RE: [lace] What is everyone up to?

2006-05-17 Thread Elizabeth Shipp
I just finished the leaf sampler bookmark from Barbara Underwood's 20 Lessons book. I was demo-ing at a fiber arts festival in Hammondsport, New York, a couple weekends ago, and took that one as an "easy" pattern that I could do while still talking to people. It was quite interesting; as with th

[lace] Re: lace in fashion

2006-05-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On May 17, 2006, at 22:22, Janice Blair wrote: Alice wrote: I was at the hairdressers last week reading one of those magazines that just have lots of things to buy. It had an article about lace including lace wallpaper, but the thing that caught my eye was a tote bag made of raffia or

[lace] lace in fashion

2006-05-17 Thread Janice Blair
Alice wrote: I was at the hairdressers last week reading one of those magazines that just have lots of things to buy. It had an article about lace including lace wallpaper, but the thing that caught my eye was a tote bag made of raffia or straw with a border at the bottom of about four

[lace] Re: Nottingham Lace (was: Speaking to the Coutiere Society)

2006-05-17 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On May 17, 2006, at 9:29, Diane Williams wrote: [...] brand new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. (We spent an hour in the museum and an hour in the gift shop!) An hour isn't nearly enough, but we zipped through a special exhibit they had on the First Ladies. There were a few d

[lace] Long yardage pillow

2006-05-17 Thread Noelene Lafferty
Long yardages don't have to be done on a roller, Joanna, they can be made on a square pillow with removable blocks down the centre, so that you just keep leapfrogging your blocks.I make my own block pillows out of an easily cut polystyrene insulation board I buy from an insulation supplier spec

Re: [lace] Selection of treen and bone/ivory bobbins relisted

2006-05-17 Thread Malvary J Cole
Hi Joanna and welcome to the group. If you want to make lengths then yes you are right you need either a roller pillow or a block pillow. Block pillows are quite easy to make with pieces of styrofoam/ethafoam. Malvary in Ottawa - Original Message - From: "Peter McEwen" <[EMAIL PROTE

[lace] Re: Lace Guild Website Update

2006-05-17 Thread Jean Leader
Oops! We got our wires crossed about who'd mounted what and the new membership bobbins and the updated Second-Hand Books list have only just been added. Jean and David At 9:15 am +0100 16/5/06, Jean Leader wrote: We've just done quite an extensive update to the Lace Guild's website, adding de

Re: [lace] Selection of treen and bone/ivory bobbins relisted

2006-05-17 Thread Peter McEwen
Hi, I am new to this network; my question is about finding a good second hand pillow to do long yardages on! I guess it is a roller type? I have never done e-bay. Does anyone have a practical solution for a neophyte on line shopper. Joanna in Ontario Canada. On May 17, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Je

[lace] Selection of treen and bone/ivory bobbins relisted

2006-05-17 Thread Jean Nathan
The collection of treen (wood) and ivory/bone bobbins has been relisted on ebay because of a "timewaster". If you want to follow it this time, the item number is 8285635198 Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL

[lace] Car sticker

2006-05-17 Thread Margot Walker
I don't own a car but I'd love to have this 'motto', and a drawing/picture of a lace pillow, on a T shirt. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe s

Re: [lace] lacemaker car sticker

2006-05-17 Thread Carol Adkinson
Hi All, It seems we all have fond (or embarrassing!) memories of the car stickers - maybe we ought to make enquiries, and see where we could get some more made - I'm sure they'd sell well. Carol - in Suffolk UK - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: [lace] Re: Speaking to the Coutiere Society

2006-05-17 Thread Dmt11home
<> According to Pat Earnshaw, "In the late 1880s... the Schiffli began to emerge as a formidable power." The Schiffli is the embroidery machine I usually associate with chemical lace. This also corresponded to a fashion for wearing heavy Venetian laces which were especially suited to being

Re: [lace] Re: Speaking to the Coutiere Society

2006-05-17 Thread Diane Williams
Spiders, I happened to be in Springfield, Illinois yesterday for work and talked my boss into an hour's visit to the brand new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. (We spent an hour in the museum and an hour in the gift shop!) An hour isn't nearly enough, but we zipped through a spec