Top posting because I didn't snip:
When I mentioned old machine needles in my pincushion post,
I left out a few details.
I store old machine needles in the cone, not the thread. A
paper-mache' cone of cheap, weak thread hangs point-down in
the window, and the base of it is beat-up enough to be soft
and a good place to stick coarse needles.
And yes, I know what the sun is doing to the thread. All my
good threads are in dark drawers or the boxes that they came in.
--
Joy Beeson
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
On 1/12/17 1:46 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Someone, please share this from another ISP, since we've
been told AOL and Comcast do not play well together!
1. Color theory taught by embroidery and photography
experts includes an explanation of what happens when a
black and white photo is made of something that relies on
color for impact. Colors of the same value will not
show details that may be important to a design. This
effect is apparent if you just put red and green of the
same value next to each other (as Joy mentions), walk
across the room, and squint at them. An understanding
of this is of importance to anyone who is making colored
lace. If your lace work is going to be photographed,
you should understand colors, and visually test them
side-by-side before you even begin a project.
Americans who belong to IOLI can better understand this
by propping up the newest bulletin (Fall 2016, Vol. 37,
Number 1), with Janet Blair's lace peacock, and stepping
back to view it. She has used 3 blues for the body, and
used one of those blues as spots on the green tail. You
can see how important the yellow outlining blue spots is.
Imagine if this lovely lace was meant to be photographed
in black and white!
2. Conservation warning to anyone who is using a spool
of thread as a make-shift pin cushion.
A long time ago, I wrote to Arachne about sticking
needles in a spool of thread, in response to a magazine
photograph many lacemakers might have seen. This damages
thread throughout a spool or cone enough that thread may
break or be weakened throughout layers wherever it has
been pierced. This is a habit that can get away from
you - perhaps putting needles or pins in thread that will
be used at some future time to make lace or sew a seam.
The weak spots will be the first to "self destruct", and
none of us like to repair lace or re-sew seams. (You
may use this cautionary tip in your guild newsletters.)
Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource
Center
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In a message dated 1/11/2017 6:31:52 P.M. Eastern
Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
...Even on a green curtain, red isn't as conspicuous a
color as people think....one has to know it's there to
see it at all, and then it's only a vague smudge. This
has a single sewing machine needle stuck in it, so I
think it was intended to store spent machine needles,
but....I stick those into my cone of basting thread.
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