[lace] thank you!

2006-11-10 Thread janebidston
Thank you for the warm welcome and advice re my lace butterflies. For those that asked, I have made torchon and beds. lace and had a try at bucks point. I'm hoping to go to the National Lace Day at the NEC in Birmingham in early December and will see if I can pick up books and patterns there.

Re: [lace] Re: Yippee, and advice needed

2006-11-10 Thread Tania Gruning
Hi All Thanks a lot for the wonderful advice from all of you. Tamara, your explanation was way better than my book ;-), but perhaps I just needed another way of explanation. I am finally donee with the hankershief (sp?), and I think it looks pretty good for my first try. I found a nice

Re: [lace] which one is abandoned

2006-11-10 Thread sof
Hello, Yes, I agree. It's the new address Dentellez bien Sof in France witn sun bevw a écrit : This is the new address - http://perso.orange.fr/guipure/ This is the abandoned one - http://perso.orange.fr/dentelle.fuseau/ :) On 11/9/06, Jo Falkink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stumbled over

[lace] Re: leaves

2006-11-10 Thread Jean Leader
The Cluny de Brioude way of making leaf-shaped tallies doesn't come in the book at all - it's difficult to describe and the best way to get the hang of it is to see someone doing it. However, as I started this thread I'll have a bash You start with your hands palm down, bobbins (up to eight)

[lace] Re: rain

2006-11-10 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Liz, You could get rain from us as well. But when i told the rain two days ago that it is more needed in Australia it just rain more heavy here. You see it doesn't work, what a pity. Greetings Ilske from Hamburg in Germany where the sun was shining today - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] Making tallies

2006-11-10 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello lacefriends, That's I always make them in my hand - holding the 3 passives spread between the fingers of the left hand, and threading the 4th bobbin (worker) under and over with the right hand (using it tail first.) how I do them too if they shall be like leafs. Square ones and

[lace] Thanks

2006-11-10 Thread Janice Blair
Thank you for the warm welcome and advice re my lace butterflies. For those that asked, I have made torchon and beds. lace and had a try at bucks point. I'm hoping to go to the National Lace Day at the NEC in Birmingham in early December and will see if I can pick up books and patterns there.

Re: [lace] Re: leaves

2006-11-10 Thread Clay Blackwell
Hello Jean - Yes, in answer to your question, this sounds very much like the way Anny Noben was making tallies. In fact, I flipped my digital camera to movie mode, and made a couple of film clips of her work... she was going slowly so that we could see how it was done, so it really is quite

[lace] Barb's Down-Under trip...

2006-11-10 Thread Erica and Ian McLeod
This is just a note to let Barb Saltern's friends in the Liberty Lacers know that we met Barb and Ken in Christchurch (NZ) last night, along with the local Lace Society President, Eleanor, and had a lovely evening with them. They have had a flying trip around New Zealand, and the spring

[lace] Leaves - a Question

2006-11-10 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Jenny B - No, just use the worker going left to right and then right to left, and tension on the left. Definitely don't change to right-handed!! Being right-handed I go right to left, left to right and tension, - so you just do it in reverse. Your tallies will look just the same, whether you

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: International bragging

2006-11-10 Thread Tamara P Duvall
I've always had a soft spot for international bragging jokes. When I was 10, the one about an American, a Russian and a Pole bragging about how long their tools were was an absolute favourite. You can always tell who wrote the joke, so to speak; that's the nationality that ends up winning in