[lace] I was stuck, but now it's done
Hi Spiders, I was working on a wire interpretation of one of Tamara's 2 Pair Inventions, but I got stuck for a while. Well, now it's done, it has a name (Purple People Eater) and I've posted to Webshots. http://tinyurl.com/4hzpf It bears little resemblance to Tamara's carefully invented inventions, but my piece definitely sprang from her pricking. Thanks Tamara Patty Dowden - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Hitches
We are all *so* dufferent, aren't we! I love *really* slim Midlands bobbins, and use them for everything! I love spangling, and have spent countless Lace Days spangling bobbins for other people, only because I love to match up beads, and love the finished result. But - I also *always* hitch the thread on the head - never on the thread itself. There are probably two reasons for that - the first one is that that was the way I was taught to do it, and the second is that I found once or twice when I had a bobbin without a head, that the thread worked OK for a while, then the hitch got lost in the thread, got knotted, and all sorts of trouble happened. So - I now have all Midlands bobbins, all very slim indeed, and all have heads to wind the hitch on! Any poor old bobbin lacemaker who tried to satisfy us all would really and truly have his work cut out, wouldn't he! Carol - in Suffolk UK where Spring has retreated, and it is raining! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 1:02 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Hitches - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] I was stuck, but now it's done
That's lovely. I love your purple people eater. Claire Kent, UK Dull and looking like rain so trying to find things to occupy my 7 year old. On 4 Apr 2005, at 11:09 am, Patty Dowden wrote: Hi Spiders, I was working on a wire interpretation of one of Tamara's 2 Pair Inventions, but I got stuck for a while. Well, now it's done, it has a name (Purple People Eater) and I've posted to Webshots. http://tinyurl.com/4hzpf It bears little resemblance to Tamara's carefully invented inventions, but my piece definitely sprang from her pricking. Thanks Tamara Patty Dowden - 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]
[lace] Baltimore/Cone Exhibit
Laurie wrote: The presentation was magnificent, but even better was the signage. Extreme close-ups of ground stitches (where the thread was the size of clothesline rope) and very well researched descriptions. Little anecdotes and interesting lace tidbits were placed in little pouches strategically place about the room. (The bags were significant because the Cone sisters stored their lace in bags like these, an example is included in the exhibit.) The person who can be credited with this extremely well curated exhibit is Anita Jones, the textile curator. Anita very conscientiously educated herself about lace over a period of years, even attending the Lace Convention in Hasbrouck Heights and taking Lace Identification and Beginning Bobbin Lace. Lace is not a very easy thing to learn about. Many of the books about it were written over a hundred years ago. Access to collections and knowledgeable people in this country is very difficult. I think if I were a curator, I would be inclined to shy away from a topic in which the terminology is so ambiguous and artifacts are so difficult to identify. However, the story boards, replete with color images of portraits from the Baltimore collection which feature lace, close-up photos, even hugely enlarged images of the meshes under some of the pieces were magnificently done.. There is even a story board with a huge example of needle lace and an example of the bobbin lace movements on it done in a heavy cord, which although unimportant to us, is very important to the understanding of the general public. Every room had a tiny rack of magnifiers in it easily grabbed by the viewer! Anita has managed to tell a very complete story of the history of lace using the Cone collection to illustrate it, not an easy task since most collections don't actually have an example of everything you might want to include in a history of lace. She has also focused on the Cone's own lace collecting habits thus illustrating the late 19th early 20th century practice of lace collecting among wealthy Americans. Imagine how splendid the shopping would have been if there had been money to produce a catalog, note cards, etc. Sigh. I returned on Sunday to spend more hours in the exhibit. On that day there were many members of the public standing around marveling at it. There was, in fact, a group of women from New Jersey who had come to see the Matisses and who were ecstatic at their good fortune at having come, by chance, during the lace exhibit. I have searched the website for the name of the director of the museum so that I can send my comments but I cannot find it. I do note that the museum's address is 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218-3898. Perhaps Mary Tod or someone local could figure out how we should be addressing our written tributes so that they are most effectively received. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Cone Exhibit hyperbole
Would it be fair to say that The Cone Exhibit is the best lace exhibit currently on view in the US? As we were driving home my husband, a man who has seen many lace exhibits, and I were trying to think if there was any other actual exhibit currently viewable that was better than the Cone Exhibit at this time in the US. For instance, if someone came to you and said, I will travel anywhere in the US to see a lace exhibit, where should I go? Would you say Baltimore? My husband and I mostly travel on the east coast, so we don't know what is available in the rest of the country. What do you think? Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Re: Log books, demo time etc
Tamara, I don't know about the overseas IOLI people, I suspect that their demonstrating is no less countable for IOLI if they are not demonstrating for their local Australian Group (we don't want volunteer hours counted fifty times.I mean, not really, double dipping is not really smiled upon by the IRS). But for you, my Dear Demonstration Diva, you should report your hours to 1) the Charter Chapter that you were demonstrating in the name of..., 2) your closest IOLI Charter Chapter, or 3) if you belong to no local groups that are Charter Chapters, then report it to your IOLI Regional Director. (BTW - if there's a historic house you like, or a craft show you frequent, you could always satiate your demonstration passion by demoing there.doesn't have to be formally organized, the more people we have lacing in public, the more public will be lacing.) So, Tamara, you belong to CRLG, NELG and NCRLG but were demonstrating for CRLG, so report them to the correct CRLG person. Hope this helps, I'm not the last word - and I'm not infallible. I just happened to see this and answer it to the best of my ability. Lace in Peace, Laurie *-Original Message- *From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Behalf Of *Tamara P Duvall *Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:34 PM *To: lace Arachne *Subject: [lace] Re: Log books, demo time etc * * *I'm moving this to lace since there's more chance someone in the upper *echelons will catch it. Alice has already covered most - the why and *how, etc - but there are two more questions. * *On Apr 2, 2005, at 13:30, Alice Howell wrote: * * Each member has to report these hours so the collective amount for * each local group can be reported to the head officers. The *total for * the organization goes on some report yearly to the tax office. * *This begs two questions: *1) Can our overseas members of IOLI (like Liz Ligeti and *Jacquie Tinch) *report their demo hours (in Oz and UK, respectively) and have them *counted towards the US tax adjustment, reporting directly to IOLI? *2) I belong not only to IOLI but also to several lace groups chartered *to IOLI (CRLG, NELG, NCRLG). So, where do I report my one and - likely *- only hour (and - almost - a half! g) spent demonstrating *at BMA? It *definitely counts, and I want it counted, but who should be doing the *counting? * *-- *Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ *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]
RE: [lace] Cone Exhibit hyperbole
Devon, definitely. *-Original Message- *From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 8:38 AM *To: lace@arachne.com *Subject: [lace] Cone Exhibit hyperbole * * *Would it be fair to say that The Cone Exhibit is the best *lace exhibit *currently on view in the US? *As we were driving home my husband, a man who has seen many *lace exhibits, *and I were trying to think if there was any other actual *exhibit currently *viewable that was better than the Cone Exhibit at this time in *the US. For *instance, if someone came to you and said, I will travel *anywhere in the US to see *a lace exhibit, where should I go? Would you say Baltimore? *My husband and I mostly travel on the east coast, so we don't *know what is *available in the rest of the country. What do you think? *Devon * *- *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]
[lace] I was stuck, but now it's done
I was working on a wire interpretation of one of Tamara's 2 Pair Inventions, but I got stuck for a while. Well, now it's done, it has a name (Purple People Eater) and I've posted to Webshots. http://tinyurl.com/4hzpf Congratulations! Patty it is gorgeous!! Carolina. Barcelona. Spain. -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/ Now available Witch Stitch Lace II Private apartments for rent on Spanish Coast http://www.winterinspain.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] I was stuck, but now it's done
I was working on a wire interpretation of one of Tamara's 2 Pair Inventions, but I got stuck for a while. Well, now it's done, it has a name (Purple People Eater) and I've posted to Webshots. http://tinyurl.com/4hzpf Congratulations! Patty it is gorgeous!! Carolina. Barcelona. Spain. -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/ Now available Witch Stitch Lace II Private apartments for rent on Spanish Coast http://www.winterinspain.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Ariane Threads
many thanks to those people who answered my request for information on Ariane thread. I've printed it out and will pass it on to my grateful friend. Libby Inglis in a dull Shrewsbury uk, looking forward to the Lace Guild Convention this weekend. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] square bobbin report - hitches
Helen and the Spiders, I am *so* grateful - if I try everything that has been suggested, I am sure we'll win through in the end! But - I am still of the opinion that it is the winding of the bobbins that is at fault! I don't like my students to use a bobbin-winder until they can wind their bobbins neatly and properly by hand - once they know the basics, they can then adopt, adapt, improve to pinch a phrase. But the bobbins of the lady in question - quite apart from the threads being of different lengths - are not always wound awfully neatly! When I wind the bobbins for her, they are better behaved but, as soon as she has done some reverse lace, and rewound the bobbins, the problem comes back. Maybe I ought to let her use the 'class bobbin winder' and see if it does in fact make a difference. I don't think it is the left-handed versus right-handed scenario - but anything is possible, I suppose! The bobbins she mainly uses are the unvarnished ones made by Richard Ives - she bought a whole load of them, when she first started at the classes, but over the years she has also bought quite a few of his 'special' ones, as well as those of other makers, but seems to have the same trouble with each bobbin she uses. I therefore don't think it is anything to do with the bobbins per se, as we all use Richard's bobbins to some extent or another, but it must be the way they are used. We will carry on regardless until we find the answer - thank you all for your help! Carol - in Suffolk, UK, where a friend and I have just spent the afternoon lacing and gossiping. Isn't retirement grand! Subject: Re: [lace] square bobbin report - hitches - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Ilske's talk at BMA
With all my proselytizing about going to see the exhibit at BMA, I completely forgot one of the most wonderful things that I attended Saturday. Ilske Thompson's talk on Lace in Fashion was a wonderful hour long history of lace in fashion, limited to bobbin and needle lace. She graced us with detail and used slides not only of lace, but of portraits through the ages, and where possible, integrated portraits owned and displayed by the BMA. If my memory is correct, did you know that bobbin lace was for summer wear and needle lace was for winter wear? I certainly didn't. She was humorous in just the right amounts and drew the audience in with her excellent slides which illustrated what seemed like every other word. I've never seen so many slides in an hour! My head was spinning. And I loved every minute of it. Nancy Pye, who sat next to me, took notes, which I should have done as well. And by hour-long I mean, she spoke for pretty near every minute of the hour allotted. And Lacers...there was about 150 people attending. 150! I counted the front 1/3 of the auditorium and got 49. What a splendid turn-out! I think that's more than at Ithaca Lace Days pulls in...amazing Unfortunately, Ilske won't be speaking every day, but the lace will be there, which should be some comfort. There was a reception as well, that I barely attended because I wanted to go sneak a peak at the wares of the vendors, and good thing too, because they were packing up. Lace in Peace, Laurie -- Laurie J Hughes Metro Boston, Massachusetts Bobbin lace, social history, gardening When I grow up I want to be a housewife. -- - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Log books, demo time, new books to explore, networking
In a message dated 4/3/05 10:42:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Each member has to report these hours so the collective amount for each local group can be reported to the head officers. The total for the organization goes on some report yearly to the tax offi Dear Tamara and other Volunteers, This raises interesting questions. Why wouldn't the time you spend answering technical questions for a group like Arachne qualify as volunteer time? Or, the uncompensated hours you spend designing and writing instructions for a lace that appears in one of our IOLI, The Lace Guild, OIDFA, etc. publications? And then, there is the question of credit for expenses in connection with any educational effort connected with these organizations -- travel, in particular, since it is so costly. You can submit a travel voucher if you are paid to teach. Why not submit the travel time and costs as being a donation to your Guild? - On a slightly different topic about which you have just written: Tamara, you have demonstrated - for the first time, and a very short time - under such fairy tale circumstances that you have a huge experience gap to fill as soon as possible. You must experience all the hilarious things that happen when you demonstrate in a less prestigeous environment! You have no stories about all-day demonstrating assignments in unique costumes, weather-influenced upsets, collapsing chairs or pillow stands, up-turned pillows, dripping ice cream cones (had to add that because of the Cone sisters), outhouse visits while garbed in full petticoats and hoop skirts, or really memorable things people say and do when you and your lace pillow are the first of the kind they've ever met. To tease, and to paraphrase How're we gonna keep her (Tamara) down on the farm, after she's seen (demonstrated lacemaking) Paree (Baltimore Museum of Art)? Wish everyone could have seen Tamara's stunning Rosalibre brooch. Yummy! Tasty as petit fours, also, is the book on Rosalibre Bobbin Lace by Cathleen Belleville - available from vendors at BMA's Lace Day. The book, by the way, has exceptional diagrams throughout. Notable are the diagrams and text explaining winding bobbins and making hitches. Both the S twist, and the Z twist are illustrated on pp 100-102. Three pages - just about covers it. I don't agree with her use of hair spray for stiffening lace, but you all have heard my anti-hair spray reasoning before. Seen in the BMA gift shop, but not purchased (having exceeded my book budget for the day) the book: The Art of Collecting - A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone by Mary Gabriel $35 ISBN 1-890862-06-1. A brief look-though revealed pictures of art. Did not see lace, so cannot recommend for that particular reason. Chapter titles referred to travels to various countries in early 20th Century. Added to an ever-growing list of must have books. My favorite activity of the day in Baltimore: Networking (not the thread kind) with all those special people met through the years at conventions, lace days, classes, and other lace events here and abroad. The Lacemakers, collectors and scholars are so much fun to touch base with through the years. Always an excited group, and so so talented! Aurelia and the entire Lace Team: Thank you! Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] hitches - winding bobbins
At 10:36 AM 4/4/2005, you wrote: But - I am still of the opinion that it is the winding of the bobbins that is at fault! I don't like my students to use a bobbin-winder until they can wind their bobbins neatly and properly by hand - We had a discussion about bobbin winding a year or so ago. It brought out a point that should be reviewed. I agree with the 'properly' above, but the 'neatly' may be questionable. We were informed by one knowledgable lacemaker that bobbins, especially ones that are to be hitched on the thread area, should not be wound in neat rows like on the spools of thread in your sewing store -- with the threads lined up neatly side by side all down the spool. A neat row on top of another neat row leaves lots of chasms for the hitch to side into -- even all the way down to the spindle. The thread should be wound in a spiral manner up and down the spindle so that each layer crosses the previous layer at an angle. The criss-cross of angles prevents the hitch from falling into a thread chasm. It can only go down one layer and it stops. ( I have to admit that I make the first layer a neat side-by-side layer that makes a firm foundation on the bobbin spindle, then the rest of the layers are zigzagged with a spacing of 3-4 cms between threads. But the bobbins of the lady in question - quite apart from the threads being of different lengths - are not always wound awfully neatly! Maybe I ought to let her use the 'class bobbin winder' and see if it does in fact make a difference. Using the bobbin winder to hold the bobbin, and just have to guide the thread on to the bobbin might be what she needs. Some fingers just don't work as well as others in activities like hand winding bobbins. It may be easier for her to wind bobbins consistently with a mechanical aid. Alice in Oregon -- with continuing damp weather, and I'm doing my first 'het lassen' overlapping lace attachment. Wish me luck. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] demo time and subsidy
At 12:41 PM 4/4/2005, you wrote: Each member has to report these hours so the collective amount for each local group can be reported to the head officers. This raises interesting questions. Why wouldn't the time you spend answering technical questions for a group like Arachne qualify as volunteer time? Or, the uncompensated hours you spend designing and writing instructions for a lace that appears in one of our IOLI, The Lace Guild, OIDFA, etc. publications? I would like to see a written statement that specifies the qualifications for volunteer time with IOLI. At this time I just know what I have been told. What came to me from both a former representative, and a current IOLI officer, are the two following statements: ...it has always been my understanding that demonstration hours should be counted for formal, organized events only -... demonstration hours reported to IOLI must be from a 'formal' event, something organized, such as a festival or museum open house, etc. My guild records only on-site demo time when we are face to face with the public. Travel and preparation time is not included. Activities within the guild do not count. Arachne is sort of like a guild -- even though a very large one. Answering questions on Arachne is usually for 'guild members' rather than general public. (Yes, I know archives can be accessed by non-Arachnians but I don't think that would count.) What we do for ourselves is not counted. As far as payment goes for expenses incurred, I would guess that it is up to each group or guild as to what they will or will not pay for. The national IOLI does not control each individual guild's handling of it's finances. It would be nice, sometimes, to get reimbursed for expenses incurred in some activities related to our lace and/or other volunteering, but meanwhile we must be happy with the feeling of a job well done, and occasionally a 'Thank You' from someone. If I had a nickel for each hour I've put in doing things for other people, I might have enough to pay for the new bobbins I just ordered. G Maybe someday, someone will endow IOLI with funds to subsidize the activities you mention. It would be nice to get a money grant for writing articles. We can always hope. (Should we have a campaign to put IOLI donations in our wills? Other groups keep asking me to do it.) Lace note - About 2/3 done with my first overlapping lace finish. The first cut will be scary. Alice in Oregon -- trying to type with a huge cat in my lap who won't leave. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] demonstrating, it's tatting! and bobbins
I spent yesterday in Doncaster, (South Yorkshire, UK) demonstrating lace at a Card, Craft and Stamping Show with Anne Weston (Chairman of The Guild of Needlelaces) - Anne takes her needlelace, I take bobbin. (Next Sunday we'll be at Edgbaston Cricket Ground if anyone is in the Birmingham area and not going to The Lace Guild Convention, and then Sheffield on the 24th.) Half way through the day, a woman with two young girls came to see what we were doing, and the girls (approx 10 year olds) both had a go at doing a stitch in my lace - they were very shy, but the one who tried first did another stitch after her friend/sister had had a go, and got it right without guidance from me. A minute or so later, she came over with a two pound coin in her hand, and asked if I would like it for showing her - I refused, of course, and thanked her for the thought. It really made me feel appreciated, though! Later, two women, one saying it's tatting and the other correcting her that we were lacemaking - but, I think I have found the reason for the tatting lady's insistence. I took it back this morning, so can't refer to the title now, but there is a book on the history of the Nottingham lace industry from the late 1700s to 1950s. In that, it defines tatting as a machine made geometric lace, similar to torchon. Hence the confusion. In this case, the friend got the last word in! One woman came up and said that she used to make lace, but couldn't now as her grip has gone and the bobbins slide through her fingers. Off the top of my head I passed on the thought that if something like the adhesive foam used for window insulation (and the grip bits in bobbin winders!) was stuck onto the body of the bobbins, making them easier to pick up, that might help? She thought it was a good idea, and I think she might try, but has anyone else any thoughts on this? I got the feeling that a lace teacher in Pontefract and a bobbin turner in the Doncaster area would be a good idea - there seems to be a hole around there! Is there anyone in the area? I got the first side of a square mat (I'm working it in Texere's Galloway linen - the grid is 10 to the inch rather than metric) done during the day - it was one I doodled about a year or so ago, and it stayed on the graph paper ever since waiting to be done - I'm not sure about the centre at the moment, will wait till it is finished to see if it could have done with another cloth area, but the pattern will probably end up being sent to Bev for the CLG - watch this space but don't hold your breath! -- Jane Partridge -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 01/04/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Fwd: Demo hours and tax status for IOLI
Lauri Hughes wrote: I don't know about the overseas IOLI people, I suspect that their demonstrating is no less countable for IOLI if they are not demonstrating for their local Australian Group Good guessing - it proved to be dead on target. Ditto for whom to report to (I've already reported, officially, to Mary Todd who collects hours for the CRLG - the umbrella guild for the BMA demo). Here comes from the top (Jo Ann is the past -recent past - President of IOLI) *and* CC-d to the current one; I knew if I tossed the question on Arachne (lace) it would get answered comprehensively :) Please note her response regarding foreign members (and we do have regional directors for outside of US - they're listed in the masthead of every Bulletin). Jean Nathan has already told us that demoing does *not* count towards improving the tax status of a group in UK, so we know that UK members wouldn't be double dipping. The rest (like Liz) would have to check with their regional directors. Begin forwarded message: From: Dr. Jo Ann Eurell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: April 4, 2005 9:46:47 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Demo hours and tax status for IOLI Hi Tamara! There seems to be some confusion on Arachne or Lace chat about the reporting of demonstration hours for IOLI so I'll see if I can clarify it as a past president. IOLI 501c3 tax status is granted on an educational basis. We keep records of charter chapter demonstration hours in case the educational mission of the organization is ever questioned. Demonstration hours are reported to your regional director and they include them in their annual report. Hours can be reported by charter chapters or by independent individual members. Foreign members can also report their hours - it helps further demonstrate our mission. If you have further questions, please contact our current IOLI president, Louise Colgan. She is copied on this email. Hope to see you in Denver. Jo Ann Eurell Urbana, IL -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ 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]
[lace] Re: square bobbin report - hitches
On Apr 4, 2005, at 13:36, Carol Adkinson wrote: I am still of the opinion that it is the winding of the bobbins that is at fault! You may be right about that; I've been wondering myself... Going by my own experience, I'd agree with Alice on the subject of winding neatly; being overly neat seems to be a hindrance rather than help half of the time. But winding *tautly*, under tension, does seem to make a difference. It's essential for metallic thread (which stretches, so you want to eliminate as much sag as possible while winding), but doesn't hurt with cotton and linen and silk, either. The thread needs to be wound *tightly* (and she's not - I hope - winding overhand, but rolling the bobbin as she should?) and a winder might help her there (though I find that, for the tension I need for metallics, I have to wind by hand). Another thing to watch for - and someone else has mentioned it already - is *where* the thread is wound. If one's making yardage, obviously, there's no escape from winding up and down the entire length of the neck, to maximise the neck's capacity. But, if you need only a little bit (say a couple of yards or less), it's better to wind all of it on the upper half of the neck, as close to the head as you can. For some reason, the thread that feeds in from the lower part of the neck has a greater tendency to act squirelly. Because of that, I also wind very neatly when winding down the neck, but try to get back up in 3-5 (spiral) turns. Those few turns make the next layer (going down the neck and neat again) *look* ugly, but they seem to let me go over the mined ground lightly. Don't know *why*, so don't ask me :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ 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]
[lace] Re: Log books, demo time
On Apr 4, 2005, at 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why wouldn't the time you spend answering technical questions for a group like Arachne qualify as volunteer time? Or, the uncompensated hours you spend designing and writing instructions for a lace that appears in one of our IOLI, The Lace Guild, OIDFA, etc. publications? We've been exploring the subject for a while on chat before I shifted it to lace, and I think the answer (that Alice dug up for us) is that, to qualify for a tax break on the education basis, you need to do it a) for the general public and b) at an event of which the general public has had prior notice. While writing for Arachne and/or specialised publications is preaching to the converted - a different kind of educational activity. And then, there is the question of credit for expenses in connection with any educational effort connected with these organizations -- travel, in particular, since it is so costly. You can submit a travel voucher if you are paid to teach. Why not submit the travel time and costs as being a donation to your Guild? Would be nice, but I think it would break the back of the organisation :) When I used to volunteer at my local library some years ago (shelving, unscrambling label dilemmas etc), they collected my hours most assidiously - volunteer *work* got them matching grants (based on the minimum-per-hour-wage). But paying for gas wasn't on the cards (of course, in my case, gas cost was negligible, since I'm only 2 miles away from the library) - the library didn't have the money for it, and the government wasn't offering to pay :). They'd have anappreciation brunch once a year instead, and I often wished (and told them so g) they'd keep the money for more books, since it was coming out of their already limited resources... On a slightly different topic about which you have just written: Tamara, you have demonstrated - for the first time, and a very short time - under such fairy tale circumstances Yes, I was very much aware that, in general, Museum-attending public is somewhat different from fair-attending one (excepting, of course, the young man who'd been dragged there by the dragon-mother g); they're, sort-of, hand-picked already :) And the environment is different, too - the Museum doesn't permit food or drink, so there's no danger from spills and such... Still, it was as much education for me as it was for them :) To tease, and to paraphrase How're we gonna keep her (Tamara) down on the farm, after she's seen (demonstrated lacemaking) Paree (Baltimore Museum of Art)? Well... There's the American Frontier Museum (3 different - German, English and Irish - homesteads, run as a sort-of living skansen) within 35 miles of me and I might be able to persuade them to include lacemaking demos - all three countries were making BL at the time they relocated here, so it'd be historically correct. But then I think of the summer weather (hot and humid or worse), and the population to be educated (tourists with kids), and I don't think I want to face all that on a daily basis, so I'm not going to make an effort at persuasion :) They do have - far less frequently (once or twice a year, I think) - a public-event, demo-type, *quilting* bee. I don't se why there couldn't be a lacemaking gathering along the same lines, and an opportunity could, perhaps, be created. But I'd rather stay on the farm or tend my own garden (to quote Voltaire), than do it by myself and, so far, only Betty Ann ever said she might be interested in getting something like that organised. Wish everyone could have seen Tamara's stunning Rosalibre brooch. Yummy! Thanks; I did try to upload the photo to my website for everyone to see, but was unsuccessful. Eventually, I took a Polyanna stance abut it; it was probably for the best, that I'm such a compu-idiot... :) I need to talk about the elements with Cathy (Belleville) who's my spiritual mother on the subject of Rosalibre, and I need to find nice names for them (once something's published, it's impossible to change). That, as well as some help in uploading photos (from my son) should be forthcoming in two-three weeks time, during my stay in CA... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ 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]
[lace] Hitches and winding
Tamara wrote Because of that, I also wind very neatly when winding down the neck, but try to get back up in 3-5 (spiral) turns. Those few turns make the next layer (going down the neck and neat again) *look* ugly, but they seem to let me go over the mined ground lightly. Don't know *why*, so don't ask me :) By spiraling up [or down] when winding the thread, the spirals prevent the next layer of tightly wound thread from imbedding itself in the previous layer which results in the thread being buried and trouble for all. I have found that the spiral layer does loosen the tension of the thread, however, and one must watch that it doesn't loosen the hitch as well. Still, winding this way makes unwinding much easier. Jane O'Connor New Lenox, IL. USA - 50 miles SW of Chicago's Loop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Humour
A college class was told to write a short story in as few words as possible. The instructions were that the story must contain the following three areas: (1) Religion (2) Sexuality (3) Mystery. There was only one A+ paper in the entire class. Good God, I'm pregnant, I wonder who did it. David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] scotland to change place names?
My former partner forwarded me an interesting article about the latest PC stuff going on in Scotland. Considering the timing of the piece, I'm hoping that it's really a clever April Fool's Day thing, but nowadays, such PC things are far to common (unfortunately). Place names such as Blackwell, Helensburgh, and Motherwell are considered non-PC, and likely to offend people. I understand one proposal is to change Motherwell to Parentwell. (But mightn't this be offensive to grandparents? vbg) Please, somebody tell me this buffoonery is all in jest for the Fools of April. Thurlow in Lancaster OH [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] Re: Timtex?
And a good question is why one would want to make a pincushion with them - if you plug the pins into them, they will rust because the silica gel attracts water. If the idea is to have them in the center of the pincushion to keep it dry, hate to tell you, but that only works in a closed container - they absorb water from the general air otherwise. -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
