[lace] Help needed update

Hi all thank you all for your suggestions about my sewings problem. I have taken them all on board and am going to buy both a lazy Susan and a bigger crochet hook and see how I get on. Alison in sunny Colchester Essex UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line:

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to be small enough to get it through the loop or hole where the sewing will be made. Lorelei -Original Message- Subject: [lace] Help needed "Returning to tape lace after a long time I am struggling with the sewings and false plaits. " from Alison in Colchester - To unsubscribe

[lace] Help needed & tools for sewings

A needle pin is different than a lazy susan. The needle pin is essentially a needle with a handle. The eye of the needle is buried & the point is the business end. A lazy susan is a bent needle with a handle & the point is buried. Susie Johnson in PA is a leading proponent of needle pins. She

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Using a needle pin works the same way as using a crochet hook. But personally I find it more difficult since there is nothing at the end of the needle to catch and hold the thread. A needle pin is usually used with very fine threads, since you might damage the fine thread with the hook part of

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I watched the video and saw she used a threaded needle in the Lazy Susan. Is that the same as a needle pin? I didn’t think thread was involved with the needle pin, but I’ve never seen one used. Jean Reardon Western Pennsylvania > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9u6yaxKQw - To unsubscribe

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Allison, sorry to hear you have been ill. Yesterday on Facebook I saw this link to doing sewings both with crochet hook and lazy Susan. I hope this is what you were wanting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9u6yaxKQw If the link doesn't work - type into Google - Lou Woo youtube lace sewing

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If you are struggling to grasp the thread try using a mini latch hook. Hemline sell them as snag repair tools. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hemline-H248-Miniature-Latch-Repair/dp/B002TYE4GQ Brenda > I've lost some of my

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Dear Allison, 2 things. If you can, take your lace outside to enjoy the weather. I suggest looking for a crochet hook of close to proper size with a really thick handle, perhaps the width of a wine cork. Also, possibly enlarging the pattern and thread to make it all easier to deal with

[lace] Help needed

Hi all Returning to tape lace after a long time I am struggling with the sewings and false plaits. I've lost some of my manual dexterity due to illness and a crochet hook is not working. I have what I think is called a needle pin and Bridget cook's practical skills in lace book but I am

[lace] Help needed from France

I need to contact Hotel de la Dentelle in Brioude but they don’t reply to emails. Could someone in France please help me? Ann-Marie Andersson - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

[lace] Help needed

Dear Spiders, I have started a scarf from Brigitte Bellon's little book of Scarves and table runners. I am making the scarf number 5. I have reached the point where I have to make the rose ground . The top rose ground is really the top of a triangle . The problem is that it is just in the middle

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Jacquie wrote: My sister Malvary is making a curtain in strips (and the pressure of everyone asking how she's getting on with it has helped her being near to finishing) which she has joined on the pillow to get a good tension at the joins, but she found even with only one strip to join on, it

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Hi Karen I don't know how you design BL (computer or hand drawn) but with Adobe Illustrator which I use the circumference of a circular edging is the measurement around the centre of the edging, the outside edge will be slightly bigger and the inside edge/footside will be smaller. If the

[lace] Help Needed

For my City Guilds Part 1 (back in 1996!) I made a wedding veil with a tamboured edging. The edging is 2 inches wide around a 60 inch diameter circle. Working on the outer circumference measurement, having cut the inner circle from cotton net, I cut three straight strips of two yards (72

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Thanks for your advice Jane and Brenda. I'm saving all the replies for now until I have time to try drawing again. Must be soon. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

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Hi Karen You could try to play with http://bobbinwork.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/webstart/bwpGrid.jnlp Explained at http://bobbinwork.wikispaces.com/quick+start+for+grids It counts in mm and wants at least half a circle on a page. But you could try as if mm's are cm's and enlarge 10 times. The

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1.5m diameter diameter presumably? So this will be almost straight on the outer bands. It could be quite difficult to get a polar grid with so little curve Using an approximate pi (which is actually 3.1416), you can multiply the diameter by 3 for a guesstimate of the lengths requires, so

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Subject: Re: [lace] Help Needed 1.5m diameter diameter presumably? So this will be almost straight on the outer bands. It could be quite difficult to get a polar grid with so little curve Using an approximate pi (which is actually 3.1416), you can multiply the diameter by 3

[lace] help needed -- Knipling 4

I would like to talk to someone with the 1989 book Knipling 4 by Karen 'Trend Nissen, and who can translate it. I have questions about one of the patterns. Thank you, Alice in Oregon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here.

[lace] Help needed

Hi If anyone on the list has contact with Hilde C Aas of Norway, would they please tell her that we keep e-mailing her but each time the mail is sent back to us. Kind regards Pat Pat Hallam Nottingham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for Catalogue [EMAIL PROTECTED]) www.roseground.com - To

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Thanks so much to Beth, Alice and Tamara for great help on the angel. I'm getting out of my box with this pattern and hope that it will lead to doing more challenging patterns. I will let you know how it progresses and maybe even a picture when it is done. Thanks again for being there. Jane

[lace] Help needed

Good morning all - There is a pattern for Angel of Peace by Brigitta Gornik in the Fall 2007 issue of the IOLI bulletin that I have been wanting to start ever since I first saw it. Now I'm getting serious and doing it. But, because I am green to projects that are worked in sections, I'm

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Hi Jane I haven't seen that particular pattern, but normally where you have a half stitch section with a different-coloured edge pair, the edge pair are the passives nearest to the edge and you work through them in cloth stitch (CTC) or cloth stitch and twist instead of half stitch (that way

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On Sep 17, 2008, at 7:48, Jane Nelson wrote: Good morning all - There is a pattern for Angel of Peace by Brigitta Gornik in the Fall 2007 issue of the IOLI bulletin [...] So - first question beginning at number 1: 1 edge pair - metallic Why just one pair? Because each thread of that pair

[lace] Help needed in Germany

About a month ago I ordered a booklet and a pattern from the web shop at Chemnitzer Klöppelwerkstatt in Germany http://www.kloeppelwerkstatt.de/ but I never received a reply to my order or my e-mail message so I suppose they don't accept foreign customers. Could someone in Germany please order

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Hi All The ebay lace shop in Germany did not respond to my emails regarding payment via paypal and delivery to England so I just paid them the amount specified for German postage and they sent them!! Maybe that's the case here too! Sue in EY On 8 Sep 2008, at 11:32, Agnes Boddington

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Hello Ann-Marie I know that I haev bought patterns from them via enay and they accept Paypal then. Just sent them an email to ask about orders from abroad and methods of payment. I did sent it in German, as I speak and teach German, so see if we get a response or not. Agnes Boddington -

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Jane, The only 28/2 linen (that I've seen) is Juul linen, which measured 2S-19 wraps/cm. Bouc 30 or Fresia 30/2 and Guetermann linen are all very similar, 2S-19 wraps/cm. Knox Falcon 30 and Knox Gimp 20 also measured the same but they were discontinued many years ago. I haven't seen

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@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 4:16:08 AM Subject: Re: [lace] help needed Jane, The only 28/2 linen (that I've seen) is Juul linen, which measured 2S-19 wraps/cm. Bouc 30 or Fresia 30/2 and Guetermann linen are all very similar, 2S-19 wraps/cm.  Knox Falcon 30 and Knox Gimp 20 also measured

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mean. Regards Sandra from Germany (near Munich) --- Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Do, 7.8.2008: Von: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [lace] help needed An: Jane O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lace@arachne.com Datum: Donnerstag, 7. August 2008, 11:16 ... text

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PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [lace] help needed An: Jane O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lace@arachne.com Datum: Donnerstag, 7. August 2008, 11:16 ... text deleted I haven't seen Goldschild NeL 50/3 (is it made?) Goldschild Nm 50/3 (NeL 80/3) is finer at 24 wraps/cm but also being 3 ply it is a bit

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. So have fun, think 'good thoughts' only, learn to laugh at yourself and count your blessings! - Original Message From: Sandra Adelberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 10:34:54 AM Subject: Re: [lace] help needed

[lace] help needed

Hi, Is there a comparable thread to 28/2 [Goldshilds Nel 50/3 [green label]? I cannot find anything in the Threads book.  Thanks in advance.Jane O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Lenox, IL USA Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. So have fun,

Re: [lace] Help needed--Display of lace pillow

Hello Lorraine One way is to secure the bobbins to the pillow with double-pronged jeweller's pins. I use these when transporting a pillow with lace work in progress on, and they never fail to keep the bobbins in place. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK Lorraine Weiss wrote: Hello all-- A

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Hi Agnes, And what are double pronged jewellers pins and where do I get them from? Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Help needed--Display of lace pillow

Hello all-- A conservator friend sent this to me from a conservation listserve, and I am forwarding it here in case someone in or near Toronto can help the writer. regards, Lorraine Weiss in Albany, NY From: Shirley Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 5, 2007 10:51:25 AM EST To: [EMAIL

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Dear Lorraine and group, thanks! Replied privately. Debora Lustgarten Toronto, Ontario, Canada At 03:42 PM 11/5/2007, you wrote: Hello all-- A conservator friend sent this to me from a conservation listserve, and I am forwarding it here in case someone in or near Toronto can help the writer.

[lace] Help needed with embroidery machine

Not lace related, but, as a lot of you sew as well, I hope someone can help. I've just bought a second-hand Husqvarna Iris embroidery/sewing machine. Thought that's all I was getting, but, in addition to a card with 24 embroidery designs, it also had an embroidery card reader/writer and

Re: [lace] Help needed with embroidery machine

I have a Husqvarna embroidery card reader / writer for their #1+ sewing machine and have checked the label on the transformer. The output for it is 13.5V You could always email the manufacturer and check: http://www.husqvarnaviking.com/uk/406.htm Sue - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

Re: [lace] Help needed with Wikipedia lace articles: second call

Hi, I'd love to help, but don't know enough about any of the forms of lace to write an article by my self. If anyone has collated any useful info but doesn't have the time or inclination to write it up, I'll have a go over the summer break. Helen At 00:55 06/06/2005, Julie Enevoldsen

[lace] Help needed with Wikipedia lace articles: second call

Gentle spiders, I'm a little surprised by the apparent lack of response to my earlier invitation to help with the Wikipedia lace information. Perhaps it was overlooked in a flurry of other information, or perhaps it was insufficiently explanatory? I do think this community is a perfect resource

Re: [lace] help needed M Bruggeman

From: Tonnie McBroom [EMAIL PROTECTED] I picked up a booklet last year of lace patterns of animals, but I have no idea of how to make it, or where to start. Hi Tonnie and all, What I have been told is Martine Bruggeman doesn't make any instructions when she designs her lace. It is up to the

[lace] help needed, please

To all the wonderful lace spiders - I have a question I picked up a booklet last year of lace patterns of animals, but I have no idea of how to make it, or where to start. I picked it up in Brugge at the Lace Museum. On the cover is a picture of an elephant (the reason I bought it) - the

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I don't think there are fillings in the center. It's more like a line drawing, with the lace forming lines of different thickness. If someone can tell me how to upload pictures to the webshots folder, I will put a scanned picture up there so you can see it. Tonnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

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distinguishes it from other tape laces... http://www.kloeppelshop.de/cgi-bin/webshop.pl?f=NRc=N93090t=temartic Clay - Original Message - From: Tonnie McBroom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 1:10 PM Subject: [lace] help needed, please To all the wonderful

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At 02:22 PM 8/3/2004, you wrote: I Googled on Martine Bruggeman and found the following, http://www.kloeppelshop.de/cgi-bin/webshop.pl?f=NRc=N93090t=temartic Thanks Clay. This page does show the general style of the pattern Tonnie has, but not the same pattern. I recommended the book 100 New

[lace] help needed

Pleas an anybody give me the e-mail address von Baerbel Poehle. Lotte Heinemann hat sie verloren. Vielen Dank from the Knotter - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]