Oops! I'm sorry - I meant to post to Chat - please forgive me. I was
up until almost 3 this morning and then up at 8, and I'm exhausted.
Cheers,
Helen
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that I have enjoyed my first day of my
first ever Convention (and yes, I'm working hard on the Committee :-) ).
It's been so exciting to meet friends I only know by email. The first
person I met today was Pene Piip - a fellow Aussie, and we've had so
mu
From: Jane Partridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In the manufacturing process, is the resulting product wound
> immediatelyonto the small, 100m (etc) reels we buy, or is there an
> intermediatelarge cop (after all, most thread is produced for
> garment manufacturers
> who use much larger quantities -
On Jul 30, 2005, at 10:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacquie) wrote:
As I write this, I am wondering what Tamara and others were using to
draw their designs on the tulle (net?) for tambouring,
We were told to bring #5 pencil. WalMart has never heard of it and,
truth to tell, I heven't seen one since
This is getting more complicated than my small brain can absorb, but if I
understand your thrust --
You need to consider that (at least in hand spinning, I don't know about
commerically produced thread) that the fibers are spun one way, then plied
from the last end back again. And then wound into
In a message dated 7/30/05 1:17:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I visited Coggeshall, England in May, with a small group of lacemakers.
> (We're all veterans of the 'Four Star Lace Weekends'.) It's a beautiful
> little village and the museum has quite a bit of Cogges
I've just got around to uploading a batch of new threads onto Addendum
3 on my website. There are some Presencia threads (mostly Fincrochet,
perle and metalics) which Vivienne gave to me just before my holiday
but which I didn't get around to looking at before. Thanks Vivienne.
Whilst we wer
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>My take is that it is the way thread is twisted in the manufacturing process
>that matters. You want to thread it in a needle in the same direction as it
>comes off the manufacturer's spinning equipment. The tiny fiber ends will lay
>do
On 30 Jul 2005, at 18:42, Carolyn Hastings wrote:
My mother taught me fifty years ago to thread the needle from the end
that comes first off the spool, but in my experience it doesn't make
much
difference. (I've always wondered if it is a bit of an old wives tale
without much substance).
I t
Please ignore me :o) I was talking rubbish due to not having read enough
of the earlier emails and have actually upturned a pillow that got knocked
over with great success - although 16 pairs isn't that many, really.
Helen
At 19:18 30/07/2005, Helen wrote:
Using gravity doesn't work! I tried
Using gravity doesn't work! I tried it when some bobbins I was winding
tied themselves in knots. The bobbins spin and the spangles tangle up and
I think I actually made it worse :o)
Helen
At 15:49 30/07/2005, Carol Adkinson wrote:
Hi Tamara and Andy,
I also can sympathise!I can rememb
Hello,
Here's another viewpoint to think over:
It is really important to wind bobbins so that the thread is not pulled off
the top of the spool. You need to devise a method that will allow the spool
to turn as you remove the thread. Any other way will either add or subtract
twist, which will gi
Hi All --
I posted this earlier, or tried to, but it hasn't shown up, so I'm trying
againApologies if it turns out to be a double thread!!
In a message dated 7/30/2005 8:31:37 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dear Jeri,
Thank you for the information on needles, threadi
I visited Coggeshall, England in May, with a small group of lacemakers.
(We're all veterans of the 'Four Star Lace Weekends'.) It's a beautiful
little village and the museum has quite a bit of Coggeshall lace on
display, as does the National Trust property (Paycocke's) in the town.
The local
On Saturday, July 30, 2005, at 11:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Waxing the silk thread is also a normal thing to do for Goldwork
embroidery.
I learnt Goldwork at the Royal School of Needlework and we were taught
to wax (beeswax) our thread - cotton, polyester, or silk. I never
thought of
At 07:07 AM 7/30/2005, you wrote:
Although I don't think it's something we use much in lacemaking, I do know
that at least some of the 'disappearing' ink type pens (that quilters use to
draw the stitching lines on fabric), weaken the fibre and long term have left
damage on quilts.
In my sewing
In a message dated 7/30/2005 8:31:37 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Dear Jeri,
> Thank you for the information on needles, threading and sewing. I am not
> much of a sewer even though I had to take the subject in high school, and
> like
> Sue I don't remember learning
Hi Tamara and Andy,
I also can sympathise!I can remember one Lace Day several years ago when
one of our members had stopped the car quite suddenly, the pillow fell on
the floor of the car, and we all took a turn at untangling the threads.
And we didn't finish it either! One interesting thing
I remember a story
> David (Downunder) told us some years ago, about having his pillow
> dumped upside down (at a demo? I think it was), with a Bucks (if I
> remember a-right) pattern on it, and close to 100 pairs (and some of
> the threads broke too, all in the same place)...
I had something
Dear Jeri,
Thank you for the information on needles, threading and sewing. I am not much
of a sewer even though I had to take the subject in high school, and like Sue I
don't remember learning any tips on grain in thread or threading a needle for
that matter. It is wonderful to have someone mo
Waxing thread for sewing goes back a good many years - probably hundreds -and
was a standard *must do* for buttonholes, especially heavy 'tailored'
garments. They were done with linen, cotton or silk thread depending on
fashion and
fabric. I'm sure that if it caused the thread to rot away after e
In a message dated 7/30/05 3:38:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Just wondering - re inserting the cut-end of a thread into a needle, is
> that affected at all by Z vs S twist, or would that have already been taken
> into
> account by the manufacturers?
>
Dear Jen,
Oh, Jacquie.believe it or not, I have done that...and it *does* work.
Thankfully I have not had that problem for quite a while and had forgotten
about it.
I reminds me of those 'terrors' felt, the first time one has to "set up" a
piece of lace...after finishng a 'down'.
Oh the joys of bobb
I'm sure most of the experienced lacemakers on Arachne know this trick, but
we have lots of newer lacemakers now and I don't remember seeing this here
before.
If you have a major spill with your pillow, to the extent that bobbins are
caught up on the pins as distinct from *just* severely muddle
Dear Jeri and all wise spider-contributers,
The wonderful information that you contribute to Arachne is a treasure and very
much valued. Thank you all so much, please don't feel unappreciated. I save and
store the info useful to me, must admit my "wire" file is quite plump. As a
relative beginn
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