Re: [lace-chat] domain name change

2022-12-06 Thread Joy Beeson
to change my address. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the temperature is well above freezing. On 12/5/2022 8:48 AM, Elizabeth Reynolds wrote: Greetings to all of you! I’m dropping by to let you know that I’ve accepted an offer

Re: [lace-chat] domain name change

2022-12-06 Thread Joy Beeson
to change my address. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the temperature is well above freezing. On 12/5/2022 8:48 AM, Elizabeth Reynolds wrote: Greetings to all of you! I’m dropping by to let you know that I’ve accepted an offer

Re: [lace] Lacemaker Assistance in Massachusetts, USA

2022-10-15 Thread Joy Beeson
On 10/11/2022 10:00 PM, Vickie McKinney wrote: Also, as a note for tatting, she is left-handed. I once tried tatting "left-handed". My left hand was delighted to do the right hand's work, but my right hand couldn't do the left hand's work at all. -- Joy Beeson http://wlw

[lace] Re: Goddess of Lace?

2020-12-06 Thread Joy Beeson
up in fingering yarn and put knitted lace around the bottom to make a list- appropriate sweater. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's still late fall. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe la

Re: [lace] Re: [Lace] Return to class

2020-08-17 Thread Joy Beeson
sanitizer is a stopgap for when you can't wash properly. (But it's better than just wetting your hands and wiping them on a dirty towel.) -- 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: unsubscr

[lace-chat] Change of Address

2020-07-12 Thread Joy Beeson
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...

Re: [lace] Identifying Rosaline- or something else?

2020-04-09 Thread Joy Beeson
pictures erases the previous picture; the illustrations for Rough Sewing accumulate. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. Where I'm clearing forgotten messages out of my drafts folder. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

Re: [lace] Our mail list software

2020-04-02 Thread Joy Beeson
ww.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ -- 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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://w

Re: [lace] Sarah Dazeley hanging bobbin

2020-01-26 Thread Joy Beeson
On 1/26/2020 7:38 PM, Adele Shaak wrote: Cindy - it’s a bobbin that commemorates a public hanging. Yes, that was a thing. Been there, done that, bought the bobbin. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to majord

Re: [lace] I'm still here after all these years...

2019-05-30 Thread Joy Beeson
want to be the reason this discussion had to be moved" reaction. -- 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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.

[lace] Re: Bedfordshire lace

2019-02-16 Thread Joy Beeson
enough. But I haven't tried King Tut yet. -- 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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site

[lace] Re: Teachers or no Teachers

2018-11-28 Thread Joy Beeson
On 11/25/2018 1:27 AM, Kim Davis wrote: Whether this is a tendency of bobbin lace makers or women in general is a whole other debate. No debate. It's a property of people in general. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Re: The whys & wherefores of using temporary pins in Binche

2018-09-06 Thread Joy Beeson
that arranging your pins in a pattern made it easy to be sure that you hadn't lost one. Nowadays we dump them in a dish, and my only fear when I realize that one is missing is that one of us might step on it. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A

Re: [lace] questions for you lace makers living in California in the 1980s

2018-05-15 Thread Joy Beeson
the name was changed to "Lacis", but I sure know *why*. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we went straight from winter to summer. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.h

Re: [lace] reporting lace news

2018-05-15 Thread Joy Beeson
t you *should*". About half the time, I don't need to click a link, just read the URL.) -- 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 y...@address.here. For h

Re: [lace] Single space between sentences; avoid quotations/apostrophes

2018-05-15 Thread Joy Beeson
TML fonts are only suggestions -- and in addition to readers who say "Ugh! Serif/sans serif type! Click, ah, that's better.", some browsers won't have the suggested font on hand and will substitute whatever is available. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A

[lace] Re: Magnifying glasses

2018-04-07 Thread Joy Beeson
the fine print on labels. -- 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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com

[lace-chat] Plait and braid: was: [lace] Re: question

2017-07-10 Thread Joy Beeson
w, the only thing ever braided/plaited was my hair and Jenny Von's. Nowadays it's the other way around: "braid" is everyday and "plait" is high toned. But I don't know how "plait" is pronounced. When I see "plait", my mind's ear says "plate". I thin

[lace-chat] OT: moved to chat: was: Arachne Convention Get Together

2017-06-14 Thread Joy Beeson
message will be displayed. -- 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

[lace-chat] News reports

2017-03-31 Thread Joy Beeson
chairman gave the reporter a long song-and-dance about the distinction. The reporter began his story by repeating the "this in not a race" explanation verbatim. And the very next line after that paragraph began "The race begins at . . ." -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/P

[lace] Re: Color Theory and Thread Conservation

2017-01-13 Thread Joy Beeson
to be soft and a good place to stick coarse needles. And yes, I know what the sun is doing to the thread. All my good threads are in dark drawers or the boxes that they came in. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. On 1/12/17 1:46 PM, jeria...@aol.com wrote

[lace] Re: Pincushion

2017-01-11 Thread Joy Beeson
to the curtain to keep my pearl-head pins (something like divider pins) handy. Since the pins occupy only the upper edge of the cushion, a packet of tidy pins and some other special pins have accumulated on the lower half of the cushion. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne

Re: [lace] Arachne Flickr page

2017-01-02 Thread Joy Beeson
message, the only editing your mailer had done was to replace two of your punctuation marks with groups of non-ASCII characters ("’" and "–"), but machine-generated HTML code often looks like dog vomit. Oops! I also didn't find any HTML codes. That particular message is in

[lace-chat] Switchel: was: Weather: was: help

2016-08-11 Thread Joy Beeson
On 8/4/16 11:34 AM, Joy Beeson wrote: Switchel is an eighteenth-century hayhand's drink consisting of ginger, molasses, vinegar, and optional oatmeal. I substitute honey and freshly-squeezed lemon juice for the molasses and vinegar. I looked up "switchel" in the O.E.D. (I o

[lace-chat] Re: Switchel

2016-08-09 Thread Joy Beeson
ts; after re-filling the bottle, I give it a vigorous shake to bruise the basil and release more flavor. Basil flowers in a clear bottle sometimes attract admiring comment. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@ar

[lace-chat] Re: Quote Source

2016-08-05 Thread Joy Beeson
ypewriter; I hadn't heard of word processors at the time. -- 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.c

Re: [lace-chat] Switchel

2016-08-05 Thread Joy Beeson
he bag into a bottle.)) This is somewhat incoherent, but it's time to weed the garden. "I'm sorry this letter is so long; I didn't have time to make it short." (Now I'll spend the rest of the day wondering who I'm quoting.) -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indian

[lace-chat] Re: Weather: was: help

2016-08-04 Thread Joy Beeson
er from upsetting the stomach. I think the sweet and the sour are just to make it taste better, but I *have* found that lemon water -- after squeezing a lemon, I put the spent peel into ice water -- goes down faster than plain water. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Way

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] email problems.

2016-03-19 Thread Joy Beeson
. Crossposted to Chat because this post is off-topic for Lace. -- 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

Re: [lace] email problems.

2016-03-19 Thread Joy Beeson
. Crossposted to Chat because this post is off-topic for Lace. -- 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 y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

Re: [lace-chat] Lacemakers and Tatters in Severe Weather Areas

2015-12-30 Thread Joy Beeson
and nasty driving. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's gloomy but dry and I'm going for a long walk. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write

Re: [lace] pillow infestation

2015-12-03 Thread Joy Beeson
into an air-tight container, dropping in a piece of dry ice, and leaving it closed for a few days would do the trick. Until the eggs hatch and the mites hiding in other places hop over to take advantage of the vacant habitat. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne

Re: [lace] Skein swift

2015-11-19 Thread Joy Beeson
that was bereft of suitable chairs. I hung the skein on a doorknob, lifted off a few coils and laid them out zig-zag across the room, then wound my way back to the skein and lifted off a few more coils. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A

Re: [lace-chat] maths question from a non mathematician

2015-10-01 Thread Joy Beeson
uot;.) 75% is 3/4, so you would use 4/3, which is one and a third: 133.33% -- 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 arach

[lace-chat] Trimming

2015-06-05 Thread Joy Beeson
me too!, rewrite it. If you can't tell which part of the quote your comment is responding to, trim the parts that you are not responding to. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's sunny and warm

[lace-chat] Challis! was Re: [lace] Wool for a bolster pillow?

2015-05-21 Thread Joy Beeson
, since this is very off-topic. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ 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

Challis! was Re: [lace] Wool for a bolster pillow?

2015-05-21 Thread Joy Beeson
, since this is very off-topic. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace-chat] Cycling: was: Re: [lace] Learning Bobbin Lace

2015-04-06 Thread Joy Beeson
is the British equivalent of _Effective Cycling_. There is a _Cyclecraft North American Edition_, but I've yet to get my hands on a copy. (And, alas, it's still true that I haven't seen the North American edition.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] weather

2015-01-08 Thread Joy Beeson
. Just asked DH -- he said snow can't get into the rain gauge. We used to have an official rain gauge that you took the funnel out of, then brought in, thawed, and poured into a graduated cylinder. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west

[lace] Darning: was: Simple needlelace question

2014-11-27 Thread Joy Beeson
difference to the size of the stitches, but they make it a lot easier to keep the rows straight and avoid puckering. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the lake-effect snow didn't stick

Re: [lace] Salamander group

2014-09-01 Thread Joy Beeson
-- and easier to avoid for those not interested. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write

[lace-chat] Re: Old Testament computing

2014-08-18 Thread Joy Beeson
On 8/15/14 9:57 PM, Martha Krieg wrote: Just last Friday, returned from 10 days in the Middle Ages at the Pennsic Wars with my daughter and her family and about 10,350 other people... Oh, that sounds like fun. Did Cariadoc conduct a bardic circle? -- Joy Beeson http

[lace] Beginner's Bruges Duchesse or Bruges Flower lace

2014-05-05 Thread Joy Beeson
Another approach is to make worm bandages out of very coarse thread that quickly adds up to something. My Compact Oxford English Dictionary has a bookmark that is a long strip of cloth stitch made of three colors of Knit-Cro-Sheen, with white bedspread cotton for the passives. The footsides are

Re: [lace] Ethics and the internet

2014-04-21 Thread Joy Beeson
Legally, Heaven only knows. There's probably a law against crossing the street. Morally, if you give as much provenance as you've got, and state that it's incomplete and open to correction, that's all any reasonable person could expect. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

[lace] Re: Long Live Lace!

2014-01-25 Thread Joy Beeson
properly spaced on Thunderbird 1.5.0.14, which is running on Windows 98. Cross-posted to Chat. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where I'm icy-streeted in. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace] Test response to Re: Long Live Lace!

2014-01-25 Thread Joy Beeson
This is the second time I've cross-posted to Lace and Chat and the post appeared in only one group. If my theory as to why the post below my sig appeared only in Chat is correct, this one will return to me and not appear on either group On 1/25/14 9:57 AM, Joy Beeson wrote: On 1/24/14 7:16

[lace-chat] Re: Long Live Lace!

2014-01-25 Thread Joy Beeson
properly spaced on Thunderbird 1.5.0.14, which is running on Windows 98. Cross-posted to Chat. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where I'm icy-streeted in. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace-chat] Test response to Re: Long Live Lace!

2014-01-25 Thread Joy Beeson
This is the second time I've cross-posted to Lace and Chat and the post appeared in only one group. If my theory as to why the post below my sig appeared only in Chat is correct, this one will return to me and not appear on either group On 1/25/14 9:57 AM, Joy Beeson wrote: On 1/24/14 7:16

Re: [lace] some comments about the list

2014-01-02 Thread Joy Beeson
* because it changes you wrote to Joe Blow wrote. Identifying the person to whom I am replying is often useful --many messages sent to me are sent from shared addresses-- and never a problem. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne

Re: [lace] Needlelace Designs Techniques - PRINT ON DEMAND!

2013-10-16 Thread Joy Beeson
to belong to a Yahoo mailing list for self-publishers and small-press publishers who would guide each other through the tangles, but the traffic was so high that I was obliged to drop out. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Needlelace Designs Techniques - PRINT ON DEMAND!

2013-10-16 Thread Joy Beeson
to belong to a Yahoo mailing list for self-publishers and small-press publishers who would guide each other through the tangles, but the traffic was so high that I was obliged to drop out. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne

Re: [lace] Tatting update

2013-09-17 Thread Joy Beeson
. It didn't work -- my left hand got on just fine holding the shuttle, but I couldn't persuade my right hand to manage the thread. I think all us right-handers are doing it backward. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A

Re: [lace] Lace story

2013-09-02 Thread Joy Beeson
from there are often mangled, so use another gate if you have one. If you like, I'm willing to post to r.a.sf.c., copy the responses to Chat, and copy Chat responses to the Usenet thread. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne

[lace-chat] Prawn Puzzle

2013-08-19 Thread Joy Beeson
in an index to porn sites. The folks who use the index must be terribly disappointed that it's a text file. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where good ash firewood is a drug on the market

[lace-chat] Testing:

2013-08-07 Thread Joy Beeson
, Christian...!!! -- Joy Beeson 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] Tatting

2013-08-03 Thread Joy Beeson
Another expedient used in pre-chain patterns is to pick up a hook and crochet a chain. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace-chat] Re: Caring for needles

2013-07-23 Thread Joy Beeson
thread, and stuffed a scrap of wool flannel into the hole, somehow creating a neat little dome to stick the needle into. For an emergency kit, a tiny glass test-tube with an air-tight cork might be a good idea if you can find one. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net

Re: [lace-chat] Lace and vision

2013-06-06 Thread Joy Beeson
old dollar-store reading glasses, strength 3.5, which I wear over my prescription glasses -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the lake is almost down to normal, but the asparagus bed is still soggy

Re: [lace] Calling all lace authors

2013-05-25 Thread Joy Beeson
to annoy legitimate users of the works while providing hardly any inconvenience to pirates, who can easily break the lock and make as many copies as they please. People who own legitimate copies of DRMed work have been known to buy pirated editions too, to get a DRM-free version. -- Joy Beeson

[lace-chat] E-books

2013-05-24 Thread Joy Beeson
E-books sound like a great idea, and I wish they had been available when my mother's sight was fading, but if a reader can't read a plain-ASCII file with no fuss or feathers or conversion or special app, I consider it Still Not Available. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http

Re: [lace-chat] Re-assurance Please .....

2013-05-10 Thread Joy Beeson
the calf machine, believe him! -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ 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

Re: [lace-chat] Peeps

2013-05-01 Thread Joy Beeson
posted.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html 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

Re: [lace-chat] Peeps

2013-05-01 Thread Joy Beeson
that became very popular after sugar was added to the recipe and the bran and wheat germ were reduced or eliminated. I have heard that digestive biscuits are somewhat similar. -- Joy Beeson west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where wild violets are in bloom. To unsubscribe send email to majord

Re: [lace-chat] Twinkees

2013-05-01 Thread Joy Beeson
it was tornado shelter all over. A summer cottage owned by my brother-in-law has a concrete storage shed built into the side of a hill, which he presumes was built as a storm cellar. -- Joy Beeson west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

[lace-chat] Re: corned beef

2013-04-30 Thread Joy Beeson
-time pimentos in a supermarket; even the farmer's market has begun to sell the huge flavorless peppers we used to call mangos. I sure hope sweet mini peppers don't go away as mysteriously as they appeared. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http

Re: [lace] Where Have All the Tatters Gone? (digitally)

2013-04-18 Thread Joy Beeson
getting started in designing patterns. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/~joybeeson/TAT/TATEX09.HTM http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y

[lace] De not lurking

2013-03-21 Thread Joy Beeson
out of anything that requires Pay Pal. --- I scanned my Arachne pin and posted the file at http://www.joy.debeeson.net/HAT.JPG It isn't very clear, but I don't think my scanner can do much better. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam

[lace-chat] De not lurking

2013-03-21 Thread Joy Beeson
out of anything that requires Pay Pal. --- I scanned my Arachne pin and posted the file at http://www.joy.debeeson.net/HAT.JPG It isn't very clear, but I don't think my scanner can do much better. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam

Re: [lace] There's never enough room

2012-05-29 Thread Joy Beeson
On 5/29/12 12:27 PM, Diane Z wrote: . . . Why not encase a piece of plastic in cloth. And for plastic that you can pin through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_canvas -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne

Re: [lace] There's never enough room

2012-05-27 Thread Joy Beeson
On 5/28/12 12:11 AM, L.Snyder wrote: A ferrous metal bobbin will discolor your thread. Probably any metal bobbin will! Some kinds of stainless steel will stick to magnets. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's hot and we

[lace-chat] Weird Characters: was: Fw: Handkerchief fabric (moved from Lace)

2012-05-08 Thread Joy Beeson
, reads news, browses, and cleans the kitchen sink program to write in ASCII, and even plain text is apt to be written in some private code. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net

[lace] Re: Book Raffle -- Rosemary

2012-04-13 Thread Joy Beeson
spotted it on the top shelf of the hall closet. So I shuffled, asked him to pick one, he took the four of spades, which means the fourth entry that I received, and that is: Rosemary Darrah. Send me your address. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam

[lace-chat] Re: Book Raffle -- Rosemary

2012-04-13 Thread Joy Beeson
spotted it on the top shelf of the hall closet. So I shuffled, asked him to pick one, he took the four of spades, which means the fourth entry that I received, and that is: Rosemary Darrah. Send me your address. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam

[lace-chat] Forty Entries in Book Raffle

2012-04-07 Thread Joy Beeson
entry yesterday and two today. And I've been exactly as busy this weekend as I thought I'd be! I baked rye bread yesterday, and today when I got back from beating fourteen dozen eggs for tomorrow's breakfast service, I baked a loaf of buckwheat bread. -- Joy Beeson http

[lace] Book Raffle

2012-03-30 Thread Joy Beeson
, and only a little yellow. Send entries to joybeeson at comcast.net with the word raffle in the subject line. I'll draw names on Friday the thirteenth; there's a library book sale that day, so that cuts down on the dates I have to remember. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

[lace-chat] Book Raffle

2012-03-30 Thread Joy Beeson
, and only a little yellow. Send entries to joybeeson at comcast.net with the word raffle in the subject line. I'll draw names on Friday the thirteenth; there's a library book sale that day, so that cuts down on the dates I have to remember. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

[lace-chat] Re: tomatoes

2012-03-28 Thread Joy Beeson
the seed to the towel. Then she stored the towel in a cool dry place until time to plant. If some towel stuck to the seed when you peeled it off, no sweat -- it won't hurt anything. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort

Re: [lace-chat] A bird of a different feather!

2012-03-25 Thread Joy Beeson
-brown one was beautiful. I wish I had preserved it. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the daffodils are starting to fade. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

Re: [lace-chat] I won!

2012-02-07 Thread Joy Beeson
an enthusiastic letter saying they could send the airline tickets to my Indianapolis address, and I'd be delighted to buy their sewing machine or whatever it was. I never heard from them again. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west

[lace-chat] Shopping: was; Green thing

2012-02-06 Thread Joy Beeson
would like to keep it that way. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html 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

Re: [lace] Lace Fence and other materials

2012-02-02 Thread Joy Beeson
, but if not required to keep a heavy boat fast in a high wind, rope would probably last much longer. I asked him, and he said he'd go with hemp or sisal if making a fence; the point of using polypropylene is that it floats. Sun rots things really, really fast. -- Joy Beeson http

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-02 Thread Joy Beeson
and put away) and ran back out to the car for my bags. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email

[lace-chat] Re: Green thing

2012-01-31 Thread Joy Beeson
are snowed by canvas bags. I bought the canvas bags from SuperValu (now Nichol's Market) in another state and another century. They are still going strong -- small holes in some, but I'm still not looking to see which bags the canned goods go into. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net

[lace-chat] Re: Soup Stew enhancer

2012-01-23 Thread Joy Beeson
off the horn (Score a line around the cheese with a paring knife, put the floss in the score, pull on the ends.) Then I would butter the newly-cut surface to keep the horn from spoiling. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort

Re: [lace] Lace classes

2011-10-28 Thread Joy Beeson
All you have to do is to frammis the wilberstan. [flutters fingers randomly, perfectly- frammised wilberstan appears] And then you gorblach . . . -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.shtml#content west of Fort

Re: [lace] Re: lace at jury duty

2011-10-28 Thread Joy Beeson
the waiting room for a potty break on the other hand . . . -- Joy Beeson west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - 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

Re: [lace] Demise of suppliers

2011-10-20 Thread Joy Beeson
the children make their own; it's fun even if one has no intention of ever making lace. I once obtained a bag of seconds of bone beads, which were a lot of fun to play with. I still have two skewer-and-bead single-point bamboo knitting needles that I use as shawl pins. -- Joy Beeson http

Re: [lace] Sign of the times - call for action? (long)

2011-10-14 Thread Joy Beeson
on the others . . . -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.shtml#content west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

Re: [lace] Wooden implement question

2011-10-06 Thread Joy Beeson
can't think of anything but a needle case. So what's the hole for? To wear it on a lanyard? To put a knitting needle in to use as a wrench to unscrew the cap? -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.shtml#content west of Fort Wayne, Indiana

[lace] Re: lace knitting + supplies + dying wool

2011-10-05 Thread Joy Beeson
by a vinegar rinse when used on wool, because soap is alkaline. Best to rinse in plain water, then wash again with vinegar as your soap.) -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email

Re: [lace] Books on demand

2011-09-15 Thread Joy Beeson
the final book came out. (I threw away all the rep copies of the Bikeabout -- and the rubber cement would have turned into a stain and let go by now anyway.) -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

Re: [lace-chat] EU bureaucracy

2011-08-26 Thread Joy Beeson
on a typical page and the number of pages -- usually a better estimate than the precise but inaccurate count of a word processor. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the weather has been pleasant for *days

Re: [lace-chat] Christmas stores opening

2011-07-26 Thread Joy Beeson
fruitcake. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

Re: [lace-chat] curry bras????

2011-07-26 Thread Joy Beeson
tastes, but I'd been hunting for yellow linen a long time when I found it. (I should check whether there's enough scrap from it to make a taxicab bra, and *really* snow innocent bystanders!) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http

Re: [lace] of lace bicycle baskets

2011-06-10 Thread Joy Beeson
varnish. Which brings up the idea of replacing my wire panniers with wire-lace panniers, but even if I had the requisite tools and skills, I don't think I'd like hooking my ugly old bungees into wire lace. Not to mention the question of working the reflectors into the design. -- Joy Beeson http

Re: [lace-chat] concentrated OJ

2011-05-11 Thread Joy Beeson
when some of the powder was taken on a space voyage. The ads never mentioned that on early flights the astronauts followed a food-free diet on account of there being no facilities in space suits. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west

Re: [lace-chat] concentrated OJ

2011-05-11 Thread Joy Beeson
at no charge. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we went directly from furnace to air conditioner. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y

[lace-chat] Re: Concentrated orange juice

2011-05-08 Thread Joy Beeson
. Nuts dilute the sugar and make small servings more satisfying. The rec.food.cooking FAQ, which is posted on the Web at http://vsack.homepage.t-online.de/rfc_faq.html contains much useful information for people using foreign cookbooks. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

Re: [lace] Weavers knot

2011-02-25 Thread Joy Beeson
On 2/20/11 1:14 PM, Jane Partridge wrote: . . . what we were told was a sheet bend was in fact a clove hitch, GCK!! Confusing a bend with a hitch is like confusing a match with a pair of chopsticks! -- Joy Beeson, KC9TOX http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net

Re: [lace-chat] Valentine customs

2011-02-01 Thread Joy Beeson
On 2/1/11 9:31 AM, Jean Eke wrote: Do any of you know if this custom survived anywhere else? Often customs like this were taken to America and survived longer there. It might have been an influence on our Halloween customs. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort

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