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Welcome. Please read all the NOTES. They explain our policies, the laces we include, and how the software works. Join any groups that interest you. Take some time to explore. If you have any questions, contact me and I'll try to help."
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Lorelei Halley
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BookReviews
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Venetian and Burano Lace
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The Lace Guild
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Guild of Needle Laces
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Needlelace Jewelry
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Needlelace Identificatio…
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Hollie Point
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Pag Needle Lace
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Threads
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Youghal and Kenmare need…
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Lorelei Halley's Discussions
ning maintenance
Ning has been doing some maintenance and some aspects of various sites are not working perfectly. What I have noticed for our site is that posting a comment has become very slow. You can type in your…Continue
Started Oct 5, 2017
Ning fee 2017
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It is that time of year again, and our annual hosting fee to ning is due July 20th, 2017. The current fee is $240. Please make donations to my Paypal account, in any amount that you can afford.…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Lorelei Halley Jul 21, 2017.
Ning fee
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I just found out today that ning is raising its annual hosting fee from $239.90 to $588. This won't be an issue for us until July 2017, because we just paid our fee in July. In June of next year we…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Lorelei Halley Jun 16, 2017.
Donations 2016
THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all our 17 wonderful donors. In a mere 24 hours we have collected enough money to pay our ning hosting fee. All done! Problem solved! THANK YOU.Continue
Started Jul 25, 2016
Welcome, Lorelei Terry Halley!
Latest Activity
Linda Moore commented on Lorelei Halley's group Puncetto" Correction to the Smithsonion book download link:
http://archive.org/details/directionsformak00rizz
Sorry for the error. This link should work. "
Linda Moore commented on Lorelei Halley's group Puncetto"Elizabeth, if you can't find the link I will try to post it here:
It is: http://archive.org/directionsformak00rizz"
Linda Moore commented on Lorelei Halley's group Puncetto" Elizabeth, the link to the Smithsonion book download can be found on the Puncetto Group page. The link is posted by Jeanine, and can be found just above the German language links. I clicked on it and it took me right to the…"
"I am interested in the instructions that are a free download from the Smithsonian website, -- but I cannot find where to go on that site. Is there a link, please, that I can click on - there does not seem to be anywhere on the page to ask,…"
Judy howard commented on Lorelei Halley's group Puncetto"Thanks Linda I'm going to need all the luck I can get. I'm self taught in pretty much everything but bobbin lace. I think I understand the basics of puncetto and I'm sure it's going to take a lot of practice. Your work is…"
Lorelei Halley commented on Lorelei Halley's group Puncetto"Here are the exact urls for Brona and Avital's blogs with puncetto instructions.
Brona has posted some diagrams for simple motifs on her blog:
http://sitakrajka.blogspot.com/ …"
Judy howard commented on Lorelei Halley's group Puncetto"Thank you Linda I'm certainly going to give it all a try"
Linda Moore commented on Lorelei Halley's group Puncetto"Hi, Judy. Welcome to the group. A few years ago I was a complete beginner like yourself. I searched everywhere for information in English. The only books I found are as follows.. Anchor Manual of Needlework , which has…"
Judy howard commented on Lorelei Halley's group Puncetto"Thank you for accepting me in your group. I'm trying desperately to find some books on puncetto. Can anyone help? Thank you"
Lorelei Halley left a comment for kathleen sielski"Kathleen
Welcome. Please read all the NOTES. They explain our policies, the laces we include, and how the software works. Join any groups that interest you. If you have any questions, contact me and I'll try to help."
"I have received my Last magazine, and it is so sad. I understand the UK Lace Guild has taken over some of their supplies and books, and will continue selling the Very good Beginners books. I hope they do more for the Craft, too.
Thank you,…"
Profile Information
- Your skill level
- intermediate
- What kind of needle lace do you make, and how long have you been making it?
- I only tried it out in the 1980s but did so badly I quit. I began again in 2010 with this group.
- What kind or kinds of needle lace do you want to learn?
- I will be happy just to make it neatly. Especially gros point and point de gaze. I also want to do my own contemporary designs.
- Tell us about your other lace related interests.
- I am an avid bobbin lacemaker and am interested in lace-like embroideries, especially pulled thread, Hardanger and other drawn thread embroideries. I am also interested in filet lacis and Teneriffe, altho I have not done any filet, and only tried out teneriffe. My laces are on my website, just a few pieces on flickr.
- Your website (you can leave this blank):
- http://lynxlace.com/
- Your blog (you can leave this blank):
- http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/profile/LoreleiTerryHalley
- Your work on photo sharing site flickr? picasa? photobucket? or similar? (you can leave this blank)
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorelei66eyecandy/
- Do you have a 2nd photo sharing site? (You can leave this blank.)
- http://picasaweb.google.com/home
- Website, blog or site where we can find your needlelace books, tutorials or videos. (You can leave this blank)
- http://lynxlace.com/mybookspatterns.html
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2018
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !
Our members have been quite during the last half of 2017. I hope we have more projects and experiments in mind for 2018. What would you all like to see us do?
Lorelei
Posted on December 31, 2017 at 9:26pm
Messages from the Administrator
Happy New Year, Everybody. May your threads never break.
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switching isp
Today I am switching to a different internet service provider. If t here are glitches I may go silent for some time, until it gets straightened out. Just so you know. The prospect freaks me out.
Posted on November 4, 2015 at 2:49pm — 2 Comments
Current situation
Our host for the year July 2010 through July 2011 has been settled, and I have received enough donations to pay our ning fee. Consequently, I have deleted the temporary groups that I set up earlier.
Posted on April 21, 2010 at 6:00pm — 9 Comments
Comment Wall (427 comments)
- At 7:32pm on January 12, 2018, Suzanne Renaud said…
Thank you Lorelei for your kind welcome. I am looking forward to exploring the site. Best Regards, Suzanne
- At 9:19pm on January 7, 2018,
Nell said… Thanks so much for your welcome Lorelei, I’m looking forward to exploring this lovely site.
- At 2:34am on December 22, 2017, Anna Putevskaya said…
Dear Lorelei,
Thank you very much!
- At 6:24am on December 16, 2017,
Carol said… - Thank you for the welcome.
- At 10:29pm on December 12, 2017, Victoria Sadoff said…
Thank you Lorelei - I'm looking through everything!
- At 9:58pm on November 19, 2017,
Lynette Hale said… Hi Lorelei,
I have just been on Paypal to deposit some cash for the Ning site. Would love to give more but only a small budget!
Lynette Hale.
- At 4:15am on October 17, 2017, Lesley Lyon said…
Dear Lorelei
Thank you so much! I look forward to exploring the wonders of needlelace. Best regards, Lesley
- At 9:45am on October 6, 2017,
Sammie Sparks said… Thank you so much for including me. I look forward to learning all about lace, especially pag. Anyone out there with tips, ideas, or free patterns, please send them my way. Once again thank you so much. Sammie
- At 5:50am on October 5, 2017,
Valerie Simms said… - Thank you for the add can you please tell me what sort of things I will need to buy to start the needle lace I have done a small bit of bobbing lace but the lady who was teaching stopped coming so I had to stop so I really would like to learn needle lace
- At 8:27pm on September 5, 2017,
JOY IVILL said… Thanks Lorelei
Joy Ivill
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