Jane,
Thank you for this very useful information. Unfortunately we don't have
anything like this near me (although last week we were near the very place
that I may have got it:-(
I bought some silver elastic to try to see what that looked like, but wasn't
terribly impressed. I suppose if I had cut it to size and then put flower
motif or decoration it might have looked fine. Mind you being very new to
lacemaking when I made it, I short changed the length and stopped at just
about 28 inches or so. If I had done a metre of lace there would be lots of
gather to disguise the elastic, so maybe I will try again.
I knew I would get some great advice from here:-) thank you very much.
Sue T, Dorset UK
I would like to ask you and any of the ladies how they manage with your
style, threading ribbon and elastic through. Not that bit, but the trial
I
did once just couldn't get the ribbon to work and look as I wanted it to
when gathered to the right amount of gathered tension, hense the reason
for
trying the other way. Any any advice or comments would be welcome on
this.
At one of the shows I was demonstrating at last year, one of the other
traders had some cards of fancy elastic - it is embroidered with a shiny
white thread and looks very pretty, and the elastic itself is the soft
"bra strap" type. She didn't want a huge amount for the two cards I
bought, either! I can't say I've seen anything like this in the usual
shop haberdashery departments, but I would expect to find it possibly on
a market stall or Asian textile shop, if you have any nearby? Might be
worth looking for, anyway. The advantage is that it looks pretty enough
not to need ribbon as well, and the embroidery stretches with the
elastic.
When measuring for the amount of elastic to use, I take the (standing)
thigh measurement, less an inch, then overlap by 1/4 to 1/2 inch when
stitching the ends together. Mostly this depends on the amount of
stretch in the elastic. Nerves and heel height also have an effect on
the final leg measurement!
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Jane Partridge
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