The competition for the AGM was 'miniature lace', and the entries may be
seen on a website...
http://www.color2dye4.com/lace/
My entry was the Christmas tree (with lace decorations), and yes, it did
win a prize!
Erica, in Hokitika, New Zealand
Westland District Library
Hokitika, New Zealand
m
We-e-ll, I've got three projects on pillows - a tape lace doily that has
been going on for far too long, a 'yardage' edging on my travel pillow
(begun in 2001, and a good length now), and a collar for one of my Sasha
dolls. Another project just awaiting finishing is a cherry spray (pattern
fro
Thank you Bev for starting us on lace confessions. :-) I love reading about
all the patterns and types of laces others are working on. Most of these
laces I've only seen in photos and haven't tried yet, but it does give me
incentive to learn more and more. This is such a wonderfully addictive
ho
Thanks ladies for reminding me I *am* a lacemaker even though I haven't been
able to buy the bobbinlace supplies yet . I have a couple of Mary
Schillerman's (I am not sure if I have the name right as I don't have the
book out) "lacy knitting" books that I adore. However, right now I am down
to ba
Hi Spiders,
I am very much a beginner, and at the moment I'm working on a Reticella square that
was designed by Liz Ligeti. This is
my 3rd needlelace piece, and one day I hope to actually have some ufo's!!! There are a
few plans I am daydreaming about,
but currently don't allow myself to start m
Dear Spiders,
In reply to someone's question about a recommendation for a lace knitting book, I like
Marianne Kinzel's *First Book of Modern Lace Knitting* ISBN 0-486-22904-1
This book has excellent illustrations and technique descriptions. For the patterns in
the book, she has charts as well
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:02:23 -0700 (PDT), Janice wrote:
>I had to free up my large block pillow for convention which is why the hankie lace
>got finished. I am in the Gillian Dye class working with wool. I am thinking of the
>future when finer threads are too much for old fingers and eyes!! Ha
As usual - I am behindhand with reading the Digests, so hope it is not too
late to contribute to the Romanian Point Lace 'thread'. My life is overfull
at the moment, which of course is better than being bored. I have just
finished one year of my City and Guilds Creative Computing and am now writ
I think this one is certainly is a contender!!
Dlay
Clay Blackwell
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> I have just (last week) finally removed from a pillow a large piece
(about
> 2ft square) of Torchon, made in yarn about 4ply thickness. Mum bought it
as a
What lace am I working on at present?
It can hardly be described as working - but I'm adding a few repeats to a
simple Bucks edging. It's "Cat's Face" from Dorothy Cox's "Making Lace With
Little Grey Rabbit". Although this is a traditional pattern, (according to
the book, that is, I wouldn't kn
I've just spoken to Beryl and the postage for her pattern pack within the UK
is £1.50 (one pound fifty pence), and for the rest of the world £4.00 (four
pounds). Payment in sterling only at this stage.
If you can't pay her in sterling, there is hope. When she gets back from
Prague she's going to s
Hello Lorelei, Devon, Ilske,
I have been delayed in replying as I have been compiling information
from different sources.
Ilske wrote:
Could you find out a bit more precise since when the Witch Stitch Lace was made in Spain.
Could this lace belong to the laces they invate at the end of the 19./beg
You are now duly warned -- making lace is addictive! The more you
learn, the more you want to learn.
This I can underline with both of my hands, it is a wonderful
addiction and I hope I still have lots of years to learn more and more
and more
Ilske
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Lorelei,
This part of your mail remind me on my beginning with Binche
I finally decided I had done enough Flanders preparation, and moved on
to
Binche (which had always been my goal).
There were once three of us who wished to go to Kerkrade for a
Binche-class with Annemarie Verbeke, it was in 19
Just finished the mounting of my lace-sleeves (short ones) and as usual
lying into this deep hole after such a big work. Thinking it wasn't
worth to spent so much time for this and so on. Does this happene to
some of you also? Reading about your current projects I will tel you of
mine. The nex
I'm not doing too much lace at the moment as I'm working hard to finish an
afghan for my cousin's wedding on the 24th July. Squares are all done, I'm
sewing it up and then I have to crochet the border.
Lace - most recent piece was trying out a pattern for a fellow lace-maker who
was having a prob
I am currently working an edge for tray cover, this is one of the 10
patterns that will be included in my second book of Witch Stitch Lace,
there is no date yet to be published, maybe January 2005.
I usually work only a pattern at a time. Some time ago, I had 2 patterns
in different pillows and
Hi everyone and LOL how the survey evolves ;)
(by the way you can respond any time and where-ever you are in the world,
any season - this is for us at-home while 'the others' are on their lace
travels )
and a note about storage: in my workroom (big room with glorious piles of
books and Stuff) th
Jenny
The project I'm working on now might be called a mistake. I set it up on my
smallest roller pillow and then discovered that it had substantial sections
where the weaver had to go all the way across the entire lace -- 29 pairs --
as is common in Binche. It drove me nuts, no room to spread ou
( I remember a competition at IOLI one year for the oldest UFO that
one intended to finish. The winner was 23 years.
H... that's the age of my oldest UFO - a Honiton piece that I
started in 1981 after I got Elsie Luxton's book. I was quite new to
lace at the time and needed far more directi
Dear Friends,
We ought to try and remember that the world is a globe and that while many
of you are busy making your lace in Summer, just as many of us are busy
making ours in Winter :) We just happen to walk upside down, that's all -
or is it you mob who do that
This week I have finally fi
Last year or maybe in 2002, I finished a smallish Bedfordshire project I
started with Christine Springett in ?1993 - it was a handkerchief corner that
you could almost imagine was butterfly-shaped. (Don't ever be tempted to lend
me bobbins; this project was done using borrowed bobbins and my friend
I have an edging from Anna magazine that I started in the summer of
1989, to edge a 1 metre square supper cloth (which I have yet to
embroider). So far, I have done about 1/2 of 1 side, and a corner, and
about 2/3 along the 2nd side. I know hate the edging (has redundant pin
holes, IMHO), and is
I don't think I have ever seen this piece of Jacquie's/my mum's lace. Now, Jacquie I
would ask how come this pillow wasn't in the back of the car that got torched,
instead of some of your better pillows?
I expect if mum had asked me to make it instead of Jacquie it would still be in a
similar sta
At 12:48 AM 7/1/2004, you wrote:
> has been on that pillow 80% done since 1990. ...
That could be our next question - what's your longest running UFO? & what
are the chances of it ever being finished?
Or is that another question - biggest mistake ever started that you won't
giv
I have just (last week) finally removed from a pillow a large piece (about
2ft square) of Torchon, made in yarn about 4ply thickness. Mum bought it as a
T-shirt kit in the middle 1980s and gave it to me to make. As she is now
nearly 90, I think (hope) she has forgotten all about it.
As someon
Hi Madelin
Lace Camp is now in it's 12th year and is a wonderful opportunity for
lacemakers to get together! Gore Bay is a small community at the western end
of Manitoulin Island (the largest freshwater island in the world) - we mainly
stay in B & B's, rented cottages or homes. Basically, everyo
After the Royal Wedding in Denmark, we were all excited about the lace, and
especially the handkerchief which had been made by Astrid Hansen. We
learned that her new book, "Femten Bredere Tønderkniplinger" has been
released, and many members got copies in Tonder. (Although I understand
that the
Alice brings up another good thread... storage of all the "stuff"! We've
done this one before, but for the newbies, it might be interesting...
> I sometimes almost envy the lacemaker who has just one pillow and enough
> bobbins for that pillow, and is very happy. They don't have to figure
out
This is another interesting question! I think my "oldest" UFO is a
dragonfly from Ulrike Lohr's "Bugs" book which I started at a workshop in
1999. I loved working it, but it is on an impossible pillow, and once I
got home from the workshop, I found other things that were much more
seductive (lace
Eileen Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>In answer to the question about knitted lace books, many people
>recommend Knitting Lace by Susanna Lewis. It is a workshop style book that
>examines principles of construction using a lace sampler as illustration.
I like this book, too -- unfortunately,
Yes, I've got one of those! The Bucks Point insertion that I graphed from a
photo of an antique Christening bonnet which was published in "Lace" and the
IOLI bulletin earlier this year has been on my pillow since the end of 1999.
I want to make enough to be useable...but I keep getting distract
YoAnneke wrote:
>I enjoy reading all your emails about all the laces in progress.
> Due to my fractured wrist I am not making any lace at all at the moment,
>but I am looking through all my lace books, something I normally never
>seem to have the time for, and making plans for what to work after my
And non-lacemakers think lacemaking's boring because we only make edgings
and doilies
Jean in Poole
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Dear Lacefolk,
I don't post very often, usually only when I have a problem with my lace, but I just
had to tell you about the lace bargain I got in England.
I live in Cyprus and I only visit home (England) about once or twice a year, so I'm
always looking out for lace stuff when I'm there.
I popp
What lace(s) are you working on now? Maybe don't list all the ones you
have in progress (unless you want to) - this survey is for the projects
you are doing *right now* - short and sweet?
Lovely idea, Bev! I hope this is not too late, I haven't been reading my
mail lately, too busy rushing home a
> Lorelei said
> I have an enlarged Honiton leaf sampler from the Perryman-Voysey book
which
> has been on that pillow 80% done since 1990. One of these days
>
That could be our next question - what's your longest running UFO? & what
are the chances of it ever being finished? Mine is the
At the moment I have a dragonfly edging (just making it because I like it
but no use of it yet!)on a block pillow, an arch shape (Springetts design)
for a wedding card on a small cookie - needs to be done for the 17th July so
I'd better finish that fast and one of the butterflies from Manuela Beck'
Lovely to hear about all the different work going on - gives me lots of
ideas for what next!
I'm mainly working on my large straw domed pillow - through Margaret
Turner's Bedfordshire Lace Patterns Butterflies. Fresia no 100 linen. 1 and
a half down (on second wing) - 3 more to go.
I have a l
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