[lace] Newsletter
Has anyone in the UK received their Lace Guild magazine yet? I'm wondering if I forgot to renew my subs - must check! Diana in Northants, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] additions to terminology list
Hello Trying to remember who started the list of international terms and where to find it. I know Achim did some work on it, but was it Jane Atkinson who started it? After a querry from Jane O'Conner I did some detective work this morning and found some others too. e.g. De Brusselse slag: draaien, kruisen, draaien, kruisen speld zetten en weer draaien, kruisen, draaien, kruisen. De Dieppeslag: draaien, draaien, kruisen, speld zetten, draaien, kruisen. De Vetergatslag: draaien, kruisen, speld zetten, draaien, kruisen. De Honingraatslag: draaien, draaien, kruisen, speld zetten, draaien, draaien, kruisen. i.e Brussels stitch = twist, cross, twist, cross, pin, twist, cross, twist, cross Dieppe stitch = twist, twist, cross, pin, twist, cross Eyelet stich = twist, cross, pin, twist, cross (i.e. half stitch, pin, half stitch) Honeycomb stitch = twist, twist, cross, pin, twist, twist, cross Agnes Boddington - Ellougthon UK where it is raining again, stopping husband from cutting the patch of lawn. www.sixpennybobbins.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Newsletter
Hi Diana, Yes - I have received mine!I think a couple of weeks ago, too, so, like me and the Circle, you may well have forgotten the subs!(I now have the Lace Guild on a Direct Debit from the joint account - makes life much simpler - and cheaper! - for me and my account!) All best wishes, and may your pins never bend. Carol - Original Message - From: Diana Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:40 AM Subject: [lace] Newsletter Has anyone in the UK received their Lace Guild magazine yet? I'm wondering if I forgot to renew my subs - must check! Diana in Northants, UK - 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] additions to terminology list
Hello Agnes, I just sent you an invitation for collaboration from the Google spreadsheet. Here's the link to the page (for public viewing): http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pqBZkXTYrukMmT23E8JxQVQ On the bottom you'll find a link to the editable sheet. Best, Achim. Am 10.08.2008 um 13:40 schrieb Agnes Boddington: Hello Trying to remember who started the list of international terms and where to find it. I know Achim did some work on it, but was it Jane Atkinson who started it? After a querry from Jane O'Conner I did some detective work this morning and found some others too. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] doily and possible pillow
Hi all, This doily has been on my 24 inch cookie pillow for about a year and a half working on it when I can. I can see daylight at the end of the tunnel! Ther will be an end to this UFO. It isn't a big doily and not overly complicated. But I have to take things step by step to get it done. All I have left to do is the tally fillings. Then I can frame it and use it as part of my display at the heritage events. It is the Walkabout doily from Edna Sutton's book Bruges Flower Lace. Click on link below for picture. http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z43/tatmantats/lace/BL_Walkabout_doily.jpg Yesterday morning we stopped by the thrift shop in town because they are having a 75% off entire store sale. They will be moving to a bigger building next year and need to get rid of a lot of stuff. One of my great finds was this cheap wooden round table that has screw on legs. Many of these types are sold at super stores and dollar stores. And at the 75% off tag, I got it for US$1. :) I just tried to do an online search for this type of cheap decorative table to show a picture of it and it must be so cheap that it isn't even listed on ebay LOL! You will just have to trust my description. The round base is made of composite wood and the legs are an inch thick dowel(like a broom handle) that screw on the bottom side of the round. The round is perfect for a lace pillow base!! All I have to do is create the stuffing and cover it like I do my other pillows. I will then make a long fabric skirt to hide the legs. I can then make a casing on the edge of the skirt for a draw string so that when I need to pack the pillow away, I flip the skirt up and draw up the string over the pillow to use as a pillow cover. VOILA! Nice and neat and probably very portable. I am thinking of using this at some of my demonstrations. Interesting novelty item too ;) Happy Lacing! Mark, aka Tatman website: www.tat-man.net blog:www.tat-man.net/blog - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Newsletter
Mine arrived in IL about 10 days ago (Issue 131 - July 2008) Sue - Original Message - From: Diana Smith To: Arachne Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:40 AM Subject: [lace] Newsletter Has anyone in the UK received their Lace Guild magazine yet? I'm wondering if I forgot to renew my subs - must check! Diana in Northants, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Subs
The responses seem to confirm what I suspected - that I forgot to renew. With the best of intentions I always mean to send the cheque straight away - ho hum! You would think after 25ish years I'd know better ;o). Diana in Northants - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Subs
Diana call them and give them your card details. They are very forgiving!! Sue in EY On 10 Aug 2008, at 15:48, Diana Smith wrote: The responses seem to confirm what I suspected - that I forgot to renew. With the best of intentions I always mean to send the cheque straight away - ho hum! You would think after 25ish years I'd know better ;o). Diana in Northants - 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] Tables and stands
Just reading Mark's message about his table find has made me wonder if I ever mentioned what I have done for my pillow stand, which others might find useful. It is one of Reg Beasant's, the travel version where the legs unscrew, and pillows can be attached to the stand by means of a ring with lugs screwed or glued to the base of the pillow which corresponds to the circular disc support at the top of the stand. I have two stands. Some time ago, when out demonstrating at a craft fair, my daughter came with me (she was doing drawings of flowers in chalk pastel) and we converted a piece of wood into a table for her by attaching a ring so that it could be used with my spare stand. The wood stayed as plain plywood for a time. In June, when I was due to demonstrate at an event, I decided to use my travel pillow instead of one of the ones with a ring attached. Not wanting to attach a ring to it, I decided to use the table. That was all very well, but did not look very attractive and had some pastel marks on it. So I covered the top surface of it using some self adhesive baize (in a dark brown colour) - the type that you buy for sticking on the base of paperweights, etc. I then discovered the useful property of this - my travel pillow is covered in velvet, even the underside. I could tilt the table on the stand and the effect of the two piled fabrics together meant that my pillow didn't slip on it whilst in use, despite not being attached to the stand in any way. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Pizzo di Cantu - Cantu Lace (Italy)
I wonder if any of you know of any good books for learning Pizzo di Cantu or Cantu Lace from Italy. I know Sister Claire is working on it. How did you learn Sister Claire? Do you have a good book? Thanks, Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: additions to terminology list
On Aug 10, 2008, at 7:40, Agnes Boddington wrote: Eyelet stich = twist, cross, pin, twist, cross (i.e. half stitch, pin, half stitch) Sounds like a plain Torchon ground to me. Eyelet stitch, OTOH... I've never heard of and, had it not been for the description (TC,P,TC), I'd have been left in the dark even though the words are in English. Which makes me wonder, just how useful (or not) literal translations might be. Recently, I came accross a term rib with eyelets (in Nora Andries' Onder de loep) and was totally stumped by it. It definitely wasn't a mistake since, in the Dutch version of the text, the word was oogjes (Äuglein in German). But it still meant nothing to me. Until I saw the diagram of it... a winkie pin edge. Literal translation of phrases common in one language into another language used to be one of our (students at the English dept at the Warsaw U) favourite passtimes. But I'll tell you straight from the bridge and without fences, that they can be more confusing than enlightening to the recipient. -- 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]
Re: [lace] Hi everybody in Lacingland
I have posted some of my photos from the IOLI convention on my blog, the address is below. Diane Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galena Illinois USA My blog - http://dianelaces.wordpress.com/ http://www.landoflincolnlacemakers.com/ - Original Message From: Celtic Dream Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 8, 2008 7:39:05 PM Subject: [lace] Hi everybody in Lacingland I was wondering if those people that got lucky enough to go to convention please post their pictures that you might have taken...like the vending room ( love to see a hugh size picture of that) Maybe pictures of Georgia Seitz, Marilee Rockley, Mark Myers, Janice Blair...some pictures of the lace that was displayed. Some of the teachers that were there and so on. I couldn't come but maybe I can enjoy your fun at IOLI Convention through your pictures. So please email me some pictures to drool over and see smiling faces or direct me to where your pictures that you took can be seen. I know there are other lacer besides me that would enjoy seen pictures. Mark has sent me his pictures already since we are friends. Signed, Looking forward to seeing your pictures pretty please with chocolate sauce over chocolate brownies and a scoop or two of Chocolate ice cream and a dab of whip cream with not one but three nice red cherries ontop. Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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-chat] Help needed please
Dear friends, I am looking for the inspirational verse called 'The Faith that moved a Mountain', it has within it, 'when you know no what to do, stop, stand still, just where you are', which I kept for many years, having taken it out of an English magazine, and it was in a handbag at the time which got stolen. Sadly I am unsure of the author, I thought it was Helen Steiner Wright, and then it maybe Patience Strong. I would be very, very happy, if one of you might know this verse, and could kindly let me have a copy please, I know how clever fellow Arachnid's are at finding what seems impossible, and I have tried Google and else where with no joy. Kindest regards Pauline in Somerset. U.K. www.wincanton-uk.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] How do I find plain old 11 oz ceramic coffee mugs?
Suddenly plain ol 11 oz ceramic coffee mugs seem to have gone out of production - unless you're willing to order 12 of them at $4 apiece. I want plain, solid color mugs, with no logo or subtle logo, no photos, pictures of pets, or great big hearts. Can have nice neutral design like leaves or herbs, no flowers. Must be ceramic and not plastic. Must be 11 oz capacity and not 20 or whatever. Must have that squared base and not something exotic. I want royal blue, hunter green, maroon, brown, almond/bone/ivory - and not white. Marbled is alright as long as it is the same basic color on the inside and there is no gold whatever along the rim. I've even searched e-bay. Can anyone suggest how to find them? I know we've got some geniuses at finding things here. You all found me the white corningware dishes I needed. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] How do I find plain old 11 oz ceramic coffee mugs?
Can't help with finding the mugs, BUT I did see a report on tv recently about brightly coloured mugs made in China and Far East that there is a high lead content in the glaze which can leach out. Malvary in Ottawa To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] How do I find plain old 11 oz ceramic coffee mugs?
Not a surprise. That's one reason why I stay away from exotic looking, rough or primitive look mugs like the sort HEB lately likes to sell.That gold stuff they sometimes paint on the rims can be toxic as well. I also stay away from bright colors, so hopefully they'll go by me! I can't even find poisoned Chinese mugs online. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Malvary J Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] How do I find plain old 11 oz ceramic coffee mugs? Can't help with finding the mugs, BUT I did see a report on tv recently about brightly coloured mugs made in China and Far East that there is a high lead content in the glaze which can leach out. Malvary in Ottawa To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [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: blogs versus websites
On 8/9/08 6:11 AM, micki wrote: I am having an interesting chat with my web-technie friends at the moment: which is better - a blog or a website? A blog is for what I am doing posts, where the most-recent entry is all most readers are interested in. For example, Shoulder-Bag Diary in http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/RUFFTEXT/ROUGH023.TXT would have made a good blog, but it's an execrable component of a web site. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that until I was well into writing it -- and I don't have a needlework blog anyway. (I have a fandom blog at http://laetitia-apis.livejournal.com/, and a political blog at http://joybeeson.livejournal.com/. I haven't posted to either in ages. The fandom blog serves mostly to give me access to friend-locked entries in other Live Journal blogs. The political blog was created as a place to post an un-edited copy of a letter to the local paper, and I have felt the urge to post a rant to it once or twice.) A couple of blogs I follow: What is LKY doing? http://www.livejournal.com/users/lky/ -- LKY has a small circle of friends who care that she has gone on vacation and want to see photographs of her standing in front of landmarks. Comments are few and tend to Yay! and Have fun! More Words, Deeper Hole http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_nicoll/ -- James has a way of writing that makes the most trivial events fascinating, and he tends to have experiences that are interesting in themselves. His six cats also have unusual experiences. He is also a professional book reviewer, and attracts readers who share his literary tastes. There are often long and readable conversations in the comments. -- A web site is for material that people will read by topic, rather than by date. Keeping it fresh isn't as important as with a blog, because people will come back to read different parts of it. A commercial website needs a shopping cart, arm-waving ads, and the like, and if your format *is* your content, you need a bastard Graphics/HTML page-writing system, but for everyone else, I STRONGLY recommend plain old hypertext for your web pages. Let the reader choose font, text size, line width, and everything else that depends more on his monitor and the state of his eyes than on what you are trying to say. Real hypertext is just plain text with links. The easiest way to write it is by hand. All you desperately need to know is that [p] marks a paragraph break (this is confusingly similar to a [p][/p] code used in the latest HypergraphicsignoretheText Markup Languages) and that there are six levels of headers. You put [h1] before the most important header and [/h1] after it, and so forth through headers [h2] through [h6]. (Please see angle brackets everywhere I used square brackets: HTML codes in a plain-text document make some mail reading programs go bananas.) If it's going to be *hyper*text, you also need to put in links, but it's easy to copy a link that works and edit it to point where you want it to point. There's a fine point to making a link that displays a graphics file in among your text: you should specify the height and width of the picture, so that a browser doesn't have to wait until the entire picture is downloaded before it can display the text that comes after it. It is extremely offensive to use the height/width attributes to make a picture smaller, because you force the reader to download a whole bunch of resolution, and then don't let him look at it. There are enough Web designers who are ignorant of this point that it's always worth your while to right-click on a picture that doesn't show as much detail as you would like, and choose view image from the menu. Another point worth remembering: HTML readers display carriage returns as spaces, and ignore all surplus spaces. This is to make it easy to arrange the source code in a readable manner. Making the source code plain and readable not only makes it much easier to edit, it serves as a back-up mode when a browser fails to display properly. I like to arrange my source code in two columns, with the text in the right column and the tags confined to the left column as much as possible. This makes it easy to read the text straight down, ignoring the mark-up codes. Hanging indentation makes this format almost automatic. Ah, yes, one more thing you have to learn: how to FTP your files to the server. I got a techie friend to select a suitable program (WS-FTP, in my case), so all I have to do is to open the program, select the remote server from a drop-down list, select the file or files that I want to copy, and click an arrow that points at the directory where I want the copy to appear. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. Where I actually needed a shawl to sit outside at sunset! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL
