[lace] Our local 15 minutes of fame

Allow me to share the marvelous article that just came out in our local newspaper about our Guild, the Oregon Trail Lacemakers. We have been an IOLI charter member since 2003, and are looking for more area people who are interested in lacemaking. The photographer and the reporter seemed to b

[lace] Anniversary ideas for a small guild?

Hi Lacers, We’re still a small guild (ahem - for a while), and some of our members are not able to be as active as they’d like. But we’d still like to do something to acknowledge our (non-zero) anniversary as a charter member of IOLI. Can any of you share little things we could do that would b

Re: [lace] Anniversary ideas for a small guild? Thank you!

Wow. These celebration ideas are deeply appreciated! Will ya look at their creativity, warmth and meaningfulness!! These warm ideas can lead to more connections among lacemakers, AND make memories that can be rekindled each following year. Thank you each very, very much! Martha Osgood Eugene, Oreg

[lace] Source for Grounds Notation?

Hi everyone, I think I’m looking for an on-line source for explaining Notations for Grounds (both directions). It would appear that we can/do invent our own Grounds, but if there are already marvelous options, how shall I learn to read them? For example, I would do a half-stitch ground (first)

[lace] Stitch Notations

Thanks to several of your kind comments about how to post graphics, I now have them on our local Guild’s website at http://oregontraillacemakers.weebly.com/blog I’m trying to learn how to “read” the stitch notations I see in various places. T

Re: [lace] Weaver's knot

Are those called Hackle Pliers? (at lest in fishery shops) Martha Osgood Oregon > On Mar 30, 2018, at 3:01 PM, Lorelei Halley wrote: > > Sue > That kind of tool is also used by jewelers. In the U.S. Rio Grande in > Albuquerque sells them. > Lorelei > > Subject: Re: [lace] Weaver's knot > Anoth

Re: [lace] My AOL message failed to get past ... IDEA

Idea: You might “Reply" to the message to see the content. I don’t know if this will work in this situation or not. (You’d have to toss the message at that point unless you really do went to Reply, but that might be an easier work-around than hunting for the original in other posts.) Martha O

[lace] Personal note to Monica Posner

Sorry everyone. Personal note to Monica: I’m trying to respond to your nice note, but your address has blocked me. Could you give me another email address (thru a different server), or a phone number that I can call? Thank you, Martha Osgood in Eugene, Oregon 541-913-9070 - To unsubscrib

Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin, indexing of

> On Jul 11, 2018, at 10:05 AM, Karen Thompson wrote: > > ...I hope at some point in the future the old Bulletins will be digitized, and there will be > a nice digital index of articles and patterns, so they can be searched…. VERY nice idea, Karen. Do we have people with skill or advice in dig