Re: [lace] Re:Art Fairs and Designing in PG

2005-09-28 Thread Jenny Barron
Aurelia Loveman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of pages (unimaginably helpful!) that a certain K. Blum published 20-odd years ago in, I think, the Australian lace mag, on the subject of nook-pins. If you don't have that, I'll be happy to send it to you (I got her blanket permission

[lace] lace flower

2005-09-28 Thread Jenny Barron
I've just spotted this book on ebay. http://tinyurl.com/9scef It seems to show the flower we were talking about a couple of months ago on it's cover. Someone was looking for the pattern but I can't remember who it was and I've just been looking on webshots where the picture of the flower

Re: [lace] Re:Art Fairs and Designing in PG

2005-09-28 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Yes,I think it would be a blessing to anybody who is into point ground; and I have thanked K. Blum in my heart more times than I can say. But...ridiculous to tell... I don't have her address! Perhaps any Arachnes reading this who know her might help? Aurelia Loveman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [lace] Re: Designing in PG

2005-09-28 Thread Lorri Ferguson
Thank you Robin and Tamara, You have given me some great pointers! I do own the OIDFA Pt. Ground book and will begin studying it. I thought I owned Nottingham's Tech of Bucks but am not locating it this morning. I do have a couple of other Bucks books plus Tonder ones. Thanks again, now to

Re: [lace] lace flower

2005-09-28 Thread Brenda Paternoster
I don't think it was any of those flowers we were discussing - I have a vague recollection of looking at that book at the time to see if it was the required pattern. I see the winning bid was 21 GBP - I paid 2.75 GBP for it (new) about 20 years ago. Inflation! Brenda On 28 Sep 2005, at

Re: [lace] lace flower

2005-09-28 Thread Clay Blackwell
The high bidder was our friend Laurie Waters, which tells me that this book is a significant book historically. Sometimes the older books are still the best, and sometimes they're desirable because they were historically significant. I'm guessing the latter in this case. (I sure would like to

[lace] Re: lace flower

2005-09-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Sep 28, 2005, at 18:02, Clay Blackwell wrote: The high bidder was our friend Laurie Waters, which tells me that this book is a significant book historically. I wonder how so, unless one tries to keep track of Jusai Fukuyama's development as a designer. The designs - mostly Torchon - are

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Katrina devastaion

2005-09-28 Thread romdom
le 27/09/05 18:31, susan à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : i have no crazy intentions to say they don't have a right to their homeland and they shouldn't be allowed to rebuild, but the whole idea to live behind a levy in a hurricane prone area should have never been put into play. yes but

[lace-chat] Re: Katrina devastaion

2005-09-28 Thread Joy Beeson
At 08:51 AM 9/28/05 +0200, romdom wrote: yes but ... what about all these areas where people have to do with tornadoes and regularly rebuild their houses ?...what of those who must suffer blizzards in the north ? ... i have the feeling a very large part of the US would have no

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Kite flying

2005-09-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Can't remember ever seeing this one before and it's wonderful (IMO) g From: R.P. A husband in his back yard is trying to fly a kite. He throws the kite up in the air, the wind catches it for a few seconds, then it comes crashing back down to earth. He tries this a few more times with no

[lace-chat] Fwd: The Concert

2005-09-28 Thread Tamara P Duvall
OK... As a hard-core atheist, I disapprove of the following; lots of us muddle through, all by ourselves. And I like even less the kind of made-up *and* schmaltzy (feel-good and a bit oily) story this one is. Yet... The vestige of the romantic in me does soften inside a bit because of the *little