On Dec 28, 2007, at 6:30, Achim Siebert wrote:
I'll have to learn spangling - any tips for instructions?
My absolutely favourite method -- in the old days, when I still used
spangled Midlands -- was "the Winslow Way". I got a sheet of
instructions from them at the "Arachne '98" gathering in Nottingham, UK
but, apparently, the instructions are now available to everyone with an
Adobe Reader, as a pdf file :) It makes a spangle that's fairly tight
-- no flopping -- but not so tight that you can't fold it back onto the
bobbin shank if you want to make a sewing. No sharp ends to catch your
thread or to rip your fingers. And it's quick to make, even on the
first try.
http://www.winslowbobbins.com/
The problem with spangles, as others have mentioned, is that if you're
persnickety and like to match and/or contrast the bead colours with
your wood colours, you can spend a bomb on the beads alone, since
you'll need about 5 times as many beeds -- to choose from - as you'll
ever put on your spangles :)
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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