First of all, hello to you all! I'm back from nearly 2.5 months in France, and
I'm exhausted! DH says that we spent 73 days there and only had 3 days under 32
degrees centigrade, but most days over were in the high thirtuies! We also had
water restrictions , just to make us feel at home, as we have
ne of your future books on this type of
lace...
Please keep publishing, anyway, we all need books to support our enthusiasm,
and make us dream...
Yours, gratefully,
Helene Gannac, Melbourne
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Avital wrote:
>On the brighter side, I've been playing with one of the majordomo settings,
>so digest subscribers will have a list of subjects at the top. That should
>make perusing digests a lot easier. I've already made this change with the
>lace digest and will change the lace-chat digest when I
I've just done a 2 day workshop on wire lace with Lenka Suchanek who is touring
Australia with her husband at the moment. The workshop was organized by the
Victorian Branch of the Australian Lace Guild (I won't mention the yummy
food...). We learnt to make (and I'm wearing it today!!) a copper-wir
Hi, Sylive,
Glad you're enjoying wire lace too! You've done more than I have, I still
haven't finished the earring we started at Lenka's workshop 2 weekends ago, but
I will get there soon. I've already got 3 "orders" for wire bracelets for Xmas
from my stepdaughter and granddaughters!
Which book
Hi, Ruth,
Are you sure it is a lace bobbin-winder? It could very well be a textile bobbin
winder. I've got some big bobbins from my grandmother's family (never found out
who used them) which look like a very elongated double cone (sorry, I don't
know the mathematical name!!), the length being abo
Tamara,
Just went into your new website. YOur lac is gorgeous. Who cares too much about
the fine points of technique when one can be as creative as that! Leave the
technique to people liek me who can only copy, not invent!!!
Keep putting those pictures in, will you? i.e. keep making new lace :-)
Thank you very much for your long posting, Gabriele. I hope I will be able to
travel to your part of the world soon , I'd love to come and visit.
Can you give us more details about your competition (dates? do you have a big
exhibition?)Can you give us some addresses of shops where we can buy lace
Hi, Chelle, did you enjoy your Australian visit? I suppose you went to the AGM,
you lucky girl!
One thing my mother gave me one year was a lovely box (made by my crafty
cousin) covered with coloured hessian material(not too loose a texture) with a
paper lined interior. The top cover was padded and
Hi, everyone,
sorry to have a non-lace subject on lace, but I haven't received asingle
lace-chat digest since the beginning of October! Is that right or is there
something wrong with my own mail?
Thanks
=
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
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> (You did know that "what is 6x9" ? is the ultimate question? - to which
the ultimate answer - Life the Universe, Everything is - 42 - didn't you? )
>
> Viv
> ps I can give a "maths'y", "techy" explanation to anyone who asks!
Yes, please do, Viv. But maybe it should be in lace-chat, unless you
A bit late, but I thought I'd write anyway.
I have 3 pairs of beautiful glass bobbins which I use whenever I can. I found
the best way to keep the thread on them was to first wind a fine thread all
along the part where the thread is wound, starting with a double hitch, and tie
it with at least a do
Happy New Year to you all.
I've been unable to look at my mail for the last month, as we had problems at
work after a bad storm at the beginning of December, and my computer was one of
the casualties.., then I went on leave for a week, and came back in time for
Xmas to be told everything had to be
Hi, everyone,
I am doing a wide edging with cotton and a rough silk gimp. I use Midlands, but
I used continentals for the gimp, because I needed a lot of thread on, and
Midlands were too thin. It looks gorgeous, but I noticed that my gimp thread
gets a bit funny, because the bobbins keep rolling o
Hi, everyone,
Thanks to those lovely arachnes who'd like to swap hooded bobbins for
Australian ones (or something else if you prefer) I think I've got enough
offers now for what I wanted, but if you really want a swap, I'll be happy to
oblige you.
To Ilske, Roberta and Eva, I accept your offers, a
> The piece I just finished was given away as a gift, which I am
> profoundly thankful for. I can't imagine that in years to come I will
> want to look at it and go " Oh my GOSH!!! Look at what i did!" and
> cringe.
Welcome to our wonderful world of lacemaking, Francesca, and good luck with the
Hi, there,
just a general comment, as I am not a member of AIOLI and don't want to
influence their practices, but here in Australia, we always have all day
classes for 2 or 4 days at our AGM. The AGM starts on Sunday evening,
usually with drinks and dinner to meet everyone, and to get the
instruct
Liduina,
thank you for posting that wonderful Prince de Ligne auction site. I 've
just been able to get in there, and wish I had a few millions of euros to
spend!!!
Helene, the froggy form Melbourne
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"...That has been my observation also, esp in December; every Christmas
that we manage to squeak through without drawing blood on the list (and
in private, but in response to list postings) I consider a minor
miracle... :) In August, you have to add the "fed-up factor" to the
heat -- the kids h
Oops, sorry, forgot to sign my previous message!
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who's expecting 9 people for dinner on
Sunday night, and real hot weather is expected! (no air-con)...
Intersting remark, Tamara.
Does that mean that us antipodes dwellers get mad for the opposite reasons
to you N
Ruth, I hope my copy is waiting for me to get back from work!!
I receive several lace magazines, "Lace", "Lacemaker's circle", "La
Dentelle" and of course "Australian Lace journal". There is one really,
really bad thing about themthey tend to all arrive together!!!then I
have to wait another 3
Hi, everybody, can you help?
I have been trying to look at the website of the Krajky Museum of lace in
Vamberk. The website I have is www.vkm.net, and looking through Google
gives me the smae, but when IO get in, I get this, (in a different format)
Has someone else appropriated their site? How do
Well, congratulations, JoAnne!! it took me longer to make my torchon sheet
edging, but perhaps I wasn't as assiduous as you obviously were!! I hope
you wil;l put it on the net somewhere for us to enjoy!!
What on earth are you going to do now? :-))
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
Drum roll!
Aft
Helo, spiders,
I managed to get an email address which worked for the Krajky Museum, and
got an answer back. It looks like they've given up the website at the
moment.
Just thought others might be interested. i haven't actually had time to
look at the website they suggest yet.
Yours in lace,
hel
Hi, everyone, just letting you know that I'm unsubscribing from lace and
lace-chat for a month. I'm going on leave, then Easter..., and won't get
many chances to read the digests for a long time.
Have a wonderful time during the coming holidays. I'll be at the beach, or
at least within 5kms, and pl
I saw the most amazing piece of tatting at the Colorado State Fair last
year (or maybe the year before-can't remember). Anyway, it was snowy
white - - pure white, *gleaming* white. More white than you could get
with bleach. I swear she tatted it with gloves on! :->
Then again, maybe she wash
>If this appeals, you might also do a search on the museum name to gather
>more information.
>My apologies to those of you who wrote to let me know you have no
>interest in history or historical laces
>Jeri Ames in Maine USA
>Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
Hey, Jeri Ames, why bother ap
Just received my Lace magazine (awairted with baited breath after all the
talk on this list!!), and I spent last evening reading it.
I would like to congratulate all the wonderful lacemakers who made those
lace pieces, particularly the Australian ones, of course :-) Such
fantastic imagination as w
Devon,
If that rumour is true (perhaps our Belgian spiders could try to find
out?), maybe we should find an email address for the Mayor and all email
our dismay to him about there being no lace in Brugge...We did that once
before for Nottingham, although I'm not sure it's had any effect so far?
One can only hope it will come back into fashion soon, like knitting has
this year!! Suddenly, everyone wants to knit, although the same books have
been sitting on the shelves for several years being ignored completely
while everyone queued up for the "mosaics" books!! I suppose it's good
that peop
Thanks for posting this, Noelene, I wasn't aware of it, and will love to
buy a copy too. I might have seen it at the AGM, but this way, I've saved
a few months deprivement...:-))
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, where it was 5 degrees Celcius when i
went to work this morning, buit the sky is sti
Thanks for giving that website, JulieO, it confirmed my suspicions that
the books I read as I was a child in France, which had Caroline Quine as
the author, and a heroine named Alice (can't remember her surname) are in
fact the French version of Carolyn Keene and Nancy Drew!!
I worked as a Childre
What I'd like to know is how he manages to makes all that lace as well as
the costumes!! I wish I could do a hundreth of what he does!! But then
again, I get distracted by a lot of other things, like reading :-))
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, just about to start a new piece of
torchon, but wh
>My question now is about bobbins. I know many of you use the spangled
>ones but I was wondering if anyone uses the square European ones I have
>seen on some websites. They look like the would resist the rolling
>problem that has been mentioned and I wonder if they would make a good
>starter bob
>...Where I have to disagree with Tamara is about the Bush/Cheney/Carbs
thing.
>It is very cute, as Tamara herself often is, and it's very provocative
>too,but to my mind, utterly inappropriate to the Lace List. If lacemakers
>feel impelled to talk politics with other lacemakers, maybe Lace-chat i
Yes, Liz, Booksellers in Australia are bound by law to buy from England
for some publishers, and from the US for others (haven't got the list of
which is which) . This is an arrangement made by the publishers, mostly to
ensure that no-one "poaches" on their preserves (shades of colonialism!!.
Heav
Well done, too, Jacquie!!
Gee, I'm dying to see those entries, I hope they publish some in the next
Lace, they all sound fantastic! Just received one, so will have to wait a
long time before the next one, alas. Maybe they will post on the website
before that???
Congratulations to you all,
Helene,
>Incidentally, in the exhibition catalogue it states the theme for 2007 is
>SEVEN.
There you are! The theme of the group entry has to be James Bond!! :-)
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who'd be happy to participate as long
as I get a small piece! I have no illusion about my available free ti
> Thanks so much, David, for the photos. I do wish I could see the
> originals, they all look great!!
> Are you going to put some of the lacemakers' census entries on the
> website as well? The ones that were in the journal were quite
intriguing.
>
> Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
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Malvary Cole wrote:
>I just remembered the Magpie Rhyme - last line: Seven for a secret
>never to be told.
I think I c an do that one on my own!! All you need is a frame, with these
words written at the bottom, or the top...There you are! Instant secret
lace!!
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
Carolina wrote:
>We, here in Spain it is very common to hear that "somebody has 7 lives
>as cats". It is said, referring to people who has survived to a
>dangerous situation.
Carolina, the English must like cats more than the Spaniards, as they say
that cats have 9 lives, not seven!! I can't remem
Haddad wrote:
>The "Little" things
>After September 11, one company invited the remaining members of other
>companies, who had been decimated by the attack on the Twin Towers, to
>share their available office space. At a morning meeting, the head of
>security told stories of why these people we
>How about the seven maids with seven mops from "The Walrus and the
>Carpenter"?
>- -Gabrielle, still bobbinless in sunny Puyallup
Hi, Gabrielle, why bobbinless?? Are you on holidays, or were tehy all
stolen
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who is trying to sort out all her pins
by size ag
We could take that one step further and do a "book" with seven fairy tales
or nursery rhymes containing seven things. I'm asure we can find them if
we try.
I can think of Snow White and her seven dwarves, The little tailor and his
seven giants, Puss in boots (the boots go 7 leagues at a time), the
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:07:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bev Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We took Kant Kwartaal for a while at the Victorian Branch of the ALG. I
can look next time I go there, but it won't be for a month. Let me know.
Do you have the page numbers on your copies? That would help when we look
Hi, Karen,
the pattern you want to redo is not the one by Bridget Cook which came out
a few years ago in Needlecraft magazine, is it? Because if it is, watch
out, one of the bits is wrong, there must have been a crease in the paper
it was photographed on, there are a few holes missing. I found ou
Devon wrote:
>...I recently ran a search on the NY Public Library's online picture
>collection on lace and saw many fashion prints. The site is
>http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/searchresultsK.cfm?keyword=lace...
Thanks so much for that website address, Devon! I love costume, but am
hopeless at sea
Dear Karen,
what I did, after I found out the pattern I had was faulty, was to
photocopy the piece twice, then carefully cut out the faulty point between
dots, and replace it with a correct one, then rephotocopy the result. It
worked perfectly.
I also photocopied the (perfect) pattern at 125% in c
Clay wrote:
There's a novel on ebay right now which lacemakers have enjoyed over the
years, and I thought someone on the list might like to get this copy...
It's Janine Montupet's "The Lacemaker", and it is a romanticized story
about
a lacemaker - and lace. All good fun, but not to be taken to
What lace(s) are you working on now? Maybe don't list all the ones you
have in progress (unless you want to) - this survey is for the projects
you are doing *right now* - short and sweet?
Lovely idea, Bev! I hope this is not too late, I haven't been reading my
mail lately, too busy rushing home a
YoAnneke wrote:
>I enjoy reading all your emails about all the laces in progress.
> Due to my fractured wrist I am not making any lace at all at the moment,
>but I am looking through all my lace books, something I normally never
>seem to have the time for, and making plans for what to work after my
Jenny Barron wrote:
>That could be our next question - what's your longest running UFO? & what
>are the chances of it ever being finished? Mine is the huge Bruges flower
>mat I started on Jan 1st 2000 and haven't finished the central section
yet
>as using the pillow gives me back ache if I use it f
Christine J wrote:
>...And, only last night, I tied off some samples I made for Pat Milne's
>invisible joins workshop in ?about 1992...
Pity you weren't a bit closer to Melbourne, Christine, you could have
joined our group yesterday and Saturday at the Ashburton Community Centre
in Melbourne and g
Malvary wrote:
>I'm not doing too much lace at the moment as I'm working hard to finish
an
>afghan for my cousin's wedding on the 24th July. Squares are all done,
>I'm sewing it up and then I have to crochet the border
Malvary, what I want to know is: who is going to wear the Afghan? Is it
for y
Erika wrote:
>The competition for the AGM was 'miniature lace', and the entries may be
>seen on a website...
>http://www.color2dye4.com/lace/
How lovely, Erika! Did you take the photos? That's when I regret not
having a digital camera!!
The only thing that could make it better would be having som
dear Ilske,
thank you for writing about Danish lace, it was very interesting. I
haven't read anything about lace in Scandinavia, so it was all new
information for me. Thank you!
helene, the froggy from Melbourne
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> Hi, Karen,
> I'm answering on lace, as I don't know whether you belong to lace-chat.
> some of us Australian spiders could be of assistance for people who know
> the names and place and date of birth, marriage or death of relatives
> from
> Australia.
> Our public libraries hold CD-Roms of the In
Liz Ligeti wrote:
>...I have recently finished another other long-term UFO!! I brought a
>"Penelope" brand (I think) tablecloth, printed pattern on beaut. linen,
>and all the embroidery floss needed, when I left England to come to Oz -
>in 1960. I started working on it in 1964 - when having Helen
Jean Nathan wrote:
>I'm still looking for a supplier of horn bobbins. The one supplier I
>contacted who advertise horn in the lace magazines, doesn't actually have
>horn listed in their catalogue
Jean, there is a place in the south of France that makes horn bobbins.
It's in a little town called Re
>Sorry, I forget the most important thing. When I designed my first
>pattern, a Torchon-lace, I named it after her Hertha. To say her thank
>you for this wonderful craft she "gave" me.
What a shame you couldn't rescue any of her lace stuff, Ilske. Aren't
relations really annoying sometimes!!
Li
Karisse wrote:
>The name of the magazine is "Pizzo di Cantu" Do you need to cover the
>pricking with something after you iron it on? Just wondering
>who has had experience with these and what it was?
Hi, Karisse,
I've never had anything to do with lace iron-on patterns, but I remember
embroidery
> Ok..that is the second person who mentioned horsehair pillows...will
someone explain horse hair pillows to me??
> Cearbhael
Oh, Cearbhael, that sentence brought back regrets for me!!!We used to have
an old single horsehair mattress which came from my grandmother's house
when I was young. We took
Adele Ward wrote:
>Last time I counted, I had 20 or 21 pillows
>My favorite are the straw ones made by Robin Lewis-Wild.
Wow, Adele, I didn't know she made pillows as well as write books. Is it
the same person?
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
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Adele wrote:
>A couple of years ago I bought 3 'traditional' pillows from a fellow in
>LePuy. He has a web site. The pillows have rollers. The pillows are
>pretty but toxic to pins! The rollers are made with carpet scraps.
>Indoor-outdoor carpet with rubberized backing
Please, Adele, can you p
Beautiful lace, Sally! And i think your method of pinning the pricking
down is pretty smart too. I'll have to try it next time.
I've also had patterns moving up, so now I use a flat pillow when I do a
wide pattern rather than a cookie, even if the slope is not too much. Or a
roller pillow, of cours
>The lace list is hardly the place to express one's political
opinions...especially to an international audience...it is very
inappropriate and i hope that
i will see no further evidence of this bad taste...carole walker scott
Hi, Carole,
we've had that discussion before, if you are referring
Rhiannon wrote:
>I recently made my friend a mobile for her son's birthday ( he was only 1
btw)using some xmas window decoration patterns. So that they would hang
and not waft i used fabric stiffener that i got from a local haberdashery
shop or there are a few lace/sewing shops online that also sel
Carol wrote:
>The mother of one of my child students took a mat the child had made to
be laminated, and it wasn't too successful! There were bubbles all over
the place, and it didn't do the mat justice at all. I wonder if that was
due to the size of the mat - maybe a bookmark, being a lot small
Carol wrote:
>The mothe rof one of my child students took a mat the child had made to
be laminated, and it wasn't too successful! There were bubbles all over
the place, and it didn't do the mat justice at all. I wonder if that was
due to the size of the mat - maybe a bookmark, being a lot smalle
Adele wrote:
>A Czech lacemaker who had immigrated to Canada and was showing her
stuff at our (now-defunct) Craft Museum used any old hard plastic (like
empty Tic-Tac boxes) which she ***melted in acetone*** ... apparently
in Czechoslovakia it was a lot easier for her to get hold of acetone
and
Tamara wrote:
>...click on "Vzorniky", and you'll see a booklet for sale, with a
>selection of lace patterns from Bobova (no thongs, though )...
>http://www.cipka.sk/
Nice site, Tamara. I was interested by the "Cipka" section. Is that a
magazine? Have they got lots of patterns in them? Easy to do
When I use fine thread in a light colour, if there is just a bit left, I
leave it on and do a half-hitch to prevent it from getting loose.
Then, when I want to wind thicker thread, or metallic thread, I tie the
end of the new thread to the one already on, and start winding my new
thread on on top
Can I ask for your help, please?
I know there's been a big book published a little while ago called "Greek
lace from XX Museum", or similar. I thought it was from the British Museum
or the V&A, but I can't find it anywhere in my booksellers' catalogues.
Has anyone got the proper co-ordinates for i
Welcome to the list, Dorte, and thank you for posting the address of your
photo site. They're great.
I hope you'll enjoy lace, and will take more photos..:-)
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who enjoyed a lovely afternoon tea with
Erica of NZ on Saturday afternoon...after going to the wrong hote
Carol wrote:
>I recently bought my copy at work - there are several booksellers that
come round leaving remaindered copies of various books/items in offices,
for the staff to look over and order, and my copy was half-price when I
bought it about six weeks ago.
Lucky you, Carol!! I'm waiting for
Carolina wrote:
>I subscribed Cipka magazine some months ago, including past issues.
The 7 pages magazine displays 5 or 6 little patterns some ones with
diagrams.
Thanks for the info, Carolina. 10 euros is not bad, I'll think about it.
As you said, they have very modern lace, which you don't usua
From: "Helen Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [lace] RE: lost items
Mother, dear, you forget about the body of Azaria Chamberlain which was
never found in the Ayers Rock vicinity
Oh, but she has been, apparently! There's been big stories about a
Victorian hunter and his mates who claims he
Thanks very much for all the notes and suggestions about working
hands-up. I've had a go (I had already looked at the picture on Jo
Annette wrote:
>...I tried tilting up my cookie pillow as in the picture), and it's not
as good as I thought it might be. I have what is called diffuse RSI,
whic
dear Barbara,
just catching up with my digests, and I just wanted to say thank you for
posting those beautiful pictures of Withof lace! How I wish my sight was
good enough (and my patience :-)) to make such fine lace!!!
Isn't Yvonne lovely? She gave some classes here some years ago, and was
just a
Noelene in Cooma wrote:
>And for us tatters, the "zingers" - the little gadget you can pin
like a brooch which has a retractable cord, to which can be
attached your cut-down crochet hook (I have an old Milwards
one about 2 inches long with a tiny plastic handle and hanging
loop - now if I could onl
Nicky wrote:
>...My husband and I were both delegates at the Scarborough Convention
this
year, I am a member he isn't. When it came to the AGM he was officiously
refused entry by the woman on the door, I queried it but she was adamant
that he was not allowed in - as was another mouthy person attend
>The original design is on Tamara's website. I have changed quite a lot of
>it. I tried out Tamara's neckpiece, then undid it. I tried out my own
>version and undid that too. In the end, I left it out altogether.
Solochona, your lace is exquisite! You make me ashamed of myself at doing
so little,
There is no reason why they can't both have been Lord Battenberg. the
grandfather was Lord Battenberg, then when he died, his eldest son became
Lord Battenberg, so Prince Philip must have been the son of the younger
son, and his father did not get the title. Simple.
The name was changed during the
Patty wrote:
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date
Wow, thanks for that experiment, Patty!! It certainly looks different
without the gimp, doesn't it? The gimp really lifts it and make it so much
more beautiful to look at!
I will try to remember that lesson in my own handmade lace!
T
Dear Dora,
thank you for the report on your visit. I have printed it out (in
B&W,only, unfortunately, those costumes are magnificent!) to give to my
lacemaker friend who is Hungarian and came to the AGM to learn how to make
Halas lace. She will love it.
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
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>2) I understand there is a Ring thing that works even better than the
Green Horseshoe, and that it has extensions to make larger rings. Does
anyone know of these? Can you point me in the right direction to find
them, please? - and perhaps give me it's correct name!
Maybe somebody who
Dot wrote:
>I know there was a long discussion on digital cameras a while ago, when
the possibility of my aquiring one was nil. I am now in the market for one
and would like to ask who ever posted at that time to forward their very
interesting articles to me.
Hello, Dot,
like you, I've been thin
Tamara wrote:
>(or seems to; the older generation tends to put the return
>address at the back of the envelope, rather than in the upper left
>corner of the front, and the PO doesn't seem to bother to check for
>that)...
I think putting the return address on the front is an American habit, I've
Lovely garter, Mimi. I like that blue!
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
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Hello, hello, I seem to have raised a storm with my "Digital
cameras-against" posting!! Thanks to all who wrote back to me, I can't
answer all of you individually, you are too many. Because it isn't
directly lace related (although it is indirectly, since we are talking
about photographing lace, ple
Bev wrote:
>...For a *lace* tool, the decision to buy a digital camera was a good
one.
I use it more than I would have thought, the main factor being the
immediate results. I use it to examine a piece of antique lace, where
the screen resolution is easier for me to see than a magnifying glass.
I
Tamara wrote:
>...I have lots of "issues" with the US's "do it my way or take the
highway" attitude, but the placing of the address label isn't one of
them :)
it does make sense, if you're trying to have millions of pieces of mail
processed, efficiently, by a dumb machine... I'm a great proponen
Tamara wrote:
>So I got a big stack of cheap-ish CDs in preparation. They were
>*supposed* to be the kind one can *add* data to. "Supposed" is the key
>word... :) There's a disagreement betwen my puter and my discs; I can
>read someone else's disc, I can burn my own... But I *cannot* add to a
>
Thanks, Dorte, I know you can do that, when you have a burner, which I
don't, except at work, where it's inconvenient, since it's in a branch
library 6 kms away from where I work...
I just wondered if anyone gets their pictures done on CD at a shop and has
actually managed to get the shop to put se
Dear Ewa,
It is always sad to lose someone who was a Master of their craft, or art,
and who also worked so much for the lace community. I have 2 of Inge's
books, and admire her work very much.
please convey all my sympathy to her family and friends.
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne.
It is with
thanks to you all who sent me emails with instructions on how to burn in
multiple sessions.I don't have a burner, actually, I an burn occasionally
at work, when I can get hold of the work burner, but I just want the photo
shops to do what they advertise they can do!!
Yours in lace!
Helene the fro
Linda wrote:
>However, all my husband's astronomy lists are just as busy as ever.
Probably mostly men in those, Linda :-)! They've got nothing to do before
Xmas! You wouldn't catch my DH making Xmas presents, cooking Xmas food or
writing Xmas cards, exept maybe 1-2 for his "work" (He is president
Anita wrote:
>BTW, has anyone got a nice pattern for said christening gown that I might
borrow? I've looked in Vogue, Butterick, Simplicity, etc. etc. but not
been 100% pleased with the patterns there.
I can't remember exactly where, but I saw a round christening robe
somewhere (could it have be
Tamara wrote:
> Out of sheer cussedness, I checked the currency converter on the day of
delivery (Oct 19) and it would have cost me U$ 31.30, had she not been
honest. I checked again today, and the same GBP 17.99 "translates" to U$
33.32. That means, that the buying power of the (once almighty) dol
Your volunteering is noted, Devon! I'll use you as a model as soon as I have
made
something wearable..:-)
That's my problem! I don't really dress the proper way for emphasizing beautiful
lace, and I don't make lace to wear (except fo a 3D orchid brooch for my
mother)!
Knitted fabrics are not part
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