Hi Tamara, I have been looking at your work it is beautiful, I absolutely love your birth announcement, is it on general sale as I would love to make it for my niece who expects her first baby next year, I could use it as a birth congratulations. Best wishes Sue M Harvey
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lace Arachne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 2:54 AM Subject: [lace] Re: Tamara Duvall's Bird in La Encajera > On Nov 24, 2004, at 21:58, Diane Z wrote: > > > Congratulations Tamara. > > > > Your Milanese bird in the latest issue of La Encajera is absolutely > > exquisite. > > Thanks, Diane. Although my own all-time-favourite is the Partridge in > the Pear Tree, I like the Peace Dove too, and like to see it "flying" > close to the top of my Christmas tree (all textile-related, now that - > perversely <g> - I'm the only one who cares about *having* a tree in > the house between Dec 24 and Jan 6); it lets me hope - against all odds > - that "tomorrow" will be better than today... > > It was designed for a Lace Guild's (UK) Christmas card '02 (1 of 4 > designs; Janice Blair, another Arachnean, had her design of Santa > chosen that year, also). The size of the card limited (severely <g>) > the amount of instructions I could include so, when someone asked for > the "full size" pattern, I wrote those out. > > In Prague this summer, Monserrat Arcos asked for permission to reprint > the lace with the full instructions; Spain was still in shock following > the train bombings, and "stop the killing" idea was something she felt > La Encajera needed to promote (of course, Peace Dove symbol "speaks" to > Spaniards readily; the most famous one - Picasso's - was Spanish. And > then there's the Christian symbolism of the Dove, to reinforce it)... I > was pleased to have the pattern published, in full. > > The next La Encajera, BTW, will have the Birth Announcement (Stork) - a > reprint from Lace 90 (1998), in case someone missed it there and then > :) It's another pattern that I think is OK, and it'll fit in with their > "babies" theme. > > And, it occurs to me, I had better explain about the lace on my > website; I'm often asked about the source of the patterns, and where > they could be had... They're *all* mine, original designs, and I can > send them to people without breaking any copyrights. *If* they're not > very old (after '00), that is... > > If they're old, we run into problems... On some, I didn't keep notes > (didn't think anyone would be interested). On some, I kept notes but, 2 > puters and untold upgrades later, they'd disappeared into a black > hole... So, they have to be dealt with on the "one-by-one" basis. > Please, if you're interested, write me. > > And my URL (where they can be viewed) will be changing after Christmas > - my son got me my own domain! (I feel sooooo "with it <g>). But I need > him here to tell me how to change everything around and how to add to > it (I'm sooooo "out of it", electronically speaking <g>). I'll let > y'all know when it happens - this is just a warning "rattle" > > --- > Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd > Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
