On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 07:11 PM, Nicole Gauthier wrote:
Well, the ribbon is pinless, it curls on itself and the join is made
by a twisted bar made with one thread. The bar is twisted with a
crochet in a way that is not easy to work on a cookie pillow. To help
keep the form , like in a c
On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 12:27 US/Eastern, David Collyer wrote:
[...] the faces of her 3 children. I have worked this in 16 shades of
grey. Now I am about half way through a lovely Toender edging in black
silk 2/20 which will surround the cross stitch.
Sounds like something she might want
Tamara wrote:
< So, er, *how* do you make a "ribbon" with only 3 pairs? >
Well, the ribbon is pinless, it curls on itself and the join is made by
a twisted bar made with one thread. The bar is twisted with a crochet
in a way that is not easy to work on a cookie pillow. To help keep the
form , l
Just mounted August update to the Lace Guild Web site.
Not the magazine update (you'll have to wait a while for that) but
has quite a few events updated and some new books listed.
David and Jean
(in Glasgow, although Jean is off to the US of A at the weekend to
the IOLI lacefest - for which I e
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Lori wrote:
"Mr. Dodge was making a note to remind himself that lace was owed to him as
payment for the debt. What is even more interesting about this entry is
that the gentleman purchasing the chintz needed five weeks to return with
the lace in hand. In
thanks for the offer - I'm going to go to Tonbridge - come what may!!
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Liz Beecher
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From: Annette Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 30 July 2003 10:2
Hi,
No, I have not made a torchon fan. Yes, I have the Ann Collier Fan
book. It has beautiful pictures in but it is not all bobbin lace.
There are needle lace ones as I remember. It is a nice book to look
through. My wallpaper paste is not discolored but it did not hold in a
couple of places ev
My very long term project is a quilting pattern from the 1930's of Ann
Orr's - a basket of flowers - which I'm working in Honiton lace - I
found a while back that the old quilting patterns that were produced as
prick & pounce iron-on patterns have the dot spacings exactly right for
Honiton. I have
Hi Bev and all other busy spiders,
I'm back at the pillow and have started making the logarithmic lace I was
asking about.
For this project, I had to clear a lot of bobbins, so in order not to waste
too much thread , at least, I managed to finish some old projects. It was a
good idea to get ri
If any of you are passing through Dorset in the next few days you might like
to visit the 89th Dorset Arts and Crafts Show. It's on until Tuesday 5th
August at Bovington Middle School. There will be all manner of crafts on
display as well as suppliers, although probably not lace suppliers. It's
We went decimal when I was about 3 but my mum and dad would still refer to
paying with 2 bob (12 old pence - 10 new pence) and the old florin (2 bob)
was still in use and equal to 10 new pence until the mid 70s I believe
Regards
Liz Beecher
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From: David Collyer [mailto:
At 01:04 PM 7/31/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I have just finished a small motiff and want to frame it. I'm afraid it
>will lose it's shape once I remove it from my pillow and am wondering how to
>starch it. Does anyone have any advice/ideas??
I think that you need to remove it from the pillow and se
If you're going to frame it, why are you stiffening it? You're going to
have to tack it to the (presumably fabric) backing in order to be able to
tilt the frame upright and not have it fall to the bottom. It's not like
you're hanging the piece loose in a window--it'll be protected from
poking/han
Johanna wrote:
Haven't tried it myself, so I don't know what the long-term effect might be
on discolouration, or whether it can be washed out, but craft and some
fabric shops sell fabric stiffener which can be used neat for a
cardboard-like effect or diluted for less stiffness.
Jean in Poole
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I have just finished a small motiff and want to frame it. I'm afraid it
will lose it's shape once I remove it from my pillow and am wondering how to
starch it. Does anyone have any advice/ideas??
Johanna
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I'm actually between projects now, having just finished a wire pendant
based on a piece of binche (?) coronation lace that was in the Allhallows
lace exhibition last year--members of the yahoo continentallace group
will know the lace I mean! I posted a picture of the pendant at the
photo sectio
David - I thought I remember that you already did Miss Channer's mat a
couple of years ago! But then since at that time I was a menopausal blonde,
who knows?!?! (I'm still blonde!)
Best -
Linda, the string-a-holic in Oregon where we're in the middle of a heat
wave. Monday was 100F in Portland
Whilst the lsd shillings to pounds would still work, unfortunately as
it is
the US at that time I have no idea what the buying power of a pound
would
be.
Um ... in 1768 the US didn't exist, I believe they were still an
English colony. So I would guess that they were using the same monetary
syst
> And what's on
> >your pillow now?
>
My pillow (s) have lace that I am making for my church's altar. I have a
Torchon pattern for yards of lace to put on the Altar cloth and I am doing a
series of Bruge Bloemwork crosses for the lectern. I have to have one of the
crosses done before I lea
>>>From: Nicole Gauthier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are right, Tamara, Punto Fiandra di Gorizia is not Flanders. They
call the flander stitch the ribbon formed with 3 pairs of bobbins. <<<
In Maltese lace there's a stitch called "Punto Inglizi" (spelling
approximate), or "English stitch". Not
Dear Friends,
I am currently working on a project for my sister's 60th birthday in Oct -
don't tell her anyone!! She's in Hobart, Tasmania.
First I designed a 4" (10cm) square cross stitch (100 sts each way) of the
faces of her 3 children. I have worked this in 16 shades of grey. Now I am
about
Dear Annette,
As far as slang is concerned, a tanner was sixpence and a bob was a
shilling.
That's most interesting. Of course the amounts were the same in Australia.
However, for us a threepence (pronounced thruppence) was a "tray" and a
sixpence was a "zack". Like you, our shilling was a "bob".
Lorri,
Whilst the lsd shillings to pounds would still work, unfortunately as it is
the US at that time I have no idea what the buying power of a pound would
be. sorry
Regards
Liz Beecher
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From: Lorri Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 31 July 2003 05:55
To: Liz
Ann,
I think what you are doing is a fantasic thing - I am sure your children
will treasure anything you make.
I'd love to know what pattern you are using.
As to creaky gates and not - my dad has had his gate status changed but he
is working on the principle that Bloody Mindedness can preserve y
Yep,
I'm ordering one from him until I can get to a lace fair and buy one from
Richard Gravestock
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From: Carol Adkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PRO
Evostick - there are two types of evostick -the one that shoe repairers use
to stick soles on shoes (red) - DO NOT USE THIS - it turns dark brown and
stains and damages your lace.
and the green evow - which is used for woodwork and is a pva glue. From
discussions with a couple of people when I ma
Jacqui,
Does anyone still stock her patterns?
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Liz Beecher
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From: Jacqui Southworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 30 July 2003 07:23
To: Liz Beecher
Hi Bev,
I enjoyed reading your article in the new Lace Guild magazine. Thankyou.
I rather wish you hadn't started this trail about lace projects though,
I'm feeling guilty. At the beginning of the year I had cleared all of
the pillows with work on them, vowing not to have more than one project
o
I keep a complete record of what I buy on ebay, and in September last year I
bought a copy of "The Technique of Bucks Point Lace" for 14 pounds 50 pence
(plus postage). Having a small snake in my pocket (what DH describes as
naturally tight with money) I was outbid on a couple of copies before tha
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