Sylvia wrote:
YLI silk is very strong and works up extremely well. I have used it and
Bev responds:
Excellent endorsement - I think I'd like to try it for Bucks then - what
gimp thread I wonder?
I've used YLI 50 and 100 (and Tire 50) for Bucks, and they both work up very
well. They are very
Viv,
I can hardly wait for my issue of Lace to arrive after hearing your
impression of the cover.
I believe you could very well try Honiton with the equipment you describe
and get a good feel for it. Un-spangled Midlands bobbins (especially if one
of the smaller types) are not that different
Hi everyone
The topic of Mayflower got chatty on lace and lacey on chat vbg
Brenda wrote (to chat) a lace reference to the Mayflower that I was hoping
to work into a topic on lace - and here it is:
Yes, 'gathering nuts in May' is a corruption of 'gathering knots of
May' - stems of hawthorn in
Hi All,
My apologies if this isn't lace-y enough to be here.
I was recently in the US to give a presentation on European bobbin laces at
a textile/needle arts festival that my mother helped organize in
Hammondsport, NY, and also took one of my pillows and some bobbins so that I
could do some
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writes:
I believe you could very well try Honiton with the equipment you describe
and get a good feel for it. Un-spangled Midlands bobbins (especially if one
of the smaller types) are not that different than
Needle pin: Do try and use a proper one, [...]
Is it just a needle in a vice, point out, or a pin with a bead as head?
[...] Don't
forget, if you knit, you're used to pulling threads
through loops using a needle without a hook on the
end...
With knitting you have two needle-points in one
On May 9, 2004, at 17:07, Miriam wrote:
I have just received my lace magazine from the UK.
My Lace flew in today too; not late at all, or not much. Only had the
time to have a quick peek at it, but even that was enough to notice
that Arachne is *very well* represented: Jacqui Southworth, and
I have just heard from Dymocks - yes, they can get the Lace from the V. A.
book for me, but it will cost $109.95 Aussie currency! I have to let them
know if I want it - No, I think it would be cheaper to get it, like Annette
M., by sending to Amazon in the US.
Can anyone tell me how much the
Angela wrote I came back with several books,...
It was a pleasure for me to meet Angela and although we didn't have long to talk I
was able to pass to her the first of the series of books by Monica Ferris which I
had taken to England with me.
If anyone else in the U.K. would like to borrow these
Thanks for giving that website, JulieO, it confirmed my suspicions that
the books I read as I was a child in France, which had Caroline Quine as
the author, and a heroine named Alice (can't remember her surname) are in
fact the French version of Carolyn Keene and Nancy Drew!!
I worked as a
What I'd like to know is how he manages to makes all that lace as well as
the costumes!! I wish I could do a hundreth of what he does!! But then
again, I get distracted by a lot of other things, like reading :-))
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, just about to start a new piece of
torchon, but
Hello Tamara,
I have good news for you - the train from Poland (and all the international
trains) arrive at the central train station - Hlavni nadrazi. And there is
an ATM there, located near the entry / exit and near the entry to the
underground station. And no, there is no more problem with
I have just received my lace magazine from the UK.
I have seen the original mat (on the front cover of the magazine) while
in Dartington this spring. It is wonderful. Caroline Biggins who was the
tutor for Honiton had Barbara come in and show her master piece. Although
Honiton is one of my
Dear Nova,
What a great site ! I went a-roaming around and learnt some very interesting
things ! Thank you !
Sulochona
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Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] May flower
I
At 05:08 PM 5/10/04 +1000, Barbara Stokes wrote:
. . .Queen Anne Lace or Bishops Lace. Nursery
person didn't know of this plant, wasn't in her reference book. As I am
not much of a gardener, does anyone know this?
Around here, Queen Anne's Lace means the wild carrot,
which is a weed in its
Another one I seem to remember seeing before, but it's still funny. I'm
happy to say *my* son's been trained better than that :)
From: M.A.
A young man called his mother and announced excitedly
that he had just met the woman of his dreams. Now what
should he do?
His mother had an idea: Why
My source claims that we all had one... I'm not so sure about that;
I encountered it for the first time when my son was about 5 or 6. And,
I think, the small fry of today might have no more idea of what it
is, than I did at 30+ All the same... If one has time to waste, the
thing is as
Dear Lacemakers,
Local nursery shop (plant nursery) also combined Coffee Shop/Art Gallery
is planning a Spring weekend with local artists painting on the
verandah, quilters in the garden etc. I suggested that I could be
lacemaking amongst pots of Queen Anne Lace or Bishops Lace. Nursery
person
Hello,
Not having had replies to email that I've sent to
Lenka, I am wondering if you know of a possible email
address change or if Lenka is away. I really need to
purchase more wire supplies.
Thank you in advance,
Sylvie
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