Re: Subject: Re: [lace] bobbins... and now, teaching?

2010-09-27 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Janice Blair wrote: > The heart bookmark pattern is useable now and available if you email me off > list. Call it "Key To My Heart" :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To

Subject: Re: [lace] bobbins... and now, teaching?

2010-09-27 Thread Janice Blair
Thank you to Karen in Malta for the grammatical corrections, and to my friend Brenda who worked it up from the directions and had no problem. The heart bookmark pattern is useable now and available if you email me off list. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illino

[lace] Term "Craft"

2010-09-27 Thread Susan Reishus
Historically, the word was used in terms of occupation, profession, work, line of work, pursuit, indicating one had skill and/or a gift, whether learned, innate, or both.  One could have a trade, but calling it a craft indicated expertise or raised the caliber. As shared; in the US there has devel

Re: [lace] Bobbin makers

2010-09-27 Thread Clay Blackwell
Does anyone remember ... I've really enjoyed this thread, with names I've not heard in a long time - if ever!! More recently, I've missed bobbins made by "Gentle Folk", and another husband and wife team (the Hudsons?) and those wonderful spliced bobbins made by a man whose name escapes me

Re: [lace] Bobbin makers

2010-09-27 Thread Diana Smith
Does anyone remember Paul Durst - an American I believe -who lived in Wales with his wife Doris. We travelled many miles out of our way when on holiday so that I could purchase some of his lovely bone bobbins. Diana in Northants UK - Original Message - From: "Brenda Paternoster" To:

Subject: Re: [lace] bobbins... and now, teaching?

2010-09-27 Thread Janice Blair
I bought the dowel and some long wooden beads years ago with the intent of using it to make long bobbins for doing yarn lace. It is on my "someday" list. Teaching - well my guild is having it's third class this year for beginners in November and without any advertising we already have 9 people

[lace] Heritage Days on the Goshen Trail, - Alton, IL

2010-09-27 Thread Tatman
It was a good two day event! Sunny and beautiful on Saturday and Sunday was threatening rain but held off. Big crowds both days and we kept busy. Below is a slide show of pictures I took for your enjoyment. http://tinyurl.com/3yazaup Here are some feature photos of my wife and I and our booth

Re: [lace] Teaching

2010-09-27 Thread Brenda Paternoster
We have in the past discussed whether lacemaking is art or craft. For my two penn'th I'll suggest that it is craft when you are working a pattern designed by someone else, or an adaptation of another pattern, but art when you have designed and made the lace from scratch as a one-off piece. Much

Re: [lace] Bobbin makers

2010-09-27 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Others, from whom I've bought bobbins in the past include Stephen Pearce who made lovely ornate bone bobbins, Denis Sizeland, now retired, Winslow Bobbins being taken over by his son-in-law Steve Smith who turns very similar bobbins and Keith Crockford of Spinneyhill Lace. Keith & Barbara retir

Re: [lace] Teaching

2010-09-27 Thread bev walker
Hello Betty Ann and everyone They *could* - my introduction to lacemaking was seeing someone demonstrating it at a craft fair! I signed up for lessons (c. 1987). Some lacemakers make small lace items to sell for charity fund-raising. The word 'craft' has taken on different meanings. Because I mak

[lace] Re: lace and glue

2010-09-27 Thread Susan Reishus
"...the lady who set up the display used glue dots to stick the lace to the fabric panels.  I about came 'unglued' when I discovered it, and the person in charge of the whole thing got an earful of my thoughts...does anyone have any experience with removing these so-called Removable sticky glue dot

Re: [lace] lace and glue

2010-09-27 Thread Adele Shaak
Hi Alice: Ouch. So sorry this happened. The suggestion of contacting the manufacturer is really good, because what you need to use to take it off depends on what glue was used in the dots. I've found (trying to get sticky stuff off of old books) that some things come off with rubbing alcohol, s

Re: [lace] Teaching

2010-09-27 Thread Clive & Betty Rice
Daphne, You should have related that lacemaking is a "fine art" or "fiber art." I, and many lacemakers in the USA, consider "crafts" differently than lacemaking. Cardmaking, wooden lawn orrnaments, box making, and the sort of things that can be sold at craft fairs as "crafts." Do lacemakers g

Re: [lace] Teaching more than one

2010-09-27 Thread lacelady
Years ago I was told that each lacemaker should teach seven people. That way there's a good chance that at least one of those seven will continue with the art and teach others. Not everyone who learns the basic lessons becomes addicted. Alice in Oregon who is addicted to lace and admit

Re: [lace] Bobbin makers

2010-09-27 Thread Maureen Bromley
Here here!!! I have been lacemaking since the early 70s and I still buy bobbins, either at lace days, or 'bobbin a month' from the likes of Winslow, Margaret Wall etc. Maureen E Yorkshire where it is raining - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscr

Re: [lace] Teaching

2010-09-27 Thread Maureen Bromley
It just goes to show.But they do have lace demonstrations in that general area so she obviously wasnt 'in the know'!! There are classes all around her!!! Maureen E Yorks - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For he

[lace] Teaching

2010-09-27 Thread Jean Nathan
Unfortunately because of the shopping channels "crafting" seems to be regarded as mainly card making with a bit of "scrap booking" thrown in and any other craft is disregarded. Not that there's anything wrong with either - I'm all for people doing something creative in any form - but I do wish

[lace] Bobbin makers

2010-09-27 Thread Alan & Sheila Brown
Reading the letters on making bobbins, brought to mind the people I have bought bobbins from since I started in 1976. Sadly some have retired or died, but we are fortunate in that others have taken their place. David Springett, who came to the first Lace Day I organised in 1979/80 Also the

Re: [lace] Teaching

2010-09-27 Thread Roberta S Donnelly
Just another thought... maybe this woman was so impressed that it was more on the line of lace being so much more impressive than *just* crafts.? Just a thought. bobbi > How infuriating to have our craft belittled like that. We often > travel > through Thornton le Dale so I may have to go

Re: [lace] Teaching

2010-09-27 Thread Lesley Blackshaw
On 27/09/2010 10:12, Daphne Martin wrote: Hello Clay and everyone else Clay you hit the nail on the head when you said you could possibly show a beginner how to make lace. Of course any of us can do that and it would keep the craft of lace alive if each of us only ever taught one new

[lace] Teaching

2010-09-27 Thread Daphne Martin
Hello Clay and everyone else Clay you hit the nail on the head when you said you could possibly show a beginner how to make lace. Of course any of us can do that and it would keep the craft of lace alive if each of us only ever taught one new lacemaker. The rewards are tremendous, and I

[lace] lace and glue 2

2010-09-27 Thread Jean Nathan
Another thought: Would freezing work? It does with chewing gum, making it easy to break off, provided it hasn't penetrated. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace] lace and glue

2010-09-27 Thread Jean Nathan
Don't know if this would be safe. If it's the type of glue that is used on post-it notes and the type of sticky label that has a backing that you peel off, I bought a bottle of orange-scented liquid called "Sticky Stuff Remover", which removes the residue left behind if you peel such a label of