A few of the big ones will - off the top of my head I think Tim Parker, SMP,
Roseground if they are there. Most of the smaller ones don't.
As Tamara says, ATMs and a debit card are the way to go. However, if you
want to find one I would recommend you learn to ask for cash-point machines
as
Sadly, Tim Parker no longer goes to the NEC lace fair. He had problems with
the organisers, and decided not to bother a couple of years ago. He's sadly
missed
Edith
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In a message dated 22/11/2004 21:30:34 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
HOWEVER, there is a time and a place for the pre-pricking. One can pick
up errors in the pattern, and as Lucie said, you can learn a lot about a
pattern and figure out how to make it, by pre-pricking. There
In a message dated 25/11/2004 01:15:19 GMT Standard Time, Tamara writes:
Eventually, you will. To start with, 2 dozen bobbins (12 pairs) is a
perfectly respectable number; you can make nice Russian Tape lace with
6prs, though, perhaps, not a whole lot in Torchon. I was also working
by myself
In a message dated 24/11/2004 15:40:58 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Oh, one silly question that I should probably wait for a book to ask but
...
if you're making a lace edging, must it be fitted to the object it's
intended
to embellish? Or can one cut lengths of handmade
I made the Cathryns cookies following Lynne's recipe this week for my
students. They liked them very much. Normally in the north of Holland
we don't celebrate the saint days, but St. Cathryn as patroness of the
lacemakers is a welcome exception.
Thanks Lynne for the delicious recipe.
Gon
Thought you'd be interested in this from an article by Jan Dalley in
this weekend's Financial Times
...somewhere, in almost any church in the land, you can see that
impish grinning ancient face with leaves and branches spewing and
flowing out of his mouth and whirling round his head, or
Don't know if it will appply to non-UK cards, but if you use a debit card
(not a credit one) to pay for goods in supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury,
Somerfield, Waitrose, Asda) you can ask for 'cash back' ie withdraw money
from your bank account at the time you pay for your goods (might be a
maximum
On Saturday, November 27, 2004, at 03:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I have the problem with is the reflections of
all the surroundings including me and or the camera.
Ideas to overcome this would be appreciated.
I've never been able to overcome this completely either. The best you
can do
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eileen
Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I am headed to the lacemaker's fair in Birmingham, England in a few days.
Does anyone know if the vendors will take a Visa credit card, or should I
try to have British currency with me?
There are ATMs in the NEC complex - and the
Hello all -
Tamara's mention of a hospitality house near the Metropolitan Museum for
those who want to go soak up the goods of the Ratti Center (yes, catching up
on digests here), prompts me to relate an experience. I arrived at the doors
of the Met last week hoping to spend a good part of the
The very large and heavy parcel I sent to Australia by airmail took
13 days, this time of the year mail always takes longer than anything
other time of the year. My parcel was not opened, I took a chance
and Christmas wrapped the presents, where another parcel that
was sent to my daughter was no
Hi
I strongly recommend against using flash in photographing lace. Even if you
don't get a whiteout, the flash obliterates all the shadows between the
threads and therefore destroys any structure. Lacemakers want to see all
the threads and how the object was made. The best way is to set up 2
I've moved this from 'chat' as it is relevant to lace:
On Nov 28, 2004, at 2:07 am, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
The last but one rinse often included blueing (to, perversely,
whiten things out g), and I have no idea what went into that.
Ground up lapis lazuli - or at least that's what English
I alway use my bank card when travelling for getting cash. There is usually
one at the airport even if you have to search a bit for it. If there is a
vendor that you particularly want to buy from check if they have a web site and
whether they take credit cards. I know on my first visit to
On Sunday, November 28, 2004, at 06:38 PM, Janice Blair wrote:
I alway use my bank card when travelling for getting cash.
Perhaps I should move this to Chat, but since we're talking about
getting money to spend at lace fairs, I never use my bank card when
travelling for getting cash. In 1999,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Janice
Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
You will receive a booklet at the
door in return for your entry fee and it will have a list of vendors and
usually
a map with location.
The catalogue isn't included in the entry fee - hasn't been for years!
If you book your
On Nov 28, 2004, at 4:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Liz Beecher) wrote:
I also couldn't find a glue that I liked to stick the pattern to the
card then film over - everything I tried just didn't seem to dry out
enough
I had issues with wet glue from the very beginning... If I put it
on the pricking
On Nov 28, 2004, at 18:21, Margot Walker wrote:
Perhaps I should move this to Chat, but since we're talking about
getting money to spend at lace fairs
Also, we have no idea if the original poster gets Chat; many people do
not.
My bank account allows me to buy travellers' cheques at no charge.
On Sunday, November 28, 2004, at 09:29 PM, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
I do remember some Germans having problems similiar to yours at *some*
(but not all) machines in the Tonder area in Denmark.
The trouble with Portugal was that all the bank machines were
supplied/owned by the same company. So
Dear Tamara,
I received my copy of your 2 pairs book via Noelene, thank you very much it is
a wonderful production and I can't wait to get started on some of the
designs.
A very professional book congratulation and thank you.
Regards
Faye Owers
Shearwater
Tasmania
Australia
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In a message dated 23/11/2004 12:27:11 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Weronika quoted my father will give me away the day he can show receipts
for having bought me in the first place
We adopted both our children and they had a 'guardian ad litem' who was
responsible for their
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