[lace-chat] secret pal, thank you!

2005-08-22 Thread Whitham
Dear Secret Pal in Belgium Thank you so very much for the lovely package. It was here when I got home from work. The mail must have been really late today as I left for work at 3 p.m. I will wind the bobbins for a mini class on Saturday, so I will put them to use right away. They made a nice noi

Re: [lace-chat] Lace materials

2005-08-22 Thread susan
i just suggested that they carry books on the subject of bobbinlace. i don't really know enough about the books to suggest one, but i agree i surely woulnd't suggest the amy dawson book. that is the one i used from the library to learn from, and the library conveniently got rid of it. i am sure

[lace-chat] knitting needle bag to hold wound bobbins

2005-08-22 Thread susan
i have been staying at my grandmother's house on and off to help my uncle take care of her, and i have been winding my bobbins during the time i stayed. when i would get 2 pair wound i would take my cover cloth, lay it out flat, and then roll one pair at each end of the cloth spread out so they wo

[lace-chat] August Secret pal packages

2005-08-22 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Dear Secret Pals Apart from one person who has let me know that she would be a bit late sending out her August package, all of the August exchanges should have been sent and received by now, and thank-you messages posted to Lace-chat (or to me to forward) Currently there are SIX of you who h

[lace-chat] More on Embleton, Durham

2005-08-22 Thread David Collyer
Dear Friends, Since my last email, I have found that Embleton in Dyrham was a "chapelry" in the Parish of Sedgefield. So can anyone tell me what the main industry was in Sedgefield in the mid 1700s? Thanks David in Ballarat -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Vi

[lace-chat] Language

2005-08-22 Thread Jean Nathan
The BBC is having a week on language - accents, the way it changes etc. In the run-up to it they've already said that language, and out attitudes to it is different at different ages. They've already said that there's a dumbing down of "upper class" accents and a 'dumbing up' of "working class"