[lace] modesty panel
I have been hand sewing a small piece of lace to some cotton fabric and getting it ready to put into the neckline of a top. I was wondering if it might look like something just put there rather than blend as nicely as I wanted it to, but looking at it pinned into place I am really quite pleased that it will look as if it was meant to be part of the garment:-) I am wondering about the most secure but unobtrusive way to hand sew it onto this knitted cotton jersey type material but will definatly have to be careful of my tension. I am very bad at sewing things too tight. My buttons are always sewn on tight enough to still be in place after the garment has fallen to bits, but I really want this to look right. I feel that I need to sew under the bound edge and then can maybe gently catch the top edges of the binding and secure that through the modesty panel as well. Any suggestions very welcome. I am about to post a picture into my Arachne photo album, so it can be viewed to help explain what I mean. Sue T Dorset UK www.hurwitzend.co.uk - 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
Re: [lace] modesty panel
Hi Sue and spiders, Do you want to use this modesty panel for this top only? What about washing? I would rather make two -strong- loops with buttons at the top at either end so that I could fasten that around my bra straps. That way it can be washed separately and can be used under other garments as well. Looking forward to seeing a picture of it. Happy lace making, Joepie, East Sussex, UK On May 8, 2012, at 5:23 AM, Sue wrote: I am wondering about the most secure but unobtrusive way to hand sew it onto this knitted cotton jersey type material but will definatly have to be careful of my tension. I am very bad at sewing things too tight - 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] modesty panel
Another option, aside from buttons, is little plastic snaps. In yard goods stores you can find little transparent snaps. They are about 1/4 in in diameter, transparent and colorless. So they virtually disappear. But they would hold a modesty panel quite well with much less bulk than a button. Lorelei - 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-chat] why females should not go out after they are married ....
Why females should avoid a girls night out after they are married If this does not make you laugh out loud, you have lost your sense of humour. The other night I was invited out for a night with the 'girls.' I told my husband that I would be home by midnight, 'I promise!' Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easily. Around 3 a..m., a bit loaded, I headed for home. Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up and cuckooed 3 times. Quickly, realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another 9 times. I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with him. (Even when totally smashed 3 cuckoos plus 9 cuckoos totals = 12 cuckoos MIDNIGHT!) The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in, I told him 'MIDNIGHT'... he didn't seem pissed off in the least. Whew, I got away with that one! Then he said 'We need a new cuckoo clock.' When I asked him why, he said, 'Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said 'oh shit.' Cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted. Agnes Boddington Elloughton UK Just back from a weekend course making Bedfordshire lace with Christine Springett. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Weird Characters: was: Fw: Handkerchief fabric (moved from Lace)
On 4/19/12 6:39 PM, Lyn Bailey wrote: Sorry, all, evidently the filters take all apostrophes and quotation marks and do weird things to them. Here it is without such marks. Please let me know if there is also a problem with question marks. I will try to do better. Weird characters are usually the result of reading text written with one standard with a reader set for a different standard. (Happens most often when something is pasted into a document that tells readers it's a different standard from the pasted-in stuff, but lots of writing programs default to a standard that very few reading programs can handle. Some use a proprietary standard that only that particular program can read.) Most standards in current use include plain old seven-bit ASCII -- which doesn't even have all the characters you need to write the American English it was created for, but there are work-arounds: ue for u-umlaut, co-operate for cooperate, and so forth. (The latter work-around took over when nineteenth-century typists got tired of hand-drawing the two little dots, and is now standard even in media where the old spelling would be easier.) But it can be hard to persuade a reads mail, reads news, browses, and cleans the kitchen sink program to write in ASCII, and even plain text is apt to be written in some private code. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
