Sorry everyone, But I am still trying to contact Carol in Suffolk, UK to send
on her raffle pattern but as she has been moving house have not been able to
contact her.
If Any of you other spiders speak with her please pass on the news and as soon
as she contacts me with a forwarding address I can
Try looking up hairpin lace. I imagine the word broomstick was
invented in the seventies when knitting, crochet, macrame, and other
such handwork became so terribly coarse. The references I have in the
older books--and the way it was referred to in my youth--were to
hairpin. I have a
This question about Broomstick lace immediately sent me to Dillmont's
Encyclopedia of Needlework. The stitch formation is exactly the same as what
Dillmont calls Tunisian Crochet.
Is it overly simplistic to assume that Broomstick lace being referred to as
Tunisian Crochet at least takes it back
Nope, hairpin lace and broomstick crochet are different techniques.
Hairpin lace alludes to the u-shape of the old fashioned hairpins which
were used before the invention of the modern hairpin forms.
Broomstick lace alludes to the broomstick before the invention of the
large sized knitting needle
Hello. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Liz Redford. I have been
making bobbin lace since 1999. I first saw bobbin lace being made in the
1980's at a state park in Kentucky called Land Between the Lakes. I was
fascinated. But no matter how hard I tried I could not find anyone
Welcome, Liz!
I want to let the rest of this list know that Liz was modest, and did
not say much about her lace. But I met her last year in Rockford, when
she and I were both members of the Binche class taught by Anny
Noben-Slegers. Liz makes beautiful lace, and her Binche is no
I stand corrected. Thanks so much for clearing that up for me. I
guess I never did real broomstick lace, jumping impulsively (as usual)
to something I remembered. Going back to my old books, I don't find
broomstick mentioned anywhere. It will be interesting to see what
others may find.
Welcome, Liz,
I hope to meet you on May 30th at our NCRL Lace Day in the Raleigh area.
Clay Blackwell, who is on this list, is President and also is
founder/organizer of the Lace at Sweet Briar which follows NCRl in June.
You'll like this lot of men and women, most of whom have an opinion about
Hairpin crochet is made as Tess describes using a two pronged tool
shaped like a large hairpin, though it could be as big as two inches
wide. An initial loop is made and slipped over one prong. The work is
rotated 180 degrees and a crochet stitch worked between the prongs,
rotated 180
I checked the subscription list. Lesley managed to subscribe to lace-chat.
Avital
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Tamara P Duvall t...@rockbridge.net wrote:
Um. I'm not so sure. Anyone who's suscribed to Arachne (lace, the tech
version) can *post* to both it and lace-chat. But you have to
My family came from around Bedford, and I remember the Sky blue pink
remark!
When asked what was for dinner, Gran would answer either Spondoolicks or
Wait-and-see pudding !!
Isn't it funny how these funny sayings remain in our memories, - but ask what
happened in the last few days, - and you
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