Re: [lace] Lace Police, chairs
I've got a nursing chair upstairs!! It originally belonged to my Mum and was used as a nursing chair!!! Maybe I shall just have to relocate it downstairs for use with my lace pillow and stand!!! Sue in a sunny East Yorkshire On 24 Apr 2015, at 08:27, Jane Wright wrote: Many years ago I was lucky enough to have a chair made for me. It is what I knew as a nursing chair, fairly low with a very straight back and no arms. Since I am fairly short, they adjusted the seat length - front to back - so that when I sit on it my back is firmly supported and my feet reach the floor. Ideal for a Honiton lace pillow. I had it covered in 'Imperial Blue Electrum' velvet. The name says it all, it is opulent! Wwhen I went to collect it I found that they had had it sitting in the show room for over a week as it was attracting so much attention. As I said I am very lucky and I luxuriate in it every time I make lace. Sigh. Jane Regarding Lacemakers chairs - once some years ago, Helen and I went demonstrating at an Historic House here in Melbourne, and they seated us by a window (great light!), and sat us in Victorian Ladies chairs - so they called them. They were the Best chairs I have had to sit and make lace - very low, with a circular seat, and the back wrapped about half way around the seat, so you sat back and the back rest wrapped around you. Being low, your knees were up, - just right for resting your pillow on!! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Harefield Hospital
The Anzac Cemetery During the First World War Harefield Park was offered by the owner, Charles Billyard Leake, as a hospital to the Ministry of Defence of New South Wales. For the duration of the war casualties from the Australian Forces from Gallipoli and the Western Front were treated at the newly created Harefield Hospital. Many of the wounded died; 111 men and one nursing sister were buried with military honours in an extension of the churchyard. The village school lent its Union Flag for these occasions. After the war the flag was presented to the last C.O. of the Australian Hospital and was laid up in Adelaide High School. The Australian Children’s Patriotic League presented in return a new Union Flag and an Australian Flag to Harefield school. The Australian flag hangs in the Breakspear Chapel, which was rededicated as the Australian Chapel in 1951. In 1921 began the annual ceremony in which the children from the school put flowers on every grave in the cemetery. This is followed by a Commemorative Service to which we always invite representatives from the Australian High Commission. Anzac Day, 25th April, has become a most significant annual event in the Harefield calendar. Few visitors can fail to be moved by the fact that so many of the dead died so young, and so far from home, their graves unvisited by their families until the age of easier and affordable travel. Between the wars, Harefield hospital, being in the countryside became a centre for respiratory ailments and in particular was adapted for treatment of tuberculosis. Since then the hospital has become a centre of excellence for heart surgery. My particular interest is because this was where I was fast tracked for heart surgery in 2013 and I was for some time in one of the original TB wards. These are arranged in a crescent which is south facing. Very much modernised with the old terraces now enclosed. Compared to the average size of ward in the NHS - these must be omongst the largest. You cannot go far within the hospital without being aware of the ANZAC connection. Beginning with a reception at Australia House in London on ANZAC day, the hospital trust has a substantial program of fund raising events to celebrate its centenary. More can be found on the Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust pages. Russell Perrin - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Re: Lace Police
Hi Alison and All! Oh my! I so totally hosed! LOL! For the most part I have a wide variety of bobbins on my pillow at all times. When I do demos I have 2 pillows, a roller and a cookie. One will have all the bobbins matchy matchy. The other...anything that I can throw in there.  Hugs, Susie Rose  My stores: https://www.zibbet.com/SusieRoseDesigns https://www.zibbet.com/MountainRoseFoods https://SusieRose.Blujay.com Group: ufo12fo...@yahoogroups.com Blog: http://fiberismybag.wordpress.com From: addi...@centurytel.net addi...@centurytel.net To: l...@dont.panix.com Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 7:14 PM Subject: [lace] Re: Lace Police I was informed in a recent workshop by the instructor that it is impossible to make a decent piece of lace unless all the bobbins are exactly the same. I would have failed miserably as a vendor had I held that attitude. I look at my bobbins and see forty years of wonderful, embarressing, delightful, and now somewhat terrifying moments. IMHO the lace police can take a hike. Alison Addicks Rice, Wa - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Re: [lace] To our Aussie and NZ spiders
At 03:49 PM 24/04/2015, Tregellas Family wrote: Dear Liz, Think I might miss the dawn service as I've never been very good at dawn times :) and it promises to be rather cold here in Ballarat. I will, however, be marching at 1030hrs. Will have to polish up the medals shortly. David in Ballarat, AUS - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Re: [lace] To our Aussie and NZ spiders
At 03:49 PM 24/04/2015, Tregellas Family wrote: Dear Liz, Think I might miss the dawn service as I've never been very good at dawn times :) and it promises to be rather cold here in Ballarat. I will, however, be marching at 1030hrs. Will have to polish up the medals shortly. David in Ballarat, AUS To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace-chat] To our Aussie and NZ spiders
Thanks Liz for those kind thoughts. Huge numbers of Australians have turned out for the dawn services , one third of the Canberra population were at the National War Memorial there. Later in the morning, in even the smallest towns, there have been marches of war vets together with relatives of those who have died who are allowed to wear the family medals on the right side of the chest. Readings, speeches and wreath layings followed at cenotaphs and memorials.Sadly my own region of New South Wales, the Hunter Valley, has been devastated by a cyclonic storm this week, with lives lost and many houses destroyed. My own town has had to cancel their march as roads are flooded but even the most affected communities have managed to organise a memorial event. Luckily my own small suburb has been spared the worst, many trees down but no loss of electricity or phone connection.This afternoon pubs may be having a two- up game - betting on a coin toss - illegal on all other days of the year. - from Phil in Maitland nswphil...@live.com.au In a few hours it will be dawn in Australia and New Zealand. As the sun comes up on the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings I hope and pray that the spirit of ANZAC lives on with you all and that the dawn services take place without incident. Just a little over 20 hours from now, I and my DH will be watching the sun rise here in the UK thinking again of you all and are attending the National Arboretum to pay our respects. Kind Regards Liz Baker To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Gallipoli and a smidge of lace
My main reason, on the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli, is to thank the Australians - one of your forebears saved my grandfather's life there. How? By giving him a drink of water. I don't know the details, sadly he was killed in a car crash weeks before I was born. I do know that he had had to cope with one cup of water a day before then. That was for him to drink, wash and shave and also everything for his horse. I also know that, from then on, he couldn't bear to hear a tap dripping or see water wasted. If it hadn't been for that wonderfully generous Australian, my family wouldn't be here. Thank you. For the lace content, I acquired a handmade christening gown recently. It has many inserts of Flanders type lace. The gown has obviously seen some wear but I don't think it is especially old. The lace looks handmade to me. My question is - is there machine made lace that looks like Flanders? Regards, Helen. (West coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace Police, chairs
Many years ago I was lucky enough to have a chair made for me. It is what I knew as a nursing chair, fairly low with a very straight back and no arms. Since I am fairly short, they adjusted the seat length - front to back - so that when I sit on it my back is firmly supported and my feet reach the floor. Ideal for a Honiton lace pillow. I had it covered in 'Imperial Blue Electrum' velvet. The name says it all, it is opulent! Wwhen I went to collect it I found that they had had it sitting in the show room for over a week as it was attracting so much attention. As I said I am very lucky and I luxuriate in it every time I make lace. Sigh. Jane Regarding Lacemakers chairs - once some years ago, Helen and I went demonstrating at an Historic House here in Melbourne, and they seated us by a window (great light!), and sat us in Victorian Ladies chairs - so they called them. They were the Best chairs I have had to sit and make lace - very low, with a circular seat, and the back wrapped about half way around the seat, so you sat back and the back rest wrapped around you. Being low, your knees were up, - just right for resting your pillow on!! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
