[lace] Margaret Wall Bobbins

2012-06-17 Thread Daphne Martin
Hello Everyone Last week someone asked if Margaret Wall still does the Diamond Jubilee bobbin. Yes she does. There is a choice, a lovely deep red or a silver and blue. I bought mine at Wymondham laceday yesterday 16th June. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com contai

[lace] Finshed piece

2012-06-17 Thread Sue
I promised I would post a picture of my finished piece of lace now it is mounted. I worked it to raffle for funds for our local sjogrens support group and they are delighted with it. It is in the webshots folder Hurwitzend and should be the first picture you come too. I attempted to remove som

[lace] lace term question

2012-06-17 Thread Joan Wilson
Hi all, I was looking at a Bucks pattern that I'd like to start & see a term that I haven't seen before even though I have been making Bucks for years. I hope someone can explain this term to me. The written instruction says"work honeycomb ring with a* pinchain* on the left side" Pinchain is th

[lace] lace term question

2012-06-17 Thread Jean Nathan
I can answer this because I'm getting into a right muddle doing what appears to be a simple Bucks pattern and has several of these. I'm hopeless. You work a pinchain inside a honeycomb ring when a pair can't be worked outside the ring after a honeycomb stitch. So if it's on the left side, you

[lace] Yaldhurst ladies

2012-06-17 Thread Diana Smith
At a local antique market I found a little book called Our Crafty Lives by the Yaldhurst Ladies by Rosamund Douglas and Janet Foster. It was first published in 1989. In the book is a photograph of a lady making lace named Marrion Shuttleworth. Does anyone know the lady or the other ladies of Y

[lace] Lace Term

2012-06-17 Thread Joan Wilson
Thank you all for your help. It makes perfect sense now. I think I was having a senior moment :-(( Much appreciated. Joan in windy rainy northern Ontario - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera.

Re: [lace] lace term question

2012-06-17 Thread J D Hammett
Hi Joan and other Arachnids, A pin chain is as Jean Nathan says a way of working a ring when one of the pairs needs to stay in the ring as there is no pair outside the ring in the right place to work with it. Basically you work it within the honeycombe ring as follows; half stitch and twist, p

RE: [lace] Finshed piece/OT

2012-06-17 Thread mary carey
Dear Sue, I am curious - what is sjogrens? Assume it is a medical condition, probably abbreviated, but not familiar to me. Mary Carey RN Campbelltown, NSW< Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to