I use 110 pound card stock. I've had the pack for years, but I don't think
it's as thick as regular card stock, although I could be wrong. It's colored.
I don't pre-prick, either. A lot of times for classes I put the film on the
photocopy. I'm thinking the force needed to put the pin through my card stock
is not that much different than putting the pin through the film. In any
event, I've copied a Bucks edging to go all around my roller, which will do a
foot around. No film. My goal is 2 yards, maybe I'll get there before the
IOLI convention this summer, maybe not. But I'll have a good idea of how many
times this cardstock will go. I do think the time of pre pricking is over.
Times are very different, and prickings don't have to last a lifetime.
Photocopiers are wonderful. I photocopy onto green paper, assuming I'm using
white thread. No film needed, if one is only doing it once.
Fortunately, certainly at home we are not required to do as our teachers
insist. I have the glazed card specifically for prickings, and that certainly
has to be pre-pricked. I used it once, because that was what the teacher said
to do. But now I know how to do it, I can choose my own methods.
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where it's a really cold wet spring, with only
one nice day so far. There was snow on the ground this morning, now melted.
-----Original Message-----
>From: David C COLLYER <[email protected]>
>Sent: Apr 1, 2011 7:47 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [lace] Card versus photocopy paper
>
>Dear Friends,
>
> >Regardless of how many passes you're getting now, may I suggest you
>photocopy onto card stock?
>
>This suggestion has been put to me a number of times and so I'd
>better confront it. There are a number of reasons why Iwill never
>copy on to card stock and these include:
>
>- I could not stand to have to pre-prick
>
>- I get enough calluses and holes in my finger tips pushing thousands
>of pins through paper - let alone card.
>
>- when I decide to make a piece of lace, I want to do it right NOW,
>and my paper prickings covered in plastic can be ready to work in
>only a couple of minutes.
>
>- of all the hundreds of pieces of lace I've made, both large and
>small, I have never had the need
>
>- now that I've learned just how many times I can use a paper
>pricking before it disintegrates, I am still quite content. (I rarely
>make a piece twice anyway)
>
>That'll do for me
>David in Ballarat
>
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