[lace] Traveling to IOLI convention via eastern Iowa?

2012-08-01 Thread purple lacer
Convention time is almost here! If you happen to find yourself driving through eastern Iowa via I-80 you might decide to take a rest break in West Branch, home of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Museum. http://hoover.archives.gov/ During WWI Herbert Hoover established the Commission

Re: [lace] poppy project in Clones lace

2012-08-01 Thread Susie Johnson
Dear Clay, Well done! Yes, he did a brilliant job with both the video and the lace. I am very sorry that you won't be at the IOL convention to see it in person. Jeff's crochet is one of the jewels of this extraordinary project. For those of you who are within driving distance of St Paul

Re: [lace] Church lace - water impact (Newbies, print keep)

2012-08-01 Thread Jeriames
Dear Lyn, Have you read my many, many, MANY conservation memos to Arachne? They can be found at _http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html_ (http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html) . Search by my name. The information is a gift. The specific issues you

[lace] Irish crochet

2012-08-01 Thread Lorelei Halley
Those of you interested in Irish crochet really must take a look at the ravelry.com network. They have a very active Irish crochet group which has monthly crochet-a-longs. They call them August 2012 CAL, July 2012 CAL, etc. They select a motif from one of the online out-of-print books, and they

[lace] Irish crochet

2012-08-01 Thread Lorelei Halley
Here is an example. Olgemini is also a member of ravelry. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54057130@N02/6426640287/in/photostream/ Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.

Re: [lace] poppy project in Clones lace

2012-08-01 Thread linda dumas
I seem to have missed where the video is.  Can someone send me a link? thank you From: Donna Fousek ibal...@yahoo.com To: lace@arachne.com lace@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [lace] poppy project in Clones lace The video

RE: [lace] Irish crochet

2012-08-01 Thread mary carey
Hi All, The picture of Olgemini's work makes me think of the tendency of lacemakers to want perfection in fine work for everything they do. Irish Crochet is one practical way to introduce new people to lacemaking, they may then be inspired to do finer work, they may not. It would be good to see

Re: [lace] Tally challenge

2012-08-01 Thread lacelady
One challenge is the Heartland Lace Guild. See: http://www.hlglace.org/Leaves.htm It goes up to 1000 leaves. I thought there was also a challenge in the northern area, somewhere around Michigan. Hopefully someone will answer about that one. Alice in Oregon .. in the middle of county

[lace-chat] Pigeon Impossible

2012-08-01 Thread Agnes Boddington
Pigeon Impossible... WITHOUT DOUBT THE BEST ANIMATED VIDEO YOU'LL EVER WATCH! The animation on this is superb!