[lace] Miss Channer update

2009-02-22 Thread Julian Jefferson
You can see how David is getting on with the mat: http://www.margorsson.com/Miss_Channers_Mat_goes_Chantilly.html Thanks Julian Julian Jefferson ja.jeffer...@virgin.net - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, wr

[lace] Re: more about nhanduti

2009-02-22 Thread Avital
Thanks for the Picasa Album link! My effort was much more modest, just a simple medallion. I was doing Thing-a-Day 2008, where you try to make something every day and post it to a communal blog. So the projects tended to be very simple. Here's a photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr/229381

Re: [lace] Re Miss Channer goes Chantilly

2009-02-22 Thread Clay Blackwell
Yes, I meant that it does have a picture of the completed mat, and a pricking, but no diagram of how to work it. Clay Sue wrote: Clay wrote "Miss Channer's mat is just a pricking - no diagram" Clay did you mean working diagram or picture of complete work as I have the latter? Sue M Harvey Norf

Re: [lace] Re Miss Channer goes Chantilly

2009-02-22 Thread Janis Savage
Thanks for your kind words Bobbi. I am very proud of my Miss Channers Mat and it hangs in my lounge in a very nice frame. I learned a lot when doing it. Sandra Straughair from the UK helped me get started but I had only done the first inch or so when she returned home and I was on my own the

[lace] German Congress at Villingen

2009-02-22 Thread nicky.hoewener-townsend
Hello all Having just seen the message about the Lace Guild Convention reminded me to ask if any arachneans will be attending the German Lace Congress at Villingen-Schwenningen 17-19 April 2009. If you are perhaps we can arrange to meet up for coffee. My DH and I will be in Heidelberg for Ea

[lace] Re: [lace] Cantù Madonna

2009-02-22 Thread Sue
I think this piece looks lovely and I love your comments, you like the way it looks, always a good time to leave well alone. Also you will be more exigent with yourself for a more formal piece. that is never a bad thing, improving or redoing sometimes to get it the best you can without being to

[lace] Cantù Madonna

2009-02-22 Thread Sister Claire
Well, I finished my first big piece of Cantù. There are plenty of mistakes, but I'm still happy enough with it that I'll frame it and hang it in my office (where no one knows enough about lace to notice *grin*). The biggest error, of course is the "about face" in the direction of some of the threa