Re: Re: [lace] fillings
I'd make a new pattern - if you cover a Honiton pattern with blue plastic, you'll have trouble with the needlepin getting caught when you make sewingsHoniton patterns are pricked on glazed card to make it easier for the needlepin to slide along. Ruth (Sydney, Australia) > Sue Babbs wrote: > > I am forwarding this to lace, as this is definitely a lace topic. Not > everyone is on chat, so you may catch some experienced Honiton makers > who > are not on both lists. > > It would seem quite reasonable to me to do as you suggest. I would then > either make a photocopy of the new pricking or cover it with blue > plastic so > that you don't have any "raw" edges of the pattern to catch with the > thread. > > Sue > - Original Message - > From: "MARGRET STEAD" > To: > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 7:55 AM > Subject: [lace-chat] fillings > > > > Hi All > > > > I was just reading through the Lace guld Honiton book and reading how > the > > filling patterns are done, I know at the moment I am jumping the gun > as I > > have > > a while yet before I get to a pattern with fillings but my question > is. Is > > it > > possible to cut out the middle of the pricking where the filling will > go > > before you put it on the backing card and then place the filling > pattern > > under > > it, so then you have the complete pattern on the pillow at the > begining. > > Little things that go through my mind. So glad you are out there to > help. > > Thanks. > > > > Wendy St Dogmaels > > > > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the > line: > > unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to > > arachnemodera...@yahoo.com. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachnemodera...@yahoo.com Ruth Budge thelacema...@optusnet.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: Re: [lace] Lace teachers
Clay, I couldn't agree with you more!!I had a lady from another state in Australia ask me to teach her Bucks - and she was very surprised when I readily agreed. Her "teacher" in the other state had refused to teach her Bucks because "you're trying to run before you can walk". So I asked how long she'd been learning Torchon - 8 years!The "teacher" also dictated which patterns they worked and sold them the thread to do it...this lady had no idea about how to find a lace supplier and buy books and threads for herself. My aim, when teaching, is to make the student as independant as possible as quickly as possible, with as much knowledge as I can muster crammed into their heads. And if I don't know the answer to a question, I tell them so, and try to find out - that way, we both learn something. Ruth (Sydney, Australia) > Clay Blackwell wrote: > > I have also encountered teachers who have very slyly cultivated a style > which keeps the student dependent on them. I won't take a class from a > teacher like that. The best teachers (in my opinion) are those who > freely share their knowledge, give you a list of outside resources > (i.e., books) that apply to the lace you're working, and also offer you > (in advance of the workshop) a choice of patterns to be worked so that > you will be working on something that pleases you and therefore will not > > be boring.They do *not* tell you that the only way to do something > is the way they are teaching you to do it. (Good teachers acknowledge > that there are often multiple ways to accomplish something, and that the > > one they like is... - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Lace8
The programmer and I sat down after dinner last night and worked to isolate and fix a fairly obscure hiccup with Lace 8. While most of you would never experience the problem, I'd suggest you upgrade your copy of the programme.  Doing so now could save you some frustrations if you happen to fluke a particular combination of actions some time in the future. Ruth Budge thelacema...@optusnet.com.au - Email sent using Optus Webmail - 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: RE: [lace] Annoying pnctuation.. test two in html
I agree Fran. And that's why, when I was running that list I tried to ensure that the conversation was lace or craft related. Ruth Budge Fran wrote: I don't subscribe to the Australian lace list because when I was subscribed there was too much chat and I can't afford to waste my download on what others are planning to have for dinner. - 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: Re: [lace]thread gauge
Susan Wenzel - lacysusan - sells these. Ruth (Sydney, Australia) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > About ten years ago, I bought a thread gauge that was a > > transparency with various grids on it that you could lay over your > pricking to see > > what type it was, ie. 5mm diagonal, 1/8" straight, etc. Then it had > a one > > page guide of suggested thread for a particular grid such as 16/2 > Swedish > > linen, or 5 DMC pearl cotton for example for the 5mm diagonal grid. > On the > > page it says: © 1991 The Lacemaker USA. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
