[lace] Lace newbies and continuation of textile arts

2011-10-14 Thread lizkenr8
I came into lace making accidentally by purchasing a bag of bobbins at a thrift store several years ago. I didn't know what they were, but they were cheap and looked interesting. I thought I could use them in dollhouse miniatures. Then while browsing on ebay for something else sometime later, I

[lace] Newbies, Questions and Arachne

2009-02-27 Thread Patricia Dowden
Hi All, While there has been quite a discussion about newcomers asking questions, I thought there hadn't been quite as much emphasis on Arachne's general willingness to entertain questions. They are the lifeblood of the art of lacemaking. I have taught many people various things in the line

[lace] Newbies to Hoe-niton lace

2005-06-24 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear all -- I think the following episode may gladden the hearts of proselytizing spiders, especially Devon: On Wednesday evening, five of us TerraPins (local Baltimore chapter of CRLG) were demonstrating lacemaking at the Baltimore Museum of Art (by invitation). The Museum was crowded with

[lace] newbies

2003-12-05 Thread nicky.h-townsend
Morning spiders one and all Welcome to all the newbies, you've joined a very friendly site, where you can glean masses of useful information and ask qurestions to your hearts content. But whereabouts are you in the world, its a big place? Kentucky is pretty big to! My question of the day, well

[lace] newbies

2003-12-03 Thread Margot Walker
Welcome to the newbies. Please don't feel intimidated. No matter how much those of us who've been making lace for years know, there's always another type of lace which we know nothing about. In other words, we may not be newbies to the list, but we're always newbies for one type of lace or