[lace] OT, Tatted fern etc.

2004-05-20 Thread APRILBOBNS
While shopping for some garden flowers, I came across a "Tatted Fern." Very cute! About 12 inch fronds with 1/3 inch flat half circles (with ruffled outer edges) alternating up the "stems." No botanical name, but was not a Maidenhair (Adiantum). Anyway, a must have for all us gardening tatters

Re: [lace] Re: Fantasy Flowers

2004-05-20 Thread Ruth Budge
Janet - thank you for this suggestion. I actually emailed Karolina privately yesterday afternoon making the same suggestion. I am not bothering to reply to her aggressive private message back - suffice to say it was just more personal attacks, both on Rosemary and myself. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Aus

Re: [lace] Lace magazine

2004-05-20 Thread Ruth Budge
C'mon, Shirley, be nice and share some of it!!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) --- Tregellas Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Regards, > Shirley - Adelaide, Sth. Aust. where we're actually have colder weather > and some RAIN, hoorary Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.

re: [lace] couronne rings

2004-05-20 Thread Bev Walker
Hello Jane and everyone Thank you for sharing your 'ring' tips Jane - and congratulations with your new found skill of ring-making ;) I am impressed because it is the same technique, though different working surface for making the "pearls" or "purls" to finish a Rosaline perlee piece - and further

RE: [lace] lace-exhibition and new website

2004-05-20 Thread Jane Bawn
If you go to http://world.altavista.com/babelfish/tr and type the website in the section where it says "Translate a web page" and then click which language from and to which in this case is French to English you will be able to read it all in English (mostly). You can do this for any foreign websi

[lace] eBay tea towels

2004-05-20 Thread Elizabeth MacPherson
Gentle Spiders, I found some pretty tea towels listed on eBay that I thought might be of interest to some of you. The towels are listed under "lacemaking tea towels". The number is: 8106577521 Elizabeth MacPherson - Do you Yahoo!? Yaho

[lace] back again for a while

2004-05-20 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Dear lacemakers, Hi, again i desided to join your list for a while. How are you all doing. Buisy as usual i guess. I have a very interresting projekt to go for. I am going to reproduce the dress of a painting by Carl Gustav Pilo at the mannorhouse museum Gammel Estrup. They have a doubble portrait

[lace] Rosemary and Jana

2004-05-20 Thread Tune
Hi Everyone, Just to end this crazy discussion about the fantasy flowers. Jana Novak is a very good friend of mine and I have therefore always stayed out of any discussion concerning her or her products and publications, because of the list rules about promoting and advertising. However, this situa

[lace] grids

2004-05-20 Thread Margot Walker
Actually, as I learnt last summer when I made my first Beds designs under Barbara Underwood's watchful eye, Beds uses the same grid as Torchon. When she told me that I was absolutely gob-smacked (as the Brits say). But it is true - you can lay a 45 degree grid over any Beds pattern and see fo

[lace] grids

2004-05-20 Thread Lorelei Halley
Weronika I have seen torchon on a grid other than the standard diamond. In DMC's La Dentelle aux Fuseaux (all torchon) there is a pattern with a flattened grid. But yes, torchon is always designed on a grid. That is done to keep all the threads in the proper relation to each other. All straigh

[lace] Are the flowers wired??

2004-05-20 Thread Ann-Marie Lördal
Subject: Re: [lace] Rosemarie Shephard > Those flowers are very pretty. Do you use some kind of wire in the outer > part of them or are they starched? > Ann-Marie > http://community.webshots.com/user/annma1 > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lac

[lace] admin: plagiarism discussion

2004-05-20 Thread Avital
Sorry to post so many admin messages in such a short space of time but I recommend that the discussion of plagiarism be taken off-line. Trying to argue on a list about whether someone did or didn't plagiarize is a lot like trying to convert someone to your political or religious views. It consumes

Re: [lace] Re: Fantasy Flowers

2004-05-20 Thread JANET ANDERSON
May I make the suggestion that this topic be put on hold (not dropped but put on hold) until the lady in question has returned from her holiday and can speak to the issue herself. I think it is not fair to continue lobbing accusations of plagerism any further when she is not here to speak to th

[lace] Rosemarie Shephard

2004-05-20 Thread J.Falkink-Pol
Hello Spiders On a second carefull look I could find the heartflower of Rosemary in Jana Novak's book. It was further down than the flowers. But then again, a heart shape is a very universal symbol, both hearts have different slopes, different numbers of pins and different braids. The method of ma

Re: [lace] Lace magazine

2004-05-20 Thread Tregellas Family
Hi Spiders >Liz wrote: This is mainly for the Oz spiders - has anyone in Australia, other >than Helene, received their UK Lace magazine yet? I am still watching out for >the Postie to deliver mine. My UK Lace magazine arrived on Tuesday so hopefully you've now got yours Liz. Regards, Shi

[lace] Re: duplication of ideas (not short)

2004-05-20 Thread Ilske und Peter Thomsen
Hello lacefriends, I'm not able to comment on all this opinions, as I'm not familiar with either of this books. But after looking up the site Lorelei mentioned I must say all this flowers look nice and individuell and in a way like real. And if you design a five petal flower it looks like in nat

[lace] Lace magazine

2004-05-20 Thread Paul and Dona Bushong
Liz wrote: This is mainly for the Oz spiders - has anyone in Australia, other than Helene, received their UK Lace magazine yet? I am still watching out for the Postie to deliver mine. Liz I'm not in Oz but my lace magazine just showed up today here in Guam. I seem to get mine around the same time

Re: [lace] Re: lFantasy Flowers

2004-05-20 Thread Brenda Paternoster
On 20 May 2004, at 01:02, Weronika Patena wrote: Is Torchon really always designed on a square grid? Or any grid? And why? If it was designed without a grid, would it be a free lace too? Torchon is normally designed on a square grid although with the use of the computer as a design tool the squ

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2004-05-20 Thread Avital Pinnick
From: "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Elaine's virus email Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:14:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600. I'm

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2004-05-20 Thread Avital Pinnick
From: "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Elaine's virus email Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:14:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600. I'm

[lace] V7A Museum book and others

2004-05-20 Thread Helene Gannac
Yes, Liz, Booksellers in Australia are bound by law to buy from England for some publishers, and from the US for others (haven't got the list of which is which) . This is an arrangement made by the publishers, mostly to ensure that no-one "poaches" on their preserves (shades of colonialism!!. Heav

Re: [lace] lace-exhibition and new website

2004-05-20 Thread Liduina
Thanks to everyone who sent me kind comments on our new website. Lorri and Tamara asked what the lacer is doing in the picture "l'étrange instrument de Dominique". Well, for the exhibition, several lacers of our group worked on the theme of music. Dominique has a son who is playing saxophone and

[lace] Re: Fantasy Flowers

2004-05-20 Thread Karolina Jeffers
That isn't how I read the posts on this subject at all. What they do all seem to be saying is that it is possible for two people to independently come up with very similar ideas.! My teaching notes are dated when I do them, ie when I need handouts for a class. This doesn't necessarily mean that