[lace] more paintings
I created a link page with the actual painting and some more. Jo Falkink near Gouda, Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/lnk089-EN.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] more paintings
Thank you, Jo! I went looking on the site for a picture of the painting and wasn't able to find one. Thank you for letting us see it. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA (formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Jo Falkink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I created a link page with the actual painting and some more. Jo Falkink near Gouda, Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/lnk089-EN.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Matching Thread Size and Pricking
Hello Barbara Thanks for this message - glad to know that the table proved useful to you. Yes the instructions do seem complicated (and it was difficult to explain in writing how it works) but once you've got your head around it it DOES work. Actually the table on my website is included in Edition 3 in place of the various sized sample torchon prickings that were in Editions 1 2. Brenda On 2 Dec 2005, at 23:29, Barbara Joyce wrote: I know many of you are far ahead of me in your lacemaking knowledge, and this will be old hat to you. But I had a major epiphany today, and I wanted to share it, in case it might prompt other lacemakers to think this question through. I've had a copy of Threads for Lace by Brenda Paternoster for years, and have used it a great deal. It works wonderfully in cases where a given thread is recommended and you want to make an appropriate substitution. But what happens if you come across a pricking where no thread is listed or recommended? How can you decide what thread to use? There is actually a short section in the book on selecting correct thread size, but it never seemed to mean much to me. And although I'd looked at the page on Brenda's web site that gives a more detailed explanation and a chart, again, I'd never taken the trouble to try to digest the information. Now I've come across a pricking I want to use--and guess what? There's no indication of what thread to use. So I was forced to apply myself and use that page! And the light bulb in my pointy little head went off big-time! Not only do I know what thread to use, but I have it on hand! And I know I'll always be able to figure it out in the future. If you haven't already incorporated this information into your store of lacemaking knowledge, I would humbly recommend you take a look at the following and actually do some measuring on a couple of prickings as an exercise: http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/threadsize/threadsize.html Brenda, thank you, thank you, thank you for this terrific information! Barbara Joyce Snoqualmie, WA USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Xmas-card exchange
Dear all -- Please take a minute or two and walk with me around Robin Hood's barn; I am just dying to share this experience. Some years ago, at a meeting of our local EGA chapter (embroiderers), I was impelled by some absolutely mysterious and unforeseen urge, to approach one of our members, a gifted embroiderer, and suggest that she take a workshop to learn how to make lace. She and I had only recently become acquainted; I doubt if it had ever occurred to her that lace was being made, or at least being handmade; and when the words were out of my mouth, we two beheld each other in some astonishment. But the mysterious urge apparently leaped from me to her; there was an upcoming lace workshop shortly, leaving just enough time for her to learn to twist and cross and buy some bobbins; and she plunged bravely into that workshop. Not long after that, she left our part of the country. Next thing I knew, my little daughter-in-lace had become an arachnid, and so we stayed in occasional touch. This morning's mail brought me a card from our Arachne Christmas-card exchange, a beautiful lace candle, exquisitely made in white and gold, with the flame done in the most perfect half-stitch I have ever seen. And by the same mysterious chance that had produced that fledgling lacemaker some years earlier, who was the maker of this beautiful piece of lace? None other than my above-described daughter-in-lace, randomly assigned to me in the card exchange. Not-so-by-the-way, the maker of that beautiful candle is Barbara Joyce. Fate? Destiny? Coincidence? Barbara, thank you again and again for the lovely card! Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
