I've completed a Hollie Point needlelace exercise! Great, right? On to the
third exercise! Except, suddenly I feel disenchanted with my thread. It's
Tanne 50, a cotton thread. Should I try a different thread? I guess threads
are either cotton, linen, or silk. Or any of those types right
I am so sorry, spiders. Two weeks ago I posted and said I was just about to
wash and block my newly completed Torchon silk scarf. This turned out to be
lies. I did finish my scarf but it has not been washed or blocked. After I
took it off of the pins, I looked at it and it looked ok and all my
Hi all
I am about to start the last repeat of a red and pink silk Torchon scarf (from
Brigette Beldon's book). I bought a package of "Knitter's Pride Blocking
Mats", which are like blocks of soft styrofoam. When I finish the scarf
(tonight??) I plan to submerge the scarf in warm water mixed with a
I'd like to make a lace scarf because why not? I've never made a lace scarf
before. I'm using a design, design 11, from Brigitte Bellon's Kloppelmuster
fur Schals und Tischlaufer. Bellon's scarves are not worked by starting at the
top and working down in one long vertical strip. Instead,
I'd like to make a lace scarf because why not? I've never made a lace scarf
before. I'm using a design from Brigitte Bellon's Kloppelmuster fur Schals und
Tischlaufer
Last Saturday morning I decided to devote the weekend to prep work--making a
pricking and winding bobbins. The day before I had
I would like to make a silk scarf because why not? I've never made a scarf. I
have a design and I have silk yarn. However, I don't know how much to
enlarge/reduce the pricking so as to fit the yarn. I have made teeny samples
of various sizes but I don't know what to look for. What? What
Hi Spiders
My background is Torchon and Bucks Point and now I am trying to do the
first exercise in the Mechlin book Rita Thienpondt's Syllabus Mechelse Kant
I.
Thank you for answering my questions about terminology last week; it was very
helpful and motivating.
I am not having any
Hi Spiders
I just bought a How to Make Mechlin Book. It is Rita Thienpondt's
Syllabus Mechelse Kant I. It looks like fun. Right now it is fairly
impenetrable, but I think I'll be fine once I assay a few exercises.
To make it more fun for me, could someone explain some of the terminology
Surely my family is not the only one who says Lead on, MacDuff instead of
Carry On, MacDuff.
Since lead on sounds so much like lay on I always figured that the
phrase came from the Shakespeare play MacBeth, even though the meaning was
different.
In our family, the meaning was similar to
Hi Tamara
Did you remember to leave out a bowl of milk?
Maybe you could try putting the bowl of milk near your lace pillow? As a
sort of hint as to what the desired behavior is?
And, it turns out that the pesky question - *why*, after a whole repeat
which went smoothly with pairs just
Hi Spiders
Some months ago I for the first time started a lace piece that had
recognizable pictures instead of just abstract figures. The novelty has now
worn off,
but for the longest time whenever I sat down in front of my pillow I was
inescapably reminded of the fairy tale of the little
Hi Spiders. I thought I would take a break from the slow progress on my
Chantilly fan and make a post.
When adding in a pair of bobbins at the gimp in point ground lace
(Chantilly, Bucks Point), should I add in a pair of bobbins or 2 single
bobbins? Does
it matter?
A pair of bobbins
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In a message dated 8/19/2004 3:33:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Tamara Duvall
writes:
she's been tackling - for several months and unfrustrated - a Chantilly fan,
then she
Thank you Spiders for your overwhelming and prompt reply to my request for
copies of two pages from Ulrike Lohr's Hausdragon box of patterns. An
important request to me because I am now deep in the middle of making the pattern and
I think the pages will be helpful.
It turns out that I was
I have a favor to ask.
Could some obliging American spider who has a copy of Ulrike Lohr's
Hausdragon box of patterns go photocopy the first page of pattern #12, a black fan
with 2 bird heads and two dog-like heads, and mail it to me? Email me for my
address. I can pay, although I'm
I am working on a Chantilly fan and I am thinking about pins. None of my
lace books talk about this subject.
I have three boxes of pins:
38 x .40 mm long and thin
30 x .50 mm -- my usual --
17 x .45 mm short and thin
Recall that Chantilly is a you can never have too
A couple of weeks ago I sent a post saying that I had a point ground (Bucks
Point, Chantilly, whatever) pattern that was too big to fit on one piece of
pricking. I was delayed in starting this project, but now here is a follow-up
post.
You spiders were great! Your replies were just what I
I want to make a piece of Point Ground (Bucks Point, Chantilly, whatever)
but
the pricking is too big to fit on one piece of cardstock. What should I do?
Be
very specific.
It seems to me that I've heard people talk about putting a pricking on two
pieces that
fit together, but I don't
And my lace content: I'm struggling to finish pricking a wide floral Bucks
handkerchief edging - I'm coming down the fourth side now. It'll be a
relief
to start working it, after all this pricking!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
I wish I could make floral Bucks. I've been ages
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