Re: [lace] Question of the Show

2019-11-10 Thread Mary Blackwell
Sue, I’ve known you long enough and have communicated with you F2F enough to know you do not pronounce “lace” as “lice”! Let’s file this in the bizarre column! Clay Sent from my iPad > On Nov 10, 2019, at 9:48 AM, suebabbs...@gmail.com wrote: > > I have been demonstrating lacemaking at the F

Re: [lace] Alice Howell hacked?

2019-01-16 Thread Mary Blackwell
My guess is that Alice’s request for help buying a gift card for her “nephew” is totally bogus, since she (and I) are well beyond the age of having game-playing nephews! OUR nephews (if any) are CEOs and professionals! Sent from my iPad > On Jan 16, 2019, at 11:13 AM, Devon Thein wrote:

RE: [lace] Futile attempts to teach our young...

2005-01-12 Thread Mary Blackwell
Oh Gracious!! I see that my latest adventures with computer woes has left me identified, once again, by my "first" (and legal) name! But with Mary (and its deritatives) (still) being the most common name for females in the world, it is not the one I choose to be known by!! So sorry if this threw

[lace] Futile attempts to teach our young...

2005-01-12 Thread Mary Blackwell
I am also a member of the "disappointed sponsor" club! In my case, the child is the youngest daughter of my youngest sister. At 13, she was very interested in anything creative, loved to watch me make lace, *and* was feeling left out because her older sister and older brother were both far too bu

RE: [lace] pens and plastic for prickings

2004-05-27 Thread Mary Blackwell
Hello Weronika - The plastic film we use can come from several sources. There is a "blue film" which has a matte (dull) finish which makes the lace more visible against the pricking. It may be obtained from most of our lace vendors. Others, like Tamara, for example, prefer to use contact paper.