Re: [lace-chat] Tea for a crowd?

2015-06-05 Thread sueat
Someone can always go around with a jug of milk to add for those wanting weaker tea, and or a pot of hot water to make it slightly weaker. We over here although living in Dorset, enjoy the Yorkshire tea, make to the strength you enjoy using more or less tea leaves. We dislike tea bags.

[lace-chat] Trimming

2015-06-05 Thread Joy Beeson
The rule for trimming messages is the same everywhere: If you don't need it, don't quote it. Some contexts need more quoting than others. For example, business letters quote *everything*, because some of them are legal documents. (In the paper days, each business letter contained an

Re: [lace-chat] Searching for coloured thread

2015-06-05 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hi Sue Here are three links for UK sources of Mettler threads - and quite a few that I haven’t seen (yet!) http://www.quiltdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Mettler.html http://www.quiltdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Mettler.html http://www.jaycotts.co.uk/collections/mettler-thread_polysheen