[lace] On using lace design software

2006-07-09 Thread Jean Nathan
Bev wrote: What you can do is make a screen dump and print that to use to see if the your design will work. Hold down the 'Alt' key and pressing the 'Prt Sc' key (usually top right on the keyboard), open your word processing program and click on the 'paste' button on the toolbar. You can the

Fw: [lace] on using lace design software

2006-07-09 Thread Sue
Thank you Bev and Jean, I have seen the demo but not tried to use it. I was bought Easy Lace by my husband but have not progressed very far. I think you are right, I need to decide on one or two things to try and keep playing and trying until I get the hang of the program. Thank you for all t

Re: [lace] on using lace design software

2006-07-09 Thread Dee Palin
I have found that if I want to design something on Lace 2000, it is no use trying it out on graph paper first. Also patterns that I designed ages ago, I cannot get to 'work' onscreen. I just cannot transfer from graph paper to the screen - it always comes out totally different. Now I design e

Re: Fw: [lace] on using lace design software

2006-07-09 Thread bevw
My lace design program used to be something I needed to conquer, now it is my friend LOL. Sometimes 'making lace' is itself an interesting computer-drawing project. I sit there and click dots onto the screen, or drag lines here and there, playing with the design and the practical part of my mind a

Re: [lace] on using lace design software

2006-07-09 Thread Dorte Tennison
I don't have that problem, it is so easy, to do, also to reconstruct old patterns, are you scanning it as background? Dorte www.spaces.msn.com/members/MrsTee skype: mc535xv - Original Message - From: "Dee Palin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lace Arachne" Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 5:40 PM

[lace] Square Sail linen thread

2006-07-09 Thread Alice Howell
Does anyone know of another name for Square Sail Irish linen thread? Or how it compares to brands that are more familiar? Any comments available in the next three hours would be welcome. Thanks, Alice in Oregon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe la

[lace] Couronne update

2006-07-09 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, After my trials with couronnes last year I thought I should add an update. I made a Battenberg doily with couronnes recently! I was going to have spoked wheels in all the 1" squares and then decided couronnes would look wonderful in some of the squares. I decided this while doing the le

[lace] New England Lace Retreat

2006-07-09 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, Since I love reading the reports of lace days, conventions and retreats I'll tell you about the New England Lace Group retreat in Wareham, Massachusetts, USA in early June. It was wonderful fun and nobody had problems with the shower water this time! The only water "problem" was a fair a

Re: [lace] New England Lace Retreat

2006-07-09 Thread CLIVE Rice
Thank you, Jane, for the wonderful report of the New England Lace Group retreat in Wareham, Massachusetts. Since Clive and I may be in that area next year (his sister lives in Wells, Maine and we visit my favorite cousin in Carlisle, Mass.) I just might be in the area. Post the dates as soon

Re: [lace] Couronne update

2006-07-09 Thread bevw
Well done m'Lady ;) I have tried to make them for Rosaline lace, sad to say they were less than attractive (i.e. it was better not to have them on the lace). I ought to practice, too. On 7/9/06, Jane Viking Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, After my trials with couronnes last year I t

Re: [lace] query

2006-07-09 Thread Lynn Carpenter
"Maxine Diffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Some time ago there was a thread on Shetland Island lace knitting >history, and I recall going onto a website with some exquisite photos on >it. can anyone recall the site? That was probably the Shetland Museum website. Unfortunately I just went to my

[lace] Re: Couronne update

2006-07-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Jul 9, 2006, at 20:59, bevw wrote: I have tried to make them for Rosaline lace, sad to say they were less than attractive (i.e. it was better not to have them on the lace). I ought to practice, too. Or you could do them "the Rosalibre way" -- with bobbins :) When Cathleen Belleville invent

Re: [lace] Re: Couronne update

2006-07-09 Thread bevw
ach - shortly after I bought a copy of CB's book, I loaned it to a dear lace friend - haven't had a chance to plumb the book myself. Maybe I can have neat 'perls' after all. thanks for the tip ;) On 7/9/06, Tamara P Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 9, 2006, at 20:59, bevw wrote: > I hav

[lace] Is Anne Drew out there

2006-07-09 Thread Christine Johnson
Hi everyone, Sorry to send this to the general list, but I haven't had an answer to the e-mail I sent to the address I have. Anne, could you contact me privately please at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christine Johnson (Sydney, Australia) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

[lace] Lace Drafting on Computer

2006-07-09 Thread Christine Johnson
Hi everyone, Now that this subject is almost exhausted, can I say that I still use a generic CAD program - EasyCad. I started using a DOS version of it well before there were specific programs for lacemakers. I bought the windows version 5 or 6 years ago for about the same price as Lace Designer Go

[lace] Re: Lace Drafting on Computer

2006-07-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Funny, how I seem to be drawn to the subject I know nothing about or, to be precise, to the _subject line_... :) On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:12, Christine Johnson wrote: I also used to draft text roughly on paper first before using a word processing program to type up the almost-final version. Whi