Susan wrote: <how did you find plastic bobbins? > They came with my Dryad kit that I purchased from England. A very basic kit. The plastic bobbins were roughly made and caught on the thread until I smoothed them down. The plastic beads were not heavy enough to act as good weights. I was happy to replace them with basic wooden Midlands bobbins as soon as I found a vendor. At that time I thought I was the only person in the US trying to make bobbin lace.
<what size bead do you think would be best?> Not sure of the size, it is personally what you want. The ones I bought that were much too big were hand made expensive ones that would be heavy even in a necklace! <by the way what size pins do you use for size 50 thread? > In this area it is hard to buy proper lace making supplies so we tend to use silk pins. If you have covered your pricking with plastic, you probably should pre-prick each pinhole, but I am extremely lazy and only do that when I am working something like a point ground lace with so many pins so close together that it is hard to see the pinhole. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
