Dear Barbara,
Tatting cotton is the *only* cotton other than that made specifically for
bobbin lacemaking that I'd use. Crochet cotton has the wrong twist, and is
too springy to make good bobbin lace. (IMHO!)
As for wotcher, I think of it as meaning something like hello, how are you.
Ruth
I am a relative newbie and I made a collar of two colors of tatting cotton.
It was very nice to work and the results were very nice, at least as far as
the thread was concerned.
Judy B
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Hi all,
I am currently working on a rectangular mat that I expect to finish this
month. It is the 7th. of a total of 10 patterns which are going to be
included in a self published pattern booklet that I am planning to sell
next winter (possibly October/November).
The lace is a very refined
Annette wrote:
I'm not old enough to remember
farthings, since they were withdrawn when I was about 3 years old, but I
have seen them - I think they had a robin on the back.
The bird on the back of a farthing was a wren - the smallest British bird
for the smallest British coin. I have one on a
(snio)
As for wotcher, I think of it as meaning something like hello, how are
you.
Ruth
Sounds to me as though it's what's
happened to What cheer ? over many
years (probably I read it in one of the
Bronte books - or Dickens ?)
Toni in Seattle
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Hi all
Just a message to wish the convention lacers well (now that you've dropped
out temporarily) and we look forward to hearing all after you recover :))
In the meantime the rest of us will keep the lace fires burning, eh?
(Canadian expression I just made up)
Lise, I liked your method of
Someone was looking for Joan Kelly's designs but I can't remember who. At
our bi-monthly lace day today our supplier had the last of her designs for sale.
Seemingly, at the age of 76 Joan thinks it is time she retired :-)
for your information the supplier with some dsigns left is:
Sue
As I posted just recently I just finished 52 inches of Bucks Point Honesty pattern
for the Christening Bonnet/Hankie for our Granddaughter. I also did a tape lace cross
with a chevron design done the middle. The chevron was pink silk and the outside edge
pair was also pink silk with the main
Shirley in Adelaide wrote:
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 held at another HH place. If you go
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 13:58:00 -0700 (PDT), Barbara wrote:
Hello all,
1. Is tatting cotton OK for bobbin lacemaking?
If a thread can be put on some sort of bobbin, and won't break when pulled,
then it can be used for bobbin lace. Some threads are hard to use - shiny
ones have a tendency to spring
Hi all, again!!!
It took all my brain power to write the reply to Jacquie below that I forgot
to sign it. Doh, what a nut case.
Jenny,
Mother of Matthew who turns the bobbins for me to pyrograph and then add the
sparklers.
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(snip)
The lace would look best if it was held against the top curve of the glass,
but that would only be possible with glue.
(snip)
Jacquie
If you were to consider the 'donut' to be
a 'mold', and wet the lace - put it wrong
side *up* *in the mold* - and let it dry
that way - does the lace
Ooohhh, I am so reminded of the lace/candlestick incident my DH and I experienced ---
We were just married and were given a beautiful set of candlesticks with tatted lace
around them. They were lovely. Were.
We had a romantic dinner with the candles lit (this was early in the marriage,
remember)
This is not so much grammar as a local expression. In Somerset, instead of
saying Where is it? or Where's mum gone? they say Where's it to? and
Where's mum to?
When I first heard it I thought they were saying Where is it going to?,
but they weren't.
Jean in Poole
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Dear Noelene,
Re Friar's Balsam
Highly recommended, but whatever you do, DON'T throw the stuff
out down the kitchen/bathroom sink - when cold, it will block the drains!
It is a healing compound, and was once also used for healing cuts and
wounds.
Quite true. It will heal any small crack or cut
I grew up in the fifties with practical parents -- a Mother, God love her,
who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was
the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it...
A Father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones.
Their marriage was
TEN PUBLIC SERVANTS
(A cautionary poem for our times)
Ten Public Servants standing in a line
One of them was downsized
then there were nine.
Nine Public Servants who must negotiate,
One joined the union
then there were eight.
Eight Public Servants thought they were in heaven,
'til one of them
Jean
That is very similar to South Wales where they say Where to are you going?.
My favourite, said around '73, '74, '75 in response, I think, to my talking
about some event I was about to attend: Where to is it at then? As you can
see, I have never forgotten it.
Patricia in Wales
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Clay,
sorry to upset you on this but bling bling means expensive and over the top.
If you wear all your expsenive jewllery at once and then some you are bling
bling.
Of if you put on all your designer labels at once and your jewllery then you
are bling bling.
Of course - this would require you
Hi Liz !
Thank you SO much for straightening me out before I made a
complete idiot of myself in public (like Arachne isn't
public...) But I only heard a tiny bit of what he was
saying, and that's what I got out of it... Goes to show!
I'm awfully glad I haven't used that expression out loud
Clay,
Ah, but I have the advantage of having a hip and trendy DJ only feet from me
whilst on night shift who is up on all these words.
I only recognised it as there has been an awful lot on tv over here in the
UK about bling bling and how there are two main types who do it. Those who
have more
The last verse of David's rhyme:
The last Public Servant agreed to relocate,
Replaced by 10 consultants at twice the hourly rate.
is similar, yet quite different, to what happened to my younger brother.
He worked for BP oil as an executive engineer, on a very nice salary, thank
you very much,
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