Gidday all,
A while ago someone posted a great website with instructions/info on filet
lace. I can't find it - can someone please point me in the right direction?
TIA
Michelle
an Aussie living in Richards Bay, South Africa
Ian Chelle Long
+27 35 788 0777
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Arachne does give one a wonderful opportunity to make friends. Miriam came to
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Hi Everyone,
I have been trying to locate Nancy Evans as she has been recommended to the
Richmond Area Lacemakers as a teacher for Needlelace to our group.
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On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 04:05 AM, Ann Genest wrote:
- It take only practice so, when you have a lace done and you still
have thread on your bobbins, practice on your little pattern with
tallies (only tallies continuously - one after one - if you don't
have one - create it).
Dear Ann,
My button box is spread across two smallish boxes because it's easier to
find a suitable button from a smallish pile than from a large one. Only
problem is that all the button are jumbled up, so matching buttons can be in
both boxes.
I keep a few beautiful Victorian buttons which belonged to my
Does anyone keep a button box anymore?
My buttons live in a collection of those little cylindrical plastic boxes
that once held the films for my camera. That way I can keep them sorted
into groups - shirt buttons in one, for instance. And it's easy to stick a
label on the outside.
Did you
I called around to the thrift shops yesterday. One thrift shop proprietor
said, we used to get things like that 10 years ago, but no more. I asked my
husband whether he thought that meant people didn't keep button boxes and he said
he thought that when someone died or went into a nursing home
I assume that what Devon refers to as Thrift shops are our Charity shops -
where people donate stuff they no longer want for sale in a good cause like
The British Heart Foundation National Children's Homes, Oxfam.
I call in the 7 in Poole High Street on a Thursday when I get the weekly
shop,
I find it interesting that green seems to damage thread. I had always
assumed, in my totally non-scientific way, that the darker the colour the more
damage to the thread which is why I was so surprised that the purple didn't break.
But, I suppose, given my scientific education ended at the
There is another, longer item in today's paper. Seemingly the author, Allan
Morrrison...traced the singer's ancestry back 300 years to the Aberdeenshire
village of Lonmay. However, Jack Pressley (the American branch misspelled
the name), a balding octogenarian also traced back to discover
Smart woman!
Darlene Mulholland
It's a wife's job to listen to her husband...
There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his
money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more
than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his
Hi Devon and everyone
I do keep a button box. I have a tin purchased from a thrift shop, and the
leftovers of my mom's button jar (which has tiny folded papers containing
collections of wee shell buttons, shoe buttons, and other small attaching
devices). Instead of fishing around for a button to
I have started a button box since moving here to Denver almost 11 years
ago, but it doesn't have many buttons in it :-( My mum (Liz in
Melbourne) has one that she's bbuilt up over the years (well I used to
be a tin don't know what it is now), but like Sue, as a kid I too, loved
running my fingers
Hello spiders!
I also keep a button box. I have all my buttons, many of which came from
my mom (yes, lots of memories there!) in a glass box, about 9 inches square
by 2 inches high, with an open top. I keep it on my dining room table, and
people who come over *love* to paw through it, and
My mother was never one for sewing but she did own
an old treadle machine for doing minor repairs and
one of the drawers was full of an odd assortment
of buttons. I added to the collection when I began
sewing my own clothes. Each time I purchased buttons
the extras went into the drawer.
I have not been keeping a button box, but I have been gifted buttons and
purchased cheap assorted buttons so I DO have buttons. However, I also
have my Mom's buttons and her Mom's buttons and the other buttons that are
at my Mom's house, these are MY buttons, but I still have to FIND themlol.
From: R.P.
A young man bought his beautiful blonde wife a cell phone for their
first
wedding anniversary. He showed her the phone and explained to her all
of
its features. She was excited to receive the gift and simply adored
her new
phone. The next day she went shopping. Her phone rang
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:30:36 -0800 (PST), Bev wrote:
The button box has a masculine equivalent - the nuts-and-bolts jars that
guys seem to have in their workshops (in my case there are many on shelves
throughout the house. Want some?) - so maybe if your daughter doesn't find
enough button boxes,
Yes, i have a button jar its contents include buttons from when olur
children were small, and ones from both my mother and MIL, and I think some
from DH's grandmother! And I love scrabbling through them. I have managed to
find some useful ones, and I have used them in a mis\xed media piece
I do have a button box. Or, rather, one of those little tool-chests
with drawers -- like Alice's, I think -- where different colours of
buttons are sorted out (and white ones sorted out further). They don't
get used much these days (except the shirt ones), because I no longer
sew. I also have
Well, I don't remember Helen playing with my button box, but I still have
it - a large, plastic Yoghurt pot - (Peters Farm Raspberry Yoghurt!!)- 2lb
8oz (1134gms) written on it - and it is stuffed with buttons - which need a
bigger home!! I don't thing I have ever thrown a button away!! I seem
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