[lace] Lace Scrapbooks

2014-03-26 Thread Gon Homburg
Ilske wrote: years ago I saw a book similar the scrapbook Jeri described. It was the summary of handicraft patterns from a lady giving classes in knitting, crochet and embroidery. The last two or three pages were filled with bobbin lace pieces. Some looked like old lace pieces others like new w

[lace] Help, Please!

2014-03-26 Thread nestalace . carol
Hi Spiders All,   I am hoping that you can help me! A lace-making friend was hit by the North Sea Surge in December last, and her house is till full of sand and sea-water, as well as other impossible things, but she - and others in the same situation - has had a great deal of help from the l

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2014-03-26 Thread Gray, Alison J
Hi Carol I don't suppose that this is going to be much help to your friend but I'm sure that there is a pattern for a windmill in one of Veronica Sorensen's books. Definitely not the Bruges flower lace, but one of the others, I can't remember which and am at work at the moment so can't check.

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2014-03-26 Thread Joke Sinclair
Hello Carol, I will send you some scans from a Dutch magazine "Kant Kwartaal" published by Jolanda de Boer-van Nes in 1993. It is a pattern of a stylised lighthouse in waves. Joke Sinclair in wet West-Sussex On 26 Mar 2014, at 14:59, nestalace.ca...@btinternet.com wrote: > Hi Spiders All,

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2014-03-26 Thread Agnes Boddington
I have actually seen a bobbin lace pattern for a lighthouse, but cannot remember where or when. Possibly in a German publication or pattern. However, if you search for lace light house, some pictures of crocheted ones come up, and you may be able to convert these simple designs to a lace pattern in

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2014-03-26 Thread Sue
To help all in the future I found one in the Modern Lace designs book by Veronica Sorenson. It is a free standing model but might lend itself to reduction or adaption if needed. Sue T Dorset UK I have actually seen a bobbin lace pattern for a lighthouse, but cannot remember where or when. Po

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2014-03-26 Thread Maureen
Hi all Page 125 of Veronica Sorenson's Modern Lace Designs has a windmill, but it is a 3D model to be used as a table light, but you may be able to do something with it. Regards Maureen E Yorkshire > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe la

[lace] Lighthouse Lace Pattern Neede

2014-03-26 Thread Jeriames
What would help everyone on Arachne to get back to this subject in the future would be a subject line like the one I have given above, for our permanent archives. The "Help, Please!" made me think of those Spam emergency memos we all have received at one time or another from a relative or

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2014-03-26 Thread Andy Blodgett
I have one that was made for me.     In about 1956 my grandmother made a scrap book for me (age 13) of old lace handkerchiefs, collars and cuffs she had.  She sewed each one on to the 1956 style scrapbook paper which is not acid proof.  My mother added handkerchiefs to the book.  Each item was labe

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2014-03-26 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Rendas de Bilros de Peniche/Bobbin lace of Peniche from Barbara Fay http://www.barbara-fay.de/j2/index.php/en/component/virtuemart/bobbin-lace/kl%C3%B6ppelspitzen-aus-peniche-detail?Itemid=0 has a pricking or the watch tower shown on the cover. If you can draw, or trace, a picture of a lighthouse