Where possible I still take the photocopy, rub it all over with bee's wax and then prick through onto heavy duty card (I like envelope files because they seem to be quite robust and are glazed card). Then I draw on the pricking details using a fine permenant marker (0.1mm); I used to use a Roting pen but they are far too high maintainence. I view making the pricking as a way to study the pattern before I start to make it. Often drawing on the markings helps to make the pattern easier to understand. Occasionally, for unusual or complicated patterns I will photocopy then stick the copy onto the cardstock and cover the whole with sticky backed plastic. I have used both blue plastic and clear - when I use the clear I photocopy the pattern onto blue paper. The patterns I've had to use a photocopy and plastic for have been recent where only a partial pricking is given and you are supposed to copy it 3 or 4 times and then stick it all together and re-copy. I spent a very unhappy Sunday with one such pricking and in the end still didn't have a version that I could prick through - I had to use the photocopy and plastic method. I didn't preprick the pricking and just put it on the pillow and went for it - not doing that again as every finger hurt from pushing through the pins. However, that pricking has been used twice and has stood up to the usage. I recently started a pattern by Biggins which takes c. 70 pairs of bobbins. It's 10" long and 7" wide so I took one look and stuck it to card and covered it. I then spent 4 evenings pricking it before making it. Good idea. L
Kind Regards Liz Baker [email protected] My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ --- On Fri, 1/4/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [lace] Card versus photocopy paper To: "David C COLLYER" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Friday, 1 April, 2011, 21:36 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. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
