At 8:13 PM +0100 12/20/07, Carolina de la Guardia wrote:
We hope that you enjoy the pictures at:
http://picasaweb.google.es/carolina.g.gallego/LaceDayLArbo2007?authkey=3uKyUrlu3R8
Beautiful lace, Carolina -- thank you for sharing these photos.
--
Mary, in Baltimore, MD
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At 11:06 AM -0500 12/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The point system that I usually use, would relegate the amount of points
that could be subtracted for knots to a small portion, which is the
strength of
the point system. But a failing of the point system is that, for instance, in
At 6:20 PM -0800 12/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Winding bobbins
2) Final sewing together
3) Tallies (leaves, squares, triangles, any other type)
I hate any and all sewings, so I stick to continuous laces. That
still leaves me with the problem of joining at the end, if it's a
hankie
At 2:11 PM +1200 6/27/07, Sue Fink wrote:
I have found having an enlarged copy of the working diagram
alongside me and sticking a pin in the diagram when I put one in the
the lace works for me. I also mark the diagram with a different pin
when I finish for the day or I can have difficulty
At 5:14 PM +0100 12/4/06, Dona B. wrote:
I just received a copy of Improvements catalog and on the back cover is a
picture of a heavy duty wreath storage bag. It says it's made of heavy duty
polyester which is waterproof and tearproof. It has a full-circle zipper and
carry handles. You can
At 8:10 PM -0700 7/26/06, bevw wrote:
Hi everyone, and many thanks to Irene for proposing the INIM project
Some of us have decided to embark on projects 'just because' (we can't
be at convention).
I'm working a butterfly from Ulrike Löhr's 'Butterfly Moth' book, a
title I bought from a lace
At 8:47 AM -0700 5/3/06, laura sandison wrote:
Yesterday while I was at a friends making lace, she came across
the initials N.B. on one of her note sheets from an instructor. We
figured it meant note, but would love to know the direct meaning
of the initials. Thanks in advance!
N.B. is
At 1:07 PM + 3/24/06, The Browns wrote:
Sheila in sunny Sawbo' where we've had some much needed rain.
I've been meaning to ask -- Sheila, where is Sawbo'? I've looked at
my atlas of the UK and can't figure out what this is an abbreviation
for.
--
Mary, in Baltimore, MD, sometimes
At 7:37 PM -0700 3/1/06, Carol Melton wrote:
Hello All, I am a little behind in reading my lace news so this is
probably at the tail end of the discussion of 'sGravenmoer lace. On
the weekend of Feb 17 - 19th, the Lacy Ladies of Arizona hosted a
workshop with Susan Wenzel (Lacy Susan)
At 3:23 PM -0500 7/22/05, Sue Babbs wrote:
Double thread picots have lots of methods - I've
learnt different ways in Honiton, Beds/Bucks and Flanders - but I can't
detect any difference in the appearance. So after giving any new method a
try out in class I revert to doing them the way I
At 9:21 AM -0500 6/17/05, Sue Babbs wrote:
I find that within Europe, I get a good rate of exchange paying by
credit card. It might be worth investigating that with your
Australian credit card company, and then you don't need to worry
about how much cash you are bringing into the country or
We had a wonderful lace day at the Baltimore Museum of Art today
despite, or maybe because of, the weather, which was raining and
foggy most of the day. I was delighted so many people had turned out
for this event, and even more so when I found out that our own
Aurelia Loveman had been
At 3:06 PM -0500 3/30/05, Laurie Hughes wrote:
Not to be crass and speak of crude money and ethereal lace in the same
breath, but I've always found that a donation, of virtually any size, speaks
volumes to curators who are always concerned about making ends meet, buying
new acid free paper,
At 9:46 PM -0700 3/16/05, Vasna Zago wrote:
Thirdly, I work at a university, and they don't do conferences anymore.
School runs year round. Students are in the dorms all year. There
are no extra
spaces, we barely have enough space for our own classes and staff, much less
renting precious
The Chesapeake Region Lace Guild (CRLG) is sponsoring several
workshops, and there is still room for non-CRLG members to join us if
you want. Registration information can be found at our website,
www.crlg.org, or you may e-mail me for information about where to
send your registration, but I
The Chesapeake Region Lace Guild (CRLG) is pleased to invite everyone
to attend our Spring Lace Day to be held Saturday, April 2, at the
Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). The lace day is being held in
conjunction with a wonderful new exhibit by the BMA of lace from the
Cone Collection. The event
At 8:52 AM + 2/10/05, Jean Nathan wrote:
Nicky wrote:
Oh what a relief, I'm clearly not the only one that thinks this piece of
trash - take that how you will (didn't it also list on the bed cover all the
men she'd slept with?)
She did an embroidery of the names of all the men she'd slept with
At 7:26 PM -0400 8/11/04, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Maybe someone here can help. I'm looking for an *existing* pattern
(pricking and photo of finished lace; diagram would be nice, but not
strictly necessary. I hope g) of an edging with a clear
paisley/leaf (or feather) shape.
It has to be
At 2:09 PM -0400 8/9/04, Panza, Robin wrote:
I'm back from the IOLI Lace Convention. I have to say, anybody who didn't
go missed a wonderful time. It was great being able to have a single class
all day instead of having to bring twice as much equipment and switch
between techniques every day.
I
At 12:27 PM -0400 7/28/04, Panza, Robin wrote:
From: Bev Walker
When you work through your 14 pairs at the picot side g are you weaving
through them or are you wrapping the weaver pair over most?... Weave through
the pairs closest to the picot and wrap the weavers only, on the bulk of the
threads
In obedience to Betty Ann's email, I went to the revised by-laws on the
www.interenationaloldlacers.org site, but can't seem to get past the
first page. Is
this just my ineptitude?
Devon
I was just now able to download the bylaws -- haven't had a chance to
read them, but I did have all 20
It seems from many of the messages I've received that Tuesday evening
after the Teacher's Showcase will be the best time for arranging a
get-together. At the moment, we have the event room from 8:30 to 10,
but I will check back on Monday to see if the IOLI Board will be
needing this room for a
At 1:05 AM +0100 7/23/04, Jane Partridge wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karisse Moore
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But the pricking card itself moved up the pins.
This actually is the problem of having so many pins close to each other
- in Torchon, where the pins are more widely spaced, the
At 3:38 PM -0700 7/20/04, Janice Blair wrote:
Adele asked if anyone was organising a meeting this year at
convention. I will hopefully be arriving on Tuesday afternoon
(driving) and I have meetings on Wednesday evening and Thursday
lunch as well as classes Wednesday morning, Thurs., Fri. and
At 3:38 PM -0700 7/20/04, Janice Blair wrote:
Adele asked if anyone was organising a meeting this year at
convention. I will hopefully be arriving on Tuesday afternoon
(driving) and I have meetings on Wednesday evening and Thursday
lunch as well as classes Wednesday morning, Thurs., Fri. and
Jane writes:
Jane in Vermont, USA getting excited about going to the IOLI
Convention in two weeks!
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Have any plans been made for an Arachne gathering at IOLI convention
this year? It was great to put some faces to the names last time.
I'll be there the entire time, so any date
At 4:12 PM -0700 6/28/04, Janice Blair wrote:
I saw some lace, mainly small pictures, for sale at the market on
Havelska on Sunday but on Monday the vendors had changed. They had
some Rumanian lace marked as macrame!
Janice, I've been told by a woman here who teaches Romanian Point
Lace that,
A picture of the lace is shown in this book, but there is not a
pricking or a pattern for it, at least not in my copy of the book.
Mary, in Baltimore, MD, USA
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At 9:28 AM -0400 6/22/04, Panza, Robin wrote:
Sally said the pattern for the Big Danish Hearts is in Karen Trend
At 11:14 AM -0400 6/17/04, Avital wrote:
Dear Spiders,
Here is a first draft of the Arachne FAQ. Feedback and corrections are
welcome! Let me know if I've missed anything or if something should be
written more clearly for non-English speakers. Thanks.
I could send this out on a quarterly basis if
At 6:54 PM +0100 5/12/04, Jane Bawn wrote:
Tamara wrote
As far as I'm concerned, only two laces belong in that group:
Milanese and Chrysanthemum. And, of the 2, Chrysanthemum is iffy, on
the fence, as it were, since it uses only one decorated braid (and
that not always) and makes its (simple)
I previously wrote about the square continental bobbins, and thought
I'd given 2 different sources, but apparently my copy command
didn't catch the right address for the second site that offers the
square Binche bobbins. This is the correct address:
At 10:07 PM +1000 4/24/04, Jacqueline Bowhey wrote:
I'd like to add a chess board and clocks to the list!
Jackie in Brisbane
Could you expand on this, please? How did you use the lace (and what
kind of lace) in a chessboard, or a clock for that matter?
--
Mary, in Baltimore, MD
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At 6:17 PM +1000 4/9/04, W N Lafferty wrote:
Been able to put a picture of my Cooma Show prizewinner on
my website - go to more pages then Cooma Show.
Noelene in Cooma
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That's lovely, Noelene -- thanks for sharing.
--
Mary, in Baltimore,
At 5:54 AM -0800 2/29/04, Valerie Stewart wrote:
Hi All
I'm coming out of lurkdom to ask for help finding
Romainain point patterns.
Valerie, have you seen this Web site? There are patterns available
for sale here.
http://www.members.tripod.com/victorianart/index.htm
I do know Doina, and she's
At 10:07 PM -0500 2/4/04, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Yours, thinking that, perhaps, I ought to have hogged all the
above info g... I've accepted the position of the BL Editor
of IOLI (first salvo in the summer issue) -- a function which
carries the responsibility of 3 articles and a pattern every
OK, I'm going to admit to my lazy way of doing picots, which I think
may be the Binche type as Michael Giusiana taught this method to me.
I simply twist 7 times, put my pin under both threads at the same
time and loop them around before placing the pin (same type of
movement as done for
At 3:02 PM -0500 12/16/03, Jane Dobinson wrote:
Looking at the diagram, the difference is that for the right, the pin is
coming from the right, under the twists, back over the twists and into the pin
hole. For the left, still using the right hand, the pin comes from the left,
under the twists,
I have been chatting off-list with a friend about the
wonderful lacemaking goodies made by Simon Toustou, who
lives in Quebec, I believe. She asked me a question for
which I don't have an answer, and I thought I'd ask the
list...
Her question: What does M. Toustou make other than pillows
and
It is also stocked by Holly Van Sciver and by Lacy Susan, to name at
least 2 lace suppliers in the US who carry it. Probably others do,
too.
And for keeping track of where it is, I keep it in my basket with the
rest of my essential lace supplies -- pricker, pin pusher and lifter,
boxes of
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