i'm doing a really small pattern from a barbara underwood bedfordshire
pattern book and the double picots are not coming out very nice. they
tell you to twist the thread 3 times, take a needle and spin it around
the far right thread, then wrap it around once with the thread to the
left of the
Hi Suzy
Try twisting the thread 5 times - the number of twists depends on the
thickness of the thread and the size of the pin. You need just enough for the
little
twisted cord to fit round the pin and 5 is usually about right for medium
weight thread.
I guess you are doing picots on the
There's a copy of CHANTILLY BOBBIN LACE TECHNIEK EN PATRONEN for sale on
ebay - the auction ends at 18.57 BST. The current bid is GBP56.00! I
know it's hard to get, and I'd quite like it, but not at that price.
Picots vary according to the sort of lace you are making. So picots in Beds
are different from in Binche which aren't the same as those in Bucks lace
etc. As you learn a new sort of lace the constant question is how does this
sort make picots?
Sue
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I don't think I'll be making lace outside this weekend - see the latest
weather channel report:
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED AN EXCESSIVE HEAT
WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING TO LATE SUNDAY NIGHT.
WE EXPECT THE HIGH TEMPERATURE ON SUNDAY TO REACH 100 TO
Jean, Thanks for posting about that book. I tried mightily (and insanely) to
win that copy, but as usual, at the last second, I was outbid by a sniper!
My only comfort in the matter is that I made her pay dearly for this
copy--the winning bid was 140.01 GBP, equivalent to $244.61 USD.
Ah well,
that should help. i went ahead with my pattern and did not take out
any pins in the picots until there was an inch more lace underneath it,
and then it didn't move. maybe i took the pins out too soon. i hate
to think they will come out once the lace is washed. i will try to
twist 5 times
Well the above book finally sold on ebay for GBP140.01.
There were 7 bidders - the one Aujstralian dropped out at GBP15.01, the one
UK bidder dropped out at GBP28.00. The other 5 bidders were from the US. The
winner has paid huge prices for lacemaking things in the past - she's outbid
me many
You may well may doing this, Susan, but you didn't mention it in your last
message.
Jacquie in her detailed response to your picot question said:
Now very
gently snuggle the threads until they are the same tension; you
should be able
to see the twisted bit going round the pin now, and then
i'll watch out for that tonight when i work on it again. maybe the
tension is not equal, and that is throwing it off. i'll definitely
watch for that because i don't want it to fall to pieces once i get it
done. this is just a practice pattern for a book mark i am making with
old wound bobbins.
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:19:21 -0500, Sue wrote:
Picots vary according to the sort of lace you are making. So picots in Beds
are different from in Binche which aren't the same as those in Bucks lace
etc. As you learn a new sort of lace the constant question is how does this
sort make picots?
For
Double thread picots have lots of methods - I've
learnt different ways in Honiton, Beds/Bucks and Flanders - but I can't
detect any difference in the appearance. So after giving any new method a
try out in class I revert to doing them the way I like.
--
I like the challenge of working them
At 3:23 PM -0500 7/22/05, Sue Babbs wrote:
Double thread picots have lots of methods - I've
learnt different ways in Honiton, Beds/Bucks and Flanders - but I can't
detect any difference in the appearance. So after giving any new method a
try out in class I revert to doing them the way I
For those of you in the US, I notice that IOLI owns a copy for members to
borrow. I tried to check the Lace Guild for those of you in the UK but
can't find a listing of library holdings on their web site. But that sure
would beat that crazy price.
Regards,
Carolyn
Carolyn W. Hastings
Stow, MA
I too have been outbid by the buyer of this book in the past
Jean - I notice she paid over $US54 for an old copy of Tina
the Little Lace Maker - I wonder if she's got a copy of the
reprint?
Boy, she must be wealthy! I've seen her pay
over 80 English Pounds for a modern bone bobbin by
Tony
--- susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if anyone is interested, the best method i have come
up with so far is
to attatch the bobbin to a thin dowel with a rubber
band, and then
twist it down my leg like a spindle. the thinner
the dowel, the more
twist per push, and the bobbins fill up faster.
Ah yes... I checked Jean's link and discovered that the winner of the
auction is someone who has outbid me on at least one occasion!! I'd be
curious to know what the person's interest is... is s/he a collector, a
lacemaker, both?? I doubt we'll learn, but would love to know that they're
At 01:23 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote:
Double thread picots have lots of methods - I've
learnt different ways in Honiton, Beds/Bucks and Flanders - but I can't
detect any difference in the appearance. So after giving any new method a
try out in class I revert to doing them the way I like.
--
I
first of all ,like what we were just talking about for the emails where
we accidentally forgot to take off our last name, i just wanted to ask
if you left yours there on purpose.
but i think you are right about the trees causing the dampness because
the back yard of where i lived had about 100
that is really bad that it killed his dog. 6 million dollars in
damages had to have been pretty bad. i saw on the tv the mold was
getting inside the insulation and then in the heating ducts and it
would spread all through the house. i don't know if that is the same
type of mold, but the people
Sorry, Sylvie, took me a while to read my mail!!
I was a bit tongue in cheek asking the question, of course, you realise? I know
that not all Americans eat only fried food, but it struck me at the time how
many fried recipes there were in those books!!
In Australia, unfortunately, lots of people
Susan wrote:
i have never heard of 90 degree weather in england or 30 degrees
celcius. i watched a special on an area in england where it rained
half the year. i would love the rain, if it did rain that much, but
the dampness would kill me. it is good to know you have some nice
sunny days.
In a message dated 7/22/2005 12:21:17 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
that is really bad that it killed his dog. 6 million dollars in
damages had to have been pretty bad. i saw on the tv the mold was
getting inside the insulation and then in the heating ducts and it
In a message dated 7/22/2005 1:49:40 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
how would a home be declared unfit to live in for mold?
Planning laws are very strict. Any new house that's built has to have a
certificate issued to say that it's fit for habitation. That means that
Hi all -- you all have really got me on a roll!
I should probably have mentioned, there is not much evidence to support the
claims of certain manufacturers that their products, like sealants, or
mold-inhibitors, are very effective. If the conditions are right, mold will
grow, even
if these
Hi all,
Maybe I should mention too that modern building techniques contribute to
mold. For instance, many times builders will leave the wood for their building
outside during construction, where it gets wet -- then it never gets a chance
to
dry out during the construction, and the moisture is
i wonder if being closer to china,who has been accused of making no
regulations to protect its environment, is the reason why you are
having so many changes in your weather for green house effect. if you
can grow bananas and oranges now, there must be something wrong. we
have to pull stuff like
now i'll be obsessing over wanting a stone home! at least it would be
low maintenance and weather resistant. how many stone homes get
knocked down in a tornadoe? not nearly as many as wood or tin mobile.
even a bad storm is more than a mobile home can stand.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
This past January, my husband and I were looking to buy a home. He's in
the military and we were scheduled to move in about a month so we tried
to sneak in early.
We saw one house that should have been labled as a house of horrors!!
There was literally mold growing on every surface in the
Susan, that's not necessarily true, either. I lived through the F5
tornadoes that devastated the Oklahoma City area in 1999 and NOTHING in
the path of that storm stood a chance. There were steel framed buildings
torn apart like tinker toys. In tornadoes, the only safe place to be is
susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i saw a photo of one [that is, a towel heater] used in a hotel in the u.k.
and i thought that was
the silliest thing anyone would ever need. i lived in detroit michigan
and it didn't make sense why you would need a heater to warm or dry
your towels.
What a
We've just got the following from our DS - he's moved to Italy and is
working hard at his Italian.
Can you recomend a technical book on English grammar? Modern, logical,
with examples. As they never taught it to us at school, I am going to
have to learn now, as it is too hard trying to talk
DH is at it again, I am glad I am not a blonde, well sometimes from a
bottleg
Lynn
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I just remembered that I don't think I've written on arachne about anything
that's been going on in
my life for the last few months... Which is quite a lot!
I one week, middle of June, I graduated, got married, and moved to the Bay Area.
Some of you may know I was actually already married for
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