Re: [lace] Old bobbins, Teaching

2009-04-07 Thread Beth Marshall
Reading Liz's story of the student with a learning difficulty, I think maybe sometimes it's not the fault of the tutor or the student when the student doesn't understand - it may just be that the class format isn't right for that particular student. Beth in a showery Cheshire, NW England

Re: [lace] Old bobbins ... pewter

2009-04-07 Thread Brian Lemin
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Re: [lace] Old bobbins Useing them or collecting them?

2009-04-07 Thread Brian Lemin
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[lace] News on my pages

2009-04-07 Thread kudrnova
Hi everybody, I'd like to present some newshttp://lacespider.blog.cz/0904/news-from-my-lace-pages on my web pages again. A couple of new articles and photos were added recently and maybe you will find some of them interesting. One of them is an interesting

[lace] lacing with a pencil

2009-04-07 Thread Jane Partridge
In message 26820544bd01403b88110f1251dad...@loreleihalley, Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.com writes In the process of doing that (initially to make sure I hadn't left out a dot or 2) I came to an understanding of why the pins in torchon were spaced the way they were, why the ground pins and

[lace] designing lace

2009-04-07 Thread Lorelei Halley
Jane Of course there is more to designing than puttintg dots on a grid. But the first problem a designer has to solve is to make sure the lace won't fall apart, to be sure the thing will be structurally sound. That is the biggest hurdle. Then there is the problem of getting the relative pin

[lace] Energy saving equivalent to daylight bulbs?

2009-04-07 Thread Gray, Alison J
Hi I was lucky enough to have been bought an angle poise lamp on a stand by my DH for my birthday. I have another lamp fitted with a daylight bulb which is now about to give up the ghost which I've been using for lace making. I have been wondering, especially with UK legislation due to outlaw

[lace] Energy saving equivalent to daylight bulbs?

2009-04-07 Thread Jane Partridge
In message f1fd5fa3f529364985e8e09f50abc48903369...@sernt14.essex.ac.uk, Gray, Alison J ag...@essex.ac.uk writes I have been wondering, especially with UK legislation due to outlaw 'ordinary bulbs' shortly, whether there is some kind of energy saving equivalent to the daylight bulb, or should I

Re: [lace] Teachers - and Students!

2009-04-07 Thread bobbil...@juno.com
I totally agree with Clay and can add one of my own pet peeves... the student that apparently knows so much that while the teacher is talking feels the need to comment? to her neighbor about 'things' making it impossible for the rest of us less brilliant students to hear what is being said. bobbi

[lace] students

2009-04-07 Thread hottleco
Say Hey Clay! So-o-o glad you mentioned the student angle of the equation!! So far, I've not seen this problem in the lace classes I've taken--we're all too busy attending to the Cs Ts. BUT, I have seen this in embroidery land where gals haven't seen each other since the last national

Re: [lace] students-teaching skills

2009-04-07 Thread Dmt11home
This is kind of a tricky problem, because basically, students are there to have a good time. The time spent at a lace class comes out of money and time that might otherwise buy a weekend at a bed and breakfast or time spent in pleasant pursuits. No one is receiving certification or taking a

[lace] Lace Glass Page on Lacefairy

2009-04-07 Thread Jeriames
Lori, Lacefairy, has created a page devoted to depictions of lace on glass ceramics. _http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/Gallery/Gallery.html_ (http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/Gallery/Gallery.html) and click on Lace Glass 1/2 way down on left column. Jeri Ames Lace and Embroidery

Re: [lace] Another fence by joep

2009-04-07 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Ilske I see what the problem is - the filename had a space in it and when you clicked on the link it stopped at that space. Typing the rest of the URL into the browser did work but I've renamed the files and they should all work now.

Re: [lace] Old bobbins ... pewter

2009-04-07 Thread Clay Blackwell
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Re: [lace] Lace Glass Page on Lacefairy

2009-04-07 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hi Jeri I have a mug, purchased from The Lace Guild some years ago with a blue transfer of a Honiton Lace sprig on. It's in regular use and goes in the dishwasher, in fact I've just finished (ten minutes ago!) drinking coffee from it. IIRC The Lace Guild also produced a similar mug with

Fwd: Re: [lace] students-teaching skills

2009-04-07 Thread hottleco
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Re: [lace] Old bobbins, Teaching

2009-04-07 Thread laura forrester
This sounds like 2 of my students...For one young man, every move of the bobbins had to be shown to him.  He would declare that he knows what to do now, make the move then ask what to do next!  He completed 1 whole row by himself about 2/3 of the way down the pattern and was s excited he

[lace] Survey, etc.

2009-04-07 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
A good survey, Brenda, and I have filled it in - with my answers pointed at Bobbin lace, although I seem to do more needlelace these days. Let us know when another survey is done, and I will happily participate. Re marking patterns - I find with some Floral Beds patterns it is hard to see what

[lace] Where are you?

2009-04-07 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Susan, in Erie .. Please excuse my ignorance - but where are you? I can't imagine 142.5 Inches of snow! - Except for pictures of the Himalayas, and Antarctica, -- and the North Pole, of course!! :)) Lee Daly - that is lovely lace. Well done. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz

[lace] Re: Teachers - and Students!

2009-04-07 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Apr 6, 2009, at 18:46, Clay Blackwell wrote: So, I'll go first and I'm going to limit myself to what I see as the top threesins of student behavior. ... The social lacemaker who comes to a three day workshop, makes lace for an hour each morning, and then holds forth in loud

[lace-chat] need name of handkerchief edging

2009-04-07 Thread Dearl Kniskern
dear fellow spiders I am just into doll clothes and I need to know what the edging of a jabot is hemmed with sorry I ended the sentence with a preposition I have a picture of a china doll in a book and I love the squares around the whole hem and I can't tell if it is above the hem line or