[lace] square bobbins
Hi everyone, I like to work and often do work with spangled bobbins on some projects and all kinds of continental bobbins with other projects but, to be perfectly honest, square bobbins I absolutely loathe. They are slow, cumbersome, hard to grasp because so much of the bobbin lies flat on the pillow, they roll and when crowded together they love to hop over each other without being asked to do so. Mostly though, I hate them because they are so difficult to fasten together and stack. I love to make lace with lots and lots of bobbins and I love to clear the bobbins out of the way so I can see what I'm doing, and that's only possible if the bobbins not in immediate use are carefully fastened together and stacked. In the old days lacemakers tied them into groups with ribbons as can be seen in many an antique photograph, but then they must have spent a fair amount of time resorting bobbins whenever they untied a group. My friend Beverly has just finished a large binche edging using several hundred square bobbins, she has spent a couple of years on that piece, and every time she ran amok she would bring it over to my house to sort out. So I know what I'm talking about when I say square bobbins are not easy to fasten and store out of the way. At first Beverly used tongue depressors and elastic for holders but those blankety blank bobbins just slipped out at the drop of a pin. Mostly she's been sliding them inbetween two double pointed knitting needles fastened together with double holed point protectors. They at least held those stupid square bobbins securely but then the stacks weren't level and the groups of bobbins were forever sliding sideways, forwards or backwards. Putting them inbetween the two fastened knitting needles was exasperating. All the bobbins of a group had to be precisely lined up before they would slide in. Crocheted ribbons didn't work, there were hundreds of bobbins constantly being moved in and out of their holders and neither of us had the patience to carefully put each bobbin one at a time into a slot in the crochet. Fastening continental or spangled bobbins together have none of those problems. Scooping continentals up with flat sticks and snapping the elastic in place is the work of a few moments and they stay in place quite well. Ditto for sliding spangles onto knitting stitch holders. On my pillow, almost all the bobbins are securely fastened together most of the time and stacked clear so I can see what I'm doing. Even when I have only 30 or so pairs on my pillow I fasten together and stack the idle bobbins. Beverly likes to say they are too afraid of me to slip, slide, roll,or hop anywhere without my say-so, but no, I just keep them on holders if I'm not immediately using them. I can say with certainty that when I was working on my binche fan with 200+ pairs of binche bobbins, a 14 month project, not once did I have a thread break from a bobbin rolling until the thread unplied. And I never gave a single thought to my bobbins rolling around. One thing I very rarely do is undo lace. Everyone here in Alaska has heard me say this so often: recover from a mistake, don't undo. I truly believe that it's the repeated doing and undoing lace that wears out thread. Rolling bobbins around is not the culprit. Put a layer or two of padding between your cover cloth and pillow to soften the surface of your pillow just a bit. That dampens the rolling quite a lot. Then put more effort into fastening your idle bobbins, and don't worry about a little rolling! Sally Schoenberg It's winter now, and everyone in the neighborhood has been building cages for young trees and favorite shrubs to protect them from browsing moose. My rhododendrum has a rube goldberg contraption around it, built from whatever was at hand, partly wood boards, partly plastic fencing and chicken wire, all tied together with hand spun linen twine. The knots of course, are lacemakers' knots. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] plain procelain bobbins
Hi, Looking for a supplier of plain porcelain bobbins. Does anyone know of someone? Thanks - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Liz Ligeti
Sorry to post to the list but would Liz Liggeti contact me please, I have lost your address. Shirl. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] looking for Christmas dinner
At 10:07 PM 11/21/2003 -0800, you wrote: I know there are varied interests in this group. I am looking for the Modern Priscilla, probably December '02 or '03 for my brother and SIL. This issue has an elaborate Christmas dinner by Fannie Merritt Farmer that they used to use, till it got lost somewhere in their moves. It's in the December 1906 issue. The Christmas Dinner By Fannie Merritt Farmer Clam Consomme Fillets of halibut a la creole Apple Giner Creamed turnips Breslin Patties English Plum Pudding, hard sauce Christmas cake Salted pecans Pulled bread Stuffed Roast Goose Potato Forms with cheese Tomato baskets with peas Vanilla ice cread with orange marmalade Crackers Cheese Cafe Noir Bonbons Then some of the recipes are listed. I'll make you a copy. Alice in Oregon - Deluges of rain and much wind, and maybe snow. Oregon Country Lacemakers Arachne Secret Pal Administrator Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: [lace-chat] Airmail to Oz
I thought I would put my two penny worth in this discussion. I used to work for the Post Office in the UK have dealt with Foreign Mail, registers, swift air. Foreign Data Post,I know things have changed a lot in the last couple of years. So I made a phone call and found out the following. I have been told it is now Inter Data Post to Australia not registered. Now I know that this will be tracked all the way and it does get priority all the way. For the UK it is now Special Delivery, not Registered, this is tracked too. I was told that there is Inter Signed For, if you are sending mail to Australia, this has no special treatment, it is just signed for at receipt of item. Parcel Post I was told, there is no insurance for any item if it gets lots. I know that all my mail to Australia gets there quicker than when I send it to the States. I also find even in Europe it can vary a lot how long my mail will take depending again on the country I am sending it too. Jean To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Liz Ligeti
Sorry to post to the list but would Liz Liggeti contact me please, I have lost your address. Shirl. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] looking for Christmas dinner
Well I can't resist asking... What are... - Apple Giner and Breslin Patties ??? Clay the Modern Priscilla, in the December 1906 issue. The Christmas Dinner By Fannie Merritt Farmer To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Christmas on the cheap!
I don't care what the economists say (an economic recovery that started in November 2001? In what alternate universe?), Christmas is going to be a bit on the lean side in this neck of the woods. So what have your favorite Christmas gifts been, that didn't cost much? One of my personal favorites has been an Exacto knife set, given me by my brother. I have solved more how can I cut this dilemmas with that knife! Others I can think of were a big box of miscellaneous food items given to my husband by his aunt (my husband is the cook of the household), and two pairs of excellent sock given me by my sister-in-law. How about yours? Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: lace-chat-digest V1 #2272
Hi, Shirley, Here is my address! I suppose it is to tell me about the lady in Helen's group you are corresponding with. You mentioned her yesterday, but could not remember her name. It was a nice day, wasn't it. I enjoyed myself, anyway!!! With LOTS of talking, how could it fail?! :)) Have a Happy Xmas, and I look forward to seeing you in the New Year. (Where has this year gone?) Regards from Liz Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Postage
I have recently sent both a parcel, and a small package to the US from Oz and it got there in rapid time. The small package only took about 6 or 7 days. I get a catalogue regularly (well Quarterly) from Keepsake Quilting, in the eastern part of USA and it usually goes via Denmark or Sweden - though goodness knows why!!! There is usually an extra 'return address' sticker, giving a postal address in either of these 2 countries!! I haven't worked out the postal system yet!! Many years ago, when Helen still lived here, she sent to Denmark for some books, for work. On the same day I sent away for some wool to the company I was a home knitter for (or Checker - checking the patterns before they were published), and she got her books before I got my wool - from only a 20 minute drive away, here in another suburb of Melbourne. I was VERY put out!!! :) from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: [lace-chat] Airmail to Oz
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love the internet but there are somethings you just can't email. Liz, I have a great long list of things that I'd *love* to be able to receive as email attachments: a roast potato when someone spoke of their Sunday roast in a message; all sorts of goodies from Sainsbury's which aren't available out here; a yorkshire pudding filled with meat, vegies and gravy; a lawn full of daisies; the sound of church bells, not to mention a whole roomful of people speaking English with an English accent - don't much worry *which* county they come from, as long as its an English accent; the smell of Ilfracombe harbour (no, if you don't know it, its not an unpleasant smell, just different to anything we get out here);I could go on and on!! I just hope someone, somewhere, is working on the technology!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
