I mostly prick my patterns out onto proper pricking card but occasionally
that all seems like too much hard work and I will then use a photocopy, it
depends on what I am intending to make and the use the finished article will
be put to.
I cannot readily buy blue film here so have to make do with clear
transparent sticky backed film sold for covering school books in the
stationery shops. But I can only get the shiny stuff, no matt finish film
is available.
I get the copy of the pattern made onto coloured paper or very thin card,
usually mid blue colour or dark orange works well, but not all card is
suitable for photocopy machines. I then cover the paper copy with the shiny
clear film trimming the edges to match the edges of the paper. I then take
one of those green fibre pot scourers, (Scotch Brite), and gently rub that
over the surface of the film to remove the shine and give a matt finish.
It works perfectly and is a cheap alternative to having to order the blue
matt film from another EU country adding on the P&P to the cost of the film
and waiting a week or more for it to arrive.
Something else that the lacemakers here use. Is that they put a piece of
plastic foam, the type that is used from camping mattresses under a sleeping
bag on the ground, cut into suitable sizes and placed under the pricking on
the pillow to facilitate moving the pattern up the pillow without the need
to remove pins.
Some lacemakers I have seen using a piece of carpet felt, the type that is
made of what looks like woolly fibres rather than the puffy bubbly rubbery
type more commonly used under carpets in some places. Some ladies have made
a kind of cushion cover for their piece of carpet felt in pretty fabric as
the felt is rather ugly.
Regards
Jenny DeAngelis.
Spain.
-
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
