[lace] Choosing a gimp
Lacers, I picked up some Pipers Floss Silk (90) in a color pack, and now I am wondering what to do with it. I'd like to try some Bucks Points patterns that I have, but I don't know how to select a proper gimp for this. Is it ok to use a cotton thread like Pearl Cotton as a gimp in silk, or should I try to keep everything the same type of fiber? I am also worried about color matching. Can I use a plait of the same threads instead of finding another thread entierly? Katelyn Schreyer krschre...@gmail.com - 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] lace photos - what is it?
I do notice that Spanish lacemakers tend to use a completly different sort of pillow - a sort of very large half-bolster. Has anyone use one of these? What do you think? I also noticed in several of the pictures the patterns had a website address on them: http://www.patronsroka.com/index.php?cPath=81 Patterns and pillows and fansticks! Katelyn Schreyer krschre...@gmail.com On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM, lacel...@frontier.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.com Here are 2 albums of a lace day at Arenys: https://picasaweb.google.com/110476155563856600497/DiadaDeArenys?feat=content _notification# https://picasaweb.google.com/110476155563856600497/EscaparatesDeArenys?feat=c ontent_notification# - 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] Pillow stands
Hello everyone, I am wondering what everyone is using as a pillow stand for a cookie pillow. Do you have a freestanding prop only used for your pillow, or do you make all your lace with the pillow propped up on the kitchen table? If you have a prop for use on a table, did you make it or buy it? At my apartment we were really wanting for space, so my pillow rested on my lap when in use, and I would roll up a t-shirt under the pillow to give it a little slant. Now that we are in a house I suddenly have much more space, and could set up on a small table or get a full stand. What do you reccomend? Katelyn Schreyer krschre...@gmail.com - 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] Pronounciation of lacis
LAY-sis appears to be how just about every English-speaker (UK or US) who hasn't heard the term would guess to pronounce it. The pitfall here is that the word is French in origin, so it's probably pronounced lah-SI, as the english lacy, but the first vowel being more open, and stress on the second syllable. Of course, there's always the chance that the word has been fully Anglicized and is pronounced properly in English as LAY-sis, as but it seems an obsure enough word that lexicalization is unlikely. I haven't heard anyone say the term with any authority before, so I can't say for sure one way or the other. After all, I did think picot was pie-cot instead of pee-coh until I met some other lacemakers face to face. Katelyn Schreyer krschre...@gmail.com On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:18 AM, lynrbai...@desupernet.net wrote: Thus my vote is for Margery's pronunciation. lay'-sis - 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] Picots - so hard to change
I had been doing 3t pin 3t, as described in the book I have been learning from, with little success. The two threads always popped apart when I took the pin out. Another, much older, book it suggested 6t pin, which worked a lot better. Based on this discussion, I will start giving 7t a try. Picots are one of the challenges I am struggling with as a beginner. Katelyn Schreyer Washingon DC - 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
Re: [lace] circlular grids and threads
Sue, I measure along a row of pins in the middle instead of the footside row. That way the inner edge will be a bit compressed, and the outer edge will be a bit widely spaced, but neither will be so far from true that it will cause problems. Katelyn Schreyer krschre...@gmail.com Is there a similar way to decide and choose grid or thread sizes for circular lace? Sue T - 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
Re: [lace] Skype lace classes
Skype is a great idea, although there are some difficulties that come with online teaching. Firstly, in any class larger than 5 or so students, it becomes necessary to mute everyone but the teacher due to background noise, similar to a conference call. Once everyone is muted, it is incredibly awkward to deliver a lesson; it feels like you are talking to yourself. You must plan breaks to unmute everyone for QA periodically, but in between those segments you have absolutly no feedback. Am I going too fast? Too slow? Are they bored? Completely lost? It definitely takes getting used to. Secondly, students in an online course will ask fewer questions. I'm not sure why, but the same group of adult students, learning on the same topic, will be more active and inquisitive in a personal setting than an online one. Don't take a lack of questions personally, and offer to take students in one-on-one calls after the class. I think perhaps they are more nervous about asking a stupid question in front of others when they have no body language cues to see that everyone else is confused too. Alternatively, lessons can be pre-recorded and thrown onto YouTube, for anyone to peruse at will. These must be edited, speeding past or skipping the repetitive parts. In a normal class, you may repeat a concept several times. In a video, people can simply pause the video to think, or watch it again. It's far better to go too fast than too slow in a pre-recorded video. Skype, Google Hangouts, and YouTube are free, and all you need is a $30 webcam. It may be difficult to position the webcam so that the pillow and bobbins can be seen clearly, and you'll want to work with a very thick thread like Pearl Cotton 3 or 5, in order for it to be visible. -- Katelyn Schreyer krschre...@gmail.com - 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
Re: [lace] future of lacemaking/Steampunk
Lord Hastings Bobbins does several events, one of which is TeslaCon in November (sold out, I'm afraid). However, as a presenter at TeslaCon, I've gotten a steak peek at the schedule of events, and it includes an area set aside as a Knitting Parlor (after the ladies of TeslaCon appropriated one by force in the hotel lobby last year), a panel on Steampunk Embroidery, and an class on Bustlemaking. Steampunk is often described as Victorian Science Fiction. But one of the most important parts of Steampunk is the idea that things should be beautiful in the way that modern manufactured products are not. Why build a time machine if you can't put polished wood panelling and bronze filigrees all over it? Why make a death ray if you can't etch scrollwork and inlay mother of pearl into the handle? And And yes, I will be presenting at TeslaCon on lacemaking. For those of you who are interested, here are some pictures of what I have been working on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68691357@N07/ Katelyn Schreyer krschre...@gmail.com On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:39 PM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: Good Lord. Why are we demonstrating at State Fairs when we should be demonstrating at Steampunk events? We just missed Steampunk Week, a total immersion week planned by, I kid you not, Lord Hastings R. Bobbins! I am going out of my mind! Devon - 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 - 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
Re: [lace] Need and Want, was Demise of suppliers
As a 20-something, I frequently see people in my age group knitting. However, they're not knitting sweaters or stockings, they're knitting plush dolls inspired by video games and TV shows. If you see a 19 year old knitting a orange and yellow hat, she is not just making a new hat for the winter, she is making a Jayne Hat as inspired by a character in the sci-fi western TV show Firefly. Several other knit projects I see *frequently* are stuffed animal style Metriods, from the classic 80s video game of the same name, and SackBoy dolls, as inspired by the more recent Little Big Planet. In my own experience with bobbin lace, I have started to make lace gears, which I aim to assemble in a Honiton fashion to create clockwork-inspired edgings or fan leaves for a Steampunk costume. Lacemaking, for me, and knitting for my peers, is about creating art relevant to my other interests. Hanky edgings and doilies are as much of interest to me as a pair of plain stockings are to a young knitter: beyond the learning phase, absolutely none. To appeal to a younger demographic, emphasize butterflies and angels. Once one has the skills to design and make a butterfly, they can then go on to create pretty much anything. On that note, teach design along with the lacemaking itself. No young person I know would be satisfied just knowing how to follow existing patterns, or recreating old lace. Teach what's needed to modify, combine, and create new patterns, and we will. -Katelyn Schreyer On Oct 14, 2011, at 10:24 AM, lynrbai...@desupernet.net lynrbai...@desupernet.net wrote: Dear Jean, Sue, et al, I must side more with Sue on this. Lace is, in general, superfluous. (Won't that get a lot of responses!) You can't put it on to make you warm, alone it doesn't cover your nakedness, You can't use it to dry things, or use it to cook, or in the garden, or eat it, unless you make it to sell, and then feed yourself, and who does that in these times? It does, however, engage the mind, creates things of beauty, satisfies the soul, create intellectual inquiry, and helps find friends with a mind like your own. As a group, lacemakers are a highly, highly intelligent bunch, although I say it as shouldn't. The only place where Jean's idea actually works, in my opinion, is in thread, if you work only in white. One spool of Egyptian 60 lasts a long, long time. I have a pound of Fawcett linen 40/2 that I bought in the '80's, and it appears almost full, although I have used it a lot. Suppliers carry things for lacemakers because they can be useful. Those plastic things that can be used for coasters, with a place for a scrap of lace can spur one on. I need a use for my lace, and that can be hard to find. Books, now there's my downfall, especially egregious since lace books usually are not cheap, and go from there to incredibly pricey. And you can't say, well, I can get it out from the library, or borrow it from my friend. Perhaps I should look into the lending capacities of my local group, or IOLI, but I am an information and book junkie, and need such things on my own shelves. I reread. That and fabric is where I am a true packrat. A savvy supplier angles things so the teacher also has a new book, and also carries all the other books of that author/teacher. I know such a situation increases sales to me. A savvy supplier also keeps an eye out for things from other disciplines that can be useful to the lace maker. I wonder if there is a way to parlay the current revival in knitting to recruit new lace makers? Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where it's still cool, 66F, 17C, grey, damp, raining. A good day to sit, eat chocolate, and make lace. -Original Message- From: Sue Duckles s...@duckles.me.uk Sent: Oct 14, 2011 7:25 AM To: Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk Cc: Lace lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] Demise of suppliers Haha Jean I love the bit about the only thing you need... Reminds me of the start of my daughters shoe fetish 3 years old and saw red leather fur lined boots in a local shop. The conversation went along the lines of I want those boots... I want never gets... says I. madam waited till Grandma came Can we go to shops Grandma?, of course Grandma says yes... Madam shows Grandma the boots Grandma I NEED those boots to keep my toes nice and warm, guess who bought the boots (BTW, Kyra is now 25 and owns around 200 pairs of boots or shoes...) Now are you sure you got the Need and Want the right way round??? Sue in East Yorks On 14 Oct 2011, at 08:07, Jean Nathan wrote: One of the problems is that once you've got your basic pillow, sufficient bobbins and (usually too many) books (for you to complete everything in it you want to), really the only thing you NEED is thread. And that won't keep a supplier in business. They rely, not only on newbies, but those of us who already have the basic supplies WANTING extra pillows
