[lace] Spider Raffle

2005-11-11 Thread Pauline
Dear friends, I am just reminding you that the raffle is open to all of you anywhere in the world, and it is a beautiful, and 'humungusly' (love that slang word), large silver coloured spider pin/broach, with crystal like stones making it sparkle 'like' diamonds, all over it's body and the

Re: [lace] Suggestions for Lace portfolios?

2005-11-11 Thread Lisa McClure
I'd really like something big enough to display the lace and suitable for long term storage (acid free, archival quality). I wanted to get back to you all, and let you know what I learned. First of all, I found that the name of the thing I was looking for is 'presentation' case or book or

[lace] English Translation for Ulrike Lohr books?

2005-11-11 Thread Lisa McClure
I'm looking at my two beautiful lace booklets by Ulrike Lohr (sorry for the missing umlaut), called Schmetterlinge and Maikafer, flieg! and was wondering if anybody has translated the text of these two books into English and would be willing to share with me. If not, is there a copy of lace

Re: [lace] English Translation for Ulrike Lohr books?

2005-11-11 Thread Sue Babbs
Various people helped me translate parts of Schmetterlinge a few years back. I will forward to you what I have Sue - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] English Translation for Ulrike Lohr books?

2005-11-11 Thread bevw
Hi Lisa and list On 11/11/05, Lisa McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at my two beautiful lace booklets by Ulrike Lohr (sorry for the missing umlaut), called Schmetterlinge and Maikafer, flieg! and was wondering if anybody has translated the text of these two books into English No,

[lace] ioli contest/stencils

2005-11-11 Thread suzy
would anyone know if it is legal to get some of your ideas from stencils? i am searching for ideas and i found one i want to use. i'm not going to use the stencil as it is, just one or two of the designs on it to draw my own pattern. please let me know if its possible! from suzy in

[lace] English Translation for Ulrike Lohr books?

2005-11-11 Thread Susan Lambiris
While it's true Ulrike Voelcker works in her own style much of the time I think the techniques behind the Schmetterlinge and Maikafer booklets derive from Honiton lace, so a good book on those techniques may be helpful for working these patterns. Her diagrams are actually very clear and once

Re: [lace] ioli contest/stencils

2005-11-11 Thread bevw
Perfectly all right for personal use. There is lots of inspiration for design all around us. I found a pattern in one of the magazines where the lacemaker was inspired by the design on a light fixture :) The pictures on gift wrap is another good source for interesting shapes that could be

Re: [lace] Suggestions for Lace portfolios?

2005-11-11 Thread bevw
Hi everyone and Lisa On 11/11/05, Lisa McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd really like something big enough to display the lace and suitable for long term storage (acid free, archival quality). sizes. I found one 14 X 17 with 24 sheets. It's not expandable, but I think the number of

[lace] thread help

2005-11-11 Thread Anne Nicholas
Hi, Sorry for the cross posting but I didn't realise until afer I had sent the email, that I had sent it to chat. I would like to make one of the snowflakes from the Lace magazine but am not sure about what thread to use. Could someone please tell me what thread is equivelent to DMC 30 ? My lace

[lace] Lace Guild e-mail problem

2005-11-11 Thread Jean Leader
I wrote: ...However the e-mail forwarding is more problematical*. Anyone communicating with the Hollies and finding email bouncing later this month should try using a laceguild.demon.co.uk address instead of a laceguild.org address. If there is a problem I'll post details in the 'Stop Press'

Re: [lace] thread help

2005-11-11 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Sorry for the cross posting but I didn't realise until afer I had sent the email, that I had sent it to chat. I would like to make one of the snowflakes from the Lace magazine but am not sure about what thread to use. Could someone please tell me what thread is equivelent to DMC 30 ? Hello

[lace] Knitted tablecloth

2005-11-11 Thread Johanna Brown
Hello all, I'd like to thank all the kind ladies who sent me suggestions on where to find knitted lace tablecloth patterns and/or scans of tablecloths and their patterns. THANK YOU I plan to get started as soon as my new knitting needles arrive. Johanna - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

[lace] Re: ioli contest/stencils

2005-11-11 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Nov 11, 2005, at 11:37, suzy wrote: would anyone know if it is legal to get some of your ideas from stencils? As Bev has said, it is certainly legal to get your inspiration from various sources (including stencils), especially if you're going to use only a part of one. If you're asking

[lace] Re: English Translation for Ulrike Lohr books?

2005-11-11 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Nov 11, 2005, at 11:15, bevw wrote: I could figure out some of them, 'slag' being 'stitch' but 'ganzslag' had me stumped [- and at the moment still does. ganz is entire, whole. [...] '400 Tips and Tricks' originally published in German, and which we bought if we could afford, because

Re: [lace] ioli contest/stencils

2005-11-11 Thread suzy
that does help a lot. the patterns i am looking at are not the kind that require patents and are free and so popular that anyone would recognize them, but they are not lace patterns and i plan to alter them to do what i want. i will cite where i got my ideas in a note to keep with the finished

Re: [lace] ioli contest/stencils

2005-11-11 Thread suzy
i got mine from both a temporary tattoo website and a stencil website. i don't know for sure what i'm going to do with it, but there were some really good ideas, so if i change my mind i'll be in good hands. they had a ton of popular topics. i definitely am going to alter the design. i did

Re: [lace] Re: ioli contest/stencils

2005-11-11 Thread suzy
i found some really nice ideas i can alter very easily without offending anyone. it definitely has never been a lace pattern in any way that i know of, and its made from a few differnt sources, so it should be some where near all original design. i'll make sure i keep a note with the lace citing

[lace-chat] Spider Raffle

2005-11-11 Thread Pauline
Dear friends, I am just reminding you that the raffle is open to all of you anywhere in the world, and it is a beautiful, and 'humungusly' (love that slang word), large silver coloured spider pin/broach, with crystal like stones making it sparkle 'like' diamonds, all over it's body and the

[lace-chat] Printing wide pages

2005-11-11 Thread Laceandbits
A friend of mine has sent me an SOS for some computer help. Why she thinks I'll know the answer I don't know, but I'm sure one of you will. She is trying to print a page from a web site with no printer-friendly page option. She has found it is cutting off the last word and a bit from the RH

RE: [lace-chat] Printing wide pages

2005-11-11 Thread Avital
That's very common if one is trying to print on A4 paper from Web sites that think the entire world uses American 'letter size' paper. ;-) Or it might just be incompetent Web design. There are a number of ways to do this, but this is the simplest. 1. In the browser, choose Page Setup from the

[lace-chat] Printing wide pages - a solution

2005-11-11 Thread Laceandbits
Many thanks to Candida for suggesting printing on landscape format; my friend's comment was Not economic with paper but great on my nerves. She has yet to try print to fit page (thank you Margaret) but now it has been pointed out, we realise the problem may be that in the UK we are all set up

[lace-chat] Wether, Weather, Whether

2005-11-11 Thread David Collyer
Dear Tamara, You can now add this Australian version to your repertoire :) Going through the dictionary I just spotted another word pronounced the same way, but which she never mentioned: wether... Whether the wether is shorn, Depends on the length of his wool. Whatever the weather, He'll

Re: [lace-chat] Printing wide pages

2005-11-11 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Jacquie Have you tried View - source and then copy and paste into your own html editor and print from that? What's the URL and I'll have a go. Brenda On 11 Nov 2005, at 12:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine has sent me an SOS for some computer help. Why she thinks I'll

[lace-chat] thread help please

2005-11-11 Thread Anne Nicholas
Hi, I would like to make one of the snowflakes from the Lace magazine but am not sure about what thread to use. Could someone please tell me what thread is equivelent to DMC 30 ? My lace class is tomorrow and I would like to start it then so any help is much appreciated !! Brenda's thread book

Re: [lace-chat] thread help please

2005-11-11 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Anne If it's the one on page 26 with beads added, then she means DMC Broder Machine 30. Venne Colcoton 70/2, Brok 36/2, are the nearest 2 plies. Amann Coats Sylko 50 - the regular cotton sewing machine thread which is readily available from many retail outlets is the same thickness,

Re: [lace-chat] Junk Mail and Telemarketers

2005-11-11 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Not sure if number 2 would work in the UK (hitting the # key), but I certainly do all the rest in David's email. My best result for number (1) Hold on please, was when the caller rang back because we'd been cut off somehow. I told her she'd tried to waste my time, so now I was wasting hers,

[lace-chat] Re: Printing wide pages

2005-11-11 Thread Joy Beeson
Another plan is to save the page as a file, then edit it with your word processor. If you can highlight the desired text, you can copy it, paste it into a new document, and reformat. A related problem is the page that insists on displaying the beginnings of lines to the left of the left