There's a description of how to work Punto Fiandra di Gorzia in an
article by Cindy Heineman on p18 of the current IOLI Bulletin (Summer
2003). Photos are promised for the next issue.
And now I must go and sort out packing for my trip to New Jersey!
Jean in Glasgow
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At 10:01 AM 7/30/2003 -0400, you wrote:
For those not going over lists and checking them twice to go to
convention, how're things, lace-wise?
Ok, so the mat/doily took several weeks, and now I feel like making a few
quick things before the next longish project.
Several weeks is a longish
Sulochona do you have a website set up? - I for one would love to see your
head dress when it is finished - not to mention the paraqueets (sp?)
jenny barron
in sunny Scotland where there are no exotic birds nor sunflowers!
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Hi David and Spiders,
David and Jean
(in Glasgow, although Jean is off to the US of A at the weekend to
the IOLI lacefest - for which I even found a pic of Hasbrouck Heights
- isn't Google wonderful!)
Coincidence?? Our Australian Lace Guild Conference (which is a week
long) will be
From: Brenda Paternoster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Food used to account for a huge part of an ordinary worker's income, but
housing was relatively cheap. Nowadays we expect cheap basic foods but
accept that housing costs a great deal, especially for the younger
My favorite illustration of how
Johanna,
There's starch, and then there's a wee bit of starch.
I make my greeting cards by tacking a piece of lace (tatting or bobbin lace)
onto cards. These are small motifs, they are not heirloom pieces, and they will
be given to people who have no clue how to treat lace, but who love the
alice howell wrote:
Several weeks is a longish project Interesting viewpoint. I have
one on-going project now in it's 4th or 5th year, and only half done. I
take it to demo's -- seldom work on it at home.
Well ok, I admit, several weeks does not seem that bad, BUT, you have to know
This looks more like a toilet roll hold to me than a 'vintage sewing bobbin
thread winder':
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3236079514category=114
Jean in Poole
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In a message dated 8/1/03 2:20:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This looks more like a toilet roll hold to me than a 'vintage sewing bobbin
thread winder':
That's what it looks like to me too. I wondered what the wooden pieces were
for; my guess is someone used it to hold a ball of string or
Dear Barbara,
Of course tatting cotton is all right. Lacemaking likes natural fibers and that
includes cotton, linen, and silk. Tatting cotton is a nice firm, smooth thread (and
comes in lots of yummy colors). You just need to be sure that your pricking is the
right size for it.
There are
Barbara wrote:
2. British friends, what does wotcher mean?
It's a friendly way of saying Hello. Very slang. I think it might come
from What are you doing? because there's also Wotcher doin'? but I'm not
sure.
Jean in Poole
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I'm sure there's lots of reasons for not doing what I do when I am running a
Christmas conveyor belt, but when I have not the time to carefully stitch
a motif to a base fabric, I cut a piece of felt (whatever colour I decide)
the same size as the glass in a bought frame, then I lay the frame face
I made a piece of honiton for my mother's 60th and put it in a frame with
some backing fabric and a piece of cardboard behind the backing fabric. The
back of the frame slid into place which was fun but I eventually got the
lace where I wanted it to be.
It's 11 years later and the lace is still
I had never used tatting cotton for bobbin lace untill I took my first
Bloemwerk class at IOLI from Judy Zeiss. I enjoyed that class so much that
I took the advanced Bloemwerk from Judy the next year, and have used
tatting cotton for bookmarks and motifs ever since. Of course, adjust the
pricking
Jean, your description made me take another look at this winder. Maybe
it's a holder for a toilet paper pillow. LOL
Anne in Austin TX
Jean Nathan mused:
This looks more like a toilet roll hold to me than a 'vintage sewing bobbin
thread winder':
You are right, Adele, that is the class I have taken and the background
shows the lace.
http://www.italiainvita.it/workshops/merletti/gorizia.html
I think the lace shown in the background of the site is the fiandra
that Nicole took the class in.
Cindy Heineman who has written an article in the
I just had to go and have a look at this! Like Jean I can't imagine this is
a bobbin winder and agree it looks more like a toilet roll holder, though
the base does not seem to have holes for screws to attach it to the wall! I
note too that the heading does have question marks after the words, so
This ebay toilet paper holder thingy we've been discussing is for holding spools of
thread horizontally. Can also hold the smaller crochet thread balls.
Barbara in starry Kentucky
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On Friday, Aug 1, 2003, at 16:53 US/Eastern, Viv Dewar wrote:
Dear Sulochona
Your project sounds exciting and I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Please forgive my ignorance, but can you tell us a little more of
Durga.
I am BLing something very different and exotic. A Lace head-dress
for the
On Friday, Aug 1, 2003, at 22:57 US/Eastern, barbara pierpont wrote:
This ebay toilet paper holder thingy we've been discussing is for
holding spools of thread horizontally. Can also hold the smaller
crochet thread balls.
Yeah, I thought so too... You're supposed to keep your thread
With all due respect towards our common suppositions, the ebay item
doesn't say it's for lace bobbins. It said thread bobbin, (my
paraphrase); and there's mention of sewing stuff.
Without knowing much about antique sewing equipment, it sounds like this
thing was used for winding thread onto
Gentle Spiders,
Betty Ann Rice wrote:
Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia who is all packed for IOLI and ready to
stop
in Lexington for Tamara in the a.m. and I'm going off the List now.
and Pene Piip wrote:
Tomorrow, I'll be heading south to Connecticut to join the CT
lace-makers for their
Jean said: if the sinuses don't drain with your head in the normal
upright
position, why not try standing on your head? Why won't it work then?
Because there are people like me with chronic bronchitis and sinus
problems whose phlegm is way to sticky - gross answer but that is the way it
is
Thanks Martha, that explains so much. I don't have any sinuses under my
eyes (mine never developed, the good news about that is that although the
upper ones can be excruciating, I won't get bags under my eyes). Now if I
could only get a piercing to drain the lungs I wouldn't do too bad.
Lynn in
I just received an unsolicited phone call telling me that I'd won a hundred
pounds-worth of Bowater vouchers (whatever that may mean). We don't often
get this type of call because our number's not listed, but the woman said
this was as a result of sequential dialling.
I said I didn't respond to
The other evening as I passed through the family room, I
caught a tidbit from the late-night show my DH was watching.
A very successful entertainer was explaining the expression,
Bling Bling, which is apparently something he say a lot or
which appears in his music. I've heard young people say
This is Sharan Newman's Catherine LeVendeur series. She also wrote
a trilogy about Guinevere's life for anyone interested in that kind
of thing.
Lisa in Dallas, Texas
Tamara wrote:
There's also a writer -- Sharyn something-or-other -- who started an
excellent mystery series about France of
DEAR FRENCH SECRET PAL,
THANK YOU FOR THE MARVELLOUS WOOD INSTRUMENT FOR LACE: I AM GOING TO THINK
WHAT KIND OF EDGING COULD BE MY NEXT PROJECT.
THE INITIAL A IS PERFECT FOR A PROJECT I HAVE IN PROCESS.
THE CARD IS PERFECT FOR MY COLLECTION, THANK YOU AGAIN,
HAPPY LACING
ALESSANDRA
ITALY
To
try a few of David's remedies.
Lynn in Wollongong, Australia
Gotta 'get some *spice* into
your life' - jalapeno, cayenne,
etc. and work on that from
the inside, 'cell' level - steam
from the outside-inside added
to the *hot*-spiced foods
'through' the skin from inside . . . ?
Toni in Seattle
In this case, your tax dollars won't even be involved, in all likelihood.
Since this was a personal reply, I'm
omitting the ID.
But somebody help me out, here, OK ?
I don't know which 'industry' ?? pays
for other governments - but the U.S.
is run on monies from one type of tax
or another. And
I'm so pleased I have been able to help people with the later titles of the
Domesday Book series. I wish you luck in obtaining them from either bookshop
or library.
Patricia in Wales
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POINTS TO PONDER
I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting
clothing. If I HAD any loose-fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed
up in the first place!
When I was young we used to go skinny dipping, now I
Also, don't use this in a bowl you EVER want to use again for anything as it
coats the bowl - if possible use a throw away plastic bowl
Regards
Liz Beecher
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On Friday, Aug 1, 2003, at 18:59 US/Eastern, Elizabeth Cameron wrote:
I moved to Glasgow last year from South Africa, where I found that
English as a whole new language is spoken! For example How? means Why?
When my stepdaughter's son was about 6, he went through a phase when he
never asked
Got it - it's his title MUGWUMP like chief druid or head waterrat or top
shiner etc.
It is a thing in it's own right - it's the title (like knight or sir) that
is given to the head of the confederation
Regards
Liz Beecher
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Yes, I have read a couple of Hugh Corbett ones, too, Tamara., and, like you,
the Author's name escapes me at the moment. But they are worth looking out
for.
from Liz in Melbourne, Oz,
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From: R.P.
Schwartzenegger has a long one.
Michael J. Fox has a short one.
Madonna doesn't have one.
The Pope has one but doesn't use his.
Clinton uses his all the time.
Mickey Mouse has an unusual one.
Liberace never used his on women.
Jerry Seinfeld is very, very proud of his.
Cher claims that
They're maybe a tad iffy... But we're (mostly) adults here, and there's
no dirty language (as if the younger set didn't know worse than we do
g).
This is the last dose of funnies for a while (sorry Thurlow; but you're
much better now, aren't you? Can do without your medicine? g ) I'm
leaving
Hi everyone and thank you Lynn for speedy reading...
It is on page 276 in my edition, as well :))
good sleuthing.
Here's to the Head-high Potentate, Supreme Mugwump...
Not the same meaning as in the US dictionary, though, really?
--
bye for now
Bev in sunny, windy, summery Sooke, BC (west coast
To all gentle spiders,
Tomorrow, I'll be heading south to Connecticut to join
the CT lace-makers for their monthly get-together.
And then on Sunday I'll be heading further south to NJ
with passengers Winann Steinmetz Barbara Morrow.
I'm really looking forward to meeting other Arachneans,
some of
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