Because RA makes it uncomfortable to flick bobbins side to side, I move them
by lifting so crossing and twisting is down above the pricking, not on it.
That means my lace always rides up the pins, so even with torchon, I push
the outside pins all the way in after I've work each inch or so to stop
I found that I couldn't tell where the hole was in a transparent cover, so I
made another, and stuck a circle of pale blue transparent film on the
plastic before cutting the hole, leaving a thin pale blue rim around the
edge of the hole.
Jean in Poole
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To all my Arachne friends whether touched by this new terror, or not
I didn't contact our Spanish Arachnes, but I have thought of you - and
also of those Spanish friends from pre BL days with whom I've lost
touch. I'm also thinking now of all you US (and other) arachnes touched
by 9-11. The Madrid
Thanks to all for help sorting out the number of repeats on the
Jane Atkinson circular edge I am attempting.
I found the circular grid much harder to work than I expected.
After struggling for a day or so, I worked backwards and
undid all 52 pairs, hung the pairs of bobbins on a bobbin tree
to
Lori posted her site with the various examples of the lacemaker. I wonder what it is
about the original picture that inspired so many versions and whether there is a lace
version out there. I tried to copy and paste the address would today this dumb
machine would not cooperate. When the
On Mar 18, 2004, at 4:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Liz) wrote:
It's interesting, as a trainer in my main life, we are always told
that there is never anything wrong with the student - it's always the
fault of the teacher.
WRONG.
There are some people who are impervious to any teaching.
Surely not
Lynn, just in case Tamara's not on-line at present, I'll answer.
A tally is a little woven decorative shape, usually (but not always) worked
instead of a Ground Stitch. Two pairs of bobbins are used, with just one
single thread being woven backwards and forwards through the others until the
But, Tamara, I find tallies in wire seem to be easier. Once I have set the
edge it doesn't change.
Lorri
They say it takes 1000 talies to make them *dependably* good. *Then*,
you learn a different way of making them, which takes another 1000. And
*then*, you get to make them in *wire*, and
On Mar 18, 2004, at 23:21, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
But, Tamara, I find tallies in wire seem to be easier. Once I have
set the
edge it doesn't change.
*Too* true... g
My own countless (leaf) tallies notwithstanding (I used to love Russian
Tape above all techniques, and still marry it, sometimes,
In a message dated 3/16/2004 6:33:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, Irene Whitham,
writes
I too am going to the Tonder Lace Festival. I'm looking forward to
meeting everyone! How will we know who's who?
I would also like to see the exhibition in Copenhagen, could Avril
please gives us the
As of Thursday evening, March 18, 13 Arachnes have said they plan to attend
the OIDFA Congress in Prague.
Not everybody has mentioned whether or not they will be at the Banquet. Four
said they were not going to come. Six said they were taking the tour.
Elaine Merritt
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On Mar 19, 2004, at 1:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems to me that one year, one of the suppliers --was it Barbara
Fay? --
offered to keep a list of those Arachnes who registered there.
I've only been to *one* Tonder event -- in 2001 -- and it was
Gabriela Kister-Schuler (Kloeppelkiste)
Jane wrote:
Positive attitude helps prevent grey hair too.
At 61 I only have half a dozen grey hairs. My mother only had few when she
died at 76. Both my brothers were white by the time they were 50. One of my
ambitions is to have grey hair - dark brown hair and wrinkles don't go
together.
I
This has been around for a few years, but it bears repeating.
When an elderly lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near
Dundee, Scotland, it was felt that she had,nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through her meager,possessions, they found
this poem. Its
Vicki, I'm so glad that your problem turned out OK in the end. I'm sure that
sharing these experiences with the extended family of Arachne is
comforting and encouraging both to the person with the problem and to others
who might encounter it later. There's nothing worse than ignoring something
Jean,
I've never had children to worry about, but white hair runs in my family, so
you get it whether or not. My grandfather was nicknamed Snowy at school,
because his hair was already white when he was eight years old.
Linda Walton.
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H. Muth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 41, my hair is well beyond 'salt and pepper'...
even though an 82 year old woman told me just last week that I look 'no
more
than 55'!
My answer to that kind of remark is always that 'my hair is much older
than my body'.
Margot Walker in Halifax on the
At the age of 28, I went to our local off licence (which I visited regularly
with the children) to buy a bottle of cider. It was the first time I was
asked and it had been legal for me to buy alcohol for 10 years. I had
nothing with me to prove my age, but managed to purchase the cider anyway -
Mine began to go silver-grey in my late forties - and for a while I
had a spot on one side near the top about an inch across that was
totally grey, while all the rest was still medium-brown. People would
ask me why I didn't dye it, and I'd look them straight in the eyeball
and say, People pay
I got my first white hairs as a teenager. My aunt would cut my hair, and
pull out the white hairs.
My mother had pure white hair in her early thirties. She always claimed
that it was because of having us children, so we caused it.
When mine started turning so early, I thought I would get
Greetings,
I just had two lace presentations. Last week it was a program for a
Kiwanis club. I guessed that no one in the group really knew anything
about lace. The program chairman was just eager to get 'anyone' to be a
speaker.
The talk featured the history of lace, and the lace industry
Have been enjoying this thread... :)
My father was salt and pepper ever since I can remember (which would
put him around 40), and my my mother wasn't fully salt even when she
died (at *about* 80 -- nobody ever knew her exact birth-year), despite
my being a difficult child; I waited with baited
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