[lace] Merry Christmas (Season's Greetings, etc)

2005-12-18 Thread Susan Lambiris
There must be some mistake--it's only December 19th and I'm already sending my Christmas e-cards out! Once again I'm putting the card online and only sending the address, which is: http://home.mindspring.com/~skl58/2005.htm (If you enjoy seeing old Christmas cards, last year's is still available

[lace] Looking for Jenny Barron (Lace)

2005-12-18 Thread Celtic Dream Weaver
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[lace] Re: bucks point question

2005-12-18 Thread The Mouzons
Hi Janice! I also love Bucks Point lace... it is my favorite of all the laces I have learned so far. And...I have worked Muriel before! Two times as a matter of fact. The second time was for a gift, and the first time was in a weekend workshop with Geraldine Stott just before Visual Introdu

[lace] Pita Lace

2005-12-18 Thread Adele Shaak
Last night a fellow lacemaker was showing me a new addtion to her lace collection. The little doily was labelled "pita lace". It was a most beautiful airy little thing, like a delicate spider web. Neither of us has ever heard of pita lace before, it really looked like a super-fine knitting.

[lace] Russian dolls bobbins

2005-12-18 Thread Nicole Gauthier
Dear lacemakers, Last week, I received two russian doll Midland bobbins which are very lovely and I have hung them in the Christmas tree with the Christmas bobbin of the Lace Guild. I find they decorate well and I asked myself if a lacemaker ever decorated the whole Christmas tree with he

[lace] Re: pita lace?

2005-12-18 Thread Debora Lustgarten
Hello, According to "Hispanic Lace and Lace-making" by Florence Lewis May, published by The Hispanic Society of America, Pita lace is a type of lace made in the Azores Islands, which are a Portuguese colony, and the fibre comes from agave plants. There is also a mention of lace made with alo

[lace] buckspoint question

2005-12-18 Thread Janice Blair
Ruth wrote: Yes, Janice, the extra two pairs become passives.minute and very close examination of the working diagram shows them as the most inside pair of passives across the top of the honeycomb ringsalthough the diagram doesn't show where they come from! You are right!! I di

RE: [lace] buckspoint question

2005-12-18 Thread Ruth Budge
Yes, Janice, the extra two pairs become passives.minute and very close examination of the working diagram shows them as the most inside pair of passives across the top of the honeycomb ringsalthough the diagram doesn't show where they come from! Personally, I wouldn't be hanging them arou

Re: [lace] Lacy Day

2005-12-18 Thread Aurelia Loveman
Dear Betty Ann -- How lucky for us that you didn't put this _wonderful_ posting on chat! Thank you for sharing such a rare day. -- Aurelia Dear Gentle Spiders, Clive and I had a wonderful day yesterday that I promised I'd write about for the list. Allan and Yvonne Farrell from Australia a

[lace] Christmas lace cards

2005-12-18 Thread Janice Blair
Hello Lacemakers, Thank you for the Christmas cards for us all to enjoy. I especially liked Brenda's card for the music which continued to play even when I went back to reading my emails. In the Bleak Mid Winter used to be a favorite Christmas tune of mine, brough back memories of schoo

[lace] buckspoint question

2005-12-18 Thread Janice Blair
Hi Lacemakers, Although I have done quite a bit of bucks point I have a question regarding pattern 1`7 Muriel, page 42 in A Visual Introduction to Buckspoint Lace by Geraldine Stott. I thought this would be so simple, especially as it has a good diagram and a written explanation. My question

[lace] Lacy Day

2005-12-18 Thread CLIVE Rice
Dear Gentle Spiders, Clive and I had a wonderful day yesterday that I promised I'd write about for the list. Allan and Yvonne Farrell from Australia are visiting Virginia as you know, and they are spending this weekend with Tamara and Severn in Lexington Tamara, Allan, and Yvonne came from L

[lace] pita lace?

2005-12-18 Thread Rick & Sharon Whiteley
Last night a fellow lacemaker was showing me a new addtion to her lace collection. The little doily was labelled "pita lace". It was a most beautiful airy little thing, like a delicate spider web. Neither of us has ever heard of pita lace before, it really looked like a super-fine knitting. wher

Re: [lace] Pattern Enquiry.

2005-12-18 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Just to confuse matters there are two sizes of wooden bodies, 5cm and 10cm. Martin Burkhard stocks both sizes. On his website http://tinyurl.com/9f3w2 both sizes are shown but it's the bigger size that is shown as a lace angel. SMP stock the smaller size, and The Lace Guild angle kits also us

[lace] Pattern Enquiry - try SMP

2005-12-18 Thread Karen
Hi Carol, I think I know which pattern you are after. I bought a lace angel pattern from SMP at a Lace Fair earlier this year. It probably won't be on the website (have not seen it there), as it was very inexpensive, but I am sure if you ring they will know which you mean. There are two angel p

Re: [lace] Table Mate II on sale!

2005-12-18 Thread Malvary J Cole
Unfortunately, these tables seem to have been withdrawn from the shops in Canada (certainly Canadian Tire, at least) and are now only available by mailorder at $39.99, plus a hefty shipping and handling charge. Very disappointing. If anyone knows if they are still available in other stores I'

[lace] Extraordinary gathering in Roanoke, VA!

2005-12-18 Thread Clay Blackwell
I have been waiting for our hostess to write about this gathering, but as she has posted several times now, and has not mentioned this occasion, I'm assuming she is not going to blow her own horn!! Yesterday, in Roanoke, VA (USA), I had the pleasure to be part of an extraordinary gathering at t

[lace] Table Mate II on sale!

2005-12-18 Thread Clay Blackwell
Good news for (American) spiders! As I sat with my morning coffee, perusing the advertising inserts in the Sunday paper this morning, I spotted our favorite "Table Mate II" on sale!! For those of you who don't know this table, it is a well-designed, folding (but sturdy) table which has become

[lace] Cretan lace

2005-12-18 Thread Tess Parrish
For those who are planning to take the Cretan lace workshop at OIDFA 2006 this spring, I will be glad to send you an attachment of the English version of the book. I'm sure they will be selling the Greek version, but I don't know about the English. There is also a French one, but it lacks the

Re: [lace] Passing In the Manner of a Horse

2005-12-18 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, We here in Germany don't translate this expression, and I personally like it. And you know a little French is very exotique ;-). So don't translate it. Happy Christmas and a peaceful and lacy New Year to you all. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] contain