[lace] Fw: Merry Christmas!

2005-02-05 Thread Hannelore Rohles
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RE: [lace] Re: progress/thread

2005-02-05 Thread Clay Blackwell
> I just can't get how to start a piece of lace so that the top is > > connected, mine are all loose. I am taking a wild guess here on Lynn's question about the connected top. Lynn, do you wind each of your bobbins individually and start with a bundle of threads tied together? That is the tradi

Re: [lace] collection of lacemakers

2005-02-05 Thread David Collyer
Dear Friends, >> What's a good word for a collection of lace makers? >A "Motif" What about a "Spangle" of lacemakers? - a beautiful circle of sparkling old beads :) David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help,

RE: [lace] Re: progress/thread

2005-02-05 Thread Clay Blackwell
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[lace] progress

2005-02-05 Thread Janice Blair
Hi Lynn, We all probably have pieces that look similar to yours. When you are starting a piece of sample lace, there are probably two pairs of bobbins hanging over the pin at each pinhole, unless they are passives (ones that just hang down and are worked through). What you must remember to do

RE: [lace] progress

2005-02-05 Thread Clay Blackwell
Janice wrote: > I have always wound the first yard or whatever measurement I am using onto one bobbin, then pulled off the next yard ot whatever from the spool, cutting it, and started winding up from the cut end onto another bobbin. I have never seen the point of winding it all onto one bobbin an

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2005-02-05 Thread Ian & Vickie Whan
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2005-02-05 Thread Ian & Vickie Whan
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[lace] Spider Bookmark

2005-02-05 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
I LOve this. Thanks for posting the pattern. I think I could just about make that. (I am not the greatest tatter in the world, [and do not do much tatting,] and can only work at a fairly elementary level - though I try harder things - when I know I shouldn't!!!) However, - I don't have picot g

[lace] Re: progress

2005-02-05 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Feb 5, 2005, at 16:16, Clay Blackwell wrote: [...] in the situations where you make long pieces of continuous lace and wanted 3 - 5 yards of thread on each bobbin, the system of winding in all onto the first bobbin and then moving half of it to the second keeps you from fighting the inevitable

[lace] Re: collection of lacemakers

2005-02-05 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Feb 4, 2005, at 10:14, David Collyer wrote: >> What's a good word for a collection of lace makers? >A "Motif" What about a "Spangle" of lacemakers? - a beautiful circle of sparkling old beads :) But more than half of the lacemaking world doesn't even know what a "spangle" is... "Tangle", OTOH,

RE: [lace] progress

2005-02-05 Thread Alice Howell
At 01:16 PM 2/5/2005, you wrote: But in the situations where you make long pieces of continuous lace and wanted 3 - 5 yards of thread on each bobbin, the system of winding in all onto the first bobbin and then moving half of it to the second keeps you from fighting the inevitable tangles in the th