RE: [lace] Re: lace making helpers

[Dona B.]

Jo, what a great idea your scrapbook spine is.  I will no longer throw those
away when my daughter is finished with her books at the end of this school
year.
Clay, thanks for starting this thread.  I've learned a lot.
I'm watching my latest piece of Flanders sit idle as we've been entertaining
and traveling too much lately for lacework.  Perhaps it's time to pull out a
traveling pillow and work on some small yardage...
Dona in Maisieres Belgium


... and scrapbook spines to keep the bobbins in a row on a bolster.
Demonstrated  at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/hang-EN.html

Jo

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RE: [lace] Re: lace pricking - proceeds to charity

[Dona B.]

What a great idea, Sue!  I watch my weaving friends do this for making
placemats and napkins but never thought about it for lace.
Thanks,
Dona

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Subject: Re: [lace] Re: lace pricking - proceeds to charity


I usually plait between sections where I am going to cut the lace. I make
the lace long enough to work into the seams of the pillowcase (allowing for
shrinkage) and then plait down for an inch or two before starting the next
piece of lace. It saves re-winding and is psychologically less stressful to
cut the plaits!
Sue
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From: "Jeanette Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> pillowcases as birthday gifts for my daughter and DIL. I had decided to
> make
> a continuous strip of lace and cut it to fit the pillowcase as the edges
> of
> the lace will be caught in the side seam of the pillowcase.  Now that it
> is
> finished, I am going to need a lot of courage to cut it!  The alternative
> was to wind bobbins between each short strip and that is not an option
> either!!
> Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.

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RE: [lace] Re: lacemaking helpers

[J. Falkink]

I use drinking straws to protect the thread on the bobbins, and scrapbook
spines to keep the bobbins in a row on a bolster. Demonstrated  at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/hang-EN.html

Jo

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[lace] handy helper tool

[Jane O'Connor]

HI,
   
  A while back our guild made pillow cleaners out of netting. Take about 6 
inches wide of a length about one yard, fold it in half lengthwise and roll it 
tightly. Secure the roll about 3/4 inch from the folded side with a ribbon, 
string or even a rubber band but remember rubber bands break easily. You use 
the cut side as a brush  to clear away the little bits of fuzz or whatever from 
your pillow. Light weight and rather inexpensive. A good little gift too.
   
  Jane O'Connor
  New Lenox, IL
  Currently about 6 degree F, going to zero or below tonight.

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[lace] Lace In Mechelen

[Faye Owers]

Hi Lacemakers,

Would any of the members from Belgium know of any lace in the towns of
Mechelen and Leuven that I can visit while I am overseas in June?

I have been to Antwerp, Gent, Brussels and Brugge but would like to visit
Mechelen and Leuven as they look lovely towns and it would be a real bonus
if they had lace.

Thank you for you help

Faye


Faye Owers
Tasmania
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RE: [lace] helpful tool

[Clive & Betty Rice]

Lorri and All

Actually, that is what I went in and asked for after it was mentioned on
Arachne long ago.  Radio Shack has the nicest young men working at our shop
and one of them took me directly to the wall hanging with all sorts of small
packages and picked what I wanted off the wall!  There are two in the
package; one red, one black.  

I'll check tomorrow to see exactly what they are called; I could not find it
on the Radio Shack web site.

Happy Lacemaking,
Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA
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From: Lorri Ferguson
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:48 PM

(snip) would like to know just what I am looking for when I go in and ask
for 'a little thingie to attach to' my broken thread.

Lorri

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Re: [lace] Lacemakers Helpers - foam layer

[bevw]

Hi everyone and Jenny

Now this is an excellent idea, for those working long edgings on a cookie
pillow - what a savings in 'moving-up' time!

If all my pillows have projects on them and I need another to make a quick
sample, I put a couple of layers of craft foam on a thick towel and pin
foam, towel and all, over a cookie pillow with work in progress, with the
pins of the lace in progress pushed in.

I have made cookie pillows from  foam bedroll for camping, with a round of
plywood for the base, cut decreasing circles of the foam, starting with the
largest that would be about an inch over the perimeter of the plywood (to
allow for the eventual dome shape). Pile them smallest to largest, and take
a square of sturdy cotton fabric for the pillow cover, staple it firmly to
the plywood on the bottom. Adjust and embellish as desired :)

On Feb 18, 2008 8:05 AM, Jenny De Angelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Something else that the lacemakers here use.  Is that they put a piece of
> plastic foam, the type that is used from camping mattresses under a
> sleeping
> bag on the ground, cut into suitable sizes and placed under the pricking
> on
> the pillow to facilitate moving the pattern up the pillow without the need
> to remove pins.
>


-- 
Bev  (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)

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[lace] swinging young lacemakers

[Elizabeth Ligeti]

Anneke, What a Great video! :))
Best wishes to both young lacemakers from Australia.

Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz.
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[lace] lacemaking helpers

[Elizabeth Ligeti]

What a great product those docupockets are.  I must look and sse if they are 
available DownUnder!


A friend uses the Scrapbooking pockets for her lace - they are about 12 
inches square, I think, so her lace will lie flat in them (and they are acid 
free). Most available clear pockets for folders are A4 size, so larger 
pieces have to be folded vertically.
The scrapbook pockets are just that bit wider, so the lace lies flat and 
"open".


I will get some next time I am in the shop!  I hate getting a crease down 
the middle of the lace, when I need to post it away for shows, etc.

Regards from Liz in hot (34ºC, or 90ºF) sunny Melbourne, Oz.
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Re: [lace] lacemaking helpers

[clayblackwell]

WOW!  What a wonderful assortment of good ideas and nifty tricks!  We all know 
that our collective wisdom is amazing - all we have to do is ask!!

Thanks for a welcome shot-in-the-arm of lace-related emails for the past two 
days!  Let's not let it die down to a dribble again!

Clay

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Clay Blackwell 
Lynchburg, VA USA 

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RE: [lace] Blue film

[Sue]

I always used blue film and ended up sticking it on crooked or with
creases in it I now copy onto blue or green paper and laminate it, if it
is only going to be used once there is no need to pre-prick which is an
added bonus for me.

Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK

 

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[lace] lace Heartland Lace Guild

[Daphne Martin]

Hello Jeanette
I have looked on the site and clicked on Newsletters.
There are downloads, so I clicked on them to have a look at the articals.
Adobe Reader came up and said this file is password connected. Any ideas???
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[lace] lace Tools

[C Johnson]

I absolutely could not live without my sticky roller.
Did not think to mention it.  Thanks Sue for remembering to mention them.

Susie Johnson, Lacemaker
Morris, IL USA
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Re: [lace] lace Tools

[Sue Babbs]

A little brush made by Avon, which is very good for brushing pillows.


I like Container Store's lint pick up rollers:
"Our Lint Pic-Up® adhesive rollers quickly remove lint, dust, and pet hair 
from clothing, upholstery, and other surfaces in one easy motion. Perfectly 
safe for use on the finest fabrics, the special quality adhesive tape picks 
up more lint than any other brand tested and will not transfer onto fabric."


They are effectively masking tape sticky side out on the roller. You can 
peel off the layers one at a time. It was especially useful when I was 
cutting fabric into little squares and strips, as it picked off all the 
frayed threads successfully from the cut fabrics and the table top.


It also works wonderfully on empty pillows needing cleaning after use

Sue

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[lace] Blue film alternative

[J. Falkink]

I usually print on coloured paper and use window film from a decorating
shop. Avoid film with patterns.

Jo

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[lace] lace Tools

[Daphne Martin]

Hello
  I use a hackle plier as well.Also a disgorger[To get hooks out of a
fishes mouth]  with a very sharp point, which sorts out the worsted knots in
the thread.
Another favourite is a three legged stool [ camping type] to use as a stand in
and around the the caravan when we go away.
A little brush made by Avon, which is very good for brushing pillows.
After reading some of the posts. I am in the belief that if its around,
lacemakers will find a use for it.
It has certainly woken the list up today.
I wonder what else will pop up, so we can say what a good idea!!
Keep up the good work!! Daphne dry foggy Norfolk England
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Re: [lace] helpful tool

[Lorri Ferguson]

Will someone give us a url to see a picture of this tool.  I am not familiar
with it and would like to know just what I am looking for when I go in and ask
for 'a little thingie to attach to' my broken thread.

Lorri

  I'm so glad you mentioned this tool from Radio Shack!  I keep mine in
  my workbox for use quite often.  What I really like about it is that
  it looks like a little bobbin, so it fits into the work at hand much
  more conveniently than the roundish hackle pliers.  And since Radio
  Shack sells them in packs of two, there is always an extra one to
  replace a lost one or to give away.  Also, they are not as expensive
  as the hackle pliers. Your idea of adding the insulin cap is a good
  one. Thanks for mentioning it.

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[lace] Surprise present

[Malvary J Cole]

When I went to my aquafit class today the instructor said, "I have something
for you".  She fished into her bag and gave me a small piece of Idrija lace
mounted on a piece of card complete in the original package from Slovenia.

Interesting that Idrija is my current interest.

Apparently she had the lace as a gift from someone who went to a meal at her
house.  The guest's husband had worked at the Cdn Embassy in Slovenia.

Malvary in Ottawa (the nation's capital), Canada

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[lace] RE: YSK - Floral Bedfordshire

[Janice Blair]

I got a glimpse of Yvonne Scheele Kirkhof's new Bedfordshire book and I agree, 
it is a wonderful book.  I loved the way she had mounted the lace in the photos 
and it was nice to see different shapes of lace motifs than the usual round 
ones.  The book was really heavy so I imagine mailing is expensive, must be all 
those terrific photos.  Great eye candy even if you don't like making Beds.  
The diagrams look excellent.  I hope the vendors at the IOLI convention stock 
up for the rush to buy even with our rotten exchange rate.  Recently I have 
been doing more Beds and am enjoying it so long as I keep away from the nine 
pin edge.  To me that always makes the lace look untidy, but that is just IMHO.

BTW, I was asked what (DP) meant in a recent post of mine.  I put it in the 
subject line as I sent the email to both chat and lace.  That means if you get 
the reflected mail for both you can just delete the second one without reading. 
 I had always thought that was what we were supposed to do when we needed to 
double post.

Janice


Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
www.jblace.com
http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/
www.landoflincolnlacemakers.com  Check convention news here for daily 
teacher/class info updates!!

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Re: [lace] Re: lace pricking - proceeds to charity

[Sue Babbs]

I usually plait between sections where I am going to cut the lace. I make 
the lace long enough to work into the seams of the pillowcase (allowing for 
shrinkage) and then plait down for an inch or two before starting the next 
piece of lace. It saves re-winding and is psychologically less stressful to 
cut the plaits!

Sue
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From: "Jeanette Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
pillowcases as birthday gifts for my daughter and DIL. I had decided to 
make
a continuous strip of lace and cut it to fit the pillowcase as the edges 
of
the lace will be caught in the side seam of the pillowcase.  Now that it 
is

finished, I am going to need a lot of courage to cut it!  The alternative
was to wind bobbins between each short strip and that is not an option
either!!
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.


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[Sue Babbs]

These are 5 feet by 13.5 inches wide.  It is called HOT covers.


The other good thing about it is that it is re-positionable (for when you 
fail, like me, to stick it down evenly /  without bubbles the first time!)


Sue 


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Re: [lace] Re: swinging young lacemakers

[Anneke Reijs]

Mark wrote:
 "I bet they would draw
a big crowd at lacemaking demonstrations.  Song and dancing lace team LOL"


I wish I could take Daan and Alicia  with me when I go to Groningen!!
I will be there the whole three days,  selling my Withof manuals and the 
Withof pattern books and they would love to come.
But Daan will be in the USA at that time, vacationing with his mom and dad, 
brothers and sister, while Alicia will still be finishing her school year in 
Switserland!


Too bad!

Anneke Reijs
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Re: [lace] swinging young lacemakers

[the Mouzons]

Your video of your grandchildren was absolutely delightful!!  Thanks so 
much for sharing!

It provided some fun on a dismal dreary day in "the sunshine state"!
Debbie in Florida
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[lace] Re: swinging young lacemakers

[Mark, aka Tatman]

HOW PRECIOUS!!!  You have two wonderful grandkids that really know how to
put the fun into lacemaking.  Nice to know the energetic younger generation
of lacemakers knows how to do 100 things at one time.  I bet they would draw
a big crowd at lacemaking demonstrations.  Song and dancing lace team LOL!

Thanks for sharing a bit of your life with us.

In chilly Greenville, IL USA

Mark, aka Tatman
Www.tat-man.net
Www.tat-man.net/blog


On 2/18/08 10:51 AM, "Anneke Reijs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Last week, our two youngest grandchildren (both 9 years old) were over for a
> couple of days and wanted to have a try at lacemaking.
> They finished a snail and have now started on a mouse!
> They loved the lacemaking and did not even have time to get dressed. And all
> the time they were listening to swinging music!
> I simply had to get my camera and video them!
> 
> If you want to see it:
> 
> http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMfRepZAB0

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[lace] Re: lace pricking - proceeds to charity

[Jeanette Fischer]

I looked at this website that was under discussion a week or two ago
http://www.heartlandlace.org/Cure.htm.  On the website I saw the 1000 leaves
club.  I have just finished 2 metres of Cluny - the clementines pattern, and
all excited started counting the leaves - only 220!!  I must admit though
that it is a rather simple pattern and it took met only about 6 weeks to
make the lace working about 4 hours per day.  I plan to put the lace on
pillowcases as birthday gifts for my daughter and DIL. I had decided to make
a continuous strip of lace and cut it to fit the pillowcase as the edges of
the lace will be caught in the side seam of the pillowcase.  Now that it is
finished, I am going to need a lot of courage to cut it!  The alternative
was to wind bobbins between each short strip and that is not an option
either!!
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.

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[lace] Re: lacemaking helpers

[Jeanette Fischer]

A 0,6mm crochet hook, heated in a flame and then the tip gently bent down 
to an angle of about 90degrees

with a pair of pliers is a most useful tool.  It works better for sewings
because of the angle of the hook and the best is for removing a single pin
out of the lace.  It slips in very easily between the other pins and you can
first wiggle the pin to see if you have the right one!  The bending is
rather tricky and one can snap off the end of the crochet hook as it is so
fine.  So it is not something you offer to do for other people.
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.

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[lace] swinging young lacemakers

[Anneke Reijs]

Hi all,

Last week, our two youngest grandchildren (both 9 years old) were over for a
couple of days and wanted to have a try at lacemaking.
They finished a snail and have now started on a mouse!
They loved the lacemaking and did not even have time to get dressed. And all
the time they were listening to swinging music!
I simply had to get my camera and video them!

If you want to see it:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMfRepZAB0


Anneke Reijs
in Baexem, in the South East of The Netherlands

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Re: [lace] Blue film

[Diane Z]

If the pricking is a motif, and doesn't have to be moved there is another 
method.  Cut the film 2 inches larger all around than the pricking paper. 
Apply the pricking to the sticky back in a roll on method to eliminate air 
bubbles and then position it on your pillow.  Ulrika Lohr suggested this in 
a class and it's the method I've used since.  No pins or edges to catch 
threads.  Once, I repositioned it on the pillow and the blue film still 
stuck well to the woven cotten top.


Diane Zierold
Lubec, Maine

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[lace] Lacemakers Helpers

[C Johnson]

Laminate:
Walgreen and other drug stores sometimes carry plastic rolls to make book
covers from, or even cover posters.  Not to expensive, and comes in many
colors, blue included.
These are 5 feet by 13.5 inches wide.  It is called HOT covers.  It is a bit
heaver than what Lacy Susan carries.  But I have not had trouble with
residue left on the pins so far.
Available in the school supplies.

Susie Johnson
Morris, IL

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Fw: [lace] Lacemakers Helpers

[Sue]

I don't know if anyone else has found this, but you can buy bright green 
acetate (we bought ours from our local collage shop while doing a course 
there.  Laid over the top of white paper with black markings on (say 
patterns or instructions) and we find the black is sharper and the white 
glare has gone.
We did try yellow as well but the green was definately the best.  Works for 
students studying anything reading or whatever.

Sue T



I mostly prick my patterns out onto proper pricking card but occasionally 
that all seems like too much hard work and I will then use a photocopy, it 
depends on what I am intending to make and the use the finished article 
will be put to.


I cannot readily buy blue film here so have to make do with clear 
transparent sticky backed film sold for covering school books in the 
stationery shops.  But I can only get the shiny stuff, no matt finish film 
is available.


I get the copy of the pattern made onto coloured paper or very thin card, 
usually mid blue colour or dark orange works well, but not all card is 
suitable for photocopy machines.  I then cover the paper copy with the 
shiny clear film trimming the edges to match the edges of the paper.  I 
then take one of those green fibre pot scourers, (Scotch Brite), and 
gently rub that over the surface of the film to remove the shine and give 
a matt finish.


It works perfectly and is a cheap alternative to having to order the blue 
matt film from another EU country adding on the P&P to the cost of the 
film and waiting a week or more for it to arrive.


Something else that the lacemakers here use.  Is that they put a piece of 
plastic foam, the type that is used from camping mattresses under a 
sleeping bag on the ground, cut into suitable sizes and placed under the 
pricking on the pillow to facilitate moving the pattern up the pillow 
without the need to remove pins.


Some lacemakers I have seen using a piece of carpet felt, the type that is 
made of what looks like woolly fibres rather than the puffy bubbly rubbery 
type more commonly used under carpets in some places.  Some ladies have 
made a kind of cushion cover for their piece of carpet felt in pretty 
fabric as the felt is rather ugly.


Regards
Jenny DeAngelis.
Spain.


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[lace] Lacemakers Helpers

[Jenny De Angelis]

I mostly prick my patterns out onto proper pricking card but occasionally 
that all seems like too much hard work and I will then use a photocopy, it 
depends on what I am intending to make and the use the finished article will 
be put to.


I cannot readily buy blue film here so have to make do with clear 
transparent sticky backed film sold for covering school books in the 
stationery shops.  But I can only get the shiny stuff, no matt finish film 
is available.


I get the copy of the pattern made onto coloured paper or very thin card, 
usually mid blue colour or dark orange works well, but not all card is 
suitable for photocopy machines.  I then cover the paper copy with the shiny 
clear film trimming the edges to match the edges of the paper.  I then take 
one of those green fibre pot scourers, (Scotch Brite), and gently rub that 
over the surface of the film to remove the shine and give a matt finish.


It works perfectly and is a cheap alternative to having to order the blue 
matt film from another EU country adding on the P&P to the cost of the film 
and waiting a week or more for it to arrive.


Something else that the lacemakers here use.  Is that they put a piece of 
plastic foam, the type that is used from camping mattresses under a sleeping 
bag on the ground, cut into suitable sizes and placed under the pricking on 
the pillow to facilitate moving the pattern up the pillow without the need 
to remove pins.


Some lacemakers I have seen using a piece of carpet felt, the type that is 
made of what looks like woolly fibres rather than the puffy bubbly rubbery 
type more commonly used under carpets in some places.  Some ladies have made 
a kind of cushion cover for their piece of carpet felt in pretty fabric as 
the felt is rather ugly.


Regards
Jenny DeAngelis.
Spain. 


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Re: [lace] blue film

[Janice Blair]

We don't have a Staples in our town so I will have to look for one next time I 
am out and about.  Thanks for the tip.
Janice

Clive & Betty Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: =
Dear Janice,
I got my last light blue card stock at Staples office supply.  I have quit 
dealing with our local OfficeMax because their shop just isn't what it used to 
be. 

Happy Lacemaking,
Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia who is looking forward to returning to Illinois, 
the land of my birth for IOLI

From: Janice Blair 

...I had a large packet of this light blue cardstock which I finally ran out of 
about a year ago after ten years of lacemaking.  I cannot find the same pale 
blue color in the shops unless it is in a packet of mixed pastel colors, the 
ones in OfficeMax are very dark blue.  Does anyone know of a stockist of larger 
quantities of this paler blue cardstock?




Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
www.jblace.com
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Re: [lace] blue film

[Clive & Betty Rice]

=
Dear Janice,
I got my last light blue card stock at Staples office supply.  I have quit 
dealing with our local OfficeMax because their shop just isn't what it used to 
be. 

Happy Lacemaking,
Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia who is looking forward to returning to Illinois, 
the land of my birth for IOLI

From: Janice Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

...I had a large packet of this light blue cardstock which I finally ran out of 
about a year ago after ten years of lacemaking.  I cannot find the same pale 
blue color in the shops unless it is in a packet of mixed pastel colors, the 
ones in OfficeMax are very dark blue.  Does anyone know of a stockist of larger 
quantities of this paler blue cardstock?

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[lace] blue film

[Janice Blair]

I usually print my patterns directly onto light blue cardstock.  I then put a 
piece of clear film over the top and cut the cardstock down on my paper cutter 
leaving a margin around the pricking.  

I had a large packet of this light blue cardstock which I finally ran out of 
about a year ago after ten years of lacemaking.  I cannot find the same pale 
blue color in the shops unless it is in a packet of mixed pastel colors, the 
ones in OfficeMax are very dark blue.  Does anyone know of a stockist of larger 
quantities of this paler blue cardstock?

Janice
 

Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
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[lace] Lacemakers Helpers, kind of!

[Jenny De Angelis]

Something that I have found useful to be able to do is when I have a 
pricking that only gives half of the pattern, say in the case of a  large 
collar or fan pattern where you have to reverse the pattern for the second 
half of the item.


I go to the photocopy shop and get them to make a copy on normal paper and 
another copy of photocopiable acetate.  You can then turn over the acetate 
copy and place it over a plain piece of paper and prick that for the second 
half of the pattern. Or, if you prefer,  make a complete pricking in one 
piece, turn the acetate copy over onto a plain piece of paper and match it 
up to the first half that was copied onto normal copying paper to make the 
whole.


The copying shop that I use doesn't always have the photocopiable acetate in 
stock so I buy a sheet or two of it in the stationers and take that to the 
photocopier.


Regards
Jenny DeAngelis
Spain.

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Re: [lace] Blue film

[David in Ballarat]

Dear Betty Ann,


 One can buy contact paper without the shine and that works well.


Yes indeed. But the shiny one is dirt cheap at every supermarket - 
less than $1 a roll for us - and it goes a loong way!! Personally 
I prefer blue for white thread, and green for black.


All you need do it to scrub it with a new Scotchbrite scourer for a 
couple of seconds and woosh - you've got your matt film


David in Ballarat

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[lace] outlook 2007

[Louise Bailey]

Thanks everyone -  mystery solved by Avital, although the root problem - having 
to use Outlook 2007 remains!

Louise

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[lace] lacemaking helpers - for those who make petit point to use with lace

[David in Ballarat]

Dear Jeri,


Many thanks for such an informative email. Sure sounds like you do 
things "properly" :)


I know that my method would be heresy to many. However, I found years 
ago that neither frames nor hoops suit my style. I do indeed use the 
Swiss silk gauze, but I simply do the maths first and cut it large 
enough. Then I go round the edge using Fray Stop. I then commence the 
petit point from the top right corner. Mine are usually portraits and 
so every stitch on the gauze is filled in.


I have found that if I choose the darkest colour first - usually 
black, or maybe a  navy blue - then these stitches act like a book mark.


I DO use highlighter pens, but as accidents can indeed happen I am 
religious about where I put them. I have found that for me, I will 
colour those black stitches say in blue on the chart, then I only use 
one other colour for all the rest. My eyes can cope with that.


As I'm working top right to bottom left, there is very little 
grubbiness caused in the working. I even roll the fabric into a 
cylinder shape in my left hand as I go. Then when the work is 
finished, I wash it gently and block it to dry. Works perfectly for me.


David in Ballarat



If the chart is not colored, and has just symbols - I use a colored pencil
(erasable) to color in the most dominant color in the area being 
worked.   That

way, all the zigs, zags and openings made by that color can be  seen.  It
makes it easier to see to fill in the stitches in other  colors, or 
if a counting

error has occurred.  I do not prestitch this  dominant area, as it would
result in puckers in embroidery and difficulty  fitting in the other 
colors.  I

stitch the rows in order, starting in  center row and all below it, then turn
stretcher and chart and work all the  rows in top half.  I don't use 
highlighter

pens near needlework.   Accidents happen!



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Re: [lace] Blue film

[Clive & Betty Rice]

I prefer pricking card for my patterns and have an excellent Canon copier that 
copies onto the card without any distortion of the dots.  When I learned 
lacemaking, we drew all the gimp lines onto the pricking card after pricking 
through the paper pattern.
I still use pricking card if it is a pattern that I will use again.  However, 
if it is a one-time use, I print the pattern on blue card stock and cover with 
contact paper.  One can buy contact paper without the shine and that works well.

Betty Ann

=
From: Jean Nathan 

...Others stick the film so it covers most of the card and then trim the 
edges of the card and film, so the film reaches right the edges.

What do others do?

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[lace] thread divider

[Margot Walker]

I posted that.  It's called a 'skein splitter' and can be found  
here:  http://www.tatsall.ca/tools.htm#helpers
However, the website hasn't been updated for a year and I've had no  
reply to an email I sent, so I'm not sure if they're still in  
business or on holiday in the south, like all good Canadians should  
be at this time of year!


On 18 Feb 2008, at 06:38, Andrea Lamble wrote:


I'm sure a few months ago there was a posting on the list
that mentioned a device for separating skeins of embroidery thread  
into their

component parts.


Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site:
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot

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Re: [lace] lacemaking helpers - for those who make petit point to use with lace

[Jeriames]

In a message dated 2/18/2008 7:16:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

I also  use the plastic pockets religiously, but mainly with 
cross-stitch and  petit point when the pattern could be as much as 25 
pages large. I keep  them all together in one pocket with the thread 
colour chart on top. That  way I can see at a glance which colour I am 
using. The actual page I am  working on is on my desk with the 
highlighter pen beside it of  course.



For David and others trying to keep their place when using stitching  charts, 
I nominate a colored pencil:
 
If the chart is not colored, and has just symbols - I use a colored pencil  
(erasable) to color in the most dominant color in the area being worked.   That 
way, all the zigs, zags and openings made by that color can be  seen.  It 
makes it easier to see to fill in the stitches in other  colors, or if a 
counting 
error has occurred.  I do not prestitch this  dominant area, as it would 
result in puckers in embroidery and difficulty  fitting in the other colors.  I 
stitch the rows in order, starting in  center row and all below it, then turn 
stretcher and chart and work all the  rows in top half.  I don't use 
highlighter 
pens near needlework.   Accidents happen!  
 
I embroider at a table and sit in a straight chair as the professionals do,  
with embroidery fabric attached to a stretcher to fit the whole  piece.  No 
hoop for me!  If petit point silk gauze is the ground  fabric - extremely 
expensive when of best quality from Switzerland - I  cut the gauze a little 
larger 
than the embroidery will be, and use sewing  machine to zig-zag that gauze onto 
the center a very firmly woven fabric  (like raincoat fabric), then cut a 
window opening in the under fabric  (so it looks like a window screen).  This 
larger firmer fabric is what  is tacked or stapled to the stretcher.  If you 
make 
miniatures,  this will result in a flat rug or other furnishing for your 
rooms.  This  method works for petit point jewelry, as well.
 
Hope some of you have seen exquisite work that combines petit point and  
lace.  It is the sort of thing you rarely see today.
 
Jeri  Ames
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center



**Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living.  
(http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/
2050827?NCID=aolcmp0030002598)

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[lace] RE: lace-digest V2008 #30

[Louise Bailey]

Dear all

Apologies for the badly parsed email - ruddy outlook 2007 . If anyone can tell 
me how to make it word wrap 76 character lines in plain text emails I'd be 
grateful. Also I have no idea where the yahoo shopping signature came from - 
I'm using a work email address.

Louise

Who has been computer literate since the days of multics and Honeywell 
computers, but just can't get on with MS office 2007.

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Re: [lace] thread divider

[Brenda Paternoster]

Hello Andrea

I think it came up in a discussion about substituting a single strand 
of embroidery cotton for something else.


Personally I use two small pieces of card.  I stand on the landing and 
allow the skein to dangle freely over the stairs then divide the plies 
as required then simultaneously wind the two parts onto the separate 
cards.


Brenda

Can anyone help? - I'm sure a few months ago there was a posting on 
the list
that mentioned a device for separating skeins of embroidery thread 
into their
component parts. Am I imagining things or does such a device exist. If 
so any

info as to where to get one would be very welcome.

I tried the archive but couldn't seem to find any mention of it - 
maybe I was

not using the correct search term.



Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
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Re: [lace] Blue film

[Brenda Paternoster]

Hello Sue

The problem is probably because you are using photocopies.  Almost all 
photocopiers are set to print just very slightly narrower than wide (or 
is it the other way around?)  because the powers that be think that is 
a good thing in that it reduces the chances of loosing something very 
close to the edge of the original.


The way to check is to draw an *accurate* square, say 20cm x 20cm and 
then photocopy it, and photocopy the copy and then measure again.  
Chances are you will have a rectangle rather than a square.  It also 
means that an L shaped piece of lace pattern will end up with one arm 
narrower than the other making it impossible to fit joins together 
accurately and you just have to do your best, compromising as 
necessary.  It might work better to cut straight across rather than 
diagonally, or you could try with lots of straight strips (all copied 
in the same direction) joined together and then re-make the corner so 
that the edges are at 90 degrees and the gap between pinholes across 
the mitre go from very close to quite far apart.


In my experience using the computer to scan and print gives an accurate 
copy, though if you are starting with a photocopied 'original' it still 
won't be true though it won't get any worse.  Printing anything drawn 
on the computer should also be accurate when printed.


Brenda


Can anyone explain clearly please (because I find some instructions 
quite difficult to understand:-), the best way to make a pattern for 
strip lace.


How do you get a really acurate straight slopped cut from one piece 
onto the next.  My joins are often slightly wonky/not straight (but I 
manage quite well to line them up, thankfully).  The sides of the 
strips are never the same.
Sorry my explanation seems poor even to me this morning, so if anyone 
can understand my question,  can they advise me.  I like to see 
tidy patterns for a start and obviously it is important to get the 
spacing right for a lovely neat piece of lace.

Sue T, in sunny but very cold Dorset.


Years ago (pre heat laminator days) I was shown how to 'laminate' a 
piece of paper with clear film.


Cut the film to about an inch bigger all round.  Place the paper face 
up on a table, preferably formica or similar surface and stick the 
edge of the film to the table just above the top of the paper.  
Slowly unpeel the backing from the film and smooth it down over the 
paper using a ruler until you have the all 4 edges stuck to the 
tabletop with the paper in the middle and few if any air bubbles!  
Now peel it off the table, cut the corners off the film at 45 degrees 
and close to the corner of the paper so that you can wrap the film 
around in a mitre and then stick the triangles of film over the 
mitred edges at the back for extra strength.
I always wrap mine round the edges to the underside. Some just stick 
a piece over the pricked area of the card and leave an uncovered 
border round the edges. Others stick the film so it covers most of 
the card and then trim the edges of the card and film, so the film 
reaches right the edges.


What do others do?



Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
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Re: [lace] Blue film

[David in Ballarat]

Jean

I always wrap mine round the edges to the underside. Some just stick 
a piece over the pricked area of the card and leave an uncovered 
border round the edges. Others stick the film so it covers most of 
the card and then trim the edges of the card and film, so the film 
reaches right the edges.


What do others do?


I always do it your last way - i.e. trim the blue film right round. 
However, even if the pricking is rectangular or square, I always make 
the trimming end up as an oval shape. That way there are no corners 
for the bobbins and/or thread to catch on.


David in Ballarat

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Re: [lace] lacemaking helpers

[Sue]

I used one of this little head lamp things recently, quite good:-)

David, how is your big project going.  I haven't seen any references to it 
or follow up pictures for quite a while now.

Sue T



G'day Friends,
I have a couple VERY useful little helpers. One is the electrical tool 
hackle plier which was recommended on this list some years ago (just prior 
to the swivel plier which comes from the same place).


The other is a bush walker's head lamp. When I first looked at these about 
3 years ago they were quite expensive at around AUS$40. However, these 
days I see much cheaper versions at the weekly markets for only about 
AUS$5. This little lamp has been invaluable when I've been out bush with 
no power and as it's on your forehead, it points to exactly where you are 
working. It will work just as well when at home, but as the batteries 
don't last all that long it's easier to use my halogen lamp.


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Re: [lace] Re: lacemaking helpers

[David in Ballarat]

Tamara,

Yours, still trying to figure out (8 weeks later) some lacy use for 
scissors with a semi-circle taken out of one blade... The doctor did 
some snipping with them and then said "here, want them? They'll only 
throw them away". So I took them, but still don't know what the 
advantage is (or might be)


Any use for finger nails???
Or are they perhaps just for the heavier duty aortas :)
David

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[lace] helpful tool

[Tess Parrish]

I'm so glad you mentioned this tool from Radio Shack!  I keep mine in  
my workbox for use quite often.  What I really like about it is that  
it looks like a little bobbin, so it fits into the work at hand much  
more conveniently than the roundish hackle pliers.  And since Radio  
Shack sells them in packs of two, there is always an extra one to  
replace a lost one or to give away.  Also, they are not as expensive  
as the hackle pliers. Your idea of adding the insulin cap is a good  
one. Thanks for mentioning it.


Tess ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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RE: [lace] lacemaking helpers

[David in Ballarat]

G'day Friends,
I have a couple VERY useful little helpers. One is the electrical 
tool hackle plier which was recommended on this list some years ago 
(just prior to the swivel plier which comes from the same place).


The other is a bush walker's head lamp. When I first looked at these 
about 3 years ago they were quite expensive at around AUS$40. 
However, these days I see much cheaper versions at the weekly markets 
for only about AUS$5. This little lamp has been invaluable when I've 
been out bush with no power and as it's on your forehead, it points 
to exactly where you are working. It will work just as well when at 
home, but as the batteries don't last all that long it's easier to 
use my halogen lamp.


I also use the plastic pockets religiously, but mainly with 
cross-stitch and petit point when the pattern could be as much as 25 
pages large. I keep them all together in one pocket with the thread 
colour chart on top. That way I can see at a glance which colour I am 
using. The actual page I am working on is on my desk with the 
highlighter pen beside it of course.


Another very handy hint I can offer to embroiderers is that when you 
are doing a fine petit point (say 40 sts per inch or more) and it's 
difficult to locate the spot to start a new thread, find the spot and 
then immediately stick into it a pearl headed pin. This pin will be 
quite a bit thicker than your embroidery needle and when removed 
leaves a visible hole - also very handy for a "bookmark" if you have 
to dash off to answer the phone, make a coffee or go to the dunny :)


David in Ballarat

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[lace] thread divider

[Andrea Lamble]

Hi,

Can anyone help? - I'm sure a few months ago there was a posting on the list
that mentioned a device for separating skeins of embroidery thread into their
component parts. Am I imagining things or does such a device exist. If so any
info as to where to get one would be very welcome.

I tried the archive but couldn't seem to find any mention of it - maybe I was
not using the correct search term.

Andrea

in a rather cold and frosty Cambridge, UK
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Re: [lace] Blue film

[Brenda Paternoster]

Years ago (pre heat laminator days) I was shown how to 'laminate' a 
piece of paper with clear film.


Cut the film to about an inch bigger all round.  Place the paper face 
up on a table, preferably formica or similar surface and stick the edge 
of the film to the table just above the top of the paper.  Slowly 
unpeel the backing from the film and smooth it down over the paper 
using a ruler until you have the all 4 edges stuck to the tabletop with 
the paper in the middle and few if any air bubbles!  Now peel it off 
the table, cut the corners off the film at 45 degrees and close to the 
corner of the paper so that you can wrap the film around in a mitre and 
then stick the triangles of film over the mitred edges at the back for 
extra strength.


Sometimes I use that method, sometimes I just stick the blue film over 
the printed pattern and trim so that pattern and film are the same 
size.  If I am making a yardage pricking I use the first method with 
card, but for a one-off which will not be re-used I find that paper and 
film on a food firm pillow is enough, and it doesn't need pre-pricking!


Brenda

I use blue film on my prickings because I print them on an inkjet 
printer and the ink isn't waterproof. I notice in the group I attend 
on Monday that people who use it attach the blue film to their 
prickings in different ways.


I always wrap mine round the edges to the underside. Some just stick a 
piece over the pricked area of the card and leave an uncovered border 
round the edges. Others stick the film so it covers most of the card 
and then trim the edges of the card and film, so the film reaches 
right the edges.


What do others do?



Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
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Re: [lace] lacemaking helpers

[Celia Mulhearn]

Replying to myself. is that another 'nearly 50' thing to contend 
with. I noticed that I didn't sign off the previous message so here goes
Celia Mulhearn in a cold, foggy and frosty SE London but where the sun 
is trying to peep through


Celia Mulhearn wrote:

Hi everyone
At the momet my 'useful gadget' is a large plastic mixing bowl... I 
have just started a Honiton Sampler and have found that my pillow sits 
nicely onto the bowl similar to a honiton pillow stand (which I'm 
hoping to get for my birthday in May from DH) This makes balancing 
everything much easier.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I propose a useful thread:  Tell us about the handy things you've 
found in "everyday" life that have been applied to your lacemaking in 
a new and helpful way!  A couple of years ago, we talked about 
"Clay's tool", which is a swivel-hackle plier made for fly-tying.  I 
discovered that this could be used as a "clip-on bobbin" when you 
broke a thread, or if you reached the bitter end of the thread when 
the lace was almost finished.


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[Celia Mulhearn]

Hi everyone
At the momet my 'useful gadget' is a large plastic mixing bowl... I have 
just started a Honiton Sampler and have found that my pillow sits nicely 
onto the bowl similar to a honiton pillow stand (which I'm hoping to get 
for my birthday in May from DH) This makes balancing everything much easier.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I propose a useful thread:  Tell us about the handy things you've found in "everyday" life that have been applied to your lacemaking in a new and helpful way!  A couple of years ago, we talked about "Clay's tool", which is a swivel-hackle plier made for fly-tying.  I discovered that this could be used as a "clip-on bobbin" when you broke a thread, or if you reached the bitter end of the thread when the lace was almost finished.  
  


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[lace] Blue film

[Jean Nathan]

I use blue film on my prickings because I print them on an inkjet printer 
and the ink isn't waterproof. I notice in the group I attend on Monday that 
people who use it attach the blue film to their prickings in different ways.


I always wrap mine round the edges to the underside. Some just stick a piece 
over the pricked area of the card and leave an uncovered border round the 
edges. Others stick the film so it covers most of the card and then trim the 
edges of the card and film, so the film reaches right the edges.


What do others do?

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK

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[lace] Lacemaking helpers

[Jean Nathan]

When working with a pillow on a stand, I use a music stand to hold 
instructions and thread diagrams and open books. I can pull it in really 
close next to me (being of the over-40 sight impaired that most of us are) 
so my reading glasses are in focus on both the lace and the instructions. If 
it's just a small piece that I can copy and cut out, I pin that to the top 
part of the pillow.


If threads are difficult to see over a pricking, I scan the pricking onto 
the computer and print it with coloured background and/or lines. For 
instance I was having trouble with silver thread on a black on white 
pricking so printed it yellow on navy blue. You have to use a program that 
can print coloured background, as yellow lines woouldn't show if you tried 
to print on dark blue paper.


A sheet of non-slip matting (can't remember what it's called, but mine came 
on a roll and I cut off what I wanted) placed between the bottom of a pillow 
and a smooth surface, eg a table stand, keps the pillow in place.


Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 


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[lace] YSK - floral Bedfordshire

[Catherine Barley]

My copy arrived yesterday, and it's lovely. 

Mouthwatering for  Beds

 fan. Big too, and that's not just because of the

multilingual text. The first section has the basic instructions

(tetra-lingual) for Floral

 Beds- those familiar with Barbara Underwood's books

will recognise

 petalled flowers, two part leaves etc.

 

instruction pages there are no working diagrams!  But

if you have worked

 through Barbara's Beds in 20 lessons book - most

techniques are there.

 

Hi Louise and all

 

I notice that you have twice made reference to Barbara Underwood's books,
which is hardly surprising, as it was Barbara Underwood who taught Yvonne
her Bedfodrshire skills, but no doubt Yvonne will have acknowledged this in
her book?

 

Catherine Barley

Henley-on-Thames

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