[lace] Spanish Lace Areas

2008-10-19 Thread Sue Duckles
Hello Fellow Arachneans Just asking are there any areas in the north of Spain (Barcelona to the border) which are worth visiting for lace? I'm going (with the family, unfortunately as far as lace is concerned) to Baqueira in the Pyrenees for a week starting Friday. We're driving there

[lace] Re: Russian Gimp

2008-10-19 Thread robinlace
Sue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was also taking the inside 2 threads out instead of the outside threads to the centre! - When Bridget Cook taught Russian lace in Pittsburgh, we learned to take the center two over the outer two gimp threads. We called it the "bra stitch" (lift a

[lace] Re: Russian Gimp

2008-10-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Oct 19, 2008, at 5:43, Sue wrote: Last week I was struggling with the magic chains (russian gimps), [...] Not only was I doing the twists on every row which was wrong, I was also taking the inside 2 threads out instead of the outside threads to the centre! OK, I'm totally confused..

Re: [lace] Russian Gimp

2008-10-19 Thread Sue
This is not one of the books I have. I do need to remember to look through my books more often though to see what things are explained in them. Sue T I had wondered how that would work. I just looked it up in Practical skills by B. Cook and find it illustrated and explained on page 164. Ma

Re: [lace] Russian Gimp

2008-10-19 Thread Sue
I received a great email earlier today with an excellent explanation of the whys and reasons for doing the gimp thread which did also mention that it can be done the other way as well depending on various things. The pass was what I was not doing in the first place but did find out about it re

Re: [lace] Russian Gimp

2008-10-19 Thread Sue Duckles
Is this like milanese where, instead of cloth stitch over 2 pairs, lift centre bobbins up, pass workers through, and split centre bobbins and place on outside of the 2 original outside bobbins? Sue in EY On 19 Oct 2008, at 17:20, bev walker wrote: Hello Sue and everyone On Sun, Oct 19,

Re: [lace] Russian Gimp

2008-10-19 Thread bev walker
Hello Sue and everyone On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Sue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > track then, because I had almost finished it) Not only was I doing the > twists on every row which was wrong, I was also taking the inside 2 threads > out instead of the outside threads to the centre! .

[lace] Russian Gimp

2008-10-19 Thread Sue
Last week I was struggling with the magic chains (russian gimps), not quite understanding what I was surposed to be doing and Daphne reminded me to look in the Pam Nottingham book (Bobbin Lace making) where there is a very clear picture plus the information I needed to guide me through. (I did