[lace] Hi, New Member here.

2016-10-14 Thread Joseph Young
Hi Everyone, My name is Joseph, and I am new here. I'm a 21 year old veteran crafter, I love working with anything that can be transformed into a beautiful product. I have been learning bobbin lace for several months, after wanting to try it for many years. I live in a small town in South

[lace] Lace Magazines

2016-10-14 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Yes the list has been quiet recently. I get the digest version, and there has been quite a gap since the last one. With regard to the Lace Guilds Publications, - Although we don't want the list to be filled with the "Me too" type messages, it would be nice if one person could mention when a UK

[lace] lacemakers in London?

2016-10-14 Thread Nancy Neff
Hello fellow Arachneans, I'm coming to London for a few days next July. I have a number of things I want to squeeze in, but I thought it might be fun to have an informal gathering of the close-to-or-within-London members of Arachne since I expect there are lots of lace groups in the immediate

[lace] Re: List is quiet

2016-10-14 Thread Jane Partridge
I think as others have said we are all busy - I'm currently away from home, at the preserved railway in Porthmadog where I'm a volunteer shedmaster, because I've organised a lacemaking weekend here to raise funds (ie tomorrow and Sunday) for the railway. I've not had the chance to make much lace

[lace] List is quiet

2016-10-14 Thread Susan Vossier
I too have been busy clearing my pillows for a week's course of Cantu next week, after going to Le Puy for their annual couvige.You can see some photos here: https://goo.gl/photos/sAaZnvYsF8nEE96x6 Both Marie-Thérèse Bonniol and Denise Etienne wer there with their salt-crystal lace; Denise's

Re: [lace] Re: Ithaca lace weekend - Amelia Ars

2016-10-14 Thread Nancy Neff
The Amelia Ars class was full--it was so popular that a lot of people for whom it was first choice didn't get in. Carolyn Wetzel also gave an extremely interesting talk at the banquet on a type of lush gold and silver embroidery from 15th and 16th Century Spain. My first choice was Kumiko

Re: [lace] List is quiet

2016-10-14 Thread Frauke Lorenz
Hallo I made a further experuiment with a garden ornament You can see the pictures on my bolg. http://fdrj.de/index.php/frauke/fraukes-blog This piece was created during my studies without purpose. In 2006 it received an update with Scoubidou bands and a plant stake for garden decoration The

[lace] Re: Ithaca lace weekend - Amelia Ars

2016-10-14 Thread jviking
Thanks for the report. I do love Ithaca Lace Days but haven't been for a while. Did anybody take the Amelia Ars class? That really tempted me! Jane in Vermont, USA with red, orange, yellow and green trees jvik...@sover.net - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the

[lace] Quiet list.

2016-10-14 Thread Kathleen Harris
Hello everyone, I have been busy too! I have just been to Bruges for a week, making lace. There were twenty of us, staying in the Beguinhof, with Anne-Marie Verbeke-Billiet as our tutor. There were six types of lace being worked, and plenty of fun and friendship in between times. This