Re: [lace] Lace-trimmed smock or shirt to wear when demonstrating

> And as for finding a use for our wonderful laces?? > Takes 12 to 15 yards of insertion... Everyone always asks how I'm going to use up the 5 metres of lace that I made for the 5-metre club, but if I made one of these hats I'd only just be getting started: While I was on vacation this year I

Re: [lace] Lace-trimmed smock or shirt for demonstrating

In a message dated 7/26/03 10:09:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Your link to the Sew Beautiful website brought me to a picture of the smock - it's very nice! Although I don't think I would choose to do my gardening in raw silk and linen! And as for finding a use for

Re: [lace] Lace-trimmed smock or shirt to wear when demonstrating

Hi Jeri - Your link to the Sew Beautiful website brought me to a picture of the smock - it's very nice! Although I don't think I would choose to do my gardening in raw silk and linen! And as for finding a use for our wonderful laces?? Takes 12 to 15 yards of insertion... So I don't think it'll

[lace] Kliot book

Jean I have that book, but it is not really a book to learn from. Kathe Kliot's approach is wildly modern and contemporary, and far more freeform than even Czech bobbin lace. Some pieces which are photographed, well, one can hardly imagine why the artist bothered to use bobbin lace technique at a

[lace] Lace at the Met for the IOLI Convention--a plea

I'm coming out of lurker-dom to make a plea to anyone going to the IOLI convention. If you plan to take pictures of the lace being displayed at the Metropolitan Museum, and you get a shot of the little dog at the center of the large Belgian coverlet showing Diana and Endymion, could you *please

[lace] rosaline right/wrong side

Hi everyone We 'finish' the Rosaline motifs by bundling and trimming, and the bundle might, or might not, end up on the one side of the lace or the other. But there is a right side - especially if the little purls have been attached (buttonhole-stitch rings that you make and stitch in place - mine

[lace] still scanning...

Several people have asked me if CD #2 is out yet. The answer is no, probably not until fall. I am only halfway through the Elisa Ricci "Old Italian Lace" Vol 1 and want to include this marvelous set of two volumes on CD #2. I have taken about a month off from scanning due to having gone to Fra