[lace-chat] Re: Pictures of this area (SW Michigan)

2005-02-25 Thread Lynn Carpenter
Here is the grainy webcam that is closest to me. The camera turns around, sometimes showing a view of Lake Michigan, and sometimes a rather uninteresting street: http://webcams.fbv.mhe.viapointe.com/wwmt/southhaven.jpg This website has higher resolution webcams: http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/webcams

[lace-chat] Re: Beaded pin badges

2005-02-25 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, Reading Jean Nathan's post made me think about enlarging things on the computer. I know some pictures I've enlarged and they look like they would make quilt patterns - the pixels turn into squares. I'm thinking it's when I keep zooming in on a picture. That might possibly work with the

Re: [lace-chat] flag patterns (beaded pin badges/small cross-stitch)

2005-02-25 Thread Jean Nathan
If you've got pictures of the flags, you can use a cross-stitch generator program to convert scans of the pictures int cross stitch charts. If you've got a PCWorld near you, have a look in the cheap software rotating displays for a cross stitch generator program. Shouldn't be more than GBP9.99. I'

Re: [lace-chat] flag patterns (beaded pin badges/small cross-stitch)

2005-02-25 Thread Helen
Hi, It's all American patterns, unfortunately. On the plus side, I hadn't even thought of looking for beading patterns lol Helen At 15:43 25/02/2005, Margot Walker wrote: I don't know if it has the patterns you want, but check this web site: http://www.bead-patterns.com/ There are hundreds of fr

[lace-chat] flag patterns (beaded pin badges/small cross-stitch)

2005-02-25 Thread Margot Walker
I don't know if it has the patterns you want, but check this web site: http://www.bead-patterns.com/ There are hundreds of free bead patterns on this site, and hundreds more that you can download for a fee. Even though you might not find what you want, you'll find the site fascinating. On Frida

[lace-chat] A Good One

2005-02-25 Thread David Collyer
A MONKS TALE A new young monk arrives at the monastery and, as with all new monks, he is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new mo

[lace-chat] Where I live

2005-02-25 Thread Margery Allcock
Here are a couple of sites about Hitchin, North Herts, UK: http://www.e-hitchin.co.uk/ is the top-level site, and http://www.hitchin-circuit.co.uk/Hitchin-Images.html has loads of pictures. It's a nice small market town, and I like living here. I was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and you ca

[lace-chat] flag patterns (beaded pin badges/small cross-stitch)

2005-02-25 Thread Helen
Hi, I'm after patterns to make beaded pin badges of flags for a Guide activity day (see here for what I mean http://tinyurl.com/4qpsg ) What I'm after is anyone who either has patterns for these badges or small cross-stitch patterns which I could adapt so that the Guides can make badges of the