"Patricia Ann Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I used to make lace outside quite a bit. It is necessary to have your pillow >out of the sun. It dries out your thread!
I guess that depends on where you live. Where I live in Michigan, we often have steamy, humid weather in the summer, with relative humidity from 70 to 100 percent even when it's not raining. This morning, for example, the humidity was 100 percent for three straight hours. The "low" in humidity today was 64.5 percent, and that was with the sun shining! (* see footnote) In these conditions, I find linen thread is harder to work with indoors, with the air conditioner drying out the air, than it is for me outdoors in the summer. I don't do bobbin lace, but I have taken a dressed floor loom with a linen warp and done weaving demonstrations outdoors. When I want to weave linen, I usually save the project for the humid summer months. I have even had a linen warp sag in the humidity. And when I use the loom at home, I shut it up in its own room, away from the air conditioner, so I could finish the warp in damp conditions. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com *footnote: These figures are from the weather station at Trevor Nichols Research Farm, Fennville, Michigan, USA http://www.agweather.geo.msu.edu/Automated-Data/fennville.hourly - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
