A few years ago I was thinking of making a Honiton fan (I am Still thinking
about it!!), and the Honiton specialist here in Melbourne suggested I draw
up a master plan, and then draw up each motif/spray separately. Work them
separately, and then place them on the Master Plan to work the
I went to the Allhallows exhibition in Honiton, was it 2 years ago? The
Honiton Lacemakers were demonstrating in the hall next door. One of thm was
makig a fan. She had the background net mounted in a square tapestry frame
and the motifs done so far on the net. I know this isn't the same as
Dear Peter,
Perhaps you would be interested in taking a 12 hour beginning Honiton class,
or a 12 hour continuing Honiton class depending on where you are in your
skills. The annual Lace Convention will be occurring in Harrisburg, Pa. within
driving distance of New York, Aug 1-9. This year,
My dear friends I am so glad you are there to correct and inform. I am
working on a rectangle bucks point pattern that is about 4X6 inches. I have
it on a relatively flat cookie pillow. I didn't have any wrinkles in the
pattern to pin out on the edges when I put the pattern on the pillow. As I
Have you pinned down the pricking? When I pin down the corners (and longer
sides, if necessary), the pattern can't ride up because the pins are holding
it down. They're pushed all the way down flush with the pillow, so the
threads won't catch on them.
Robin P.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Hi everyone and Peter
Yes, I think your idea of making the motifs first then joining on the
cookie pillow is a good one - if your honiton pillow is all the round
you could use it like a huge roller, too, and make your border
continuous. I have read that honiton workers could have a piece on the
Hi Karisse!
I've not worked with 300 bobbins at a time, but I can tell you how to tame
your bobbins when you have more than can be accomodated at one time on your
pillow...
Since you're working with Midlands bobbins, you're in luck! The easiest
way to keep your pillow tidy is to go out to your
Another way to secure your pattern
For each corner of your pattern, run thread through a small hole in the
corner, then out to a pin somewhere at the edge of your pillow so that the
corner is held flat. Repeat several times from the pattern corner to the pin
and back again for each corner.
While I've been on holiday I visited Biggins and saw the most amazingly
delicious coloured Finca threads that they are importing from Spain.
What colours do you mean? As far as I know, here in Spain we can only get
Finca in white, ecru and pastel colours (pink, light blue, light green and
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:38:08 -0400, Clay wrote:
I've not worked with 300 bobbins at a time, but I can tell you how to tame
your bobbins when you have more than can be accomodated at one time on your
pillow...
Since you're working with Midlands bobbins, you're in luck! The easiest
way to keep
My drawing of anchoring the corners of a lace pattern with threads is on my
web site:
http://home.gci.net/~sally/ Click on Sally's lace at the bottom of the
list. I think this is going to be the day of The Laugh That Travelled Round
the Lace World in 80 Seconds. So I'm not Leonardo Da Vinci!
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But the pricking card itself moved up the pins.
This actually is the problem of having so many pins close to each other
- in Torchon, where the pins are more widely spaced, the problem is one
of the lace rising up the pins. With
Hi All, I'd love to meet arachnes in Harrisburg. I'll be selling
stuff on Tuesday night but can come after Merchants night is
over. Wednesday between classes and tours is also a
possibility for me. Last year in Ithaca Tamara had stick on
spiders for our nametags, that helped with
Hi All, Whoever wrote about excelsior in BL pillows made me
remember that that is Tamara's favorite stuffing. I think she had
a lot after moving to the US and finally ran out. I remember a
long e-mail about searching for more but I don't know if she
ever found any.
Jane in Vermont, USA
Here in Oz our supplier has now got Prescentia threads which = 30 cotton
(Madeira Tanne etc), and come in a huge variety of colours. It is made by
finca, I believe, so maybe that is what is being talked about.
I have purchased some, (for some NL) but have not used it yet.
from Liz in Melbourne,
No, Sally - I did not laugh!! It made perfect sense to me! I'll remember
that the next time I have a pricking that won't behave!!
And it was nice to fix a face to a name!!
Clay
Clay Blackwell
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My drawing of anchoring the corners of
Oh Thanks all so much for your suggestions. I think I am going to go with the cookie
pillow- it is stuffed with sea grass -and I think the 24 will keep me from losing
my mind .It sounds like it would work well. I think, as a test I'll make a make pin
cusion cover( please no one scream!) on my
I got spiders for our name tags at IOLI in Hackensack, NJ last year. I found them at
Wal-Mart in the craft section, but haven't had a look for them this year since I'm not
going to Harrisburg. Someone who is going might have a look at the local craft store
or Wal-Mart. I *will* have spiders
Helen wrote:
One rub that I really like for my aches and pains, is Sombra - it's
supposedly natural ingredients with capsaicin (from capsicums/peppers)
A couple of years ago I took part in a pain perception study at the local
hospital using patients with RA. Apart from the conclusion (which, as
Well done Linda. I keep saying we'll have to try our own web page, but
nothing gets done.
It all works very well. The only comment I have is that on my computer
runnng Windows 98, Internet Explorer 6.02, screen resolution 800 x 600, the
bottoms of the words 'title' 'navigation' and 'content' are
Thanks to so many of you for writing to me about arthritis for my mum. You
really are a tremendous group in the way that you care for others. My mum is
overwhelmed and very grateful for all your help
Sue
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I finally found the script of the play I was looking for. When I was back in
England I was able to go to the library I had belonged to as a child, and it
was there. I'm not surprised you all couldn't help me - it wasn't
grandfather clocks singing the hallelujah chorus, but weighing machines!
For
Dear Friends,
Where were you on the 21 July 1969?
I was still undergoing my basic Army training prior to going to Vietnam. I
recall that the actual landing was at about 3:00 p.m. on July 21st here in
Australia, AND WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO WATCH IT LIVE!!! Had to wait for
the evening news
I don't remember where I was or what I was doing, but I do remember that the
first words spoken on the moon were It's a gray, powdery substance. The
small step thing was recited later.
I wrote a poem about the event twenty or thirty years later:
We called the man Columbus
He's that
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:43:21 -0600, Helen wrote:
My parents did that to me too - made me watch it, even though I don't
really remember it - more from the video from later years.
In our family it was the other way round - I made my parents watch it. In
fact I nagged them about it so much for
Jean, with all the pain you must be suffering, it's great
that you're one of the really good sources of jokes for
lace-chat! Laughter is such a great medicine!
And believing you could return to that sylph-like figure
you were at 16 really illustrates what a great sense
of humour you must have!
Hi everyone!
I came back from Alaska a little over a week ago and was too lazy to write
anything much until now. Just reading all the lace and chat emails that
accumulated in my mailbox during the month in Alaska took a while g.
As for interesting things that happened in Alaska: lots of hiking,
I'm glad that you had a good time up here :) It was a pleasure to see you
at our guild meeting :)
Mikki
Fairbanks Alaska
PS Big congrats on your Engagement!
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Well done Linds. I know how your feel, as I was SO happy when I managed to
get photos of my lace on the Arachne community website!!!
What beautiful orchids. I just have a few Dendrobium Kingianum ones,
(mauve) - that are totallky neglected, and bloom profusely anyway!! And a
Dendrobium Alba -
Hi All, LOL when I read Jean's post about about being tall,
willowy and sylphlike again. I got a new bathing suit today.
The elastic in my old one finally gave way. I was going to fix
it but I noticed it didn't cover some areas that aren't as
attractive anymore. Since I swim once every ten
One word about glucosamine - I think it's a shellfishby product, so do
read the warnings on the label carefully.
Another supplement is the NZ green lipped oyster - comes in a tablet
form.
Cheers,
Helen, Aussie in Denver, awaiting the coming of the rain
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