Re: [lace-chat] domain name change

[Angel]

Well, I still enjoy what chat is still on it! I have been a member since
it’s inception! I would be sorry to see it disappear! Well, especially lace!
The whole idea of the chat is to keep off topic chatter off the lace list!
Well, if occasional chatter would be ok on lace, then and only then would I ok
closing lace chat down…just my 5 cents worth

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 5, 2022, at 7:48 AM, Elizabeth Reynolds  wrote:
>
> Greetings to all of you!
>
> I’m dropping by to let you know that I’ve accepted an offer for the
> arachne.com domain.   Although I’ve been inactive myself for quite a few
> years now, I’m still happy and honored to host the lace list, so I have
> obtained a new domain for it - arachnelace.com 
> I’ll be setting up the list software and copying over all the settings so
> nothing should change for you except the domain name.
>
> If you are whitelisting lace mail you’ll want to update your filter.
>
> I see that the lace-chat list is fairly inactive, shall I just remove it
now
> or would you still like to have the option?   I will send this same message
to
> lace-chat so nobody misses it, and keep an eye out for responses.
>
> Thank you all for being a part of lacemaking and making lovely things.
>
>
> -Liz
>
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] lace] Bolster pillow Bobbin management

[Angel]

Oh I can picture it ! Would work well IF I didn’t have curious cats but I
do!! My ribbon with beaded pins and divider pins is literally the reverse and
locks the bobbins down! A combination of the two would possibly work for
me…

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 15, 2022, at 11:58 AM, Janice Blair  wrote:
>
> Susan,I have not used a bolster pillow but many of my friends do. What
they
> made was a strip of ribbon with large pearl beads sewn on, or a crochet
strip,
> similar to what some use to hold bobbins when packing up the pillow, but at
> regular close intervals they attached a large round bead. The strips go
around
> the outer edges of the bolster and as you work through the bobbins, the
used
> ones are placed behind the beads out of the way. It is easy to lift them
back
> up when you need them again. Wish I had a photo to show you, hard to
explain
> in words. Looks pretty on the pillow.
> I have also seen wire that is coiled, similar to the old telephone cords we
> used to have on the kitchen wall phone, and fastened around the sides of
the
> bolster and you place the thread leads over a coil. Love the Christmas
> ornament.Janice
> Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com
>
> -
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Bolster pillow Bobbin management

[Angel]

I use ribbon (cloth) and long divider pins and long pins with good sized Pearl
tips. I once had a bolster pillow knocked of the refrigerator by my cat! The
lace wasn’t salvageable! Now it is so well locked down when I put it away
you can turn it upside down and shake it without anything moving! You learn to
secure EVERYTHING!

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 8, 2022, at 6:33 PM, LacySuzette  wrote:
>
> Many thanks to all who wrote—Clearly experience speaks volumes!! I
> must say I would never have thought of using a wire wrapped dowel or rubber
> bands. I truly appreciate your advice on the weekend especially as I was
> hoping to make progress before Monday. There are definitely “groups”
that
> can be worked while others “rest” although I found it a bit of a
challenge
> unless the working threads are overly long. After considering all your
> suggestions, combined with what I have on hand in our tiny condo, I decided
to
> try the “tuning fork” bobbin holders I bought at a Flanders
> class—ironically from Annick! I did use divider pins plus one flat holder
> but the elastic is fiddly to use without a flat pillow. All I can say is my
> hat is off to anyone who manages lots of bobbins on a bolster! This might
be
> something I need to see/learn in person? So far my Rube Goldberg set up is
> slightly faster than before. But—Anna—you have hit the nail on the
head.
> This might be easier on a different pillow. I do have a wide roller pillow
> that I could try before I embark on making/buying a block pillow. I posted
a
> photo on Flickr & yes I realize it looks like something MacGyver would
make!
> ;-)  I also posted a pic of another small Binche ornament from “Christmas
by
> Kumiko”. They are in Photostream. Thanks again & enjoy what’s left of
your
> weekend! Sincerely, Susan Hottle, South Florid
>
> -
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Happy Anniversary

[Angel]

Thanks for the memory Tamara! I am proud that I joined very shortly after 
Arachne was formed...May or June of 1995. I was seriously searching for other 
lacemakers then and very happily found Arachne!

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 13, 2021, at 2:17 AM, Tamara P Duvall  wrote:
> 
> This was posted, by Liz S Reynolds (who started the list), on April 12, 2000, 
> under the heading: Happy Birthday to us:
> 
> "For the record, today is the 5th birthday of the original lace list.
> Between lace and lace-chat and the digests, we have 1120 members.
> Who'd have thought there were that many lacemakers on the net? I certainly
> wouldn't have guessed it back in 1995!
> 
> Congratulations to all of us for bringing the old Renaissance art so
> successfully into the Information age.
> 
> -Liz"
> 
> -- 
> Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
> Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
> 
> -
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Happy Anniversary

[Angel]

Oh yes! I very happy anniversary to us all!!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 12, 2021, at 9:26 PM, Jim & Shirley  wrote:
> 
> Does that make Arachne 37 years old?  I joined in 1996 after our aluminium 
> bobbins were given as a raffle prize at OIDFA in Finland in 1996.
> 
> Cheers,
> Shirley T.  -  yes, we do still have the aluminium bobbins in stock.
> 
>> On 13/04/2021 11:37 am, Lin Hudren wrote:
>> Another year has been added to the inception of Arachne.  Happy Anniversary
>> one and all.
>> 
>> Hugs, Lin and the Mally
>> 
>> 
> 
> -
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Hanging Bobbins

[Angel]

Do you mean matching pairs?? I have never heard the term except in the actual 
process of making lace you have to “hang” a pair. I do have a matching set or 
two which are always hung together. One was a gift from a very talented bobbin 
maker/painter in England. Deeply treasured.
Just would like clarification.

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 1, 2021, at 4:14 PM, Brian Lemin  wrote:
> 
> I probably see one or occasionally a so called set, say 2 or three times a 
> year.
> They are  probably the most expensive.  However they are a significant social 
> history bobbin and understandably well sought after.
> Would need to put these in a rare category. There are quite number in 
> existence but owners tend to want to keep them

> Sorry
> 
> Brian
> Cooranbong. Australia
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> Subject: [lace] Hanging Bobbins
>> I know they don't come up on the market very often, so I thought I'd put out
>> feelers on Arachne and register my interest! Please let me know if you hear
>> of any for sale, it doesn't need to be any particular bobbin or an
>> especially rare one.

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Update from Brian

[Angel]

Do know, Brian we all care for you too and hope you stay healthy! I would never 
describe you as “slack” and I am delighted you have found something delightful 
to do outside!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 5, 2021, at 2:08 AM, Brian Lemin  wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I think its confession time.
> 
> I have been so slack with research and writing during Covid even though 
> (comparably Australia has done well). 
> Please look after yourselves, you have been good friends of mine for many 
> years, Your help, support and generosity in donating me images has made my 
> contribution possible.
> 
> -- 
> Brian
> Cooranbong. Australia
> 
> -
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Hand carved bobbins

[Angel]

Well, very clever of you Malvary! I fortunately found a Swedish Store called 
Engelbritson’s that  stocked lace books and lace making supplies (including 
bobbins) They had a lot of birch starter bobbins for English lace. A tad 
bulkier than the good ones but cheap! Rarely use them but have them for large 
projects! I don’t know what I would have done without them! They were burned 
out during the riots this summer. Broke my heart since the US is not full of 
lace suppliers like England!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 25, 2020, at 8:22 AM, Malvary Cole  wrote:
> 
> I still have (and use occasionally) some bobbins that I carved from dowel 
> when I first started.  I had bought 6 pairs of bobbins while I was in England 
> on holiday and then when I came home to Canada and started on lesson 2 or 3 
> in the book I was using the instruction was 'wind 10 pairs of bobbins'.  I 
> had no idea if there were bobbin makers in here and I didn't know of the 
> bobbin makers in England, so I set to and carved my own.
> 
> Malvary in Ottawa where it was 24c on Friday and it is -2 today and snow is 
> forecast for tonight.
> 
> -
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] (progress report) and Malmsbury bobbins (Long)

[Angel]

Actually, that was a wonderful post, one that I enjoyed reading from beginning 
to end! Ha ha, besides loving the results of your research, I also struggle to 
relearn violin and learn flute! Good luck with everything! Glad to here your 
health is good! 

Cearbhael (aka Angel)

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 13, 2020, at 12:10 AM, Brian Lemin  wrote:
> 
> Covid has a lot to answer for and this letter is one of them. I am often 
> asked about where my bobbin interest came from etc. The simple answer is I 
> started to make bobbins as result of seeing a church member's pillow at tea 
> one week end. Now here the rest of it. I hope the arachne editor will be 
> Covid-like lenient on me for this mostly off topic post.
> 
> When i started all this bobbin stuff, some 25 years ago after i retired, I 
> had no idea this is where it would take me.  I was just asking questions 
> about antique bobbins that few people could answer, so i started to research 
> the answers myself.
> 
> Arachne has always been my greatest source of interest and help, and we (as a 
> group ) did 3 or 4 little bits of research ourselves which I wrote up and put 
> on my Angel-fire web page (now more or less defunct). I then started to find 
> books on bobbins or lace, that were very helpful.
> 
> The of course then there was the Springetts revolution and that seemed to 
> change everything. More people began collecting, their work revealed the 
> importance of local history contained in or around bobbins.  More importantly 
> it opened my eyes to what appeared to me  was a whole field of investigation 
> of bobbins.
> 
> I had a few mentors and one special bobbin friend, without whose help and 
> access to her wonderful collection of bobbins, very little of what is 
> published under my name could have been achieved.
> 
> Even today she remains reluctant for her name to be mentioned, however I have 
> tried very hard to acknowledge her help as a knowledgeable collector, 
> restorer and curator.  She is also a valued writer of local history on  
> bobbins and her work has appeared in many magazines local to her area of 
> living. However i am certain that her collection is the most complete and 
> best quality bobbin collection in private hands that is current in the UK. I 
> think it is fair to say that for different reasons, we are both slowing down, 
> but what a huge amount we have achieved.  (and we are both fabulously rich as 
> the result of it! smile.)
> 
> East midland bobbins took a long time for me (us) to get our heads around, 
> but that has culminated in the web publication of a bobbin dictionary 
> (shorthand title) ( www.brianlemin.com) together with a collectors guide for 
> East Midland bobbins which was an excellent showcase for her bobbins.
> 
> It would be wrong for me to say that we then went our separate ways, far from 
> it, she is still trying to help me get my head around S Bucks bobbins, but it 
> is true that my East Devon and Downton project was a bit left field from her 
> collection.
> 
> The East Devon part of that project has resulted in a Collectors Guide that 
> is in the hands of a volunteer arachne person editor. I feel desperate for 
> her! She told me of a typo in one of my webdocs publications and said that 
> she was an editor in her other life, "then" she received from me a 100 page 
> manuscript to edit! (Beware of what you write to me about!)
> 
> The Downton part of that project is of necessity a long range project. Those 
> genres are hard to come by and a kind volunteer and museum curator are 
> working hard on my behalf to extend my Downton Bobbin database and "teach me" 
> about them.  That is now a slow project because of Covid, but I hope there 
> will eventually be a "Collectors Guide to Downton lace-making bobbins"  They 
> are fascinating, just you wait and see. [if you know why a number of then are 
> sequentially numbered please tell me!)
> 
> I do not intend to "do" 20th century bobbins (see Springett)
> 
> But there remains the Malmsbury bobbins, plain bobbins to almost boredom. 
> Then the "job" I started all that time ago will be complete.  Sure there are 
> still pockets of research and sharing to do but I aim to slow down.  Do a bit 
> more art patch-working, become a better guitar player (I am a wanna-be jazz 
> guitarist( which will never happen, I don't do the practice!)  I am making a 
> clavichord and that will make me relearn to art of reading music. ( Love 
> classical music and Jazz and very little in between!)So I have plenty to do. 
> My heath is pretty good but i have few struggles resulting from cancer, but I 
> enjoy life with those minor handicaps.
> 
> Help please?
> 
> I am always as

Re: [lace-chat] Change of Address

[Angel]

Welcome back, message came through just fine!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 12, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Joy Beeson  wrote:
> 
> This is actually a test message -- since there is zero traffic on this list, 
> there is no use waiting for a natural message to show that I've subscribed.
> 
> We've been unhappy with Comcast for some years; the final straw was a new 
> "security" "upgrade" that locked us out of our own website and couldn't be 
> turned off, disabled, or uninstalled.
> 
> After many hours on the phone, Comcast did defang the trojan, but by then we 
> had an appointment with Century Link for next Monday.  We are upgrading to 
> dial-up!
> 
> We plan to get e-mail from Proton; in the meanwhile, I'm using my emergency 
> back-up address, joyalbee...@gmail.com.  (joybeeson was taken, so I stuck 
> "al" in.)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joy Beeson
> http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
> west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
> 
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] Miss Channer’s Lace Mat

[Angel]

Hello fellow lacers, 

I have a couple of questions, probably only to those who have tackled the 
challenge of Miss Channer’s Mat. As I have rediscovered my pricking, which I 
honestly thought was permanently lost or destroyed since it went missing for 
years, (and found on our 25th anniversary!) I need some advice.

1. How many pairs of bobbins are required?

2. What thread did you folks use?? David, I know you went with black, but was 
it silk?

3. How many gimp bobbins are needed?

4. Any other advice you folks can give me would be most appreciated.

I would again like to thank Jacqui Southard for making it possible for me to 
acquire this stunning pricking !!! I am totally hooked on Bucks point lace! 
Without the wonderful English authors of Bucks point instruction manuals and 
prickings, I would never have discovered the joy and beauty of this lace.

Self taught in rural America!

Cearbhael 


Sent from my iPhone

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Happy 25th Anniversary

[Angel]

OMG!!! I just found 2 things that I “physically” acquired through this list! 
They have been “lost” since 2003! I found them on our 25th anniversary!

1. The pricking of Miss Channer’s Mat that I won in a raffle Jacqui held 
through Arachne! I never ever win raffles and won that one!!! I Sooo want to 
tackle it but still need more bobbins!

2. The Lace Dealer’s Pattern Book from the Luton Museum! Everyone in Arachne 
worked so hard to preserve the samples from Thomas Lester’s Lace Pattern Book, 
and to get the facsimile book produced so we could turn to it without having to 
go to the Luton Museum! Seemed like it took forever then suddenly it was 
offered to us. They mention Arachne in the book and mention how we brought 
worldwide interest to the conservation work.

 As a group we should recognise how deeply we have impacted the world of lace. 
It has been a very good and productive 25 years.

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 12, 2020, at 4:13 PM, Ruth Lyon  wrote:
> 
> Hello, lace friends!
> 
> I joined Arachne in 2008, which was also the year I attended my first IOLI
> convention, and my lace guild, the Doris Southard Lace Guild, became a
> chapter of IOLI.
> 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Happy 25th Anniversary

[Angel]

I joined very early the first year! Can’t believe so much time has past! Will 
be a good day to work on my bolster.

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> oesn't time go fast when you're making lace?! Happy Anniversary (from one 
> who's been an Arachne from about 3 months after it started).
> 
> Happy Easter (or whatever else you may be celebrating this weekend) to 
> everyone, too.
> 
> Jane Partridge
> 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Jeri Ames is ok

[Angel]

Thank goodness! She has always been a fixture on this list! I am glad she is 
recovering. 
Wishing everyone good health in this uncertain time! Keep making lace!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 3, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Devon Thein  wrote:
> 
> I am sure that Arachnids will be relieved to hear that I have just gotten
> off the phone with Jeri Ames. She has had some health issues since last
> August and was in the hospital early in March for some non-urgent
> follow-up. She has been feeling tired, so she has not been checking email
> since then. However, she assures me that she is recovering.
> She wishes to encourage everyone to participate and contribute to Arachne,
> as she has done for many years. It is such a valuable resource.
> I know we are all grateful for her years of expert advice and research.. .
> Thank you, Jeri!
> Sincerely,
> Devon
> 
> -
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Official catalogue 1851 Great Exhibition catalogue for free download

[Angel]

Thank you Brian!

Cearbhael 



Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 10, 2019, at 12:30 AM,   
> wrote:
> 
> https://archive.org/details/officialcatalog06unkngoog/page/n11
> 
> 
> 
> and other sites
> 
> 
> 
> Brian
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] How much did lace makers pay for high end bobbins.Reply

[Angel]

Wow, Walrus Ivory?? Is it the same as Elephant Ivory? Same quality?
Suddenly I am thinking about Narwhal Ivory! I am fascinated by Narwhals since
they are the only “natural” unicorns on the planet! Makes them ultra
special!
By the way, I am thrilled that Diana has real ivory bobbins! Personally, I
wouldn’t know a real Ivory bobbin if it leaped up off a lace pillow and
smacked me in the face. Obviously they were an upper market item destined for
lace pillows that were owned by middle to upper class lacemakers. Lower market
lacemakers, who were making lace for income, would, most likely, have had bone
and wooden bobbins. I am sure their bone bobbins were treasured even back
then.

Cearbhael

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 9, 2019, at 3:41 PM, jviking @sover.net  wrote:
>
> How about Walrus ivory?
>
> Jane in Vermont, USA
>
>
>
>

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] How much did lace makers pay for high end bobbins. Reply

[Angel]

Dear Malvery
Ha, Ha,
Well, being the actual person behind the quote, I was responding to Brian’s 
question in a previous post, concerning how low paid workers got their hands on 
high end bobbins.
I agree with you that the usual material was bone. Ivory however was available 
via Kenya, South Africa, and other African areas the British Empire went (oh 
dear, we can’t forget India!) Anyway, we can’t discount the probability that 
ivory bobbins did and may still exist.
The main gist of the conversation was that there very likely was a class of 
bobbin buyers who were landed gentry, had more coin to spend on upper end 
bobbins and basically made lace as a leisure not as income.

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 9, 2019, at 8:04 AM, Malvary Cole  wrote:
> 
> Brian wrote:
> 
> 3. This what the Arachne member said to me : Yes, I would love to know
> how low paid workers got their mitts on ivory mother and babes.
> 
> My thought/question is 'How many actual ivory bobbins whether they be mother 
> and babes or just plain are there?'
> 
> Ivory wasn't something readily available in the UK, so how was it obtained to 
> be used.  Bone - yes, lots of them...
> 
> Just my two pence worth.
> 
> Malvary in Ottawa

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] How much did "good" lace bobbins cost historical lace makers?

[Angel]

Or, there is always the motto

“The more I learn, the less I realise I know”

Snickering,
Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 7, 2019, at 1:31 AM, 
> 
> 
> I am thinking of adopting the motto "There is sso much we don't know!"
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Re: Sad news - Jacqui Southworth

[Angel]

I join you in being very very sorry that Jacqui has passed. Cancer is never 
easy to deal with (it took my mother from me) I didn’t know her personally but 
have been avidly reading and sometimes answering her posts since Arachne was 
new! We will all miss her terribly! Please pass on to her family the 
condolences of all the lacemakers on the list who appreciated her expertise.

Very sad
Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 27, 2019, at 11:46 PM, Jane Partridge  wrote:
> 
>  I knew Jacqui personally, and when I last saw her, at our Lace on the Train 
> event at the Railway last August, she was about to undergo another course of 
> chemotherapy but expected to be well enough to join us again for the 
> lacemaking weekend in April.  Sadly it didn't turn out that way. 
> 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Spam emails

[Angel]

I apologise for not trimming the last post!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Spam emails

[Angel]

David and fellow Arachnids!

Yeah! 25 Years is a very long time! I joined a couple of months after it 
started, but it was the same year! Never ever wanted to leave,  though I have 
had periods where I have lurked in the background due to a myriad of reasons! 
However, I do avidly read posts and even save useful ones! We have had many 
members pass on, which is sad, but we still have lacemakers, bobbin makers, 
bobbin historians, pillow makers, lace historians...etc! This is still the BEST 
place to learn about all things lace! Through thick and thin, we have been a 
solid lace community!

Grateful to be a member!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 27, 2019, at 10:16 AM, David C Collyer  wrote:
> 
> Me too Shirl!!
> 
> I believe next year, 2020, will be the 25th anniversary of Arachne on the
> internet!!B  Wow, that's a long time for group on the web. Wonder how many
> 'first timers' are still with us.B  I joined in 1996.
> 
> David Downunder in Ballarat, AUS
> 
> -
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Devon Thein

[Angel]

Anne, 

Just keep deleting them and remember not to ever click links that are not 
verified. You will never learn the how or why you’re getting them. Simply 
protect yourself by being vigilant and don’t let it upset you too much. Get on 
with your life and ignore them! The offenders don’t deserve your attention!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 25, 2019, at 11:44 AM, Ann Humphreys  
> wrote:
> 
> I am still getting emails supposedly from Devon sending good wishes and 
> suggesting web sites to look at.

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Thomas Lester by Anne Buck

[Angel]

Sue,
Maybe you need to treat her to a gift of beginning Beds lessons. Failing that, 
get her a book that she can self learn from... graded patterns from super easy 
that teach something new with each progressive pattern. That is how I self 
taught myself Buckspoint and I refused to do Torchon as well. I think I would 
have quit if I had been forced to start with Torchon. I am sure it has it’s 
fans and I don’t mean to belittle anyone! I simply have to do what tweaks my 
pleasure centres! Bucks point was it for me! Love at first sight!
Don’t give up on your friend and feel free to share this with her! I am sure 
you know enough about lace to get her started, or to answer any questions she 
may have!

Cearbhael (Angel)


Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 8:18 AM, Susan  wrote:
>  In the meantime, I am working on lace that offers greater aesthetic appeal 
> (for me) or piques my curiosity. It’s much easier to learn something you 
> embrace wholeheartedly. Torchon clearly affects people differently & it 
> nearly derailed my own journey. At this point, my personal goal is to reverse 
> the negative effects of “Torchon teaching” for a friend who was interested in 
> learning Beds. After months of being bored!
>  to tears because the teacher insisted she start with Torchon, she abandoned 
> lace altogether. She still has her pillow & supplies but I haven’t been able 
> to persuade her to take it out of the top of the closet. YET! Just sayin’...  
> Sincerely, Susan Hottle FL USA 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Bucks ornament & questions about false picots & Wiltshire area bobbins

[Angel]

Thanks Sue, 

I agree on the demos...makes all the sense in the world to me

Cearbhael (Angel)


Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 30, 2019, at 7:36 PM, Susan  wrote:
> 
> I do think with so many lacemakers involved in demos, it might enhance the 
> experience to use the bobbins that correspond with the lace. Apparently the 
> diversity in lace is matched only by the diversity of the bobbins! The 
> bobbins that John Aebi made for me are exquisite but I have no idea whether 
> he will make more for “inventory” rather than producing by special order. 
> Maybe someone will check with John or other bobbin makers at IOLI in Spokane 
> to see if “specialized” bobbins could be produced in greater volume? Just 
> sayin’, nothing changes unless we ask. Sincerely, Susan Hottle FL, USA 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Mar 26, 2019, at 6:39 PM, Angel  wrote:
>> 
>> Sue,
>> I feel the same about Bucks bobbins. I would gladly replace my bobbins with 
>> nothing but Bucks bobbins. 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Bucks ornament & questions about false picots & Wiltshire area bobbins

[Angel]

Sue,
 I feel the same about Bucks bobbins. I would gladly replace my bobbins with 
nothing but Bucks bobbins. It is not that people don’t find them a good weight 
or uncomfortable in the hands. Problem is very few people bother to turn the 
bobbins you and I like! There is little demand, caused by “ignorance”, and 
bobbin makers prefer to make what is in demand. Of course, not making the more 
“obscure” or should I say “specialised” Bobbins, only helps keeps the majority 
of lace makers ignorant of what is available. (Or should be available) I spend 
a lot of energy searching for Bucks Bobbins but can only find 1 Bobbin maker 
who makes them, and he lately “isn’t” making them available for sale. Antiques 
are expensive if they are in decent shape, and lately they are also hard to 
find! It is no wonder that I settle for “midlands” bobbins to fill the majority 
of my collection. Basically, Midlands and Continental bobbins are all that’s 
available!
Lace bobbin makers, pay attention here! I can’t be the only lace maker going 
crazy wanting Bucks bobbins, and Sue can’t be the only lacemaker delighting in 
the Downton and Trolley bobbins! We need more 
of these English bobbins coming off your laths! Making them available would 
probably increase interest and thus increase demand!
Just my opinion!
Cearbhael (Angel)

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 25, 2019, at 4:57 PM, Susan  wrote:

> For a new experiment, I want to test drive my Downtons using palms up & a 
> bolster as I found them hard to grasp on my flat cookie pillow. But The 
> Malmesbury & Devon were divine! My question is, why not use those bobbins 
> instead of spangled Midlands or Continentals? They are a wonderful size & 
> weight & except for being “plain”—think Amish—they were great. Am I missing 
> something here? Many thanks for any suggestions & advice. Sincerely, Susan 
> Hottle in sunny & breezy South Florida, USA 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] (Lace) sad news

[Angel]

Sorry to hear about your loss! I do hope you have support through this trying 
time

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 3, 2019, at 6:13 PM, Daphne Martin  wrote:
> 
> It is with a very sad heart,I am having to tell you,my husband passed away a 
> few days before Christmas. It’s the only way I can think of doing this to get 
> to people who know us.
> 
> Love
> Daphne xx
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Black lace

[Angel]

David,
I also know you made your “Miss Channer’s Mat” in black with a light blue 
background. Soothing on the eye and good contrast!

Cearbhael

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 6, 2018, at 9:57 AM, David C Collyer  wrote:
> 
> G'day 
> 
> No doubt, but I'm lucky enough to have a fabulous LED light and terrific
> magnifiers :)
> David in Ballarat

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] More on Maeve

[Angel]

Dear David, 

Didn’t she also spin? I recall her competing for the longest, finest single 
thread. At any rate, she hasn’t posted for a very long time!! I wish I could 
help you!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 2, 2018, at 9:43 AM, David C Collyer  wrote:
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> I see there have been no replies yet about the whereabouts of Maeve.
> 
> 
> 
> Apart from making travel pillows she also made the most beautiful hand painted
> porcelain bobbins. I have a pair of Australian Galahs by her but alas the
> bobbin necks have broken.
> 
> 
> 
> I’m fairly sure Maeve also wove her own tartans as well as playing
> bagpipes.
> 
> Now if only I could remember her maiden name!!
> 
> Last heard of in Florida about 15 – 20 years ago.
> 
> David Downunder in Ballarat, AUS
> 
> -
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Happy Anniversary

[Angel]

Well, I have been with Arachne since the 1st year! Not sure which month because 
it was a painful year (fell off a ladder 25 feet to a cement floor in Dec 1995) 
I discovered bobbin lacemaking as an activity early in 1996 and was searching 
for a resource. Ran into Arachne, probably pretty close after its inception! So 
many people back then that are still loyal Arachne members! Yes, a glorious 
Anniversary! I am still loyal as all get out though not as active as then! 
Still reading posts and occasionally piping up!
Thanks for the anniversary heads up David!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 12, 2018, at 1:00 AM, David C Collyer  wrote:
> 
> 4/12 is the Arachne anniversary.  hope everyone is having a good lace day.
> 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Bolster pillow again

[Angel]

I find this interesting, I only work on bolsters and never had lessons. (self 
taught) I am fairly certain my method of handling bobbins would fit no certain 
“method” schooled lacemakers would recognise! I do what works for me! I fell in 
love with Buckspoint and just leapt in. Wish I could afford a good roller 
pillow but, sigh, it will never be!

Cearbhael 

Sent from my iPhone

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] PieceWork, July-August 2017 - An International Selection

[Angel]

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 19, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Katrina Worley  wrote:
> 
> If the print copies of the issue are not available, Interweave does have
> digital versions of their publications. Here’s the direct link to the
> specific issue Jeri is referring to…
> 
> https://www.interweave.com/store/piecework-july-august-2017-digital-edition
> 
> 
> I happen to know print copies are not only available but also on sale! I have 
> no idea how to add a link but if you follow the above link and click on home, 
> then click search and put in Piecework 1917, you will get all print and 
> digital copies offered!

Cearbhael

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] 150-year old wedding dress

[Angel]

What a wonderful story and such a beautiful dress. (And a very beautiful couple)

Cearbhael

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 12, 2017, at 5:29 AM, Jane  wrote:
> 
> For those that might have missed it - its not exactly headline news - here is 
> a story for you to enjoy . or breathe a sigh of relief over.
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-38944387
> 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Arachne Flickr page

[Angel]

Whoops! I just replied to a post and forgot to do just that and I know better! 
I apologise profusely!

Cearbhael

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 2, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Sue Babbs  wrote:
> 
> Also it is important to trim the emails as some people receive the messages in
> digest form and untrimmed messages take up a lot of that space.
> 
> Sue
> 
> suebabbs...@gmail.com
> 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Arachne Flickr page

[Angel]

I always considered Arachne as the "Definitive" lace group. I have been with 
this group since the beginning. I am not as active as I used to be but to me, 
All the really great lace makers are here, from all around the world! Who 
better to seek advise from when having a problem! I have gained so much 
information since I joined it is amazing!

Cearbhael

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 1, 2017, at 4:38 PM, AGlez  wrote:
> 
> I think the reason of being quite is that we have had many feasts in this
> time, with lots of family reunions, etc. We will soon start to write again!
> Be patient!
> 
> As for Facebook lace groups... I know there are many lacemakers who join
> them, but I think Arachne is the really interesting one, where interesting
> things about lace are talked about. I have not seen any Facebook group
> which really leads a conversation about a subject, as Arachne does. It is
> more a showcase of the work one does, and a long list of admirations and
> congratulations following.
> 
> I think if you are really interested in lace, THIS is the group!
> 
> Best wishes and Happy new year!!
> 
> Antje, from Spain (freezing cold now!!)
> 
> www.vueltaycruz.es
> 
> 2017-01-01 23:20 GMT+01:00 Lorelei Halley :
> 
>> I think that one reason for the quietness on Arachne is that many of the
>> new lacers are using certain facebook groups. Facebook has a huge
>> membership, so those groups quickly accumulate lots of members. And of
>> course, there are groups for every language. Here are some of the ones I
>> know about.
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/bobbinlacemakers/
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/30338026304/
>> I think that these groups attract new lacemakers, so they don't feel the
>> need for a group like Arachne. However, I also think Arachne is still very
>> useful, because of all the knowledgable people.
>> Lorelei Halley
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
>> Catherine Barley
>> Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2017 3:27 AM
>> To: Clay Blackwell ; jeria...@aol.com
>> Cc: suebabbs...@gmail.com; lace@arachne.com
>> Subject: Re: [lace] Arachne Flickr page
>> 
>> For some strange reason it doesn't appear to be as active as it used to,
>> but clearly many of us are still lurking, as there is always an immediate
>> response to any queries posted by needy lace makers.
>> 
>> -
>> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
>> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
>> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Antje
> 
> -
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Re: [lace-chat] Selling my lace bobbins :(

[Angel]

I could use that direct link. Sorry Sue, I can't seem to get to Ann's email 
address except through you!

Cearbhael

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 11, 2016, at 8:35 AM, Sue Babbs  wrote:
> 
> Forwarding for you, Ann.  So sorry to hear why you had to stop making lace
> 
> Sue
> 
> suebabbs...@gmail.com 
> 
> -Original Message- From: Ann McClean Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 
> 8:22 AM To: lace-c...@arachne.com Subject: [lace-chat] Selling my lace 
> bobbins :( 
> After not making bobbin lace for over 15 years [due to osteo-arthritis] and 4 
> house moves later, I've started sorting through my 500+ lace bobbins that I 
> collected over the years from various places - both home and overseas, with a 
> view to giving other lacemakers the chance to enjoy them.
> 
> I've begun listing them on eBid.co.uk, but it's going to be a long job !
> 
> Please email me for a direct link as I don't think I can post it here.
> 
> Could someone also forward my post to Lace as I'm not on that list.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Ann McClean
> 
> www.annmcclean.co.uk
> 
> -
> To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
> unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
> arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Remembering Lace Fairy - Lori Howe

[Angel]

Does any one know what is going to happen to her wonderful website?

Cearbhael

Sent from my iPhone

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] Re happy birthday

[Angel]

Just how old are we now? I seem to recall it was still the 80's when I 
joined... Or the VERY early 90's.

Cearbhael
Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 12, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Shirley MEIER  wrote:
> 
> Happy birthday Arachne.
> 
> 
> 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

Re: [lace] RE: Arachne commemoratives

[Angel Skubic]

Question, where do these 20 year commemoratives reside? Where can I see and 
order if I wish? I some how missed any post that had that info

Cearbhael

Sent from my iPhone

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace-chat] RE: [lace] photos

[Angel Skubic]

The broccoli lion is actually a broccoli poodle. The tomato dog dish with
dog food in it (not sure what they used to fake the dog food) is a dead give
away and I have a standard poodle and recognised it as such immediately.
Great food carvings!! Thanks for sharing...I am going to send this to
lace-chat where it won't get in trouble!!

-Original Message-
From: Lorelei Halley
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 4:14 PM
To: l...@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] photos

I know this isn't lace, but you might get a laugh.  Sydney opera house in
watermelon, and a broccoli lion.
http://www.pinterest.com/trinicherry72/food-art/

Lorelei

To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Care of fabrics - silk

[Angel Skubic]

Actually oil removes oil. And grease is oil based. I removed melted crayon
from silk by using peanut butter (also oily) which is an old remedy my gran
used. Orange oil is excellent for any greasy job which is why you see so
much of that on the market now. (Lemon oil as well) so Yes, Lavender oil and
eucalyptus oil work as well. I would say use what ever oily product you have
on hand, and/or use what you think might leave a more pleasant scent (good
reason to go for the floral or citrus scented oils.) actually now that I
know the OIL was the part of the peanut butter that took out the crayon, I
don't use peanut butter due to its thickness and stickiness but it works
quickly!!! No couple of days...it was out in minutes. I do use a lot of
vegetable oil because it is on hand, and works just as well.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Kathleen Harris
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:50 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Care of fabrics - silk

I told my daughter about this discussion, and she immediately confirmed that
lavender oil or eucalyptus oil will remove greasy stains from silk! 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] The Arizona site (Longish)

[Angel Skubic]

Brian, can I get a link from you for this site? I know you published
something on turning lace bobbins and I am seriously thinking about learning
all about turning and trying to turn bobbins. Got the woodworking bug from
my grandfather and father, but my mother gave away ALL his wonderful saws
etc...I am thinking of getting a mini or midi lathe.
Thanks

Cearbhael



-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Brian Lemin
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 5:53 PM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] The Arizona site (Longish)

Thankyou Tess for this news.

Most of you probably know that I use this site for pretty well all of my web

publishing.  I have a scad of things up there for those interested in lace 
bobbins and their history etc: 03/24/14

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] 1000th post on LaceNews

[Angel Skubic]

Thank you Devon for letting me know. I will now check it regularly!!!

Cearbhael

If you haven't discovered LaceNews yet, you have a treat in  store.
http://lacenews.net/

Devon
 
 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] 1000th post on LaceNews

[Angel Skubic]

What is LaceNews?

Cearbhael
-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
ann...@reijs.nl
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 1:00 PM
To: Laurie Waters; lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] 1000th post on LaceNews

And we have to thank you for the work you do, for us to enjoy and use!

Anneke Reijs

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Crowood books

[Angel Skubic]

It says it is currently unavailable and that means that it is never really
going to be available...(usually that is the case)

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Anna Binnie
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 5:04 PM
To: David C COLLYER; Jean Nathan; Lace
Subject: Re: [lace] Crowood books

I've just checked
  the book is available at the Book Depository

  http://www.bookdepository.com/Cause-English-Lace-Anne-Buck/9780903585262

free postage to Australia

Hope this helps

Anna from a wet Sydney

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Miss Channer's mat

[Angel Skubic]

Good luck!!! I got lucky and won a lottery that had that as a prize (think
it was on this list many years ago) I wouldn't part with my pattern for all
the tea in China and that goes for most people who have the pattern. I know
it has been out of print since forever. But then, I did get lucky and maybe
you will too. If your lucky someone who has it will offer to sell it to you
or maybe even give it away.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Marianne Gallant
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 11:42 PM
To: 'Lace'
Subject: [lace] Miss Channer's mat

Hi,

 

I really enjoy doing Buckspoint lace, and my goal is to eventually tackle
Miss Channer's mat. However, I can't seem to find a source for the pattern.
Can
anyone tell me where I could obtain it?

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] Lace8 Demo

[Angel Skubic]

Just so everyone knows, I found the help DOES work with the Lace8 Demo.
Thank you Ruth for nudging me to check it!! She was concerned that I let you
all know that some instruction is available for it.

 

Thanks for your attention fellow spiders

 

Cearbhael

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Lace8 (2)

[Angel Skubic]

What I found disconcerting with the demo was the lack of how to support.
Unless you already have been using their software, there is no way to really
figure out how to do things. For instance, how to change the curve of a fan?
How to undo,etc. I have the demo but besides putting dots, I am really
sort of lost and unable to do anything with it...which has not increased my
desire to invest in the whole package very much.

Cearbhael who was curious but...

-Original Message-
From: Jean Nathan
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 2:51 AM
To: Lace
Subject: [lace] Lace8 (2)

I'd add to Ruth's recommendation - go to the Ilsoft website and download the
demo version of Lace8 - I'm sure it's complete except for printing and
saving,

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] lace bobbins?

[Angel Skubic]

This was my first thought too and they would each have a different tone so
they would make a very musical windchime...

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: AGlez
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 6:24 AM
To: Arachne
Subject: Re: [lace] lace bobbins?


Then I thought the sticks can be part of a mobile that emits relaxing
sounds, kind of this:
http://www.maykaesoterismo.com/images/moviles/PERFUMES%20005.JPG

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Demonstrating

[Angel Skubic]

I am self taught and I started with Bucks-point since I learned a long time
ago that if I am not thrilled with the beauty of what I am making I will
never complete it. Thusly I do better by jumping into the deep end of the
pool (which by the way is how I learned how to swim as well) I have to know
that when I am done people are going to go o.Awww. and
tell me they would never have the patience for that. I want what I do to be
beautiful and something people as well as me will want to mount and put up
for everyone to see. I cross-stitch, knit, crochet, work chainmail, and do
lace that way...Remarkably the method works great for me because I am never
disappointed even if my first attempts have errors. I just keep trying and
perfecting until it is how I wish it to look. I am pleased with my efforts,
I am eager to start more...I generally end up gifting almost all of my
stuff. I have learned I have to be occasionally firm and insist on something
being just mine, or I never have anything and everyone else has my work on
their walls LOL. My mother, bless her soul, did make sure that when she
passed all the works she received from me came back to me. So I am in
agreement that there really is no real line that cannot be crossed if you're
willing to accept the challenge and take the time to make sure you're
learning the basics as you go. The most important thing to remember is you
have to do something you seriously want to do, and that you're enjoying
yourself. I am a strong believer in not letting other's set limits for you.
I do have to admit however that I am very independent and not all people
have my desire to jump in head first into deep water (yes I dived before I
swam) but my brain is wired that way. Everyone has their own idea of where
they wish to start and should be allowed to start there...either at the very
beginning with braids or at the deep end. I do have to admit, that I made 2
braids, it took one afternoon and I KNEW right then that I would never make
lace if I continued in that manner.

Cearbhael 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Demonstrating

[Angel Skubic]

Liz I am amazed!!!

I took the test. You are right on the button!!! I am definitely kinaesetic.

Thanks for the information, It was quite enlightening, though I doubt I am
going to perform any brain surgery despite the possibility of a book out
there I could learn from LOL...

Cearbhael

From the comment below I would expect the VARK to show that preferred
sensory learning style (how you would prefer to experience learning) as
kinaesetic - to learn through all the senses, feel, see, hear and taste and
the the HM psychological learning style (how you would prefer to think
about and rationalise learning) as activist - learn through doing but with
high theorist tendencies (give me a book and I can perform brain surgery).


Kind Regards

Liz Baker

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Blue film

[Angel Skubic]

I too have used the highlighter method to make my pattern colored but would
prefer blue film...Why is it in the US all film is clear??

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
dmt11h...@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 11:14 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Blue film

Another lacemaker I used to know  traveled with a 
blue highlighter and would color the white pattern with it so  that she 
could then use the clear matte film.
 
Nonetheless, I would still like to have a tube of the blue  film if anyone 
finds it.
 
Devon

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] WANTED knitted lace pattern

[Angel Skubic]

Jenny stick those cold feet into a hot tub of water and get started. If you
like Estonian and you can do the nupps, then do the Estonian shawl...they
are marvellous. I can give you a tip...when making your yarnovers for the
nupps stretch your left needle out and make sure you have lots of room and I
use the click shut plastic yarn markers that look like big safety pins. I
put it through all the yarnovers after they are made so when I come back on
the purl row I don't miss one and have the nupp unravel on me (a tip I
picked up watching an Estonian lacemaker make nupps on u-tube) The larger
you make the yarnovers the easier it will be to purl them all together and
you will have pretty nupps. Also every 10 rows or so, use buttonhole thread
of a contrasting color and a size 24 tapestry needle and run a lifeline
through every stitch on that row. DO use lots of yarn markers to mark off
all repeats and be careful NOT to put your lifeline through any yarn
markers. I do some very difficult patterns that have pattern on every single
row and the lifelines are essential!!! They will save you a lot of
exasperation when you make a mistake and have to back up...nothing will go
past that lifeline. Also since your silk is so wonderfully fine, you will
want to make sure you use very small needles. I have two gossamer shawls on
 needles but you can use 00 if the  needles frighten you. Make sure
you have excellent lighting and as little distraction as possible so you can
focus. It is NOT hard but distractions can lead to mistakes. I copy my
patterns and put them in plastic folders so I can tape colored moveable tape
on whatever line I am currently on. It helps prevent you from dropping your
eye off the correct row.

What pattern to pick ? Since you bought such sensational yarn, Pick the
pattern that speaks to you, not to anyone else...the one YOU like best. You
would be surprised, but some of the prettiest shawls in that book are the
easiest. Oh if you have the dvd in the back of the book watch it...she is
full of tips. (also if that yarn is really to skinny you can double it
considering how much you have...just take the yarn from both ends and start
knitting from there. NONE of those patterns use 5,000 yards (I am working on
a pattern that uses 6,000 yards so they do exist, but not in Nancy's book)

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: Jenny Brandis
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:59 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] WANTED knitted lace pattern

I have just received 100gm of 2 ply silk that is from ebay

I am hoping to make a piece of lace such as a wedding
ring shawl or Estonian shawl but now the yarn has arrived I am getting cold
feet.

Jenny Brandis

Kununurra, Western Australia

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Fw: MOZART REBORN AND LOOK WHO IS PLAYING IT

[Angel Skubic]

Sorry no clickable link came through on my email

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Catherine Barley
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 3:27 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Fw: MOZART REBORN AND LOOK WHO IS PLAYING IT

I just HAD to share this with you all!
Catherine

Catherine Barley Needlelace
www.catherinebarley.com
-
Subject: Fw: MOZART REBORN AND LOOK WHO IS PLAYING IT



Sound on



-You HAVE to play this - amazing! Click below...


Subject:  MOZART REBORN - AND LOOK WHOb

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace-chat] Extreme Knitting

[Angel Skubic]

I made sure the whole thing was put in but all I got was a blank page...

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-lace-c...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-lace-c...@arachne.com] On
Behalf Of Sue Duckles
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 3:21 AM
To: Chat Chat
Subject: [lace-chat] Extreme Knitting

Now this is what I call extreme!!!




http://compattoyarnsalon.typepad.com/storeblog/2010/02/youtube---rachel-john
-
extreme-knitting-1000-strand-knit.html



It was found on another group and I thought I'd share!

To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Who's Who in Lace

[Angel Skubic]

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of 
 Bev Walker walker.b...@gmail.com wrote: 

I agree with Bev, that Clay's work...warrants inclusion as a modern lace
mover-and-shaker.

Also past and present officers of the major lace organizations, such as
IOLI, the English lace guild, etc.

I would also add Liz, creator and keeper of Arachne

Cearbhael cearbh...@midco.net wrote

Oh I would have to add David Collyer, not only is he a fantastic lace maker
he keeps the list amused as well. I love his humour and his ability to take
on huge projects and FINISH them, to everyone's amazement and delight.
Also great recipes are always popped in now and then... ;o))
I also would include any member of the list who has been Published with
How To books and or pattern books. They are a gift to us and it is so
wonderful to be able to actually talk to them about their work etc. They
are a tremendous resource to us.

Cearbhael

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Re: [lace] books vs kindle

[Angel Skubic]

I have the nook reader and use both the nook and kindle app on my iPhone. I
love reading on my phone because I can read in the dark but love the nook
book (black and white flat no glare) during the day. Yes I have the Nook
clip on lights for reading in the dark but they do glare and the batteries
are not friendly to people like me who can spend hours reading in the dark.
I tend to run the light batteries down. My son has been using my nook's
charger for his HTC Evo phone because the charger cords are identical and he
lost his HTC Evo charger. I told him he could use it if he was sure to plug
in the nook when he wasn't using it but he finds it inconvenient to run back
and forth into my room to get the cord (sigh) Wonder what he would think if
I just took it back??
Wishing I had the iPad because I could keep my piecework magazines on it. I
do keep my Queen Susan Shetland lace shawl pattern (knitted lace) on the
iPhone but it is so small it is of very little use really (and the Queen
Susan Shetland Shawl has just a zillion charts) The pattern book itself is
pdf and 76 pages. (yes, that is for only 1 shawl) It is nice, though, if I
have a question about something and want to read a section of the pattern
book. (usually I take a printed chart in a plastic sleeve to use when I knit
on the go) One chart, however, doesn't give you the research notes of the
people who spent ages literally creating the charts for this lost shawl
that was preserved in only 1 picture in a lace museum. Having the pdf on my
phone is handy when you get into something that you question and want to see
what they recommended or did themselves.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Clay Blackwell
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 6:50 AM
To: Ilske Thomsen
Cc: kloeppelki...@t-online.de; Lace
Subject: Re: [lace] Re: [lace] books vs kindle

Ilske, I have an iPad and there is a Kindle App for it.  So I can read books
from Amazon or Apple and other sources as well.

Clay

Sent from my iPad

On May 20, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Ilske Thomsen ilske.l.thom...@t-online.de
wrote:

 And if you have a i-Pad or a i-Pad Mini your are bound on Apple.
 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Re: Arachne 20 years

[Angel Skubic]

I think the idea of commemorative bobbins and possibly accessories like pin
pusher/pin lifter/divider pins/etc?? Maybe the accessories are over the top
but just an idea, I think the prospect of getting every member to
contribute to a lace panel (might be a very LONG panel) would be difficult
considering the varying skill and would be difficult considering the varying
skill and experience of our members.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
David C COLLYER
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:59 AM
To: Agnes Boddington; Jenny Brandis; Lace
Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Arachne 20 years

Dear Friends,
As we have 2 years or so to go until the 20th anniversry, we have plenty of
time to think about how to celebrate it.
As mentioned, a commemorative bobbin is pne option. We could e.g. ask
Stuart
Johnson, as he does inscriptions, as does Mike Bester in South Africa and
probably many more.

Stuart and Mike are 2 of my favourite bobbin turners, but I think 
Mike's not making them any more.

The other is to make a lace panel, with each member doing a part of it

Nice idea, but who'd get the panel?? 'cos I know we'd all want it :)
David in Ballarat, AUS

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

RE: [lace] Arthritic hands and Picking Up Bobbins

[Angel Skubic]

Jean, 
I have nerve damage in my left hand...symptom's similar to carpel tunnel but
not fixable. I just accept slow is the way it is and continue doing
bucks-point and knitted lace, clumsily but carefully. Now complicated with a
broken right wrist (radial bone at joint) and nerve damage in my right
thumb...not sure yet what happened there but it was bundled with the arm
break. You just refuse to let it stop you and keep on lacing!! My doc says
to keep on with the needle-work. His nurse practitioner would have me stop
all use of my right hand. My doc knows me better than her. I could no sooner
stop needlework than I could stop breathing.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Jean Nathan
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:12 PM
To: Lace
Subject: [lace] Arthritic hands and Picking Up Bobbins

No Susan, it isn't neuropathy associated with the cervical spine - my 
rheumatologist has confirmed that it seems to be an interruption to the 
signal between my brain and fingers and is not uncommon. 

the solution is simple - moving bobbins by the spangles and patience because
I'm slow as a result.

I would be interested to hear what other problems people have 

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

RE: [lace] Piecework

[Angel Skubic]

I have always found Piecework inspiring. I subscribe and can't seem to find
a reason to stop since every issue is full of something that I can do or get
excited about. I also go crazy for the single special issues Traditions
for knitting (3 or 4 issues already out) and Traditions for crochet which
covers tons of crocheted lace. Knitted, crocheted, bobbin and needle laces
of all kinds are always popping up in Piecework magazine, even when it is
not the Spring Lace issue. I must admit, however, I really do wait
impatiently every year for the lace issues.
Bucks Point is my favourite type of lace so very thrilled with the nice
pattern in this spring's issue.

Cearbhael


From:
Bridget Marrow bridgetmar...@msn.com
Subject: [lace]
Piecework
 
I've just received
the latest (June/July)  Piecework, their annual lace
edition.  It contains an
interesting article on Bucks point, with a pretty
edging pattern

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

RE: [lace-chat] Borrowers???

[Angel Skubic]

I am always having something take legs so to speak and then suddenly appear
out of the blue in the same place I originally checked for it and couldn't
find it. VERY old house so yeah could be the ghosts of my grandparents,
great grandparents or even my mum...maybe just to let me know they are
paying attention?

Always found it rather odd since when it is FOUND it is blatantly obvious
and you could never have accidently missed seeing it the first time. My
son says gremlins

I sort of like your husband's version...that is very likely...I love physics
and I would say it sort of popped into another dimension then back again.
There are theories out there by some very learned physics professors that it
could very well be...in fact we may be popping in and out of this Universe
off and on too. Sure would explain a few things.

Cearbhael



- Original Message -
From: Sue Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk

Afternoon all

Now does anyone have any idea what the Borrowers were using my pricking card
and blue film for?? ..
My DH says that it 'just popped out of existence' yesterday think he's
been watching too much sci-fi I much prefer the puzzle of what the
borrowers were using it for

To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

RE: [lace] Chicago convention - lace guilds and lace activities

[Angel Skubic]

And keep in mind this annual convention in St Paul is only for 2012...next
year St Paul does not get to host the convention...they move to a different
location each year for the annual convention

Cearbhael


Previous post:

It is important to understand that if people do not join lace guilds there  
are not enough members and volunteers to support a convention/show like  
the annual one that is associated with America's International Old  Lacers 
Inc. (IOLI).  

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

[lace] Convention in Aug in St Paul?

[Angel Skubic]

I was just informed by Galina Khemleva (Skaska Designs) that she is going to
have a booth at the lace convention in St Paul MN. (bells went off in my
head) is it really coming up so soon? Is there a webpage where I can get
more information on the Lace Convention? I live in MN so will want to be
there. My sis and her daughter may be interested in coming as well.

 

Thanks anyone who can toss me more info??

 

Cearbhael

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

RE: [lace] Condolences

[Angel Skubic]

I am on facebook but have none of you folks on my friends list...WOW...I
adore Tamara...I am soo SD!! She adored Severn.


Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
David C COLLYER
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 9:34 AM
To: lace@arachne.com; lace-c...@dont.panix.com
Subject: [lace] Condolences

Dear Friends,

for those of you who are not on Facebook, you will be sorry to learn 
that our dear Duchess Tamara lost her beloved Husband Severn this week.

David in Ballarat, AUS

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

RE: [lace] Pronounciation of lacis

[Angel Skubic]

Works for me Margery

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
stevieni...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:48 AM
To: Margery Allcock
Cc: lace arachne
Subject: Re: [lace] Pronounciation of lacis

Hold on, how about the first part?

Lacis with a or Lacis with e like in lace. 

I guess it depends whether one is in the UK or the US? Is there one correct
way or does it depend on the place?


Op 22 Feb 2012 om 12:27 heeft Margery Allcock margerybu...@o2.co.uk het
volgende geschreven:

 I speak UK English, so this may not be the majority opinion G.
 
 I'd say the LA part the same as I'd say what hens do with eggs: hens
 LAY eggs.
 
 And the rest, the CIS part, I'd say the same as I'd say the first part
 of SISter.
 
 So: LAY-SIS.
 
 But, as I say, this may not be how everyone else pronounces Lacis.
 
 Interested to hear other replies,
 Margery.
  
 margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Herts, UK 
  
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: stevieni...@gmail.com
 Dear all,
 
 As English is not my first language and I would like to be 
 sure, I would like to consult this list on the pronounciation 
 of lacis. 
 
 

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

RE: [lace-chat] I won

[Angel Skubic]

ROFLMAO...sigh don't you hate those!!! I get some that tell me I have
millions in a bank in Africa...all I need to do is send money...lots of
money

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-lace-c...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-lace-c...@arachne.com] On
Behalf Of Agnes Boddington
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:03 AM
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Subject: [lace-chat] I won

Just won in some French lottery. Just need to open the attachement, confirm 
my details and have my PC destroyed from the inside out.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
Snow is slowly melting, but pump in pond still solidly frozen. 

To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

RE: [lace] Shawl finished

[Angel Skubic]

Ok...Agnes, where do you find pillows large enough to do a piece so big? I
would love to try to convert a yardage pricking to a large version made
with lace weight wool...(or maybe #10 crochet thread?) I could think of a
number of patterns that would make gorgeous shawls LOL


Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Janis Savage
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 6:07 AM
To: Arachne
Subject: Re: [lace] Shawl finished

What a beautiful shawl Agnes. It is amazing how exciting torchon can be when

itis enlarged and made with colours and texture.
Have a happy and restful Christmas. You deserve it.
Janis in Honeydew, South Africa, where the weather is beautiful.

Subject: [lace] Shawl finished

Last night I finished a Torchon shawl for my daughter for Christmas. When I
started it 2 moths ago, I was not sure whether it would be for Christmas
2011 or 2012, but I did it, and am quite pleased with the result.
The material was a mixture of alpaca wool, silk and rayon in lace weight.
Not the easiest to work with at it is very slippy and I used standard
English bobbins with spangles.


-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by Pinpoint, and is
believed to be clean.

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

RE: [lace] Skype lace classes?/was making Lace opinion

[Angel Skubic]

Well, I did my job training completely on the computer and on the phone
(they used a windows conference program and the phone call was voip but you
could use any phone (in fact I used my cell phone for most of it) do they do
conference skype? We were told when our classes were and we simply showed
up. Yeah they would probably have to be outside of normal working hours
and then again maybe there is a happy medium that can be found by asking the
group what they would like schedule wise. I work abby-normal hours (sorry
couldn't resist the Young Frankenstein quip.) such as evening (5 to 10
eastern time) The video's we watched on our own time and then we would
discuss the course with the teacher and the teacher used the windows
conference program to put up job aids etc...) It is very different and not
as good as one on one or even group live classes but it does have its up
sides too (like taking care of the distance issues) I am totally book
trained (self taught) due to no way could I ever get to lace classes. I am
hoping MAYBE when the lace conference comes to St Paul MN I may be able to
actually get in on a live class for the first time.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
dmt11h...@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 4:29 PM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Skype lace classes?/was making Lace opinion

Sherry is not the only person who finds that travel to classes  is a 
problem.
 
There was some discussion at Ithaca about the fact that  a major impediment 
to learning lace is that here in the US, at least, we  are very spread out 
and it is costly in time and money to travel to lace  classes. One person 
who would prefer not to be traveling was bouncing around  some ideas about
how 
one could organize lace instruction via skype or video  conferencing. This 
was such a new idea to me, at least, that I was wondering  what format it 
could be done in. Would it, for instance be necessary for a group  of people

who are in a class of the future to be available in front of their  screens 
at the same time? I have taken on line courses, but not ones that  involved 
viewing video instruction. Each student was able to receive the lesson  and 
do the work on their own time schedule which was an advantage. Then you  
would submit your work to the professor for feedback. The class I took was
one  
that I paid for, and I would assume that an internet lace class with an  
attentive teacher would also include a payment platform.
 
Much as we are now downloading books onto digital devices  which in some 
cases eliminates certain costs related to the physical production  and 
handling of materials, will the future include being able to stream lace  
instruction off the internet either in the form of an instructional video or
in  the 
form of an interactive class? 
 
Does anyone have any idea how lace classes of the future might  be 
organized with the use of the internet eliminating the physical limitation
of  
distance?
 
Devon
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/30/2011 1:19:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com writes:

What I really like is a lacing CD which I have a few  of them. Yes, I have
Holly Van Sciver that live about one hour and a half  from me. But I don't 
have
a car any more so I have to have a teacher in my  home. What I like about 
the
Lacing CDs is the teacher on the CD lets say  Christine Springet for 
instance
takes you though a pattern step by step.  Now what is good about this is 
when I
do another lets say Bedfordshire  pattern if I can't remember how to do a
certain step(technique) I can just  put the CD in my computer CD drawer and
there is my teacher again. I LOVE  THIS. I HAVE been able to make other 
laces
by having the few CDs that I  have.
THIS is what I DON'T LIKE...there are a
few more Lace  teaching CDs that I would like to get...but I CAN'T justify
paying almost  $50.00 for a CD. When I was in Ithaca in October...I really
wanted this one  Christine Springet CD but it was almost $50.00 for one CD 
and
with the tax  then on top of that it probably was $50.00. Now, I  don't know
about  alot of you...but in my house we got hurt when the economy took a  
nose
dive. I don't have $50.00 to buy one CD but I so wish I had it since I  
can't
go anywhere for instructions. The Lace Making CDs are perfect for me.  They 
do
help and I can make lace just having them as reference. Seeing  something 
being
done to me is better than reading how something is done in  a book. The CDs 
are
too expensive. I don't have the money to join IOLI  right now either. Wish I
did.
So now...that I Have  put my 2cents in...if anybody has any of these
Lace CDs that they wouldn't  mind selling  or know how I can get one please 
let
me know off list.  My address is in my signature. Somebody said try ebay to 
me
once but  they are not on ebay. I could keep making my lace and keep 
learning
on my  own to make my lace and 

RE: [lace] Of Arachnean interest?

[Angel Skubic]

That is an example of knitted lace.



Cearbhael and Pippin the Took

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Sue Duckles
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:38 AM
To: Susan Reishus
Cc: post to Arachne
Subject: Re: [lace] Of Arachnean interest? 

It looks like spiders webs!!! Great for Arachneans!!!

Sue in EY
On 4 Jun 2009, at 14:07, Susan Reishus wrote:

 Googling yarn, I came across this and thought perhaps some, into the  
 theme of
 Arachne, may be interested (though it isn't really my cup of tea):
 http://www.yarnandfiber.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=982

 It appears to be crocheted lace, and Guessing/logical conclusion, it  
 is
 probably in the book at the bottom of that page.  Just in case  
 anyone is
 interested!
 Best,Susan Reishus

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

RE: [lace] Wild silk - Tussah

[Angel Skubic]

Yeah, and it is to be treated like any other silk...it is definitely silk
but does tend to have a golden tone to the color. I think the silk worm moth
has exited the cocoon before the silk is harvested in most instances (unless
they have been raised by someone) I am going to attempt to spin Tussah
silk...wish me luck.(no it won't be lace weight...haa haa I wish I could
spin that well yet) it is often blended with other fibers to make them
softer. It is a very strong fiber just like cultivated silk.

Cearbhael and Pippin the Took


-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Alice Howell
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:24 PM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Wild silk - Tussah


I wondered about the term Tussah, which I have seen before but didn't know
what it meant.  I found a webpage with this comment.
 Wild silk is a coarser fiber  than cultivated silk. Traditionally silk
carpets are made of this.  Because it grows free, without cultivation, and
the silkworms diet  is any leaf available, the natural color varies in shade
from off-white  to almost yellow.

Does anyone have experience with Tussah silk?

Alice in Oregon



- Original Message 
From: micki cameron mouse...@coilty.freeserve.co.uk

Kalahari Tussah is a development project in Namibia, Southern Africa,
focusing on utilizing the cocoons of an indigenous African silk moth,
Gonometa postica.

This initiative was born from the realization that a realistic solution had
to be found to resolve the problem; that communities in the Kalahari are
destitute with few opportunities for poverty alleviation; and that the silk
cocoons represented a valued luxury natural fibre resource.

The site is http://www.kalaharitussah.com/index.php

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

RE: [lace] YLI Colours

[Angel Skubic]

Well, from one US person to a UK person I think the founding father's here
changed spelling (or should we blame the guy who made the first US
dictionary?) I think they changed the spellings out of spite and or out of
attempting to make it more phonetic...Webster...that is the guy I am
thinking of. It is ALL his fault...No one else tampered with the spelling of
English. In fact every country in the world speaks and spells the queen's
English and the Oxford Dictionary is what they consider the final say in
how to spell things. Only in America do we swear by Webster's version. I
know...I descended by Canadians and have gotten grief all my life for
spelling things the way my grandparents showed me grey not gray etc.
I still use catalogue not catalog. I also use centre and theatre not center
and theater. My English teachers never could straighten me out.
I searched through my threads and can't find YLI but...I would think if it
was labeled in Japan or in England you would get colours not colors.



Cearbhael and Pippin the Took


-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Brenda Paternoster
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:18 AM
To: Arachne Arachne
Subject: [lace] YLI Colours

Following the recent discussions about UK and US spelling, does anyone 
in America have a spool of 'YLI Colours'?  Does the label say Colours 
or Colors?  It's an American company but the spool I have, which was 
purchased in UK at Ally Pally Knitting  Stitching, reads 'Colours' and 
was made in Japan.

Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

RE: [lace] Lacemaking or Lace making

[Angel Skubic]

Ditto for me. Lacemaker...not lace maker.

Cearbhael


I prefer one word - lacemaking.  That's how I usually write it.  No one
questions 'shoemaker' and it's usually written as one word, why not
lacemaker

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

RE: [lace] Shakespeare wearing lace

[Angel Skubic]

The only problem I have with that picture is how much it looks like Sir
Walter Raleigh...who also lived around that period of time. However who am I
to dicker over who looks like who hmmm?? Doesn't matter who it is...the lace
is gorgeous...pity the painter didn't go into slightly more detail on that
lace.

Cearbhael and Pippin the Took

-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Elizabeth Ligeti
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:40 PM
To: Arachne
Subject: [lace] Shakespeare wearing lace

Personally, I really don't care if it was Shakespeare's collar or not - I
just
Love it, and wish we could see a better close up of the Reticella

-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:
unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to
arachnemodera...@yahoo.com

RE: [lace-chat] No Knead Bread Recipe

[Angel Skubic]

 Oh my those recipes sound good. I was scrolling down and hoping there was a
recipe for traditional cornish pasties...but sigh ALAS...none...
Anyone out there have any GOOD cornish pasties recipes?

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Sue Duckles
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 11:29 AM
To: Janice Blair
Cc: lace-chat
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] No Knead Bread Recipe

Devon Splits AND Cornish Pasties now you're really making me hungry!!!

I adore them both! (but only good pasties)  I'll have to 'have a go' at
these recipes!!

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] roller or block

[Angel Skubic]

Yeah it was meant for all. Sorry about that. Forget that I have to reply to
ALL to get it to go to the group.

Cearbhael 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
bevw
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 4:36 PM
To: Arachne Arachne
Subject: Fwd: [lace] roller or block

This arrived in my inbox, I think meant for the whole list:

-- Forwarded message --
From: Angel Skubic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Subject: RE: [lace] roller or block

I have a small bolster and I am madly in love with it. My next pillow will
be a full sized bolster that will be traditionally stuffed (I think I can
get an English made one thru the Lace Fairy) Then I may get a honiton pillow
which would be the next lace I would like to learn.

Cearbhael

 You might one day like to try a bolster pillow. They are great for 
 edgings and even small motifs, they take up less space than pillows on 
 the flat,

-
Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Locomotive

[Angel Skubic]

Oh I love locomotives...I have miniature ones that run on miniature
tracks...mine are collectables since they were made when I was a child (and
I am NOT young) Mostly Lionel, but I do have have my Grandfather's American
Flyer. I am not sure what gauge that is but the Lionel is 027.
I want the Lionel's Hogwart's Express Train set that is now currently for
sale. It is just sooo cool and I am a terrible Harry Potter fan.

Cearbhael

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK wrote:

To me locomotive is the romantic steam train, which brings back memories of 
childhood family outings. The electric and diesel ones are just boring 
'engines' which just transport me from place to place.



To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] what did you do before bobbin lace

[Angel Skubic]

Haa Haa Agnes,

Able-bodied...my doctor may not agree with you on that one. Supposedly I am
not able bodied I have nerve damage in my dominant arm and hand as well as
chronic pain down my entire left side that is moving to my right as well, a
badly damaged upper and lower back that is the cause of all that pain (in
cahoots with those nasty malfunctioning nerves)etc, etc...
However, I won't let my hands be idle. I figure the day I stop using them I
will have to give up all these things I love to do so I keep rotating them
so my hands can't get too used to and complain about any one craft hurting
me. Never say neverkeep on lacing guys!!!

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Agnes Boddington
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:10 PM
To: Angel Skubic; lace
Subject: Re: [lace] what did you do before bobbin lace

Hi Angel and fellow spieders
May I just say that you are an inspiration to all of us.
We may not have perfect eyesight and or a bit of arthritis, but we are 
able-bodied.
Agnes Boddington - warm and sunny Elougthon UK

Angel Skubic wrote:

Haha Clay...

What don't I do? I do anything and everything, short of weaving when it
comes to textiles/fiber. Not that I wouldn't like to weave but where would
I
stick a loom? My house is already so overcrowded!!! Ah to weave an oriental
rug or two...or a tapestry... 
I spin (and I buy the fleece and wash it and card it etc) I knit, crochet,
and tat. I do both cross stitch and needlepoint. I can hook rugs. (however,
there is so much yet to explore in that direction) I sew and have designed
my own patterns. I have designed a quilt...and that is just fiber and
textiles. I also do chain mail. (and chain jewelry) I can make metal into a
fabric for clothing or just make very lovely bracelets. I also make evening
bags that were inspired by the Victorian chain evening bags (micro chain
mail...very small links) To this and to the textiles I often will add
beadwork. I have a notion to make a beaded shade for an antique lamp of
mine. (with the original shade framework)
Besides the textile and metal work, I also am an artist. I like to
draw...have been doing it since I was 2 according to my mum. I painted with
water color and acrylics in high school and beyond. I am now thinking about
exploring pastels.
Being handicapped I have LOTS of time on my hands. I can't stand it when my
hands are idle so I craft and craft and craft some more...gifting people
with bracelets, earrings, throws, socks, hats and mittens, and occasionally
a large cross stitch or needle work piece to frame and hang on their walls.
The hardest craft I do is lace and I took that up inspired by a picture
book
of antique laces. I figured...DANG... once upon a time, somewhere in the
world, people made it by hand. I refused to believe the craft was totally
lost and searched until I found some British sources. They had British
books
on British lace. I quickly embraced the Buckspoint lace and have never
looked back. I STILL do all the other things as well. Yeah...I am a tad
crazy but, I am never bored.

Cearbhael  

  



-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


-- 
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG. 
Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.5/1398 - Release Date: 4/25/2008
2:31 PM

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] what did you do before bobbin lace

[Angel Skubic]

Haha Clay...

What don't I do? I do anything and everything, short of weaving when it
comes to textiles/fiber. Not that I wouldn't like to weave but where would I
stick a loom? My house is already so overcrowded!!! Ah to weave an oriental
rug or two...or a tapestry... 
I spin (and I buy the fleece and wash it and card it etc) I knit, crochet,
and tat. I do both cross stitch and needlepoint. I can hook rugs. (however,
there is so much yet to explore in that direction) I sew and have designed
my own patterns. I have designed a quilt...and that is just fiber and
textiles. I also do chain mail. (and chain jewelry) I can make metal into a
fabric for clothing or just make very lovely bracelets. I also make evening
bags that were inspired by the Victorian chain evening bags (micro chain
mail...very small links) To this and to the textiles I often will add
beadwork. I have a notion to make a beaded shade for an antique lamp of
mine. (with the original shade framework)
Besides the textile and metal work, I also am an artist. I like to
draw...have been doing it since I was 2 according to my mum. I painted with
water color and acrylics in high school and beyond. I am now thinking about
exploring pastels.
Being handicapped I have LOTS of time on my hands. I can't stand it when my
hands are idle so I craft and craft and craft some more...gifting people
with bracelets, earrings, throws, socks, hats and mittens, and occasionally
a large cross stitch or needle work piece to frame and hang on their walls.
The hardest craft I do is lace and I took that up inspired by a picture book
of antique laces. I figured...DANG... once upon a time, somewhere in the
world, people made it by hand. I refused to believe the craft was totally
lost and searched until I found some British sources. They had British books
on British lace. I quickly embraced the Buckspoint lace and have never
looked back. I STILL do all the other things as well. Yeah...I am a tad
crazy but, I am never bored.

Cearbhael  

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
bevw
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:55 PM
To: Lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] what did you do before bobbin lace

Clay wrote:

 I'll be curious to hear what others do in addition to their lacemaking!

I had a considerable stash of weaving and spinning supplies before bobbin
lace engulfed my time. I still do a bit of both, couldn't part with all the
spinning wheels, so kept one (of 6) and one loom (of 6), one large box of
weaving yarns (of X number...my what a lot of space left for bobbin lace
stuff!), and exotic fibre to spin on a rainy day. I did keep the drop
spindles which don't take up much space. However, as soothing as
handspinning can be, it doesn't have the puzzle-solving appeal of making
lace. And weaving was just too hard on my shoulders. I have made handspun
just for lace, but the commercial threads do a much better job LOL and I'd
rather knit with my handspun. So my secondary past-time is knitting. While I
appreciate embroidery and other stitchery, needlework isn't for me to do,
unless I'm attaching lace to a piece of fabric with a simple running stitch
(for some reason I like doing that).

And I'm curious to know if many others are allergic to needle and thread,
like myself :S
-- 
Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


-- 
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG. 
Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1393 - Release Date: 4/23/2008
8:12 AM

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Re: lace-chat-digest V2007 #92

[Angel Skubic]

Oh hee hee hee...I would...especially if it was bubbly...(better than
having no bubbly at all!!!) I mean it IS a holiday...

;o))

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:03 AM
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Re: lace-chat-digest V2007 #92


No, Jen in Melbourne, I was not referring to a 750ml bottle but to a 250
ml 
(or 2 glass bottle) similar to those served on planes and designed for 
consumption by one (or individual) person.  These are readily available
in 
supermarkets in the UK with a small selection of white, red or sparkling
wines and are 
ideal for the person celebrating Christmas alone; enough to be festive
but a 
long way short of being thoroughly intoxicated.

I don't wish to have anyone., wherever in the world, to think I would
drink a 
large bottle of wine alone.


Patricia in Wales
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Needle-lace blog

[Angel Skubic]

Oh I am S excited myself...I am going to do the leaf and I went to
that site for that Dillmont book and found whole lots of other books and
leaflets etc to help me learn stitches etc. I am going to try to make a
sampler out of the Plate VIII in Dilmont's Needle Point Lace book. That
way I can try all the different stitches. I also want to try to do it
with the stitches currently in place. I think I am going to really like
this. Something that I can actually carry with me to work on. The
Dillmont book was a great pattern book but there are a couple of others
that are more how too books. Anyway...busy busy busy trying to learn.
Love that I already have most of the stuff I need being I do bobbin
lace, tat, crochet etc...Going to use color in this so I can see what I
am doing from row to row...

Wish me luck...thanks for the inspiration...

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Lenore English
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:38 PM
To: Aurelia Loveman
Cc: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Needle-lace blog


I cut my little leaf from the working base, and have updated my blog
with a picture.  I can see room for improvement, but I am pleased it
stayed in one piece when I removed my couching.  I have enjoyed working
my first piece of needle lace so much I've already started another.
It's a little ornament for the ornament exchange of our lace group.

Once again I have to thank Aurelia for putting these lessons on her
blog.  I never thought to  try needle lace, and now my mind is reeling
with possibilities.

Lenore in SW Michigan

http://tatt3r-lace.blogspot.com/



On Nov 11, 2007 4:50 PM, Aurelia Loveman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Lesson 5, Cutting from the Working Base, the fifth and last entry of

 my Needle Lace in Five Easy Lessons, is now available on my blog 
 http://aurelove.blogster.com. I have really enjoyed doing this bit 
 of online teaching, and am grateful to those of you who have written 
 back about your experience with these lessons.


-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Wendy Lawton Bobbin Lace

[Angel Skubic]

Ah and then there is me who loves dolls but I won't pay that much for a
doll!!

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Agnes Boddington
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:05 AM
To: lace
Subject: Re: [lace] Wendy Lawton Bobbin Lace


I would pay nought for a doll, lace doll or otherwise.
Have had a lifelong aversion of dolls.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK

Sue Babbs wrote:

 Someone would pay $850 - for a doll??
 Sue
 - Original Message - From: Laurie Waters
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 Wendy Lawton's Bobbin Lace doll is up for sale on Ebay 260179193786


 -
 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the 
 line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] RioGrande

[Angel Skubic]

Dear Spiders,
Sorry I replied to Betty but forgot to reply to the list. You have to
become a customer of Rio Grande before you can register online. I
suggest that you call their phone # 1.800.545.6566 and then ask to
register as a customer. If they ask, tell them you do beadwork and
beaded jewelry. (lots of people do) if they ask if you have a company
name...tell them not yet (unless you do then give it)... They will get
your address, phone # and all other pertinent info then give you a
customer #...send you the hard copy catalogues (3 of them) if you desire
and give you a temporary user name and password for the website if you
want to get on that. NO unfortunately if your just a casual browser, you
can not go to the website and use it. They cater online only to their
current customers. (as a convenience more than anything else) As I told
Betty...if you bead or do craft work with beads or metal at all, you
will LOVE their stuff. High quality and they are very very nice folk to
deal with.

Cearbhael


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Clive  Betty Rice
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:13 PM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] RioGrande


Hi Cherry and other Gentle Spiders,

I tried to navigate their web site but couldn't even register.  Did I
miss something? I freely admit that I'm roadkill on the information
superhighway, but have never had any problem navigating a web site or
registering if required.

Happy Lacemaking,
Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA

Cherry Knobloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Try Rio Grande at http://riogrande.com/
Click on Virtual Library, then on display and packaging, then search for

display pins.

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Re: Left or right brain?male or female brain?

[Angel Skubic]

Ok...went back to that site and it has everything saved...(it remembered
me) and I am .50 female. (normal normal normal and very average)

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of H. Muth
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 12:37 PM
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Subject: [lace-chat] Re: Left or right brain?male or female brain?


Hello all,

I came in exactly in the middle.  Exactly!  This doesn't surprise me as 
I've always scored high on the traditionally 'male' quizzes - geometry, 
spacial acuity, etc., but I am definitely a woman.

Heather
Abbotsford, BC
Nice, sunny fall day.

At 08:48 AM 13/10/2007 +, Barron wrote:
I came in at 50 towards female
jenny barron
NE Scotland

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Rubber bands - and a raffle

[Angel Skubic]

Oh Great and thanks. I will keep my eye on the post!!

Cearbhael (Angel)

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of beth
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:20 PM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Rubber bands - and a raffle


Hi, all

I've got a little pile of red rubber bands suitable for the Beswick
bobbin 
winder, courtesy of the Royal Mail, in front of me. I just counted them
up 
and there are 36 of them. I'll post half a dozen each to Barbara,
Delores, 
Jane and Angel as soon as things quieten down enough at work to get to
the 
Post Office in my lunch hour. That should be enough to last them until
this 
batch perish, and leaves a dozen here if anyone else needs a couple..

Reading the recent posts about buying books while one has chance
reminded me 
that I have a copy of Bridget Cook's Russian Lacemaking which I bought
years 
ago and have never used. I don't think I ever will use it - I no longer
like 
the pattern I bought it for, and nothing else in it is really my cup of
tea - 
so as I believe it's now out of print I'll offer it as a raffle prize so
it 
can find a home where it will be better appreciated. (My lace bookshelf
is in 
danger of collapsing under the weight of all the projects I do want to
do 
someday...)
I'll post it anywhere in the world, the only qualification for entry is
that 
you have to intend to have a go at Russian tape lace. (The technical 
instructions are fairly clear, and being a tape lace it doesn't use a
lot of 
pairs, so it wouldn't be too daunting for a near beginner to have a try
at)

Closing date for entries midnight (BST) Sunday 2nd September.

Beth

 in Cheshire, NW England, where the sun has been shining all day

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Books for beginners

[Angel Skubic]

I agree with Clay. I have BOTH books and they are invaluable!!!

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:48 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Books for beginners


I came across two books on eBay which, in my opinion, are two of the
most valuable books that a beginner can have in her collection!  

So, if you're just getting started and want to have a couple of great
books, here's your chance!

http://tinyurl.com/2zhktw
Clay
--
Clay Blackwell 
Lynchburg, VA USA 

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Lace treasure

[Angel Skubic]

I have that book...LOVE it and would never part with it. I started with
Buckspoint so I never considered trying something else first. (good
thing too. Have a real problem with tallies and Beds requires good
tallies...) Someday I will master tallies but until then they look like
blots.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Gray, Alison J
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:28 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Lace treasure


Hello everyone



I'm new here, it's really great to hear people talk about important
things like lace, lace and more lace!



At the moment I'm really pleased with myself as I managed to pick up a
copy of Pamela Nottingham's 'Technique of Bucks Point Lace' in very good
condition for £2.50 in a second hand book shop whilst on holiday in
Norfolk.



My only problem now is how am I ever going to find time to try Bucks
Point, when I'm determined to have a go at Beds before I try anything
else!  I didn't mean to buy any more books, but when I saw that, what
else could I do?



Alison in Essex

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Re Queen Elizabeth 11's Lace

[Angel Skubic]

And don't miss that the hat is lace covered as well.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of ann.humphreys
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:26 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Re Queen Elizabeth 11's Lace


There are some photos here of  The Queen wearing the lace trimmed
jacket.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070503/GAL-07May03-73
159/index.html?tab=0

Ann
Yorkshire
UK 

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Rhubarb cake

[Angel Skubic]

Oh THANKYOU!!! I have my rhubarb just coming up and my brain goes
towards what to do with it!!

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Linda  Bill Mitchell
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:09 AM
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Subject: [lace-chat] Rhubarb cake


Every spring when the rhubarb is plentiful I have to make this easy
cake:

1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup butter or margerine
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cups raw rhubarb diced small

Mix ingredients together in the order given, and pour batter into 9 x
12 greased pan.

Topping:

1/3 cup white sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup coconut
2 tablespoons butter melted
nuts optional

Combine ingredients and sprinkle over batter.  Bake at 325 F for 40
minutes

Even without the topping, it's wonderful.  I put the nuts in the batter.
And it keeps well, too!

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Quiz

[Angel Skubic]

Haa haa...I got 75% and again I plead the 5th...or at least plead
encroaching old age!! I am sure I would have done much better in the 5th
grade LOL!!

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Jean Nathan
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:16 AM
To: Chat
Subject: [lace-chat] Quiz


Having got 6 questions about the USA wrong (not surprising) I scored
60%, 
which, taking that into account, I didn't think was bad. Wonder how many
of 
those living in the US would have got them right if those 6 questions
had 
been about the UK.

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Pattern copyright

[Angel Skubic]

Well, I can tell you right now from just perusing the books I have, that
nothing says the books can not be resold. What the craft books say is
that you can't reproduce the contents or store the contents or send
the contents of the book by any means electronic, mechanical or
manually with out the permission of the copyright holder. Ie...you can't
quote the book word for word or take the patterns for your own profit.
They don't generally worry about private people copying things for their
own personal use, and would never bother to go after you for that. I
know they wouldn't care if you sold the books to students to have them
use it as a text for craft classes but they would object if you copied
the book on a printer and used or sold the copies as required materials
in a class. I have seen classes where instructions were copied and I
suspect they didn't write for permission...I think that is a widespread
issue these days but it is hard to catch unless it is done on a large
scale.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:27 AM
To: Jean Nathan
Cc: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Pattern copyright


 Most books carry a notice on the copyright page saying that the book
cannot 
 be resold, but in most cases it wouldn't be practical or financially
worth 
 the author or publisher taking legal action to stop a secondhand copy
being 
 sold

Wow, that's hard to believe.  If this is so, then all second-hand book 
stores are illegal.  While it wouldn't be financially feasible for one 
author to go after one seller of one copy of his/her book, a class 
action suit by all authors against all used-book stores would surely be 
worth pursuing!

Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Re: Archaic Saying

[Angel Skubic]

Remove the ruddy and put in bloody. 'Bloody son of a bitch'. I used to
use the word 'bloody' a lot as a child. My great grandfather used it a
lot and I picked it up from him. I was told it was NOT a nice word and
was not allowed to say it in the context I was using it. (Bloody dog,
bloody cat, bloody whatever) It is a British swear word. (my
greatgrandfather was half Irish and half English) the other word I was
not allowed to use was 'bugger'. (I also got that one from my great
grandfather) Never hear that from anyone until I started watching
British shows. I am amazed how much both the terms 'bloody' and 'bugger'
were used in the Harry Potter movies (by Harry's best friend Ron
especially.) I am now fairly certain I know what they mean. Most
Americans watching the show don't have a clue that Ron swears up a storm
for a young boy.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of H. Muth
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 1:21 PM
To: Chat Arachne
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Re: Archaic Saying


Hello all,

I agree with Tamara about the first part of the saying and think that
the 
second must be ruddy son of a bitch!  I've never known how 'ruddy' is
an 
insult.  I don't use any of these myself (in general, don't swear at
all) 
but have heard them all at one time or another.

Heather
Abbotsford, BC
A beautiful spring day.

At 01:56 AM 06/04/2007 -0400, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
On Apr 6, 2007, at 0:57, David in Ballarat wrote:
An elderly man told of how his grandfather, a staunch Presbyterian who
never swore in his life, had a saying which he used when the occasion 
demanded. You have to use the appropriate intonation to get the full 
effect, but he would curse in his loudest voice:  Cheese  rice, a
muddy 
bucket of pitch

Never heard this particular curse but, based on what I know -- in
general -- about curses, euphemisms, etc, I'd stake my linguistic 
reputation g on the first part (cheese  rice) being a substitute for

Jesus Christ.

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Anti-British

[Angel Skubic]

I am with you other short folk...I am 5'2 as well (and I am one of the
taller in my family) maybe it is my English/Irish ancestory to blame...I
hate not being able to reach stuff. I am very vocal and make the grocers
and store personnel work very hard keeping me happy.
Fortunately I live in a small town so they don't MIND going out of their
way for me...

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Jean Nathan
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:42 PM
To: Chat
Subject: [lace-chat] Anti-British


Hazerl wrote:

Here in Holland we find the top shelves in the supermarkets are too
high 
for us to reach because the Dutch are on average much taller than Brits.
We 
chuckle and say It's so anti-British

I can't reach the top shelves of supermarkets here. I'm 5 ft 2 inches
tall 
and I think supermarkets deliberately employ shelf stackers of minimum 
height 6 ft. Usually when I can't reach something I call to the nearest 
assistant Could you please get an abnormally tall assistant to get 
'whatever it is' from the top shelf for me. I can't reach it because I'm
of 
normal height, as are most of the shoppers in here. Or, if I remember
to 
take my long-handle grab with me, I just knock the top item off the
shelf 
(provided it isn't breakable) and pick it up off the floor. Of course,
other 
items fall on the floor with it, and I tell the next assitant I see that

there are goods on the floor which need picking up. Hearing several tins
on 
the floor usually gets several assitants running. DH says I'm evil, but
the 
stores don't listen to reason - We have to stack that high to get the 
required number displayed. - so I get back the only way I know how.

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Need a good functional wrist and thumb brace

[Angel Skubic]

Hi Dora, Hey I am with you. I have a wrist and hand brace but does
nothing to protect my thumb. I just put up with the paina and go right
ahead and do what I do. (not fixable and I am NOT going to stop using my
hands.) Also as for being good enough to give good range of motion to
your fingers and thumb? Haa haa...I use it and get so frustrated I end
up taking it off. It is VERY clumsy. I can type with it but again not
really graceful. I think if I were to keep it on more I may eventually
get better at it but my patience is thin. I just go on crocheting,
lacing, knitting, putering, etc. My problem is nerve damage in my hand
and arm. (and tendon damage in the wrist area on top of it all)

Good luck and hopefully we will BOTH get some good suggestions.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Dora Smith
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:07 PM
To: Chat
Subject: [lace-chat] Need a good functional wrist and thumb brace


I know there are people on this list who like to keep on using their
hands, 
and I bet some of them have joint and tendon problems in their hands.

 I need a good thumb and wrist brace, for wrist and thumb tendonitis,
thumb 
arthritis, and snapping thumb.  Supporting and keeping from extremes of 
range of motion the wrist and base of thumb would be good enough.
Brace 
must allow just enough range of motion in the thumb joints to type and 
mouse, but not let  the distal joint - the thumb joint fartherst from
the 
hand - snap.  Many spica braces don't really protect that joint.   I
have 
to be able to use thumb and fingers to scoop out bird seed - all of
that. 
Ability to ride a bike too would be just
boss - but I ahve an idea that is asking too much.   Brace also has to
be 
not too bulky to type with it.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 



-- 
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG.
Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/699 - Release Date:
2/23/2007 1:26 PM

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Bill Hornsby Lace Bobbins

[Angel Skubic]

Great!!!

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Ben Edwards
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:07 AM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Bill Hornsby Lace Bobbins


Hello all,

If any of you are interested Bill Hornsby is back at his lathe and is
now making lace bobbins again.

Happy lacemaking,

Ben Edwards
www.djhornsby.co.uk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] Re: tourist question from me

[Angel Skubic]

I love BUTTERMILK pancakes. Nothing better than that unless it is
buttermilk waffles. My grandmother had the best recipe and when she
worked briefly at a restaurant in town to make some extra cash, they
became a local legend. (along with her pies) There are some places that
still make VERY good pancakes and serve them. I love to go to a good
restaurant that can serve to die for buttermilk pancakes...

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Tamara P Duvall
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:59 PM
To: Lace Arachne
Subject: [lace] Re: tourist question from me


On Jan 4, 2007, at 21:38, Joy Beeson wrote:

 I've forgotten what the merits of a pancake the size of a large coin
 were supposed to be.

Um... So that the boys could eat more of them and then brag about it?
-- 
Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] party time, help needed

[Angel Skubic]

For christmas it would be nice to mix in some pine scent.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Bev Walker
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:19 PM
To: Janice Blair
Cc: lace-chat-digest
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] party time, help needed


Hi Janice

Grate or peel any bar soap in a large bowl with potato peeler into 2
cups boiling water, (about a half cup of peelings).  Add about a quarter
cup of liquid laundry starch, whip on high with electric mixer.  Add
more soap peelings if not stiff enough.And create! It dries hard and
looks like fresh fallen snow on my Christmas tree and the whole house
smells divine.

I cadged this from a craft site - personally I'd use unscented soap, I
don't think the bar-soap smell goes well with food :(

HTH
-- 
bye for now
Bev indoors in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Janice Blair wrote:

 I am having our British club party at my home, a sit down meal for 
 about 30, luckily I don't have to make all the food, but I will need 
 something for the table centers and I seem to remember doing a snowy 
 scene years ago using soap powder for the snow.  Does anyone remember 
 doing that, and if so, what do you mix the powder with to make it go 
 hard?  Failing that I could use royal icing.

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Hug video

[Angel Skubic]

I was so moved by it just about everyone on my contact list got it. I
liked the news video about it as well. I hope the best for the band,
Juan Mann and all the people who have picked up Free Hugs signs and gone
downtown to their city to spread the love.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Agnes Boddington
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:30 AM
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Subject: [lace-chat] Hug video


Hello Pene,
Thanks for the link to this video. There was an article about this in 
today's Times newspaper too; how the video brought fame to the hugger as

well as the group playing the music.
A nice story on a dark autumn day!
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
Bobbin maker - will ship worldwide.

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] A Difficult Day

[Angel Skubic]

Dear David,

My best wishes go to you and to Barbara Doll. I have cats and can
sympathise with what your going through. They are very very precious to
me. (my children) I am glad that she will go on to catch more mice and
birds...Amazingly animals seem to get on quite well after an amputation.
I am glad she survived her encounter with your Tobacco man's vehicle. I
lost a kitty to our coalman as a child, in exactly the same way. She was
not so lucky...she died in my arms.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of David in Ballarat
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; angela; Vivienne sobek; Kaye Aldenhoven;
chris; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Raie
Subject: [lace-chat] A Difficult Day


Dear Friends,
Today started out bright and breezy as I was expecting 2 friends of 
50 years up from Melbourne for the day.

However, at about midday, just prior to their arrival my tobacco man 
accidently ran over my dear cat Barbara Doll. At least he stopped and 
came back in to tell me. She had shot off under the house which is 
about 12 high at the front and there was I all clean and showered 
worming my way through 125 years of dust, broken bricks etc. to try 
to get to her.

As I got near, she walked out the other side. I could see that her 
right back leg was shattered, but I could not get near her. It was 
pathetic watching her trying to climb a tree.

Eventually my friends arrived and we caught her and got her to the 
Vet. After many x-rays and examinations it seems she was extremely 
lucky - the hip is OK. It's mainly around the ankle area which is all 
dislocated and smashed. The orthopod is to check the x-rays in the 
morning, but it looks as though we are facing amputation tomorrow
afternoon.

I offered to invent a prosthesis, but there are too many problems 
with fur etc. They said she'll cope really well and it's far easier 
for a cat to lose a back leg than a front one which they use so much 
for grooming, digging holes etc.

David in Ballarat

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace] embroidery tool and sewing machines

[Angel Skubic]

I have an old singer treadle machine. I love it. It needs a new belt
though...the other one just plain got old and dry...

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of mary carey
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 4:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lace@arachne.com
Subject: RE: [lace] embroidery tool and sewing machines


Hi All,

I have a copy of Singer Instructions for Art Embroidery and Lace Work
and 
it is the Eighth Edition.  It lists 1922, 1923, 1925, 1931, 1937, 1941,
and 
1948 as the years of the other editions.

Subjects include Eyelet Embroidery, Richelieu Embroidery, Fancy Stitches
on 
White Goods, Applique on Net, English Lace (Braid Applique), Brussels
Lace, 
Teneriffe Wheels, Duchess Lace, Venetian Lace.

The Chapters are arranged into 5 Courses of Study.  I have a treadle 
machine, which I inherited from my husband's late aunt and if I ever
have 
spare time I will try some of the Lace and Embroidery it demonstrates.
I 
will certainly make time to read some more of it.

I am interested in the history of the things I do and it was for that
that I 
purchased this book when I had the opportunity.  It is just amazing what
you 
can do with just a treadle machine.  I am sure that no one fully uses
the 
capacity of the machinery they own, I certainly don't.

Mary Carey
Campbelltown, NSW, Australia


From: Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [lace] embroidery tool and sewing machines
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:43:25 -0700

Tamara wrote:

the early instruction booklets that came with machines.

What's early? And, does anyone know how well those early 
combination machines sold? As opposed to the two -- independent 
(sewing and embroidery) -- ones?


I think the book referred to was put out by the Singer sewing company. 
And,
yes, it does refer to the use of a simple Singer straight-stitch sewing

machine to do embroidery, not a specialized embroidery machine.

Our local library has a copy of the book - I think it's called Singer
Instructions For Art Embroidery and Lace Work - and it has been
reprinted 
(Dover?). I don't know how early the original book came out, but the
one 
I've seen was from the 1920's.

So, how was the embroidery done? As I recall, you position your needle,

put
down the presser foot, and put the needle down through the fabric.

Then you either
(1) leave the needle in the fabric, lift the presser foot, turn the 
work
around the other way, adjust the stitch length if you don't want a
straight 
line of satin stitches but want them to widen or narrow, and take the
next 
stitch back, or
(2) raise the presser foot, move the fabric to where you want the next 
stitch to go in, put the presser foot down again, and put the needle
down 
into the fabric and bring it back up.

When you've repeated that several thousand times, maintaining even 
tension
all the way, you've got yourself a nice piece of embroidery.

The picture on the cover showed complicated curving whitework 
embroidery
done in lovely even satin stitch. I can't imagine anyone not employed
by 
Singer ever successfully accomplishing that level of work - or spending
the 
time to do it - but I think a lot of women bought the book thinking it
was 
all going to be very easy. (The Lace Work part of the title referred
to 
the fact that after you'd done all your satin stitch you could cut out
part 
of the background fabric to make cutwork 'lace'.)

It reminds me of a fad that flowered for six months or so about 25 
years
ago - some sewing machine company hired people to tour around textile
shows 
demonstrating how you could do cross stitch with the zig-zag feature on

their sewing machine. You bought very small diameter double-pointed 
knitting needles. You laid them down on the fabric and zig-zagged over
them 
with your machine, one stitch for each stitch on your pattern, then you

turned the whole thing around and zig-zagged back again to create the
other 
side of the cross stitch. Then you changed your thread to the next
colour 
and did the whole thing again in the next colour area, and so on.

The whole point was that you could do even cross stitch on 
non-evenweave
fabrics. As far as I can tell, the demonstrators were the only people
who 
were ever able to do the technique without breaking their sewing
machine 
needle on the steel double-pointed needles. I knew people who bought
the 
dpns but nobody who tried it more than once. It was tedious and 
frustrating.

Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL 

RE: [lace] i'm doing BOBBIN LACE !!! grumble mumble

[Angel Skubic]

Well, I just ran into that problem in a crochet magazine which was
showing the history of crocheted lace and at the top it said all the
methods shown below have one thing in common...they use fine thread and
a hook to make their designs. (yes that included the bobbin lace they
showed, and the needle lace) VERY misleading.

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of eva schaefer
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 12:37 PM
To: romdom; lace
Subject: Re: [lace] i'm doing BOBBIN LACE !!! grumble mumble 


  Evidently a universal problem:

 yes, except in France it's embroidery  

 In Spain it is crochet - the mothers, grandmothers
aunts etc. always did the same thing I do at demos -
but one person told me that they were better at it -
only needed one of those things (crochet hook) instead
of as many as I had on my pillow.  Ah well - - 

Eva in Spain



___ 
Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [lace-chat] Duracell batteries in the UK

[Angel Skubic]

Ahh...sorry to hear that. Yeah they are using a marketing ploy but there
has to be a prize bigger than that out there for some lucky person. Have
they been calling? I prefer Duracell to all other batteries, but never
enter contests anyway. (now the lottery...that I am a sucker for)

Cearbhael

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Jean Nathan
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:32 AM
To: Chat
Subject: [lace-chat] Duracell batteries in the UK


If anyone in the UK buys Duracell batteries, you'll find numbers inside
the 
packs for their World Cup competition. Throw them away. You have to
enter 
your name, address, email address, date of birth and a phone number plus
the 
number inside you pack to see if you'e won a prize. You have. You've won
a 
free screensaver to download! What a good way to collect details for
direct 
marketing as junk mail and phone calls are called to make them sound 
acceptable.

I tried with 3 numbers and entered fictitious details. All won a freen

screensaver.

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]