Hi Spiders,
While meandering around the internet, I put Flemish Lace in Google for an
image search. Well, look what I found.
There is a remarkable site celebrating the history and culture of Wales
called the Gathering of Jewels. It includes about 25 pieces of knock your
socks off antique
Unfortunately I haven't got an address for Anita Wilkinson - I would suggest
anyone interested in purchasing the Bedfordshire lace books try contacting the
English Lace Guild [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the Lace Society for
information.
Diana in Northamptonshire
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Patty and All,
This is certainly a wonderful archive, thanks for sharing. What a
pity that such a worthwhile project has received such little
publicity, until now!
Jean in Cleveland U.K.
On 9 Nov 2005, at 11:00, Patty Dowden wrote:
Hi Spiders,
While meandering around the internet, I put
This is a query for British arachnes:
Does anyone know the date of the next Cockfosters (North London) lace day?
It's usually quite early in the year (? February), and I expected details to
be in the latest edition of Lace, but there is nothing there, nor on the
Lace GUild website.
Bridget
In exploring a necessary change of administration of the
www.laceguild.org address I've managed to temporarily muck things up.
Please use http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk for the moment.
It'll be fixed within a few days I hope.
David
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Lace Guild home page: http://www.laceguild.org
Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can attest to the value of husbands' comments, such as... that's nice.
Your bookmark was well-conceived and very well done!! I'd have been proud
to have received it!!
Thank you! The husband-response I just hate is where I proudly show off
the results
CLIVE Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I printed the bookmark just so I can admire it at leasure. The black
outline showed off the varigated center so well.
I was only recently reminded of the effect of black on colors, and now I am
struggling to remember where it was brought up! Anyway, the
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Suzi,
The more I read of your shall I/shan't I buy this thread or that, the
more
convinced I am that what your *need to buy first* is Brenda's book
Threads for
Lace 3. Jacquie in Lincolnshire.
i totally agree with you. i will look into the book when i
Dear Arachnes,
I would like to remind you gently that posting private e-mail to Arachne is a
no-no. It is wrong from a copyright point of view (copyright of an e-mail
message belongs to the original sender unless permission is given to forward the
mail). It is also wrong from a netiquette point
what the equivalent size for a cotton size 60 would be,
Cotton 60/2, cotton 60/3, cotton 60/4 or cotton 60/6? They are all
different.
if they had 60/6 that would be great because doesn't that mean a six
ply to make the size 60 thread? but in cotton it would be something
like size 30 which
Dear Tamara other interested Friends,
and make the best of the situation, willy nilly...
Now there's a phrase with a history! Did you know that the original version
of willy nilly was Will I? Nill I.?
Came across it just this afternoon in a medieval novel I'm reading.
David in Ballarat
If you want to know any more, have a look here
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-wil2.htm
Helen
At 17:03 08/11/2005, David Collyer wrote:
Dear Tamara other interested Friends,
and make the best of the situation, willy nilly...
Now there's a phrase with a history! Did you
On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:07, Helen wrote:
If you want to know any more, have a look here
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-wil2.htm
Thanks for the site, Helen. Reading that explanation made me realise
that one reason I took to willy-nilly like duck to water is that, in
Polish, we
Some years back, out kid raised a wether as a 4-H project. We named it
'Lunch', and although he understood the whole process/purpose (we ate it
ourselves), he still cried when it was auctioned off at the fair. (I think
it was because the other kids were crying over theirs, too.) The idea is
On Nov 9, 2005, at 21:05, BrambleLane (Margaret in PA) wrote:
Some years back, out kid raised a wether as a 4-H project. We named it
'Lunch', and although he understood the whole process/purpose (we ate
it
ourselves), he still cried when it was auctioned off at the fair.
Well, there's a
I remember some childhood traumas of my own, on the subject... :)
From: R.P.
By Anderson Cooper
Editor's note: Anderson Cooper anchors CNN's Anderson Cooper
360°, which airs weeknights at 10 p.m. ET. He also is a regular
contributor for Details .
I used to think there was nothing worse than
I'm just back from our post box with TWO parcels full of all sorts of
goodies from my secret pal - divider pins, notelets, Christmas decorations,
bobbins (the glass one was sadly broken) candles, bead box and reading light
and The Little Lace Book. Well worth waiting for the October parcel to
With the omission of a single - unprintable and rather teenage - word,
this is acceptable for chat, and funny. For the sticklers, I'll replace
the omitted word with [...] :)
From: D.C.
I was testing the children in my Sunday school class to see if they
understood the concept of getting to
On Nov 9, 2005, at 23:43, Joy Beeson wrote:
At 06:17 PM 11/9/05 -0500, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
Going through the dictionary I just spotted another word pronounced
the
same way, but which she never mentioned: wether...
Probably didn't want to have to explain how the wether got that way .
.
I have been trying to reach Dora Northern but your email account is down -
according to the email reports I get when I try and email you.
could you email me please?
thanks
Micki Cameron
Scotland
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