[lace-chat] tatting - on ebay

2003-11-14 Thread Barron
I confess I am not a tatter - have never even fallen foul of the tatting lady at demonstrations - but I would have called this a French knitting tool not a tatting instrument. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3252879443category=114 is it for French knitting and what is that

Re: [lace-chat] tatting - on ebay

2003-11-14 Thread alice howell
At 01:21 PM 11/14/2003 -, you wrote: I confess I am not a tatter - have never even fallen foul of the tatting lady at demonstrations - but I would have called this a French knitting tool not a tatting instrument. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3252879443category=114 is

Re: [lace-chat] tatting - on ebay

2003-11-14 Thread Joan Wilson
We called it Corking when I was young.. Joan - Original Message - From: alice howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] tatting - on ebay At 01:21 PM 11/14/2003 -, you wrote: I confess I am not a tatter - have

Re: [lace-chat] tatting - on ebay

2003-11-14 Thread Ruth Budge
Well, I agree that it is for French knitting, but I think the spring was probably accidentally caught up in the hole down the middle of the cotton reel and now the seller is assuming its part of the French knitting gadget!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) --- Carole Lassak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] tatting - on ebay

2003-11-14 Thread Ruth Budge
Yes, Alice, - what in Britain and Australia, at least, is called French knitting! Don't ask me why - just one of those things we accepted and knew from a very early age!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) --- alice howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:21 PM 11/14/2003 -, you wrote: I