Re: [lace] bringing in new lacers- Netting the Small Fry

What a great idea Faye - Original Message - From: "Kim Davis" To: "Lace" Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 1:09:01 PM Subject: [lace] bringing in new lacers- Netting the Small Fry I have been following the discussion about the future of lace and the importance of bringing in new memb

Re: [lace] Alternative bobbins

Great Idea! I knew someone years ago who did not have glass beads so she took her husbands stash of sinkers from his fishing tackle and his washers from his tool chest. I always say "what ever works"!! LOL Faye, In beautiful PA, USA where the leaves are starting to turn... - Original

Re: [lace] Demonstration idea and spread the word

Lyn you ar so right about the US. I have been demonstrating here in the US for many many years and it is fun when people come up to my pillow and a look of awe comes over their face. I have gotten quite a few interested in lacemaking doing demos around the south eastern part of Pennsylvania.

Re: [lace] Re:demo question

Is there a pic of this needle somewhere? I would love to see one Faye , of Drumore, PA , where it is beautiful warm autumn evening. - Original Message - From: "Tatman" To: "Lace list" Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:58:38 PM Subject: [lace] Re:demo question Just to add more fue

Re: [lace] Sweet Briar 2011 and Las Conchas fire

I attended the very first Sweet Briar and took S'Gravenmore (forgive spelling if not right). I had a fabulous time and hope to make it down again in the near future. It was more relaxing to do lacemaking there. And the location is peaceful. I will put the people in your area in my prayers.

Re: [lace] Tousteau pillow for sale

A beautiful pillow. Wish I did not have so many already. it should go quickly!! it looks like a high quality pillow. Faye Hegener Drumore, PA - Original Message - From: "Susan MacLeod" To: "lace" Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:49:28 AM Subject: [lace] Tousteau pillow for sale Ho

Re: [lace] Do not bother to read this unles you are a bobbin freak or a drop-spindle user! Heavy stuff.

How beautiful that spindle is. If it separates from the base it could be a support spindle. I am an avid drop spindler and I have several different kinds of spindles. Support spindles were used to spin the finer threads. I am willing to bet it is a Support Spindle. Faye of Drumore, PA wher

Re: [lace] snuggling on the beach

oh my!! I would love to do that too!!! Wow!! what an awesom experience!! Faye of Drumore, Pa. http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/23157786/269087697/name/SNUGGLING_ON_THE_BEACH.wmv You haev to watch this. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com contai

Re: [lace] Pst Card Exchange

You are most welcome, Faye, Drumore, PA where it is a very cool and windy Autumn day.. - Original Message - From: "janet theaker" To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Friday, November 5, 2010 2:44:16 PM Subject: [lace] Pst Card Exchange Many Many Thanks to Faye Hegener For the lovely cards I

Re: [lace] Postcard Swap

I am so so sorry I forgot there was a deadline. and with a sick kitty that I was nursing than sadly had to put down. And also with all the overtime I was working. ( I work at the unemployment office that is in disaster mode for the past 2 years) I did not get around to it. I am going to do it

Re: [lace] Re: making a pillow, and Bethesda.

I live in the middle of "Amish Country" Lancaster county, PA ...born and raised here. Even have some plain ancestors.. I have Amish neighbors actually. And years ago an Amish landlord. We have a lot of wonderful stuff here to see in Lancaster county. We now also have a large convention c

Re: [lace] Finished Honiton pillow

what are the dimensions of your pillow? Faye - Original Message - From: "Tatman" To: "Lace list" , bobbinl...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 1:38:22 PM Subject: [lace] Finished Honiton pillow Update on my Honiton pillow I am made. I stuffed it really tight and sewn up

Re: [lace] Barley straw

I made a bolster pillow many years ago for my reenacting... My Landlord is a dairy farmer and I asked them what has the least dust and they recommended I use barley... So I went into my landlords haymow, it was filled to the rafters on one side with barley.. In mid August I did this too and bo

Re: [lace] Ipswich Lace- location of examples

The last time the IOLI convention was at Bathesda someone did a lecture on the history of Ipswich lace. I found it very interesting and I always wanted to go to Ipswich after taking this class. Still want to. Hope someday to get there.. I heard that some black lace owned by Martha still survi

Re: [lace] Re: Yoga in Thread

Love It!!! - Original Message - From: "Tatman" To: "Lace list" Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:00:41 AM Subject: [lace] Re: Yoga in Thread These slogans have conjured up a picture for me. So I had to draw it up and share with you. :) Would be nice on a T-shirt! http://www.tat-m

Re: [lace] Re: Fiber familiarity

that is a great idea. It is a form of weaving and we should demo modern, colorful bookmarks or motifs or jewelry something that will be used and worn everyday. And the jewelry will catch the eye of the younger generations... Faye Hegener - Original Message - From: dmt11h...@aol.c

Re: [lace] Getting there, getting there

how about "Yoga to you is Thread to me" Faye - Original Message - From: "Aurelia Loveman" To: dmt11h...@aol.com, lynrbai...@supernet.com Cc: lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:49:42 PM Subject: [lace] Getting there, getting there "Yoga in thread!" Now that's a big step f

Re: [lace] Re: Fiber familiarity

I am a reenactor too!! I have done my lace in front of my tent at Rev War events. and I concur with what you say. Also this world is too much into instant gratification.. I love your slogan !!! Faye Hegener - Original Message - From: "Tatman" To: "Lace list" Sent: Tuesday, August

Re: [lace] Fiber familiarity

I think when we demo we should have a pillow with us that has a very small piece on with as little bobbins as we can get away with. Also have a pillow with a larger piece, one that we normally do while doing demos. Maybe let them have a try at the small one and see how really simple it can be.

Re: [lace] Lamp ideas please

That is a great idea!!! I may try that... it is small and bendable... wonderful.. I am learning so much... Faye Hegener Hot Drumore, PA sitting in my AC with one of my cats laying in front of my monitor...(she is just home from spending the night at the Vets.. we are not sure if she is going

Re: [lace] knotting shuttles, Josephine knots

I will have to try to end a bookmark with the josephine knots... It would look pretty Faye - Original Message - From: hottl...@neo.rr.com To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:38:17 AM Subject: [lace] knotting shuttles, Josephine knots Hello All! Finally caught u

Re: [lace] Fiber familiarity

I get the same exact reactions and comments. I do the same crafts. I find that kids love the wheel and get the same comments from the adults regarding the bobbinlace. And of course the usual question "Oh is that tatting!" LOL Faye Hegener, Drumore, PA - Original Message - From: "

Re: [lace] Re: knotting and tatting?

WOW I stand corrected!! What a great websight, Lots to read, I have to rethink and alter my own thinking and also alter my demonstrations. From what I have read so far I am not sure when tatting was developed?? I am goint to have to take an evening and just read more.. Thanks for the h

Re: [lace] Knotting

That is correct, if you do it during a chain you get a neat continuous twist to the chain. Hmmm I have never seen knetting.. and this tuning fork implement... hmmm shoulds like something I need to look into.. will have to find these instructions also.. Faye Hegener , just awake and getting

Re: [lace] more knotting & tatting?

oh yeah.. the josephine knot is what the kids nowadays were using to make these pretty corded bracelets... and they were doing it free handed no shuttle what so ever... a young lady showed me how she did it some years back.. LOL and I cannot recall what she was calling this at that time. But I

Re: [lace] knotting

Is this the same knot as, what we call in Tatting, the Josephine Knot? Faye Hegener, up after my bedtime,,, in Drumore PA... LOL - Original Message - From: "L.Snyder" To: "Arachne" Sent: Sunday, August 8, 2010 3:56:02 PM Subject: [lace] knotting I sent this to Faye, but for all of yo

Re: [lace] Knotting Instructions

Thanks I will do just that Oh to be able to travel to such places and see such beautiful historical period things would be wonderful... Faye Hegener, in Drumore, PA - Original Message - From: jeria...@aol.com To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, August 8, 2010 6:45:35 PM Subject: [

Re: [lace] tatting detail in French painting, floor stand & lace

they were knotting shuttles prior to tatting shuttles... and they were much larger, the knotting shuttles I have seen do not meet at the points..I baught one to try and learn how to do knotting, but can't find any instructions on knotting... Faye in Drumore, PA - Original Message - Fr

Re: [lace] Re: tatting detail in French painting, floor stand & lace

from what I have heard anything prior to early 1800's is Knotting... Tatting was developed from knotting around 1850.. from what I have read... Faye in Drumore, PA - - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to

Re: [lace] Storing bookmarks

I have made many a bookmark in my day and I only have one. It is in my bible. I give most of my handcrafted items away to family. I do not have a place to put them or display them. I do so many crafts and have such a small place and I am also into adopting unwanted pets. When You live across

Re: [lace] fioretombolo

=== correction : slip of the finger... but I am celebrating the 4th of July , not the 3rd == - Original Message - thanks for the websigh... and to my surprise google offers a translation button and I clicked it and the italian was transformed into english I had no ide

Re: [lace] fioretombolo

thanks for the websigh... and to my surprise google offers a translation button and I clicked it and the italian was transformed into english I had no idea my google did this.. the pics are awesome and I can read everything!!! I hope you can do that too I will have to check out other

Re: [lace] Strange Magazine-not sinister plot

I agree with you.. Even though we lacemakers are spread out over the world. We are actually all connected one way or another through groups and guilds. I too would love to have a copy of this magazine..I feel left out.. boo hoo.. give me a minute why I have a self pityy party LOL and thro

Re: [lace] Re: Strange Magazine - I want one too!

does everyone belong to the IOLI or a common lace guild or large group that puts out a book on members like the IOLI does maybe that is how they got the addresses Faye . Drumore, PA USA where it is a beautiful sunny & cool summer day - Original Message - From: laceandb...@

Re: [lace] definitions

what a great poem Faye of Drumore, PA USA - Original Message - From: "Noelene Lafferty" To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:17:16 PM Subject: RE: [lace] definitions Carol, as you said you're fairly new to Arachne, you probably haven't seen this poem of mine before

Re: [lace] definitions

I really like your definitions... sounds logical... Faye - Original Message - From: "Susan Reishus" To: "post to Arachne" Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 4:43:04 PM Subject: Re: [lace] definitions I must question the use of scaffolding, as it implies it as an part of an infrastructure, w

Re: [lace] Definitions

Oh love this... Your Hubby must have been quite a character.. LOL his definition gave me a much needed laugh... LOL Faye , Drumore, PA USA - Original Message - From: "Carol" To: "post to Arachne" Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 5:03:07 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Definitions Thie 'thread

Re: [lace] Photos of "Lace at Sweet Briar"

oh the group looks fantastic... wish I could have attended Faye Hegener - Original Message - From: "Clay Blackwell" To: "ARACHNE" Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:08:25 AM Subject: [lace] Photos of "Lace at Sweet Briar" I've uploaded a group of photos taken at "Lace at Sweet Bri

Re: [lace] Lace in Vietnam Warp/Weft

I used to dabble in weaving too. and I gave it up when I needed the space and when I gave it some thought I really hated dressing the loom when I did I usually did more than one thing with one warp If I get back into it I may get one of the rigid heddle looms.. smaller and simpler... w

Re: [lace] Lacemakers in Arizona

I did this, just now... this is a neat sight... if you are traveling you can look on there and find area lacemakers and possibly visit... How nice...I am spreading the word in my circles Faye just finish - Original Message - From: "Jo" To: "Alan & Sheila Brown" , "lace Arachne" Se

Re: [lace] Re: Bangle sizes

When you say bangles are you talking about the braclets that do not have a clasp that you have to force over your hand to get them on and usually do not fit over my pudgy hands LOL I think I have some old ones from when I was thinner Faye Hegener - Original Message - From:

Re: [lace] Definitions

I can see why in the 19th century they would say this. The lacemakers were fighting for their livelyhood. And were trying to save their jobs with the machines now making lace and the customers turning to other cheaper lacesI guess this was said to try and keep their customers... - Or

Re: [lace] flickr bobbinlace photos

oh sounds like a wonderful experience!! Faye Hegener on the farm in Drumore, PA From: "Karen Zammit Manduca" To: "Lorelei Halley" , lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 4:21:01 AM Subject: RE: [lace] flickr bobbinlace photos How interestingI was also there and I also took p

Re: [lace] Bangle patterns

i too can not seem to find where to download the patterns... I am not great with computers either... any help will be appreciated... Faye (trying to type while one of her cat's trying to type for her>>) - Original Message - From: "Susan Reishus" To: "post to Arachne" Sent: Saturday,

Re: [lace] Definitions

HI I am new to Arachne.. and I am flabergasted as to the amount of discussions going on. This is so great I am reading and and seeing so many great things.. I feel your definition sounds good to me... There are so many types they call lace... and some say there are only 2 true laces I

Re: [lace] Lace Guild Competition.

How beautiful the piece is... Congratulations on your win Faye Hegener Drumore, PA USA very hot a muggy here tonight... - Original Message - From: "Claire Allen" To: "Sue" <2harv...@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: "Arachne Arachne" Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 5:45:55 PM Subject: Re: [lace]