What a sad thing!
Do you ever use a thimble, Bjarne? I never found a metal one I could
stand, they made me so clumsy, and I usually wound up not using that
finger at all! But now I have two thimbles I use when hand-sewing
(quilting, making a multi-layered seam, attaching snaps, hooks, or
buttons, etc.) thick or stubborn fabric, and both have saved me a lot
of blood (I'm constantly pricking my fingers! With thin fabric I'm not
using a lot of force behind the needle, but the more stubborn the
fabric the worse the prick!). One is a leather thimble I got in a
quilting shop--it has a reinforced tip. The other is a ring thimble one
of my actresses gave me--the size of a finger-ring but with dimples to
stabilize the needle. Both are very helpful, and neither interferes
with feeling the cloth.
This is probably old news to you, but just thought I'd mention....Maybe
you can retrieve the ribbed silk project sometime.
--Ruth Anne Baumgartner
scholar gypsy and amateur costumer
On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:36 PM, Bjarne og Leif Drews wrote:
Hi,
Its ben a while since i last posted here. I had almost lost all my
good patience with a projekt i started.
It is such a lovely ribbed silk, but its so difficult to work with. I
think its the worst silk i have ever tryed. I had cut out the
forepart, and the back, the sleaves, and the cuffs.
I always starts to make the sleaves of a suit, as it is so easy going.
I had just finished both cuffs, and was sewing the buttons on to the
cuffs and sleaves, when i stuck my hands so badly and bleeded all over
on the inner cuff side for the left sleave. I tryed everything, spit
on it, and used earsticks with salt water, but the collour of the silk
is so fragile, that it wasnt going to be saved.
Then i thoaght, well thats what happens, and i started on the other
sleave. You wont believe, the same thing happened to this cuff.
I compleately lost my interrest in this, and gave up. The silk is
interlined with a calico cotton, and it was so hard to stick into,
that i often stuck myself.
In the end, i shouted out loud to myself, to h... w... i.
Then i rushed off to the fabric shop, and baught myself some lovely
oldfashioned silk taffeta. Thank god for that, i know how to work with
that. It ended up with a very opalescence shot green taffeta with
shades of very pale green. This is for jacket and breeches, and a
matching green in the same collour of the pale green, for waistcoat
and cuffs of the jacket. It is all going to be embroidered with silver
spangels and cut glass beads that looks like the old spangels made of
paste. I found these cut glass in excactly same greens as the
taffeta..............
As for the ribbed silk projekt, it is put away, and i have stabbed it
at the bottom...................................
I had hoped to go to an event at the Gustavians in august, but now i
am sure, i wont make it because i wanted to wear something new. I
guess reenacting is canselled this season...........
Bjarne
Leif og Bjarne Drews
www.my-drewscostumes.dk
http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph/
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