[lace] Steam Irons that Leak

2011-02-07 Thread Jane Partridge
? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] lace knitting

2011-02-10 Thread Jane Partridge
then :-) -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] What???????on eBay

2011-02-14 Thread Jane Partridge
for a lacemaker, if it is bobbin sized, given in fun! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] Weavers knot

2011-02-20 Thread Jane Partridge
I had so much trouble with it as a Brownie... didn't help that what we were told was a sheet bend was in fact a clove hitch, as I learned years later! Now, I use the weavers' knot method and have no problem with it at all! -- Jane Partridge whose fourth grandchild was born on Thursday in Truro

[lace] Weavers knot

2011-02-21 Thread Jane Partridge
. The things we remember!! Mom taught me a similar rhyme to use when making a purl stitch in knitting - down a little rabbit hole, round a little tree, down pops he and off pops she - these rabbits get everywhere! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing

[lace] Regency

2011-03-16 Thread Jane Partridge
spectacles where history was concerned, and this sounds as if they were thinking more of Prince Albert than Prince George! There is no reason why Regency Lace cannot date from 2011, if it is made now, but dates referring to the Regency itself are surely pre-1820, not post. -- Jane Partridge

[lace] Regency

2011-03-16 Thread Jane Partridge
the renewed interest in lace after the turn of the 20th century, *all* laces were desirable, so those who could make lace would use any patterns they had or could find. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here

[lace] British symbols in lace for wedding

2011-03-27 Thread Jane Partridge
magazines, why don't you have a go at designing something, Jeri? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] Card versus photocopy paper

2011-04-02 Thread Jane Partridge
covering film - you can get a clear matt version whereas most of the book films are shiny. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http

[lace] silk threads

2011-04-13 Thread Jane Partridge
as the moth is concerned) cocoons, so not all silk production requires the worms to be killed. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http

[lace] book reviews etc - what is and isn't allowed

2011-04-14 Thread Jane Partridge
that she too has a life, and may not be able to respond immediately :-) To the other long-in-the-tooth Arachnes - have I missed anything? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace] threads

2011-04-21 Thread Jane Partridge
. I have only noticed the finer versions later - in the last five years or so. Have book yes, they are - all 3S, 30 = 21 w/cm, 40 = 32 w/cm and 50 = 34 w/cm. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here

[lace] Re: Use Subject Line, or We Treat as Spam/Delete

2011-05-14 Thread Jane Partridge
, looked as if it was! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] Sad News

2011-05-18 Thread Jane Partridge
Those of you who knew her will be sad to hear that my fellow Lace Guild Executive member, Linda Grigsby, passed away suddenly on Monday 16th May. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write

[lace] Needle covers

2011-05-18 Thread Jane Partridge
into a tool for threading beads!). If recycling, you need a pair of pliers or cable strippers to remove the sleeving from the wire. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace] pins and thorns

2011-05-24 Thread Jane Partridge
that thorns can be used for coarse lace, but are they in response to the 'old wives tale' giving the idea? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site

[lace] anybody know where?

2011-05-27 Thread Jane Partridge
for help in finding numbers to lace. Type of lace can be varied between torchon, Bucks, tape, Beds, Honiton, Milanese, Brugge. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace] Artefact of the Month

2011-06-09 Thread Jane Partridge
. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] On-going lace

2011-06-28 Thread Jane Partridge
samples had become entangled in my clothes and ended up in the washing machine. It came out very clean, and surprisingly it is still usable as a sample, although it shows what it has been through. Happy lacemaking Alex -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace] Lace Exhibition

2011-07-11 Thread Jane Partridge
-room/ -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] lace

2011-07-28 Thread Jane Partridge
, that just wasn't enough. Maybe I'll get a different bobbin next time. Meanwhile, it was time to walk away before something *really* bad happened!! ; ) Have you tried covering your pillow with a damp cloth for a few hours, Clay, it might be that the thread is drying out? -- Jane Partridge

[lace] Vintage - Old - Antique - Brocante?

2011-07-29 Thread Jane Partridge
of which, can I remind anyone who will be in North Wales on Saturday 10th September that we shall be making lace on the train for National Lacemaking Day - if you want to come and join in, bring pillow, shuttle or whatever... email me for details. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Books on Demand/Lace Book Prices

2011-09-14 Thread Jane Partridge
the US to the UK of a large book collection would be prohibitive. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user

[lace] Help Lace Guild

2011-10-01 Thread Jane Partridge
of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ -- Jane Partridge Executive Committee member (Shows Co-ordinator) The Lace Guild - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace] Re: lace knitting + supplies + dying wool

2011-10-01 Thread Jane Partridge
+WhzXroHDsXu4sN8-ty1hPUdBUfkJRuSRV-GfbhKXR=lr...@mail.gmail.com, bev walker walker.b...@gmail.com writes Cake decorating pastes or instant drink mixes can be used - -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here

[lace] dyeing wool

2011-10-02 Thread Jane Partridge
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[lace] New stamps from France

2011-10-12 Thread Jane Partridge
didn't increase when I added the book of stamps to my order. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] Sign of the times - call for action? (long)

2011-10-14 Thread Jane Partridge
...@desupernet.net writes If you check the membership numbers of IOLI, for example, the numbers have gone down over the last 10 years. Significantly. There was a point in the last century, (wow, doesn't that sound long ago?) when the number of lace makers jumped, or at least rose strongly. -- Jane

[lace] Re: Ring Sizer

2011-10-17 Thread Jane Partridge
of why a ring sizer would be placed in with needlework (far removed would be wpi-wraps per inch tool, but they too are straight cylinders marked with how many wpi). -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here

[lace] Demonstration idea and spread the word

2011-10-17 Thread Jane Partridge
I like. I direct them to the next step. It thus behooves ALL chapters to have a website, I believe it is much snip... easier to email to a link with a question, than to make a phone call. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

[lace] Tutor lists

2011-10-18 Thread Jane Partridge
in the IOLI Bulletin might not be very safe. I would love getting ideas for making a useful handout with websites listing teachers, as well as beginning techniques, in the US as well as in other countries. -- Jane Partridge (Exec Committee Member, The Lace Guild) - To unsubscribe send email to majord

[lace] demonstrating lace

2011-10-21 Thread Jane Partridge
. There is a lovely place to make lace on the south porch in the shade of the bougainvillea. Their schedule is already booked for the season. Oh well, I tried. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

[lace] to Glue or not to glue?

2011-10-23 Thread Jane Partridge
. This is the first time I have used this particularly thread and dont want it to fall off my tree in the future -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http

[lace] New Beds book (Shorter!)

2011-11-01 Thread Jane Partridge
. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] What Arachne is

2011-11-02 Thread Jane Partridge
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[lace] UK Lace Guild magazine

2011-11-05 Thread Jane Partridge
was informed that they were mailed out last week. Pene -- Jane Partridge Executive Committee Member, The Lace Guild - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http

[lace] Stiffening Lace

2011-11-13 Thread Jane Partridge
producing and keeping these samples can help you choose what will stand up to your local conditions, too. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http

[lace] Lace Exhibitions

2011-11-16 Thread Jane Partridge
of time to find someone else. (With four, we can have three of us on the stand at any one time - essential when it is busy - and it means that we can each have two hours of free time to look round). Let me know off list if you can help. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord

[lace] Re: Hanging in bundles and sequence

2011-11-18 Thread Jane Partridge
it) as you do for Honiton, then this method of hanging makes it easy to have the bobbins with least thread as the downrights (passives), whilst the full bobbins sit at the outside ready to become runners (workers). -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing

[lace] pattern sharing helpful hint.

2011-11-20 Thread Jane Partridge
Fousek ibal...@yahoo.com writes I have noticed that they do not always come across to the scale sent. I have an idea that might help stop the madness. I began putting a 1 inch scale line on the pricking before sending so the recipient can tell if the pricking is to scale after printing. -- Jane

[lace] Begin and End

2011-11-21 Thread Jane Partridge
put! The length of the lace depends upon the amount of gather you want, and that depends on whether the dress is close fitting or not. Until you know the bride who will wear it, and what her preferences are, it might be wise to wait. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord

[lace] Idea for lace ornament frame

2011-11-23 Thread Jane Partridge
, releasing acetic acid with a characteristic vinegary smell. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] Lost in Lace query

2011-11-27 Thread Jane Partridge
is the local name for the city - where I was born!). -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] Crochet hooks

2011-11-29 Thread Jane Partridge
for new excuses to spend money in Solihull on Saturday! --- -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help

[lace] Demonstrating at Christmas Tree festival

2011-12-08 Thread Jane Partridge
afterwards! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] Lace Exhibition in Birmingham

2011-12-10 Thread Jane Partridge
-- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003

[lace] Czech spiders, expanding my vocabulary misc.

2011-12-14 Thread Jane Partridge
if I had wanted to spend that much! Pity really because a DVD of images (some of the exhibits are films/videos, and some use sound) from the exhibition would probably sell to those interested in the lace, and especially to people like you who can't get to see the exhibition. -- Jane Partridge

[lace] Shawl finished

2011-12-16 Thread Jane Partridge
of this message. Scroll down the page until you get to the second one from the bottom on the left-hand side. It has a photo of a butterfly, the name Agnes Boddington above that photo and new in a red circle at the bottom left of that photo. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord

[lace] Varied and sundry

2011-12-31 Thread Jane Partridge
that although kind to hands, the grease removing element in the detergent was concentrated lemon juice or similar. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo

Re: Snakes was [lace] making lace with my granddaughter

2012-01-01 Thread Jane Partridge
had my first pillow over his head but I thought I might damage it ( the pillow, not his head) He now admits he might have been wrong. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help

[lace] Thread problem

2012-01-07 Thread Jane Partridge
.  By the time I got to the end of the piece they were seriously fraying.  I was using Brok cotton...I think size 40.  -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site

[lace] New Tool

2012-01-08 Thread Jane Partridge
It is a combination hook on one end and a pusher/puller on the other; . He makes them using a choice of two sizes of hooks - fine and very fine - not sure of the numbers at the moment! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y

[lace] address changes

2012-01-11 Thread Jane Partridge
, 2012 at 3:49 PM, tess1929 tess1...@aol.com wrote: I have just found out that someone wicked has posted and sent out a change of address for me which is fraudulent. My address has not changed. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe

[lace] Film of a Nottingham Lace Factory

2012-01-17 Thread Jane Partridge
there, and the processes. Fascinating, a great pity that the last of the Nottingham lace factories closed a few years ago (I can't remember exactly when, but that my mother-in-law reported that a note of the last one closing had been put in the local paper). -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Romanian vs Battenberg

2012-01-18 Thread Jane Partridge
are trying to iron out the confusion caused by whole stitch (ctc or ctct?) in standardizing terms, but lace thrives in its diversity, and the terminology that goes with each lace - it would be awfully dull if we only had one type of lace to make, wouldn't it? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send

[lace] pillow question

2012-01-22 Thread Jane Partridge
it makes life a lot easier for doing anything with any length to it! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user

[lace] LACE # 145- Chairman found?

2012-02-12 Thread Jane Partridge
to investigate name change. One of the reasons for the name change initiative is that there is a fear that the same thing could happen here if our group does not attract new members. Devon -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y

[lace] Pronunciation of lacis

2012-02-22 Thread Jane Partridge
it as LASS-ISS. The first syllable is LASS as in a girl and the second is pronounced with an 'S' at the end, not 'Z'. The stress is on the first syllable. Brenda -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help

[lace] Removing fold lines from a handkerchief

2012-03-01 Thread Jane Partridge
it is a lovely sunny morning.) -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

[lace] Spring magazine reading

2012-03-12 Thread Jane Partridge
, there is an article on pages 46-7. Some of the costumes were shown in Glasgow at a Creative Stitches Hobbycrafts Show earlier this month (pg. 9). -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace] Chicago convention - lace guilds and lace activities

2012-03-21 Thread Jane Partridge
3E964FE19AFC49B88B3B8A91AA0023EA@personal, Angel Skubic cearbh...@midco.net writes And keep in mind this annual convention in St Paul is only for 2012...next year St Paul does not get to host the convention...they move to a different location each year for the annual convention Cearbhael -- Jane

[lace] The Lace Guild - new Facebook page

2012-03-31 Thread Jane Partridge
and page the pattern was on, and the designer's name. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums

[lace] Bookmark endings

2012-04-30 Thread Jane Partridge
already got it). In message 2032141474.1645319.1335803972614.javamail.r...@sz0139a.emeryville.ca.mai l.comcast.net, laceviolins...@comcast.net writes Can you help me. I bought the booklet from The Lace Guild and I can't figure how to do the ending on bookmarks 13 and 20? Becca -- Jane

[lace] There's never enough room

2012-05-27 Thread Jane Partridge
from something like coat-hanger wire with a small knob on the top and an ever so slightly wider flat rectangle on the bottom. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace] Which way is better?

2012-06-08 Thread Jane Partridge
F07B9ED549E1413FA162E2FD37F6A767@Cecily, Lyn Bailey lynrbai...@desupernet.net writes 1. Can you make bobbin lace with a wire frame for stiffening? and 2. Assuming stiffening lace with wire is possible, is this a better method than painting a stiffener onto the lace while on the pillow? -- Jane Partridge

[lace] Rosa Libre

2012-06-26 Thread Jane Partridge
writes Thanks for the compliment and I do wish that I was in the same class as Robin and Tamara!!! I was also thinking about the decline in the interest in the lace the other day and wondering if anything could be done about this decline. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord

[lace] re: Rosalibre comments

2012-06-27 Thread Jane Partridge
of working overlapping loopy gimp rings. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent

[lace] Lace Magazine

2012-07-12 Thread Jane Partridge
arrived was that I was aware that subs were due and I usually paid mine by the end of June. Hopefully they won't take us off the mailing list just yet!! Sincerely, Sue Fink, Masterton, New Zealand -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing

[lace] machine/handmade lace

2012-08-13 Thread Jane Partridge
lace was made, many of the children, both boys and girls, were sent to lace schools. Lacemaking was taught, but also basic reading, writing and arithmetic, this being necessary to justify them being called schools. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing

[lace] machine/handmade lace 3 R's

2012-08-14 Thread Jane Partridge
that could solve the unemployment problem, stop the depopulation of the countryside and, because it was made at home, hold the family unit together. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write

[lace] machine/handmade lace

2012-08-14 Thread Jane Partridge
for little return or thanks - I know which I would choose!! Living conditions were probably not always the best but you can't have everything ;o) -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write

[lace] All that thread on one bobbin?

2012-08-18 Thread Jane Partridge
. . Since it's for show, and for church, I want to do this as right as I can, without obvious joins. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http

[lace] Hydrating threads ... what not to do

2012-09-05 Thread Jane Partridge
in a couple inches of pattern but it can't be helped. I don't think it will show when the ends are trimmed. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http

[lace] Washing lace made of silk - conservation advice?

2012-09-12 Thread Jane Partridge
-m133.sysops.aol.com, Vicki Bradford twohappyb...@aol.com writes I was stopped in my tracks, however, with an admonition at the bottom of the posting which stated that Orvus was 'not suitable for silk'. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

[lace] webshots/smile

2012-10-12 Thread Jane Partridge
via the Webshots link, and download from there? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most

[lace] Application embroidery

2012-11-05 Thread Jane Partridge
is done by applying motifs of the same linnen of the bedcover with the overhand stitch. The description is application embroidery. Someone told me this technique cannot be called application embroidery as stitches can be seen at the backside. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email

[lace] Twists in Bucks Point

2012-11-13 Thread Jane Partridge
an extra twist to the worker at the end of a row, and give an extra twist before passing through the gimp. Is that right? Thanks, Simon -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write

[lace] Lace Street

2012-11-14 Thread Jane Partridge
Street that they intend to make a frieze of lace buildings for use on their table at lace events. I imagine Jane Partridge can give more details about their appeal for lace. I think the deadline in in early January. Details of this idea have been in Lace over the last year or so - the deadline

[lace] Lace Street

2012-11-15 Thread Jane Partridge
are collecting for a leaving gift and, of course, looking to replace her. (I hope you don't mind me mentioning this). Maureen E Yorks UK -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace] Current project and thread question

2012-11-28 Thread Jane Partridge
scarf: it is very stiff. It is not comfortable for my neck. Does it have a solution (washing or ironing, for example), or should I use it as a table runner? Thank you for your opinions in advance! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

[lace] Honiton leaf with points

2012-12-28 Thread Jane Partridge
of side bars so I tried it it's looking much better. Question--is this an appropriate way to solve the problem in Honiton? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera

[lace] bobbin part lace

2013-01-18 Thread Jane Partridge
it, it was clear to see the differences between the 3 pieces. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] What thread and/or pattern would you use?

2013-01-26 Thread Jane Partridge
Rose susierose_89...@yahoo.com writes Hello to One and All! Today my DD Leah turns 16.? I want to start making the lace for her wedding gown.? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write

[lace] What thread and/or pattern would you use?

2013-01-27 Thread Jane Partridge
design is also a lovely touch. Certainly makes the lace extra special. Sue T -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos

[lace] Wedding veils

2013-02-01 Thread Jane Partridge
. Will this look strange? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] Dora Northern

2013-02-01 Thread Jane Partridge
and Dora was trying to promote it a few years back. Greetings from Janis -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker

[lace] washing silk

2013-02-14 Thread Jane Partridge
done in the dying industry. They are not particularly worried about the survival rates of their products, only to sell as much as possible. Joepie, East Sussex, UK -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here

[lace] wedding garter

2013-02-19 Thread Jane Partridge
inches. How long should the lace be? What length should the elastic be in order to be snug, but not tight? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site

[lace] Lace Guild Convention and AGM

2013-03-15 Thread Jane Partridge
that each member only casts one vote, and your proxy is legally bound to vote according to your wishes). We have a number of resolutions this year which members may wish to vote on, and this is how you can vote even though you cannot attend the meeting itself. -- Jane Partridge

[lace] 20 Years - Lace and museums - long

2013-03-15 Thread Jane Partridge
contacting every donor the museum could not use the money for other purposes. Brian - I would have expected a thank you too; it is common courtesy! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write

[lace] Posting

2013-03-15 Thread Jane Partridge
but I hope you will excuse the gaffe. Didn't mean to bore you folks twice. lrb - -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com

[lace] Lurkers vs. Volunteers

2013-03-16 Thread Jane Partridge
usually just hit reply to answer to the group. On Arachne I need to hit reply all for my answer to be seen by the group as well as the person I'm answering. Sometimes I'll repost. Most times I don't. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line

[lace] Lurkers vs. Volunteers

2013-03-16 Thread Jane Partridge
. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] 20th anniversary

2013-03-16 Thread Jane Partridge
Mead Tacoma, WA USA -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] Silly Questions (another subject change!)

2013-03-16 Thread Jane Partridge
the subject line. The address: _http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html_ (http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html) Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe

[lace] travel equipment

2013-03-19 Thread Jane Partridge
, -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/

[lace] Needle lace beginner questions

2013-03-21 Thread Jane Partridge
in couching structural lines as necessary. . I've also found, for me, that the thicker paper used for craft projects give me enough support, with the plastic on top. I know people who put a pad of material under the pattern paper. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

[lace] Jean-Marie Leclair

2013-03-25 Thread Jane Partridge
were lacemakers, or that they were employed in the business of lace in the sense that they were middlemen who bought lace from the women who were making it and then re-sold it? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y

[lace] The Lace Guild's Convention and AGM

2013-04-02 Thread Jane Partridge
the museum, etc). Details for anyone who hasn't seen them are on the website - http://www.laceguild.org Apart from during the AGM, I'll be on the Guild's sales table and my long-suffering other half will be manning the 50/50. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord

[lace] Whole Stitch

2013-04-11 Thread Jane Partridge
/kennvandierenPOM.html can someone tell me what the author means by whole stitch? (I know, I could ask the author, but it's so much more fun to ask you G) Thanks, Beth -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help

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