thread-raffle, my daughter draw a name out of
my hat and the winner is:
Shere'e [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Congratulations, wednesday I will drive tothe postoffice.
Alix
from sunny Luxembourg
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Now that my sister has returned home after visiting me last week I have time
to concentrate on running my little raffle.
I have 3 items to raffle and rather than make 3 prizes in one raffle I
thought it better to run 3 raffles, one for each item then everyone
interested in one of the items gets
Last month Bev, in Sooke BC, had a raffle for some extra lace type
stamps she had around. I won them and when I wrote to the list that I
received them, I received a lovely email from Eva in Spain, wanting
to know if my stamp collector son would like some of the lace stamps
that she has. I
When I was in France in Sept., I saw videos of Alencon and Argentan
needlelaces being made. In both cases, a lobster claw was used as an
afficot. Over Christmas, I made the supreme sacrifice :-) and ate 2
lobsters. Three claws have been spoken for, but I have one left over.
So, if anyone
There were 19 entries in my raffle and my husband drew these 12 winners:
Bev, Canada
Elaine Chock
Jenny Brandis
Shirley McDaniel
Agnes Boddington
Susan McLeod
Faye Owers
Jane Bawn
Outi Rissanen
Karolina Jeffers
Shell Wolski
Kathy Hensel
Congratulations! Sorry I couldn't send to all that were
I have already received many replies to my raffle. Some of you have asked how
they can pay for the postage. I'm sure that wouldn't be any problem since
there are many ways.
Payment through PayPal would be fine or cash in a letter, any currency. Of
course an exchange of something lace related
Hello all,
I have got some duplicates of the FDC (First Day Cover) and postcard with the
Swedish lacemaker stamp that I would like to raffle. There are 12 of each.
Please send me an e-mail off list before May 8 if you would like to enter. I
will send them anywhere in the world, but would be very
How could one reimburse Ann-Marie for the postage
I have no idea!
BarbE
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Hello all,
I have got some duplicates
In Australia, international postage vouchers are available for sale through
the local post office
Noelene in Cooma
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How could one reimburse Ann-Marie for the postage
I have no idea!
BarbE
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They are available in the USA for letters only. I
needed one on a small package but couldn't get one.
This stamp cover would fit neatly into a regular
envelope, so the return postage voucher should be just
right for it. The post office, however, did not tell
me what the cost was.
I tried to
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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They are available in the USA for letters only.
The post office, however, did not tell
me what the cost was.
Anywayask at your local post office for the cost
from your country.
Are the US post offices still calculating
The international reply coupons are an option but it seems that
Ann-Marie will accept paypal or a swap, much tidier. I did write to
her privately but I didn't cc the lace list. The price of mailing
times 12 for the items available for raffle, the total cost is high.
On 5/2/06, Jane Partridge
As a break from all the time-zone messages, I have a soft wreath-bag to
raffle off. It's made by Rubbermaid, dark green, looks like
plasticized fabric (there's a grid in the plastic, rather like duct
tape). The sides are 28 in diameter and the edge gusset is about 5
deep. There's a zipper
Dear friends,
Yes the raffle is open world wide, so sorry I should have included that in
the message,
Kind regards,
Pauline
in Somerset. U.K.
www.wincanton-uk.com
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I have posted a photo on my album at Webshots of a pair of socks I thought
might be appropriate for an Arachne raffle. They are orange with a spider web,
spider and Happy Halloween on them. Size 9-11. I will mail anywhere in the
world so send you name for the drawing which will be held on
Arachne Members
I want to thank Brenda for offering the Raffle for the
3 Edition of Threads for Lace. I am one of the lucky
winners. I have privately thanked Brenda for her
generosity.
Pam
Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees.
Brenda would you please include me in your raffle, I tried to reply privately
but it bounced back
Shirley Meier 10 Caramut Court.
Corio.3214.
Victoria,
Australia
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Sorry Jacqui, but I don't think so. I did a raffle for 12 pairs of Maltese
bobbins Christmas 2003 and I received 129 entries! Until then I hadn't
appreciated just how many are/were on the arachne list.
Nicky in Suffolk
Well, I think this must be some kind of record! We had 55 responses.
I
Gentle Spiders,
All this talk about Balinese lace (machine-embroidered on fabric) in
general, and Jeri's:
fine lacy embroideries were made in great quantities in Switzerland
in particular, has reminded me...
Some years ago - '00? '01? earlier? - Switzerland issued a lace
stamp. I use the quote
My grandson made the choice by getting the name out of the hat. The winner is
Michelle Long. To the rest of those wonderful ladies thank you for everything
including the kind thoughts for me.
Michelle, I need your snail mail address so I can box this up and send it to
you.
Hope you will like it.
Gidday all,
Below is the list of entrants so far in the CorelDraw lace design files
raffle:
Jean Nathan
Diane Z
Sharon Whiteley
Alessandra in Italy
Robin Panza
Judy Tucker
Jacquie in Lincolnshire, England
Ann Geddie
Helen Clarke
Bev Walker
Shirley Meier
Malvary Cole
Mary Stewart
Sulochona in
Hi Chelle! Please put me down for your draw :) Sharon
WhiteleyVancouver Island
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Gidday all,
I have a set of Torchon and PG grid dots/components, suitable for use with
CorelDraw. I purchased these from Deborah Robinson a few years ago and used
them for lace design. I left my software behind along with my ex-marriage,
and now use Lace 2000, so these diskettes are useless to
I received the Candy Stripes booklet from Brenda Paternoster. I have already posted a
thank you to Brenda privately. It is a very interesting booklet. I plan on using one
of the patterns for a special gift to friends of mine.Thanks again Brenda
Pam Thompson USA
I had 56 names in the shopping basket for the pattern booklet raffle, and
Paige picked out the following winners:
Pam Thompson in USA
Jeanette Fischer is South Africa
Jill Treeves in Heathrow UK
Sorry there couldn't be more winners.
Would those three people please send me their postal
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