Re: [lace] Tatting question
On 3/28/2013 7:36 AM, Gray, Alison J wrote: But having read what other people are doing I have been wondering if someone can tell me what the difference is between needle tatting and shuttle tatting. HI Alison; With shuttle tatting, the shuttle holds the thread for you while you use it to make knots directly on the thread, either the same thread (ring) or a different thread (chain). With needle tatting, you make the knots on the needle and then pull the thread through the knots. Needle tatting tends to be slightly looser because the knots are not tight around the thread like they are in shuttle tatting. You should be able to find all sorts of demos of both kinds online. Lauren in Snohomish WA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] kinds of lace
Alice, have you ever tried Carrickmacross, I love it, it's so dainty and quite easy, one of my favourites. Sue M Harvey Norfolk U.K. Sent from my iPad - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Kinds of lace
On 28/03/2013 18:17, Susie Rose wrote: >>>The more I learn, the more I want to know.<<< My feeling too, Susie. Lesley - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] delurking, what's on my pillow, and other stuff
I am surprised to see that this list is almost 20! Some years back, one of the members had a list that was the oldest one we could find of Arachne members, and I was on it. Not sure when I joined, but it was not long after we had access to America Online (remember? when you paid by the minute that you were online?) I have been out of the lace world for awhile now, and am anxious to get started back. I finally realized if I wait for perfect timing...the things I have put off will never happen. So, there is a local lace group and I am about to start going to their meetings, I have signed up for the bookmark exchange, and I am posting on Arachne again...whew. I learned to make lace in 1983 while living in England and went to classes at the local Tech college every week for over 18 months. I started with lessons from a sweet lacemaker who had inherited most of her tools from an older lacemaker who lived with her. My first lace day in England saw the purchase of a Hornsby lace pillow bag, and Newnham pillow, a glass bobbin and an antique mother-and-babe with twins... I enjoy cross stitching, crocheting (only granny squares), hand-sewing, smocking and spinning (that is until I found out I was allergic to sheep's wool...) Once I started lacemaking, there was enough new things to learn to keep my mind occupied for the rest of my life! In England, I learned to make Torchon, Bedfordshire, Bucks Point and Honiton. My favorite by far is Bucks Point. When I was starting out, my children were little, and loved to have a go at my lace pillow. My daughter used to attend demonstrations with me, and I would set her up with her own pillow. At about 8, she abandoned it. That is until just recently when after being away from it for about 20+ years, she sat down and made a beautiful bookmark in Torchon with minimal help from me!! Also, my daughter-in-law has asked me to help her learn. Right now, I have a fine Torchon edging on one of my pillows and a church on the other one. I think i will get back to work on this church and finish it...it has been much too long!! Glad to be back...all the discussions on lurking are probably what pulled me back in again...thank you! Debbie in Jacksonville mouzo...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] anniversaries, delurking and stuff
I am surprised to see that this list is almost 20! Some years back, one of the members had a list that was the oldest one we could find of Arachne members, and I was on it. Not sure when I joined, but it was not long after we had access to America Online (remember? when you paid by the minute that you were online?) I have been out of the lace world for awhile now, and am anxious to get started back. I finally realized if I wait for perfect timing...the things I have put off will never happen. So, there is a local lace group and I am about to start going to their meetings, I have signed up for the bookmark exchange, and I am posting on Arachne again...whew. I learned to make lace in 1983 while living in England and went to classes at the local Tech college every week for over 18 months. I started with lessons from a sweet lacemaker who had inherited most of her tools from an older lacemaker who lived with her. My first lace day in England saw the purchase of a Hornsby lace pillow bag, and Newnham pillow, a glass bobbin and an antique mother-and-babe with twins... I enjoy cross stitching, crocheting (only granny squares), hand-sewing, smocking and spinning (that is until I found out I was allergic to sheep's wool...) Once I started lacemaking, there was enough new things to learn to keep my mind occupied for the rest of my life! In England, I learned to make Torchon, Bedfordshire, Bucks Point and Honiton. My favorite by far is Bucks Point. When I was starting out, my children were little, and loved to have a go at my lace pillow. My daughter used to attend demonstrations with me, and I would set her up with her own pillow. At about 8, she abandoned it. That is until just recently when after being away from it for about 20+ years, she sat down and made a beautiful bookmark in Torchon with minimal help from me!! Also, my daughter-in-law has asked me to help her learn. Right now, I have a fine Torchon edging on one of my pillows and a church on the other one. I think i will get back to work on this church and finish it...it has been much too long!! Glad to be back...all the discussions on lurking are probably what pulled me back in again...thank you! Debbie in Jacksonville mouzo...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Kinds of lace
I forgot to add tatting. DUH! The more I learn, the more I want to know. Hugs, Susie Rose My Etsy store: http://www.susierosedesigns.etsy.com Other techniques, not in any order, in my repertoire are: knitted crochet cutwork pulled thread work needlelace hardanger - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] glasses
I purchased several pairs of clip-on and flip-up magnifiers in varying degrees of intensity for my off-the-shelf magnifiers. i can put them up out of the way when not needed but have them handy at a flip with my hand. i use this with regular sunglasses when i drive and need to read something rapidly and it is much easier than taking the sunglasses off and putting on the magnifiers to "read" which usually are either on my head, in the neckline of my blouse/shirt or in my backpack. that really comes in handy having the convenience readily available. i tried this for some close work lately (turning 70 next month) but found using my regular intensity magnifiers (2.25) with a half glass pair in front (2.0) is just perfect. I found some half glasses with no rims so it is like wearing bifocals. i don't need the intensity and try to make my eyes work with less help as much as possible. guess that is why my eyes are so good on their own. i can do most crafts with just a bit of help. now that phone book (and thank goodness we have the internet now for avoiding using them) it is a totally different matter - i go and find very high intensity glasses or grab that magnifying glass - you know the one they use as an icon for "search"? the best thing i just discovered the last couple of months is that some magnifier glasses have the intensity etched on the bottom corner of the lens so i can know what i am grabbing. i wear the same pair(s) all the time - some are 1.75, 2.00 or 2.25 - and never know which is which. i keep pairs everywhere too. i found the Dollar Tree, 99 Cent Stores and such carry off-the-shelf magnifying glasses and so when they are scratched or well worn, i can replace them or lose them without too much worry. i have folding up one in cases places that i might need to grab them for lack of the usual ones. i keep a 4.0 pair in my bathroom for slivers and such. well, we are very fortunate to have this tool available to us. i just recommend you try to keep your eyes working for you. my daughter 20 years younger is wearing 3.5 intensity because she would not believe her mother knew best. i watch for 3.5, 3.75 and 4.0 for her but wish she had taken care earlier in life. another trick is wearing sunglasses all your life. it keeps your eyes healthy later in life and also avoids crow's feet from squinting. happy lacing. -- Hugs, Lin and the Mali Overton, NV USA Always remember that no matter how useless you feel, youre someones reason to smile. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Tatting question
If you go to *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtMR_XtTvTk* you will see needle tatting in progress. for shuttle tatting: * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljXBGDVwEIU*. This is just to "show" you the difference. I am self taught tatting (both shuttle and needle) and while probably not more than a beginner after many, many years, i can make a lot of things. i don't have all the newer known tricks under my belt, but this is very easy to carry. the needle is a bit different because it is "longer" which makes a bigger carry-with project. for instructions, i found a book from the 1950s-1960s which i cannot remember the name of but it is a multi-craft learning guide. the tatting instructions are illustrated and very simple. you get the basic 3 stitches and you can grow from there. with today's technology, you might find youtube videos that will serve. this is ebay and you can see the book i love best for tatting instructions - the top right - but the one to the left of it is also the same but a newer version. * http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-How-To-LEARNING-Books-for-Crochet-Knit-Tat-Embroide r-Weave-/171012901547?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item27d129caab * Would love to have you as a part of the tatting neighborhood. happy tatting - it is easy to carry and you always can do it even in a group of chatting. Hugs, Lin and the Mali Overton, NV USA Always remember that no matter how useless you feel, youre someones reason to smile. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] request
Nathalie There are 2 differences between Tenerife and nanduti lace. 1. Nanduti creates little odd shaped bits to fit between the main motifs. Diamonds with curved sites, triangles, scallops along the outer perimeter. Look here for tenerife: http://www.rendasol.org.br/proposta-es.php 2. The working setup. Tenerife is usually made on some kind of form -- wood, cardboard, plastic -- where the form is only slightly larger than the finished lace. But nanduti is usually worked onto a large pieces of cloth, mounted into a rectangular flat slat wooden frame. The cloth is only a temporary backing, which is cut away from the lace when the piece is finished. Look here for nanduti: http://www.nandutilace.com/theprocess.html Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Kinds of lace
Hello to One and All! While bobbing lace, in the lace realm, is my true love. I make bore bobbin lace than any other kind. Other techniques, not in any order, in my repertoire are: knitted crochet cutwork pulled thread work needlelace hardanger Hugs, Susie Rose My Etsy store: http://www.susierosedesigns.etsy.com Buy quality foods in bulk at a lower price. http://www.zayconfoods.com/refer/zf145544 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Nanduti vs. Teneriffe Lace
There are several differences between Teneriffe and Nanduti Lace. 1. The main difference is that in Teneriffe, the motifs are made individually and then sewn or stitched together. Nanduti is made on a base of fabric stretched on a frame and the warp threads are stitched into the fabric. A As the warp threads of the second and ensuing motifs are sewn into the fabric the threads are link together as they are stitched. Thus the 'motifs' are joined together as the warp threads are laid down eliminating the need to stitch them together as in Teneriffe Lace. 2. Look at the stitching on the warp threads: In Teneriffe Lace you will see more than one warp threads pulled together into a knot. A quick glance at the perimeter of the Teneriffe Lace motif will show this especially clear--that is how the threads are finalized into lace, by knotting one thread with its adjacenet neighbor thread to form a cohesive piece. In Nanduti lace every individual thread is individually knotted when the knotting stitch is used = an unbelievable amount of work in the fine threads and large amount of warp threads used! This individual knotting of each thread is necessary because of the way that the warp threads are laid down--there is no 'give' for the threads to leave their original position and move toward their neighbor thread to be knotted together as there is in Teneriffe Lace 3. Many people point to the 'fans' used as a design element on the edge of Nanduti Lace as a quick way to identify Nanduti Lace. This is true because the way that Nanduti is formed allows for this shape to be created. 4. Nanduti Lace will usually have some form of filling area. Many times this is in middle of the piece but is also used to fill-in between odd shaped areas. Warp threads are laid down perpendicular to one another (in a square grid fashion) and then two forms of stitches are used to stitch the grid into a cohesive and decorative effect. One stitch looks like a little maltese cross and the other is more circular. My big question is the spelling of 'Teneriffe' vs 'Tenerife'!!! Everything that pertains to the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands is spelled with one 'f''. It seems that things associated with the lace use two 'f's'. Alexandra Stillwell's book is spelled "Teneriffe Lace". It is my suspicion that this is where the second 'f' came from. Any ideas Karen Bovard The ShuttleSmith Omaha, Nebraska www.TheShuttleSmith.com From: Nathalie stevieni...@gmail.com I have another request. Does anyone knows exactly the main difference between Tenerife lace and Nanduti? There is a lot written about these laces but the difference is not clear to me. How can you identify or be sure about an Tenerife one and how a Nanduti one. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Needle tatting vs. shuttle tatting
Certainly in the beginning the results of shuttle tatting and needle tatting are very much the same. That may change with more advanced stitches and techniques, but that would be a long way down the road. The difference is that you put the stitches on the thread differently. I last needletatted 5 years ago, so I'm very rusty on it, but I did like it better than shuttle tatting. If you want a go at it, there is a book out with the unremarkable title of something like How To Needle Tat. I think there's only one. Once you're done with finding out how to do a loop and a bar, you're pretty much set to do any sort of tatting from other books. I could be wrong, but I found it so. Allison Grey wrote: > if someone >can tell me what the difference is between needle tatting and shuttle tatting. "My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace and bad eyesight
I was legally blind until I was 24. Wore bifocal contacts. Then I got lasix. Best thing ever. Before that, I used to memorize the colors of a room so that if something happened to my contacts or glasses I could get around. Now I just make sure I have good light. In a few years I'll need to get readers because of aging which no ones found a fix for lol. On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Lyn Bailey wrote: > My father was legally blind. His 20/20 was right up at his eyeball. > He went to blind school for a couple years as a child. Yet he drove a car, > was a thermonuclear physicist, and did everything anyone would do, except > bird watching and art appreciation. Before we went someplace new, he would > study and study the map, as street signs were probably beyond him. Daddy > did not allow me to use the word, 'can't' when I was growing up. > > -- Michelle Writer / Web Designer http://michellejnorton.com http://denverfictionwriters.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Tatting question
Hi I've been interested in reading about what laces you all do and what projects you have ongoing. A bit like Clay I have nearly nothing on my pillows, just a Torchon square finished, but needing the pins taken out, and the bobbins wound for a piece of Bucks Point which I can't start until after our Easter visitors have gone home. But having read what other people are doing I have been wondering if someone can tell me what the difference is between needle tatting and shuttle tatting. I bought myself a tatting shuttle years ago and had a go. I didn't get on with it, but that might be because the only instructions I could find were some sketchy ones in a book about many crafts. It's something I would like to try again as it's so much easier to cart around than a pillow etc. Alison in Colchester, Essex, UK where the sun is shining, but it's still very, very cold for the end of March - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: Fw: [lace] kinds of lace
At 07:39 AM 28/03/2013, Agnes Boddington wrote: Since when do I "where" instead of "wear" magnifying glasses? Brain getting confused. Well I did wonder :) David in Ballarat, AUS - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Nothing on the pillow!
Clay, I can't believe this! I do not have a lace project in progress! I don't know what to do with myself! Oh how terrible you must feel Get one started immediately! I have a workshop with Vera Cockuyt coming up soon, where I'm going to start a Vologda piece, and another workshop in May (Tonder), so it doesn't make a lot of sense to start something and then get caught up in two other projects. Plus, it's a lot easier to store pillows if they're empty! That's NOT an excuse. David in Ballarat, AUS - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace and bad eyesight
Dear Linda, This is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. 18 years ago they had these things more like little cubicles, but a person all but totally blind could write checks, read things, personal letters. It might take a bit of doing, but it will work. I'm sure your friend is not the only one, as such a machine has been in use for more than 18 years. And with flat screens, this is doable, not just for lace, but for other uses as well, and not necessarily that cumbersome. The clarity would depend on the resolution of the screen, how small the little pinpoints of light are. Wouldn't necessarily want to take it to class, but that could be done, too. lrb Linda Walton wrote: >I have a friend who has really poor sight, so poor that she has been >registered blind for many years. Now let me say first of all that my >friend does not make lace, but she does still do similar delicate and >complicated hobbies. But her approach is not spectacles and magnifying >glasses. Instead, her son has fixed up a web cam which she points at >her handiwork, and the image is shown on an enormous screen. It can be >shown at any magnification she likes, and is very bright and clear. >(This is probably something to do with the pixels, but that is beyond my >competence to explain, I'm afraid.) It does mean that she has had to >learn to look at the screen rather than down at her hands, but I gather >than it did not take her long, and it also means that she can sit >without a bent neck - indeed in any postition she finds comfortable, >even lounging in an armchair. > >Hoping this might help, Linda Walton, >(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where it's still /freezing!/ "My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] glasses
For getting really close, I've discovered I can wear my trifocals and then wear an off-the-shelf pair of 3.5s over/in front of my prescription glasses. I've gotten remarks like a really tentative "why are you wearing two pairs of glasses?" as if they are afraid I've gone crazy and will be dangerous, but it's been a lifesaver (or project-saver) for lace with fine thread and for really detailed beading or embroidery. Nancy Connecticut, USA > > From: Jean Nathan >To: Lace >Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:43 AM >Subject: [lace] glasses > ... >I bought a pair from a local supermarket magnification 3.5 which means I can get really close. ... - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Lace and bad eyesight
Our local quilting shop in Illinois recommends the Stella Lamp, which I understand is fairly new out: http://stellalighting.com/market-sectors/sewing-fiber-arts/ It looked impressive, but I wasn't in the market for a new lamp, being very satisfied with my existing one. Sue Babbs - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Lace and bad eyesight
My father was legally blind. His 20/20 was right up at his eyeball. He went to blind school for a couple years as a child. Yet he drove a car, was a thermonuclear physicist, and did everything anyone would do, except bird watching and art appreciation. Before we went someplace new, he would study and study the map, as street signs were probably beyond him. Daddy did not allow me to use the word, 'can't' when I was growing up. So when it comes to lacemaking, I keep thinking there's got to be a way. I have heard of people who are blind making lace, but I haven't met any. At a lace day in Ithaca, perhaps 10 years ago, I heard of someone buying supplies for a blind lacemaker, who could do it all, except make a pricking. Obviously her prickings were actually pricked, not prick as you go. But I didn't ask questions, and I don't know how successful she was. There may need to be adjustments. 'Cataract' lace, that is, using threads that are thicker than fine hair. Perhaps a change in bobbins. Perhaps better light, and more of it. Perhaps really good magnifiers. There are gadgets and gizmos for sight impaired that the rest of us may not know about. I believe lacemakers, especially those of today, are intelligent people who are certainly capable of figuring out alternate ways of making lace if necessary. After all, that's what lacemakers do. Solve problems. If you have seen a Swede making lace, you understand that thumbs are not necessary with their bobbins. While blind lacemakers are not thick on the ground, and may be apocryphal, some people may have overcome difficulties that come upon us as we mature, the way Alex has. Please, if you know someone whose eyesight is 'really' impaired and still makes lace, could you find out how they do it and let us know? I am quite nearsighted. a -7 correction, for those with serious myopia who know what I'm talking about. When I wore contact lenses, not good for bifocals, I would wear a pair of storebought cheaters for reading, and add a pair of opticaids (that's a brand name, satisfied customer, usual disclaimers) to the mix to see individual threads. Now that I don't bother with contacts, I just take off my glasses entirely if I need to check out something close, instead of using the bifocals. Really good magnifiers may be difficult to find, or expensive, but they are worth a look. There are also electronic magnifiers so people can write a check, read a phone book. They were large and cumbersome when I looked into them for my father with macular degeneration in both eyes (he wasn't driving then) but that may have changed. Putting the pillow in that area and seeing the lace on a screen could possibly work. While everything that comes between your eyes and the threads will distort slightly, doubling up on glasses is not uncommon, and can work well. Personally I prefer the magnification to be near my eyes, as opposed to being near the threads, as the area you can look at without taking your hands from the bobbins is larger. There are catalogs of aids for those with low vision or no vision, and something in them might work. If there is a local blind association, talking to them might work wonders, and I bet you could bring in your pillow and try things out. Sometimes people donate equipment to them. None of this is as easy as being 25 and making lace without extra light or glasses, and what is needed to make lace may be such a trade off the lacemaker considers it not worth it, but certainly it is worth seeing what is out there. I think Alex's method of solving her problem is an excellent one. Take your pillow to the optometrist, show her/him the requirements. Also look into solutions for the low vision people and see if it will help. Use really good lights. Part of Susie Johnson's classes on Withof is a demonstration on the difference between the old-fashioned light bulb and a florescent bulb. Side by side, you see the difference, and you don't buy florescent. I asked her a few years ago about LED lights and she said we didn't have lamps that had enough of them. Well, I saw the right kind of lamps at the OIDFA convention in Caen this summer, and look forward to such lamps being available for the electric current of the US. Then I'll buy a new lamp or two. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where the weather is turning more spring-like, but I still can't sit on the deck and make lace. It's too cold. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] How many types od lace?
I have been reading about all the different types of lace that you all do and am amazed how you all find the time. I must say that my first passion is bobbin lace. I don't mind what type of bobbin lace it is, I just love it. I have done a bit of most types and find that after 35 years, I can teach most types without actually having to make it myself. Then I feel jealous of my pupils because they do such wonderful work. At the moment I have on my pillows a torchon runner and a withof picture, apart from a string of bookmarks on my travel pillow. I am also helping an artist to make lace installations using 8mm thick plastic coated wire. It is a series of circles in different stitches, each one 2,5m in diameter. The pricking is on supawood on the floor and we have to crawl about the floor to do it but I have just taught my gardener to make lace so that I only have to set each new one up and then sit beside him and supervise. He is getting very good at it. As for other types of lace, I have dabbled in needlelace, tatting, carrickmacross, greek fingerlace (macrame), Battenberg, but I keep on going back to my lace pillow. Janis Savage in Honeydew South Africa, where the Easter weekend promises lovely warm weather. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Types of lace
I decided not to join in the bookmark exchange this year as I was very busy completing some lace I promised my sister over a year ago, now done and ready to post:-) Also I wanted to knit this one cardigan/jacket in peach which is about 2 thirds done now. Have made Torchon, Bucks, Beds, 1 piece of Russian lace but want to do more and 2 pieces of Milanese and again want to make more and two small samples of Flanders but have never seemed to have time to carry on learning that one. I have knitted since I was little and a friend and I learned to crochet in the 70s. I did a number of lacy shawls in the 70s cardigans and I once worked a very pretty lace babies dress in the very early 80's (just because I wanted to do it) which won a 2nd place in a local craft show before handing it over to my sister in law for her new baby daughter. I would like to learn to do tambour lace as I now have the right things to try it, I would like to try needle lace and I want to learn shuttle tatting to a point of competency to make little motifs, also improving on my needle tatting skills without having to struggle with every move but need more time to spend just trying and working at it which seems to escape me at the moment. Sue T Dorset UK At present I am making my bookmarks ready for the exchange but I am also making the 'map of the world' from the Eeva-Liisa Kortelahti book 'let's make bobbin lace'. I'm making it in black and intend to mount it on a piece of fabric which I will paint in a wash of blue with hints of browns/greens behind the land masses. It will hang alongside the two world maps I have already (one in blackwork embroidery and the other cross stitch). As for other laces I make or have tried; Torchon, Honiton, Bedfordshire (not keen), Bucks (I like), Russian tape lace (really enjoyed), a little Withof (must try more), Bruges flower Lace, Hairpin lace, Needlelace, Milanese, Miniature laces for my dolls houses and have dabbled with a little designing. I like to knit and crochet and am very pleased that I have at last mastered Tatting with the help of You-Tube and so at the moment spend a fair bit of time practising my tatting techniques especially trying to get uniform sized picots :-) Hoping for warmer signs of Spring soon Celia in SE London where it is cold and grey outside. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] glasses
Having discovered I'd left my handbag reading glasses somewhere and didn't have them for my lace class, I decided I needed some off-the-peg ones to scatter in various places so I'd never be in a position of not being able to do anything again. I already have prescription ones in the dining room, in the bedroom and (usually) in my handbag. I bought a pair from a local supermarket magnification 3.5 which means I can get really close. Then by chance while searching through the TV channels came across QVC UK who were selling packs of reading glasses. This had to be fate. So I bought a pack of 7 pairs of "Essential" of 3x (the maximum they did) for the ridiculously low price of £22.25 plus postage - FOR 7 PAIRS! I bought that pack because they are shallow and I can use them like half glasses and look over the top of them. One pair was a folding pair - added to my handbag; one pair almond shaped - went to the charity shop along with one of the two black pairs, leaving me with 5 plus the ones from the supermarket I now have 2 spare pairs in the glove compartment of my car, folding ones in my usual use handbag alongside a prescription pair, a pair in each of the two other handbags I frequently use and a pair in my knitting bag. QVC are still selling them along with another 7-pair set "Ultimate" - larger lenses and one pair of sunglasses in place of the folding pair that I have for £20.28 plus postage. A "Hummingbird" set of 4 pairs for £14.97, a set of two pairs with LED lights for £24.25 and some Joan Rivers ones. I'm delighted with them. Don't know if QVC in any other countries are selling them. No connection with QVC - just highly satisfied with my reading glasses from them. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Types of lace
At present I am making my bookmarks ready for the exchange but I am also making the 'map of the world' from the Eeva-Liisa Kortelahti book 'let's make bobbin lace'. I'm making it in black and intend to mount it on a piece of fabric which I will paint in a wash of blue with hints of browns/greens behind the land masses. It will hang alongside the two world maps I have already (one in blackwork embroidery and the other cross stitch). As for other laces I make or have tried; Torchon, Honiton, Bedfordshire (not keen), Bucks (I like), Russian tape lace (really enjoyed), a little Withof (must try more), Bruges flower Lace, Hairpin lace, Needlelace, Milanese, Miniature laces for my dolls houses and have dabbled with a little designing. I like to knit and crochet and am very pleased that I have at last mastered Tatting with the help of You-Tube and so at the moment spend a fair bit of time practising my tatting techniques especially trying to get uniform sized picots :-) Hoping for warmer signs of Spring soon Celia in SE London where it is cold and grey outside. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Types of lace
I'm usually a lurker on this list, so fulfilling two tasks with one email. I started with torchon about 3 years ago. Since then I've also been taught needlelace and Bucks Point. I can't say I make Bedfordshire lace as I only tried it for a short while and we didn't get on. Last year I started to make a lace dragon in what I now know to be Milanese and which I am enjoying very much. I've usually got some knitting on the go as well, and it is often knitted lace. I love making lacy socks, and like Clay favour toe-up, two-at-a-time on a circular needle. I've nearly finished my current Bitterroot shawl in camel/silk with tiny beads on the edge so will be looking through my yarn stash for a new project soon. I've enjoyed reading what types of lace others make. No wonder this list is the first port of call for any lace queries - the wealth of knowledge and experience is fantastic. Lesley in Marple, Cheshire UK where we have lovely blue skies today, tho' the weather is still very cold. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Nothing on the pillow!
Sadly Clay I am in the same position. I had one new pattern pricked ready to begin but feel its not quite right so am going to redraw it (asap) and as I dont know how many bobbins I will need I cant even prepare those. I was doing some knitting for me while travelling around to visit my Mother in hospital recently and although seriously ill (and my sisters didn't expect her to get to her birthday on Monday just gone) she seems to be fighting on, :-) While there she asked me to make her a cardigan like the one I was wearing so as I have promised I feel I need to get on with that but need to get this one off my needles first before my brain forgets what its doing. Working on asap so I can begin on hers.So I am trying to keep my mind focused on the knitting but will be happy to return to my pillow as soon as I can. Luckily the lace project can wait, if it must, and I have got on top of all the other lace projects I promised myself I would do apart from that one so far so must drive myself on with the knitting. I might have to pause and work a couple of small things for my own sanity Noelene but as Mum is now 89 and quite poorly I have to achieve that for her first. I am enjoying reading your mail as always. Sue T, Dorset UK, where at last we have a sunny but very chilly day, no snow here. Many people struggling in various areas due to some very freak weather, Huge snow drifts in the north and farmers loosing sheep and lambs underneath it all which is terrible. I can't believe this! I do not have a lace project in progress! I don't know what to do with myself! I just finished a piece of Milanese, designed by Louise Colgan. I'll post this to Flickr when I can photograph it. I have a workshop with Vera Cockuyt coming up soon, where I'm going to start a Vologda piece, and another workshop in May (Tonder), so it doesn't make a lot of sense to start something and then get caught up in two other projects. Plus, it's a lot easier to store pillows if they're empty! Sent from my iPad - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] glasses
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:17:09 -0500 From: "Lorelei Halley" Subject: [lace] kinds of lace I have eyesight problems and difficulties finding an optometrist who understands what I need. Hi Lorelei When I went to myoptometrist I took a Honiton pillow complete with lace being made in the finest thread, I had and showed him how it is made. I never have a problem. He took the distance that I was the most comfortable for working and I have one pair of bifocals for distance and reading and another pair for distance and lacemking. If you don't need glasses for distance use half-glasses for lacemaking. If you are short sighted and cannnot not get half-glasses 'off the peg', having a pair custom made can be very expensive. Instead find a cheap pair of rimless glasses that can be cut down to half-glasses size, they worked for me before needed distance correction. Happy lacemaking Alex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] joints
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:29:40 + From: Linda Walton Subject: Re: [lace] How many kinds of lace? How many kinds of lace do I make? Well, the only kind of lace I make is Bucks point ground, and I like to make yardage...But since I developed arthritis most of these have been forbidden, since they put side-loads on my finger joints. However, thank goodness I took my small pillow in to show the physiotherapist at the hospital, and she approved bobbin lace, especially my bucks thumper bobbins which are easy to scoop up and hold using the whole hand rather than spangled midlands. I agree that bobbon lacemaking is light joints. When I saw the surgeon a week after I broke my wrist, which had been pinned so I did not have a cast, he asked me what my activities were. I got no further than saying 'bobbin lace' when he cut in with 'Good therapy, that will get everything moving' - and it did. I also have arthritis and prefer the East Midlands bobbins. I don't grip them, I curl my fingers slightly under them and allow the weight of the bobbins to tension the thread. We are all different and different techniques suit different people. Continue with whatever you find the most comfortable, there is no single 'correct' andwer Keep lacemaking Alex. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Request :-)
Last week I asked about a tape lace. Well, someone informed me that it was Dichtl lace or Dickel lace. I could find an old pattern but no literature. I have another request. Does anyone knows exactly the main difference between Tenerife lace and Nanduti? There is a lot written about these laces but the difference is not clear to me. How can you identify or be sure about an Tenerife one and how a Nanduti one. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8520/8596467219_dbf49feb83_z.jpg Thank you. :-) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
