Hello All! I survived the EGA seminar/50th year celebration & lived to tell the tale!! If you are in/near Louisville, KY--do stop by the EGA headquarters on Jefferson St. The 19th annual exhibit is on & there is a nice piece of contemporary needlelace on a metal armature near the front. Thanks Jeri, Chris Berry was charming & witty--I thoroughly enjoyed her Tudor embroidery class. She will be teaching at the next seminar to be held in Pittsburgh next year. The 4-day class will cover the same time period, with each day devoted to a different technique: blackwork, pulled thread, colored silk & metal thread. BTW--She also introduced some interesting hand-dyed thread by Stef Francis. Has anyone used this stuff for lace & are you happy with the results?? I also met some lovely gals from the Umbria region of Italy who were demonstrating various embroidery techniques & selling majolica bobbins from Deruta. There will be some sort of lace/embroidery fair in Parma in May. In catching up on a week's worth of postings--Finca thread is available in the US at The Lacemaker, Cortland, OH. More thanks to Jeri--I always worked x-stitch over 1 to get that petit point look because I can't stand that bunched up look you get over 2. (Did I mention that I'm not fond of x-stitch!?!) Well duh--that's why--but hey--who's got time to fiddle with a laying tool for such a soporific technique? As to mixing threads, anyone who has stitched with/cussed at Kreinik blending filament will agree--BUT--sometimes I've gotten some lovely shading by mixing threads in the needle. I've only tried this with cotton & have not yet done this with lace--but I do wonder whether 2 low-twist threads could be twisted together, a la the Japanese method of twisting flat silk?? They also twist high-twist silks together at the JEC but the result is quite squirrelly & intended for couching. I gave a spool of high-twist to a friend who used it for gimp & she's still speaking to me so I assume it was do-able! Susan
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