I have been amazed (and flattered) at the interest my idea has produced! I
spoke to the Lace Guild this morning about the convention and mentioned the
relay while I was on the phone.
If it looks as if the event is a possibility, and if it looks as if National
Lace Day is a potential date,
In UK we are currently on GMT (Greenwich Mean time) which is 0, but
during the summer months, March - October, we change to BST (British
Summer Time) which is 1E. I think that several countries in western
Europe also move forwards an hour for daylight saving during the
summer.
Brenda
OUT OF LURKDOM I COME...
Hi all,
There is a way of getting lace onto postage using the UK's royal mail's
Smilers Stamps. They allow you to put a photo next to one of their own designs
of stamps and make up a sheet of them together. The prices are given below if
of interest. I don't know
Jean Nathan wrote:
Liz wrote:
Could someone please explain how the National Lace Day works.
Don't know its origins (Lace Guild perhaps?). It just gets mentioned
in my lace group each year and the date is usually published in 'Lace' .
For the past few years, a representative of Poole Bobbin
On Thursday, February 2, 2006, at 06:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For
example, do we want to encourage new members to join arachne so they
can join in.
The way it worked last Sun., people sent me their email addresses and I
created a 'Group' (and had to keep adding people to the group
How about over the Easter holidays or something? Although that's
also quite a long way away.
At 12:39 02/02/2006, Bridget Marrow wrote:
I love the idea of a 24-hour lacemaking relay. But September seemes
a long time to wait! Can we have a trial run first?
Bridget, England, Zone 0
This was started in 1991 to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of The
Lace Guild and it's usually the second Saturday of September. (I
think the timing was to get people interested before evening class
sessions started.)
Glasgow Lace Group made lace in in Princes Square (an up-market
shopping
Hi Margot,
I found myself a little puzzled by your timings. Have I missed something?
Based on my knowledge that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West,
and the US and Canada are always behind Europe time. My husband works in a
US based company in England. His colleagues west of us in
On Thursday, February 2, 2006, at 08:39 AM, Bridget Marrow wrote:
I love the idea of a 24-hour lacemaking relay. But September seemes a
long time to wait! Can we have a trial run first?
I think that's a great idea.
Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
Visit the Seaspray
I'm not an expert, but I think that if we all want to be making lace on
the same date and because of the international date line, the relay
would have to start in Australia and move next to North America. Maybe
one of our Australian friends, who is probably more used to dealing with
the date
Margot
I think if you read the messages that come in on Christmas Day or New Year's
Day (or tracked Santa as he visits round the world) you will find the
messages come in first from Australia and New Zealand and then move round
through Europe to North America. So that is the order you will
Hi,
I recently have acquired what I believe to be an antique bobbin
winder. I'm sure it is missing a piece (like a mini-skein holder or
something? Would anyone be willing to let me send them pictures to see
if you could help me with it?
It is allegedly from the late 1700s but maybe more
- Original Message -
From: Margot Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ARACHNE lace@arachne.com
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:20 AM
Subject: [lace] Lace relay
I'm not an expert, but I think that if we all want to be making lace on
the same date and because of the international date line,
Rhiannon wrote:
There is a way of getting lace onto postage using the UK's royal mail's
Smilers Stamps.
But they're created by a individual for their own use and only seen by those
who receive mail from you. Not the same as having your national postal
service produce a set of stamps to be
I am preparing to take a party to Normandy in Sept. and have been consulting
with M. Bouvot re. visiting the collection of Polychrome lace of M. Le
Delezir.
I was aware the gentleman was ill, but have heard today that he died a week
ago last Friday.
At present it is not known what is to
Could someone please explain how the National Lace Day works.
There's a similar thing in the US. I believe it was started by IOLI.
On October 1 each year, as many members/groups as possible are asked to
demonstrate lace-making somewhere. My former guild usually went to a
fiber-oriented
Hi Mary,
There's an Arachne webshots site where you could post the picture. I'm sure
someone can tell you how to do that, and they will!
If, however, that isn't an option for you for some reason, I will volunteer
to post the photo on my web site. You could send me a digital photo via
email. Or,
A few days ago I posted that I had sent an inquiry to the company in
Scotland that can supply magnets of The Lace-Maker by Caspar Netscher. To my
surprise and delight, I received a response from them, and they DO sell
retail. The response is below, including all the info one would need to
place an
I love the idea of a 24-hour lacemaking relay. But September
seemes a long time to wait! Can we have a trial run first?
Sounds to me like this should be separate from the UK National Lace Day
and become a new, International Lace Day. It would run from date-line
through AUstralia/New
Hi Helen,
thanks for clearing up my confusion. Your description of how the relay
should sweep westwards was brilliant.
As for night owls, I know I have been up late in the UK, when Ruth has been
emailing from Australia in the morning: so it is possible to have some of us
making lace at
As a break from all the time-zone messages, I have a soft wreath-bag to
raffle off. It's made by Rubbermaid, dark green, looks like
plasticized fabric (there's a grid in the plastic, rather like duct
tape). The sides are 28 in diameter and the edge gusset is about 5
deep. There's a zipper
I was in Brugge/Bruges, Belgium at the Lace Centre a few months ago. We
had been through the lace display and were looking for the Lace Atelier
(studio/workshop) that had been noted at the front gate. The signage was
scarce and the hallway we'd ventured into was long and all the doors were
Sorry, I meant the message below to go to the list, but hit the wrong button
instead...sorry, Karen.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
-Original Message-
From: Ruth Budge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 February 2006 08:44
To: 'Karen'
Subject: RE: [lace] Re: Lace-In relay
Must admit,
Yes, that's right, Karen, if you're up late again!! Its 8.50 a.m. on
Friday, February 3 nowits 5.50 a.m. the same day in Perth (on the West
coast of Australia) and 11.50 p.m. on Thursday, February 2 in the UK!
I live in two time zones...the one where my physical body is (Sydney,
Australia)
Ruth wrote:
Its 8.50 a.m. on
Friday, February 3 nowits 5.50 a.m. the same day in Perth (on the West
coast of Australia) and 11.50 p.m. on Thursday, February 2 in the UK!
It's actually 9.50 pm (or now it's actually moved on to 10 pm) on Thursday,
February 2nd in the UK. If it was 11.50pm,
Sorry again - when I quoted those times I was reading off my palm pilot in
24 hour format...and that's where my maths failed meit was 8.50 a.m. in
Sydney, 5.50 a.m. in Western Australia, and 10.50 p.m. in the UK!
Ruth
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have never seen or heard them, alas, but an Arachne poster several years
ago mentioned Puerto Rican bobbins that are made of bamboo and sound
like wind chimes.
Jay in Sydney
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Donna Hrynkiw
As you can see I received your email at 1.01am on Frid 3rd Feb in Canberra ACT
Australia and you sent yours at 9am Thurs from Ottawa.
That should give you an idea of the actual time difference between us.
The lace relay sounds like a great idea.
Janette in Canberra Australia
-Original
Robin wrote:
There's a similar thing in the US. I believe it was started by IOLI.
On October 1 each year, as many members/groups as possible are asked to
demonstrate lace-making somewhere. My former guild usually went to a
fiber-oriented store, such as a knitting shop, to demonstrate.
Hi Spiders, Since we've been discussing lace stamps I will have a raffle!
I have two panes (I think that's the term) of the US lace stamps to send to
new homes. There are four stamps to a pane printed with four different
pieces of lace. According to a short article in the New England Lace Group
How about using the lace list itself?
Those who normally subscribe to the digested version but would like to
participate in the lace relay could subscribe to the reflected just
for this occasion?
and those who don't want a flood of e-mails could unsub from reflected
and subscribe to the digest,
On Feb 2, 2006, at 13:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I love the idea of a 24-hour lacemaking relay. But September
seemes a long time to wait! Can we have a trial run first?
Sounds to me like this should be separate from the UK National Lace Day
and become a new, International Lace Day.
I
I'm sorry, but I'm not terribly happy about this suggestion! As I remember
it, there are over a thousand members on the Arachne list - and only a
relatively small proportion of those will be taking part in this exercise,
so why should the majority have to unsubscribe, resubscribe to the digest
Having just received Lace today, there is an article about the 2005 National
Lace Day in England.
Malvary in Ottawa
- Original Message -
From: Janice Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lace-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:44 PM
Subject: [lace] National Lace Day
On Feb 2, 2006, at 21:12, bevw wrote:
How about using the lace list itself?
Those who normally subscribe to the digested version but would like to
participate in the lace relay could subscribe to the reflected just
for this occasion?
and those who don't want a flood of e-mails could unsub from
And, anyway... I think, unless we have _hundreds_ of participants, we
can't, possibly, ask the non-participating majority to go through the
rigamarole of subscribing/unsubscribing in order to accomodate the 100
or fewer who are interested...
As yet, with the relay untested, I don't even know
We three Kiwi's on the list are in E12 time zone, if I am reading it
correctly.
Maxine, emerging from lurkdom, and doing a big catch-up on digests.
Maxine Diffey
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At 11:49 PM 2/1/06 -0500, Martha Krieg wrote:
George MacDonald The Princess and Curdie and the other one about them...
I believe that _The Princess and the Goblins_ was the first book and _The
Princess and Curdie_ was the sequel. I can't remember anything now except that
I liked them very,
Hello Everyone, In trying to organize this rolling lace-in,
rememeber the international date line runs north and south from east
of New Zealand and west of Alaska. When it turned over Feb 2 at New
Zealand in the United States it was still Feb 1 for a few more
hours. This might account
Hi All, I saw notice of Robin's raffle and said oh goody so I guess I'd
better do one too G. I have two panes (I think that's the term) of the US
lace stamps to send to new homes. There are four stamps to a pane printed
with four different pieces of lace. According to a short article in the
Hi All, I think one of the actresses in Junebug was nominated for an Oscar
so the movie may play more theaters because of that. Maybe she was
nominated for a Golden Globe? Anyway, I have seen the name in my reading,
always with raves! I'll keep my eye peeled for it!
Jane in Vermont, USA
Jane in Vermont, USA wrote where I heard the groundhog saw his shadow so
that means 6 more weeks of winter. Of course, living in Vermont we've got
at
least 8 more weeks of winter no matter what
I hear that Wiarton Willy (Ontario's groundhog) didn't see his shadow so we
will get an early
le 2/02/06 5:36, Martha Krieg à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
With that in mind, I have been exercising my delete key on several
unread posts in the last few days to save my blood pressure!
have been doing the same and don't know how i could survive without that
precious key
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