remember what was in Lace No. 96 - nearly 8 years
ago??!!!
Must go, he's starting to humph!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, wet Sydney!, Australia)
--- Jacqueline Bowhey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings All,
There must be something in the Qld air that is making me talkative!
Have a look at the Tumbling
!
*But* the nicest thing about all this is that the rain is actually falling in
the dam collection area - if it lasts long enough, we might even get some
runoff into the dam!!
Ruth Budge (typing with her fingers crossed!!)
Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Well, here in Melbourne we would
give our
Oh! Annette! I'm glad I'm not *all* alone!!
Ruth
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Lace hasn't reached all of Melbourne yet. I'm still waiting as well.
Annette in Melbourne
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I've got it! I've got it!!I've got it!!!I've got my copy of
Lace!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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Can't help you with the thread question, Tamara, but be assured, I still
haven't got my copy of Lace either!! I know they've reached Melbourne and
Adelaideso they're in this country..but where's mine??!!
Tamara wrote: Gentle Spiders,...
Yours, somewhat bummed out; we had
there and have a look!
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- A M Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aussie spiders,
Just a quick fun question.
At the moment my 20 year old son is on holiday in Australia. He is staying
with an old school friend in Bondi.
Now before he went he
Very funny, Jackie!I know you find Brisbane cool after Darwin - but
remember, I lived in Brisbane when we first arrived in Australia, so you can't
pull the wool over my eyes about Brisbane weather!
Regards, Ruth (Sydney, where its still continuing hot and humid, although a
cool change is
heatwave like this was when I was expecting the
last child...he had his 31st birthday last Sunday. Thank goodness I don't
have that complication to contend with this time!! (VBG)
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will happily swap some heat for some snow
the stitch as you've already done previously.Discard the right-hand
pair, and pick up the next pair to the left.
In other words, whichever four bobbins you're using, you always number them 1
-4 from left to right!
Do hope this helps!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Becky Shook [EMAIL
Well, the *best* pancakes (IMHO) are topped with lemon juice and castor sugar!!
But my adult children like them with honey.Maple syrup is available in
Australia, but I find it too sweet (which is probably why I don't like the
honey on pancakes).
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Jazmin [EMAIL
About 40 years ago, I had a go at making my own Hot Cross Buns - and the cross
was made of a mixture of plain flour and water, mixed to a stiff paste.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of
recipes for hot cross buns on the web, but the ones I
And here in Australia, Liz in Melbourne has had her magazine for days now, and
I'm still waiting!!! Boo Hoo!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:09, Helen
Bell wrote:
Has anyone in the US seen their copy of English Lace yet?
Not me
Well, Lynn, it was in the Blue Mountains that I first heard of the Christmas in
July celebrationsso maybe it isn't an urban myth.
Nice to finally meet you today at the Stitches and Craft Show!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as the Christmas in July
thing
to the fuse box, which
husband had previously checked and assured me everything was on. He's
still out, so he doesn't know yet - everything was on.except the master
switch to the lights!
Three hours sitting in the dark for no purpose!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
http
the positioning of the pin to retain the shape of a row.
I've never had much success with correcting problems after the fan is complete
- I think its much better to keep an eagle-eye on them as I work and get them
as near to right as possible at that time.
I hope this helps a bit!
Ruth Budge (Sydney
know and I can email you the file, and
you can play with it yourself!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- W N Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, the pattern came from Sorenson's 75 Quick and Easy
Bobbin Lace Patternsbut beware - as discussed several
months ago, the pricking
goes now, all sorts of
hotels and restaurants are offering Christmas in June or July occasions.
Maybe your stores are also trying to cash in on this craze, without
understanding the reasoning behind it, Helen!! (vbg)
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Helen Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
that, under the circumstances, our doubts are understandable.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentle Spiders,
I am *cross-posting*, to both lace and chat -- a sin to the n'th degree
-- because I think it's important that *everyone* reads this.
Arachne
that, under the circumstances, our doubts are understandable.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentle Spiders,
I am *cross-posting*, to both lace and chat -- a sin to the n'th degree
-- because I think it's important that *everyone* reads this.
Arachne
I think, Betty Ann, that this is a take on a very old monologue which was
often played on the radio when I was a young girla report by a couple of
Irish workers on a similar incident. The details have been changed slightly.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Clive and Betty Ann Rice [EMAIL
Oh?! really?! Tell me more
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Karen Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:There seems to be at
least two Arachne members
contributing: Ruth Budge and Jane Partridge.
Karen,
In Coventry - where the weather is wet
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Is there an Arachnean who lives within a reasonable distance of Hannah and
Amanda who can act as an collection-agent like Noelene did after the Canberra
fires? I'd like to think that we could help replace their lace equipment as
we did for Jenny last year.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia
support these two in a similar way??
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2004, at 0:58,
Ruth Budge wrote:
Is there an Arachnean who lives within a reasonable distance of Hannah
and
Amanda who can act as an collection-agent like
I can only think of a one-word reply to that, Joy - YUK!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't get hot-cross buns
in the stores here,
but the last supermarket ad I read offered
heart-shaped doughnuts with cherry frosting.
--
Joy Beeson
support these two in a similar way??
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2004, at 0:58,
Ruth Budge wrote:
Is there an Arachnean who lives within a reasonable distance of Hannah
and
Amanda who can act as an collection-agent like
the working
diagram and the photograph of the worked piece - can only assume that the
pattern which was actually printed was a first draft which was amended when the
author discovered (just like I have!) that some of her gimp movements are
absolutely and completely impossible!!!
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney
Well, Tamara, I'm here at any rate!!!But glad (in a way) to hear that you
haven't had any messages eitherI started to wonder if there was a glitch in
my system!!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is Arachne down, or are we simply torpid due to bad
that'll soon melt the ice!!
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I had a
wonderful day. On Sunday I found a lump, went to my GP
on
Monday morning, and spent four hours this morning in the breast clinic at
the local hospital. 9 fridge door
was a projector, which might mean the slides were stolen too.
Liz has had a terrible year health-wise, and as a result is having tremendous
trouble with her eyes, so I do hope she's well enough to come to the IOLI
Convention.
Ruth Budge (sydney, Australia)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just going
her lovely trip to France.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Helene Gannac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there,
just a general comment, as I am not a member of AIOLI and don't want to
influence their practices, but here in Australia, we always have all day
classes for 2 or 4 days at our AGM
in these whole-day
classes???
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Panza, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can
understand that some people (in addition to you) may have trouble with
all-day classes, and those people will be penalized this year by the change
in schedule.
However, just because something
.
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(our convention is held in the holiday period) or similar - which
helps limit the cost. The exception was when the Tasmanian Branch of the Guild
organised the AGM - there we held the convention in a hotel due to lack of
other suitable accommodation.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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found I was trying to get into the wrong car!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: A. N.
An elderly Florida lady did her shopping, and upon returning to her car,
found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped
her
shopping bags
In Australia, washing of any craft item before exhibiting in the local shows
(or Fair) is strictly forbidden - part of the skill being judged is deemed to
be whether you can keep your work clean!!
So I'd be asking whether it's OK to wash it before you plunge it into the
soapsuds
Ruth Budge
the third section -
I don't know what it's called, but it has all the benefits of no-glass, such as
being able to see the clarity of detail without itself causing reflection
problems or the muddying effects of non-reflective glass. It is, naturally,
more expensive than non-reflective.
Ruth Budge
the
pattern, and I think it's a nicer, neater job too!
I seem to remember that Debra promised a pen to anyone who had a pattern
published - do you think she might be persuaded in my case to substitute a copy
of the magazine instead?? Do you think its worth asking??
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia
, at this stage anyway, the fires are still in a national park and no
property is in danger - but if the winds keep up, that situation could change
tomorrow.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And don't forget the high humidity
and no wind. Now of course it is cooler
(only
what I do and why.
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Diana Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ruth
I think it was Mrs Winifred Millar who said something to the effect that a
piece of lace when laid over the palm of your hand should remain relatively
horizontal and not *droop* over the edge
And I see the pattern is leather too! Just imagine pricking through that -
on or off the pillow!!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a lacemakers ham on
ebay right now! I suppose the
unitiated might confuse our pillow with the sewing ham
).I regularly
use either Brok 100/2 or 120/2 for Bucks - both of which are finer than DMC 50.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Liz Beecher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was always taught that it was DMC 30
for Torchon and DMC 50 for Bucks
Does this help
Liz
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Egyptian 100/2 or Brok
120/2
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Diana Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that DMC threads
tend to get a bit fluffy after a while - my
favourite fine Floral Bucks Point thread is Kantklosgaren Egyptian Cotton
70/2, which when worked has a nice sheen.
I almost
like part
of the pattern.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Haddad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone once told me that a mistake is a
pattern, or something along that
line. Interesting thought, and I never forgot it.
Last week I was making yet another bookmark, and accidentally forgot
, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok ya'll,
If I can ever get to the point of making something big enough that has
repeats I will be exstatic. :)
Lynn
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from Clarksburg, WV where it has turned cold and nasty, the high for tomorrow
The problem seems to be to get an answer to emails about buying the progrramme.
A couple have tried to no avail.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Carolina G. Gallego [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here it is the web for the
German Lace Program Knipling
http://www.knipling.de/knipling/knipling
who wish
to learn lacemaking, but have no access to a teacher.
Rosemary has just republished the book herself, and you can find details at
www.lacedaisypress.com.au
It was an earlier version of this book which I used to teach myself lacemaking.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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edging - I'm coming down the fourth side now. It'll be a relief
to start working it, after all this pricking!
Happy Christmas to all.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, since it IS Christmas
and there isn't a lot going on
with the list, I hope Bjarne
Dear Sof,
Thank you for that explanation! I had also wondered, but was too lazy to ask!
Happy Christmas.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Sof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Ilse,
In pays bigouden and around (Bretagne, France), men catched sardine
and women worked in sardine canning factory
Dear Annette,
Well, yes there is - a lovely big desert in the middle of Australia!! But it's
a bit of a long drive back to south-east London for you!!
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Annette Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There must *somewhere* in the middle of the nowhere where
of the flight. After the standard warning, she added another comment:
If you're not sure how to switch your mobile phones off, please ask your
children!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to
make the in-flight safety
lecture
side of the work -
if you're working with the straight edge on the left-hand side, just reverse
them.
If you'd like a diagram to help, just email me privately, and I'll send you the
relevant page from my teaching notes.
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
, and that
they've invented something new!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Lynne Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My 16 year old daughter
received her 'first' pay packet last week (has done
a paper round for a year but it doesn't really count!) and promptly spent
most of it on a pair of red shoes. Winkle
to gaol - a very lucky young lady!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Jean Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been listening to our
local radio station, the
discussion is about the new law where from 1st December
we are not in the UK allowed to use our mobile phones
unless we have a hands free
for a
specific button for the photos once you get there.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following should have been
sent to chat; that's where the puter
clued-ins are... Much as I'd like to help Dearl, I'm in the same leaky
boat as she is
Begin forwarded
that the corner pinhole should be used twice??
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- it'll give a more
solid edge to the start of the bookmark.
Does this help at all?? Or only confuse you more? (BG)
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Annette Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone shed any light
on Geraldine Stott's method of staring a Torchon
bookmark
years since the orthotics came off my (then) youngsters!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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Tamara wrote:
In that particular start, I'd have cross-wound the pairs: take two
pairs, but don't wind them as pairs; for winding purposes, use one
bobbin from each pair. When you hang those
Oh Judy, you've sent me off into a fit of tears again! I know
Moretonhampstead, the church, probably even the hill - I can just *see* it so
clearly right now!
Ruth Budge
Judy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the sound of church bells
I have many fond memories of traveling in England but one of my
that's
progress
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Annette Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liz, I have a great
long list of things that I'd *love* to be able to
receive as email attachments: the sound of church bells
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Ruth, I can't help with most
Sue, when I click on that link, the full instructions and pictures are there as
I scrolled down the page. I note it says its archived by Lori - have you tried
getting the instructions through her site?
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reading an article about
as its an English accent; the smell of Ilfracombe harbour
(no, if you don't know it, its not an unpleasant smell, just different to
anything we get out here);I could go on and on!! I just hope someone,
somewhere, is working on the technology!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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pushed into the sea mail pile.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentle Spiders,
Can you anyone here help me - I wondered if you knew how long it normally takes
for a small airmail package to get from England to Australia.
thanks
Liz
Regards
Liz Beecher
I'm blogging now
, their customers, regard cynically as a revenue-raising exercise. Pretty
soon even a letter will be regarded as a parcel.
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara Duvall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not from UK, but I went to the PO today to discover the various
rate/time schedules of shipping to OZ
politician was banned from the House for 24 hours, which means he wasn't
allowed in to listen to the Chinese Premier the next day either!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Jane Viking Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, In Newsweek
(weekly news magazine) they say the open carriage
ride
the loss
before lunch yesterday! Men!!!
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then throw in the bit about the centre lane travelling in the opposite
direction, as in the one at St. Albans! (Can't remember whether the one at
Swindon has that feature, being my first go at them, I was too panic-stricken
to notice!)
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Annette Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Well, I agree that it is for French knitting, but I think the spring was
probably accidentally caught up in the hole down the middle of the cotton
reel and now the seller is assuming its part of the French knitting gadget!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Carole Lassak [EMAIL PROTECTED
Yes, Alice, - what in Britain and Australia, at least, is called French
knitting! Don't ask me why - just one of those things we accepted and knew
from a very early age!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- alice howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:21 PM 11/14/2003 -,
you wrote:
I
can't envisage it at all.
There's another one at St. Albans, took my DH there a couple of years ago, just
to show off to him!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Karen Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As well as traffic
lights on roundabouts in the UK, there is also the magic
roundabout
that too!
(VBG)
Ruth Budge
--- Linda Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Jean, and
Lacemakers,
There was a programme on TV the other night about the effect the moon has
on
the earth. It had never occured to me until it was mentioned in that
programme that in the southern hemisphere
And I'm not sure about the dogs either! We've had two dogs over the years,
and both of them in turn could tell the red car from any other coloured car in
a lineup.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara wrote:
Only dogs are truly colour blind, and we're not even sure about them :)
People have
, the
position of the sun throws him, and he can't work out where north (or whatever)
is. I've heard the same story from other Australians overseas too.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, Nov 10, 2003,
at 19:01 US/Eastern, Annette Gill wrote:
I did
will be able
to remember that!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia, where it has become an extremely hot, humid
daymade hotter by the panic when we realised that my husband, who is having
trouble with his memory, had left his entire handbag containing wallet,
driver's licence, credit cards etc
wide, open insertion which consists of plaits interspersed by very narrow
(2 pair) and small (2 pinholes long) trails.
If you wanted a case to justify the calendar, call it Beds!
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just received my UK Lace
magazine
-hand bobbin of a pair and
*twisting* it over the bobbin immediately to the left.
Ruth Budge (sydney, Australia)
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tamara - thanks for this I think that I now
understand CT as being the
movements with the bobbins - is there an actual 'name' for the 'C' or the
'T
And I've just received a letter from the U.K. which made it to Australia in the
usual five days.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you in Britain waiting to order Tess's
amazing Lace CD #2, we
have recently had two packages from America.
The first was posted
And I've just received a letter from the U.K. which made it to Australia in the
usual five days.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you in Britain waiting to order Tess's
amazing Lace CD #2, we
have recently had two packages from America.
The first was posted
I'm glad the wedding cake got through OK! My guess is that the whole caseful
of food would've been confiscated - it almost seems to be a matter of policy -
no declare, no goodies!
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Jean Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I would let you know
what happened
.
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, I can always help them too!
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Annette Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and especially with the little
no-nonsense maps of it.
It's hard now to imagine how revolutionary that map of Frank Pick's was when
it was introduced in - what, the 20s? 30s? I forget. Having seen
for a 94 year old!), but when I sifted through them, in reality there were 16
different entries.
My advice would be to only save the addresses that you *really* want, not those
from everyone who happens to send you a message once.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Jeri wrote:
Dear Lacemakers,
This seems
sort of
intuitative action.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Celtic Dream Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here is my
questions
!.) Do you believe I did paint this bobbin as a left hander would do? I do
realize as I paint my bobbins I turn them from the right to the left so
whatever I am
have theirs on the right.
So, at least as far as Joan's research is concerned, the similarity would
appear to be in the thread used, the style of bobbins and at least these days,
in the patterns, rather than the placement of the footside.
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the original
lacemakers were taught or influenced by continental lacemakers.
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collection of apples stuck together to make a doll, or something else
altogether? And do they have to be dressed as well?
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Craft shows (woodworking
traditionally, like Chantilly, the headside is worked on the opposite side to
Bucks. But watch the Downton patterns carefully, as they occasionally have a
little Torchon technique or two thrown in!!
Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Annette Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the
first
Dear Annette,
Pardon the personal reply, but didn't want to start WWIII on arachne! Can't
resist asking: are you reminded of the line from My Fair Lady? You know -
in America, they haven't spoken it for years
Regards, with giggles, Ruth Budge (Sydney Australia)
--- Katrina Worley [EMAIL
Dear lacemakers,
May I please assure you that my comment about English was not meant seriously
or to cause offence - just a bit of silly nonesense.
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Now that I'm home again with my piece of scrap paper in front of me, I'm
reminded that as well as Liz Lighetti, another Arachne member won a prize in
the Australian Lace Guild Trienniel Awards.
Jenny Rees won the Bobbin Lace category - congratulations, Jenny!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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Lace Guild during
this past week. Very beautiful work, Liz, and very well done!
I won't be returning to Sydney until the end of this week, and I'll report to
the list on the ALG week of workshops then.
Ruth Budge (usually in Sydney, Australia, but currently in Tanunda, South
Australia - wine-making
by telling their
own stories of tamed kangaroos. I didn't know there were so many tame
kangaroos out there...and before you all ask, no, we don't see kangaroos in the
streets of the cities in Australia
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:There was a wonderful
Carol, I suggest you take a leaf out of my daughter's book. She was about 18,
and I was nagging her about the state her room, and telling her to put some
things away.
Her reply: But Mum, if I put things away, I can't find them!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED
Oh yes, Jean, it works!! Had a good giggle at it too! I was so glad to see
it, because it reassures me that Arachne is still working - I haven't received
any messages all day!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
P.S. to Jean and the other Arachnes who've been waiting for me to send them
some info
On page 64 of The Romance of the Lace Pillow there is a photo of a section of
the pattern - the photo is labelled part of a cope.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just back from 10
days holiday, and catching up with back copies of the
list
my lace away was very great!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Some people know the price of everything and the value
of nothing!
People ask to buy an article at which you may have sat and worked 100 hours.
I consider I am worth as a fairly skilled lacemaker at least 10
, Ruth Budge wrote:
the temptation to tell her that the day she gives her
pictures away, I'll give my lace away was very great!!
That's simple enough; if her pictures are anywhere-near decent and
worth having, you could offer to barter -- skill for skill...:)
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shows a soldier, about to lay a wreath on the Cenotaph, with the wind whipping
up the back of his kilt to reveal all underneath.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But, the itch to *find out* whether or not she wore bikini under the
jeans was comparable to wanting
copyright on the
dratted thing, but the copyright ownership of the pricking which suddenly, it
would seem, half the lacemaking world has decided they want to own!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia - with apologies to those who are totally fed up
with this discussion: after all, this is the second time
whole hands, in the loops... even trying to put it on her was a
real struggle. I never bothered doing anything else with it.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Clive and Betty Ann Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Gentle Spiders,
I'm going through some of my late MIL's sewing things, and came upon
on the to do pile, he's
quite happy to encourage me to buy bobbins till the cows come home - after all,
even an accountant knows you needs lots of bobbins to work it
Ruth Budge (laughing all the way to the bobbin shop!)
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