[lace] Re: sale of Springett bobbins
Some of you may have seen a note in the latest IOLI bulletin that Christine and David Springett will be selling their collection of antique bobbins. I've just had an email from Christine to say that they have so many bobbins that Sotheby's have suggested that the collection should be split and put into at least two sales. The first will be just before Christmas on December 15. Kerry Taylor is organising the sale & can be contacted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I understand that once all the cataloguing is complete there will be details on the web site with a goodly number of illustrations at http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/ Elaine Merritt The Lace Museum 552 South Murphy Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94086 Tel: 408 730 4695 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Honiton Lace Pillow
In a message dated 13/10/2004 23:03:36 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi Everyone > I live in the UK and want to acquire a Honiton pillow. > I'm a Honiton beginner, but since earlier this year I've been dabbling > with a straw domed pillow &now want to go for the "real McCoy" > Please could you advise on your experiences of using/buying the same. Is > straw the best? > None of the suppliers I've used regularly to buy from through mail order > seem to stock them so I'd like to have some recommendations. Please use > your discretion as to whether a reply would be of interest to the list > as a whole and should be posted there, or whether it relates to the > commercial transaction only &should therefore come to me off-list > I am coming to Somerset (Yeovil area) on 23 October and could detour to > collect. If any UK suppliers want to e-mail with details of prices etc - > please do, but to me not the list! > Many thanks > viv > I have a polystrene honiton pillow by Rosemarie Robertson which I bought over 10 years ago and have loved ever since - the pillow is lightweight enough to sit on my lap for hours yet heavy enough that it doesn't move about. Rosemarie always covers her pillows in felt before putting on the cover and this stops the surface from degrading. I adore working on polystrene pillows for three main reasons; because the weight is so much easier, they are kinder to your pins and they don't need to be flea sprayed or microwaved to kill bugs but I know people who would never consider working with anything but straw. Personal preference. The best advice for honiton I was given was by Dennis Hornsby who suggested I got a cushion cover and loosely filled it with polystrene beads so that I could put this on my lap then put the pillow on top of it thus giving the pillow support and preventing it from rolling around. Works wonders. Regards Liz in London I'm back blogging my latest lace piece - have a look by clicking on the link or going to http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] on the list ? / Kingfisher
Did I overlook my own message about a little kingfisher in "birds and animals in honiton lace" of Saikoh Takano? Or didn't it reach the list/digest at all? Does this message reach the list? Jo Falkink - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Nottingham lace curio
I ran across this interesting bit on ebay tonight. It is a metal sign of some sort which looks as if it was once attached to a lace making machine. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=605&item=6124946670&rd=1 I thought someone on the list might be interested! Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Thread
Gentle Spiders, I was told that Susan Wenzel (of Lacy Susan) carries Colcotton 34/2, but I can't find it on her website... Does anyone know of an US supplier of same (and price )? Holly doesn't carry it either (or, at least, not so far). I want a whole lot of colours (for further adventures in Rosalibre) and do have a direct "in" but, given the prices of shipping, it might be an eeny-meeny-miney-mo, whether I get it here or from abroad, and getting it here might be faster... --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] honiton pillow
I am sorry to send this to the list, but if Viv would like to E mail me I may be able to solve her search for a traditional honiton pillow. Happy Lacemaking Sue In cold, wet Southampton U.K. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Finished knitted lace
On 14 Oct 2004, at 14:03, Jazmin wrote: Yes, mistakes involve picking back (tinking in the knitting world.. tink is knit backwards. ;) Ah yes! I guess that most BLers are pretty competent at ecaling. Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Finished knitted lace
At 11:12 PM 10/13/04 +0100, Steph Peters wrote: > I'm wondering what you do if you misread the pattern or > make a mistake, I imagine you must have to undo the error and fix it to keep > the pattern correct. One very big help is to put a marker after every repeat -- preferably at a point in the repeat where you don't have to shove the marker back and forth, or knit a stitch before the marker together with one after it. (There is usually a calm streak in the pattern.) Markers usually cause you to notice mistakes while you can still undo them. Another help is the safety line: thread a string or silk thread through every stitch of a plain row or round, so that if things go absolutely hopeless, you can frog back to the plain round and start over. At 09:03 AM 10/14/04 -0400, Jazmin wrote: > The hardest part of lace knitting in the round is the beginning where you > have not many stitches on multiple needles (often 8 stitches to 4 needles).. > after you get a couple rounds in, it's no harder than knitting mittens, or > perhaps gloves. I find bobbin lace MUCH harder to do! I start out knitting idiot-cord style, with all the stitches on one needle, then divide onto two needles, then knit half of one of the needles onto a third needle, and then divide the other needle. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where leaves are falling. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] more RPL . from a b'berg design
Dear Lace Friends, Last night I stayed up late cutting the basting stitches to my latest RPL. It is from a Battenberg design which my kind friend Jane (Viking Swanson) gifted me for my wedding anniversary. Jane redrew this beautiful design from a magazine dated 1900 or so. I still have to sew in a cloth in the centre, but that will have to wait till I get back from my festivities ( Durga Puja) Let me know what you think The URL is http://community.webshots.com/user/sulochona Under needlelace Best wishes Sulochona [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin
Got mine yesterday - it's really good :-) Just to rub it in, as Malvary organised my membership for me at the same time as her own. Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] IOLI Bulletin
Still waiting for mine in Ottawa, hope it comes today so I can read it over the weekend when I might have a bit more time, between cleaning up the garden, putting down a new basement floor, going to a lace meeting on Sunday, doing the laundry for my friend who is in hospital, visiting same friend, etc. etc. Perhaps it would be better for it to arrive on Monday, then I can read it on the bus going to work for a rest. Malvary in Ottawa, where they are forecasting rain for later today and tomorrow (perhaps I can cross the garden off the above list). - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
