Jeri has made a request that more lurkers come out of the shadows and share what they know. An excellent suggestion, and just the push some of us needed!
I don't think I "know lace experts who keep secrets" but I do know people who haven't shared what they know - because they don't realize they know something worth sharing! At times I may fall into that category. Oh - and this is all without in any way considering myself an expert; I'm just me. For that reason, I'll share something I've figured out. How to make a white copy of a pricking when the only one you have is in blue, or green, or gray, or tan. Or some other color. You want to lengthen it, or widen it, or mark it, but photocopying isn't working satisfactorily, or you plan to use a color of thread that won't show up well against the colored pricking you have. So here's what I do. I lay the pricking I have over a white piece of paper, and prick it carefully. (Because the dark pricking already has pinholes in it, it takes extra care to be sure your white copy underneath has been fully pricked.) Then I lay the white pricking on a photocopier, and *cover it with a piece of black paper.* Photocopiers all have white lids; now when I press Copy, the black shows through my pinholes and I have a pricking. True, if there are other markings on the pattern, I have to add those (first in pencil, then I go over them in ink). But if the end result is a white clean pricking it's worth it to me. I have a scanner on my computer, and I save my new pricking to the computer, so that I will always be able to find it; and now I can print it onto any color of cardstock I want to. (Another benefit of scanning is that on my computer at least, I can print the pricking in a different size than the original if I need to.) Out of the lurking-shadows, Sally in western Oregon, where all the trees are rimed in frost this morning - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
