[lace] Knotting threads onto bobbins
Hi Arachnids I think this is another case of when using your own bobbins do what you like but when using someone else's respect her wishes. Personally I never tie onto a bobbin, it is so much hassle getting it off. Traditionally the English lace workers would keep working until the bobbin dropped off then tie on a short length of waste thread with a weavers' knot. They would work until there was just sufficient thread left to make a join when a new thread was knotted to a pin at the side, brought down through the pins and both threads twisted. They would continue working with the twisted thread until the join was stable, perhaps about 1 inch (2.5cm), when the remaining twists were removed and the knotted thread laid back and cut off later. I have been using this method for years and you cannot see the joins. Keep lacemaking Alex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Re: Tying thread on bobbins
On Oct 8, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Noelene Lafferty wrote: > I have some spare bobbins with thread left on them and when using short > lengths of thread - for example, doing Christmas decorations or the gimp in > a bookmark, I tie my short length of thread to the existing thread. I > especially do this when getting beginners to do the Springett Snake. > > I don't like thread tied to bare bobbins, too much trouble to get the off. Nothing to add, nothing to take away (as we used to say in Poland). That's what I do, too, and for the same reason. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] thread clamp
the swivel-hackle in a tie-flying shop Clay Alternative source is from an electrical parts store - theirs is used to hold fine wires but works just as good as the tie flying ones and MUCH cheaper (4 for the price of 1 here in Australia) Hugs Jenny B - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] Posh Bags
Could someone provide photos of Posh Bags? I am having trouble visualising what they look like. Hugs Jenny B - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Tying thread on bobbins
Adele wrote: This is good time to use the hackle plier tool. I use them when having short lengths of gimps. I usually fill one bobbin with the gimp thread and attach the other end to the tool. I don't toss my leftover thread out. We collect spare thread, and it is amazing how quickly it mounts up. One of our lace guild members makes quilted hearts that are given to people in hospital and uses the thread for stuffing. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
If you search under "bobbin lace" and scroll about half way down that page you will see the hackle plier made into a bobbin with Corian. I missed the .com off the address, it should be www.etsy.com http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=bobbin+lace&search_type=handmade Richard now lives in North Carolina, is a member of IOLI, his email address is richardsbobb...@yahoo.com Janice p.s. I remember you bringing a ferret to convention in Tulsa one time. Cute. Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org From: Nancy Neff To: Clay Blackwell ; Janice Blair Cc: lace Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 4:39:46 PM Subject: Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins Hi Janice, I've been searching on etsy for Richard Worthen, and hackle pliers, and even did a google search for him, without success. Do you think you might have some other contact information for him? I bought a swivel hackle from a fishing outfit, and one of my ferrets promptly stole it and I haven't seen it since (and I've looked!). Rather than buy another fishing hackle pliers, I'd rather buy a couple of bobbin-handled ones from Richard Worthen, if I can find him on-line or contact info for him. Thanks! Nancy From: Clay Blackwell To: bev walker Cc: Sue <2harv...@tiscali.co.uk>; lace Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 5:24:06 PM Subject: Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins My guess is that unless a supplier in UK has seen them at IOLI while vending, or had someone show them a clamp they bought in the US, they wouldn't know about them. However, I suggest that you refer them to Janice's information on Richard Worthen, and once they see what the swivel-hackle looks like, it's relatively easy to find a UK bobbin-maker to make the conversion. Clay > On 10/8/10, Sue<2harv...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > >> Most of you that are discussing the thread clamp seem to be in the USA does >> anyone know a UK supplier that sells them? >> >> - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] tying thread on bobbins
I always wrap, but never tie, because tying just doesn't work. When I was a beginner I thought tying was a good idea, but I have found that I can never get the knot close enough to the wood, and that tied loop keeps slipping. The only way I can bet the thread to stay there is to wind very very tightly and let friction keep it in place. Whenever I teach beginners each one says happily that she will tie them. So we start out with a kind of battle. The tied thread keeps slipping and the bobbin just won't stay wound. Eventually the student agrees to do it my way. By the 2nd lesson the bobbins are staying wound and the hitch holds. It's a question of what works. In my experience friction and tight winding work, tying doesn't. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: RE: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
To clarify, reason for suggesting them: I have hackle pliers packaged by SMP for BL use. On , Sue <2harv...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Thank you I will try SMP if not I will take a trip to the fishing tackle > shop tomorrow to see if I can find one to adapt. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
Thank you Sue! From: Sue Babbs To: Nancy Neff Cc: lace Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 5:44:54 PM Subject: Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins Try : http://www.etsy.com/listing/25868616/thread-clamp-with-corian-center Look in his shop for different versions Sue Babbs - Original Message - > Hi Janice, > > I've been searching on etsy for Richard Worthen, and hackle pliers, and even >did > a google search for him, without success. > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
Try : http://www.etsy.com/listing/25868616/thread-clamp-with-corian-center Look in his shop for different versions Sue Babbs - Original Message - Hi Janice, I've been searching on etsy for Richard Worthen, and hackle pliers, and even did a google search for him, without success. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
Hi Janice, I've been searching on etsy for Richard Worthen, and hackle pliers, and even did a google search for him, without success. Do you think you might have some other contact information for him? I bought a swivel hackle from a fishing outfit, and one of my ferrets promptly stole it and I haven't seen it since (and I've looked!). Rather than buy another fishing hackle pliers, I'd rather buy a couple of bobbin-handled ones from Richard Worthen, if I can find him on-line or contact info for him. Thanks! Nancy From: Clay Blackwell To: bev walker Cc: Sue <2harv...@tiscali.co.uk>; lace Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 5:24:06 PM Subject: Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins My guess is that unless a supplier in UK has seen them at IOLI while vending, or had someone show them a clamp they bought in the US, they wouldn't know about them. However, I suggest that you refer them to Janice's information on Richard Worthen, and once they see what the swivel-hackle looks like, it's relatively easy to find a UK bobbin-maker to make the conversion. Clay > On 10/8/10, Sue<2harv...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > >> Most of you that are discussing the thread clamp seem to be in the USA does >> anyone know a UK supplier that sells them? >> >> - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
Thank you I will try SMP if not I will take a trip to the fishing tackle shop tomorrow to see if I can find one to adapt. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
My guess is that unless a supplier in UK has seen them at IOLI while vending, or had someone show them a clamp they bought in the US, they wouldn't know about them. However, I suggest that you refer them to Janice's information on Richard Worthen, and once they see what the swivel-hackle looks like, it's relatively easy to find a UK bobbin-maker to make the conversion. Clay On 10/8/10, Sue<2harv...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: Most of you that are discussing the thread clamp seem to be in the USA does anyone know a UK supplier that sells them? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
Try SMP Lace? On 10/8/10, Sue <2harv...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Most of you that are discussing the thread clamp seem to be in the USA does > anyone know a UK supplier that sells them? > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
Most of you that are discussing the thread clamp seem to be in the USA does anyone know a UK supplier that sells them? Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Re: Tying thread on bobbins
As others have mentioned, a leader cord around the bobbin is useful for tying short ends of your lace thread of choice. Yes tying the thread to the bobbin works but I think it should be the option, not the other way around (you could also use a tiny piece of tape) On 10/8/10, Tatman wrote: > Also as I explained earlier, I run out of thread and try to get the most out > of it until I have to work in another full bobbin. -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Tying thread on bobbins
And I would call that a very smart exception to the rule!! Clay On 10/8/2010 4:13 PM, C Johnson wrote: Hi All, I tie my thread on my bobbins, for three reasons. * Demonstrating at my favorite park (Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area) in Morris, Illinois, I am sometimes in the Cragg Cabin. That cabin has cracks in the floor between the floor boards and if I drop a bobbin or a tool for that matter, it is gone. * Working on my deck in the summer, my deck has cracks between the boards, and if I drop a bobbin, it is hard to retrieve it. * Demonstrating anytime, anywhere; I hate to put my butt in the air, looking for my bobbins, (all right stop laughing! :-)) so I prefer to pull my bobbin back into play by the thread, kind of like the fishing line. Tying on just makes sense for me. Susie Susie Susie Johnson, Vice President and Newsletter Editor Member L.A.C.E., I.O.L.I., Arachne List Morris, Illinois cjohnson0...@comcast.net http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org http://home.comcast.net/~cjohnson0969/home.html [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] thread clamp... was tying thread on bobbins
The "Thread Clamp" is what our list (Arachne) originally called, "Clay's Tool", because I had discovered the swivel-hackle in a tie-flying shop and adopted it to use on the pillow, and shared my find with the list. I took one of the swivel-hackles to Richard and asked him to put a bobbin end on it (suggesting this was a good way to use the bobbins that broke at the neck). This was many years ago, and Richard has been selling them ever since! Now, Ken van Dierin is also making them, and there may be a few more who have adopted the idea. I'm pleased that my simple "repurposing" of a good tool has been so popular with fellow lacemakers, and that these talented bobbin-turners can make them more elegant on our pillows! My favorite part of the Arachne story was that someone asked, "If I order Clay's tool, will Clay come with it?", not realizing, of course, that I was female! ; ) Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA, USA On 10/8/2010 2:40 PM, Janice Blair wrote: I have been collecting fancy hackle pliers and love the ones made by Richard Worthen. I usually try to buy them when he is at conventions. I have seen his work on www.Etsy under bobbin lace and he calls them a Thread Clamp. No connections, just a happy customer. Janice - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Tying knots or not to tie knots
I do not tie my threads onto a bobbin. I hold the thread and wrap around the thread being held to anchor the thread. This is the way I was taught. Also I have found when I wind a tatting shuttle I do the same thing. I never tie my threads. The only time I tie threads is when I tie two Honiton threads together as you are suppose to. For me when I get to the end of a bobbin or shuttle I don't want to be untying the knots. I have a tendency to over wind my bobbinsor if I am doing an edging...I fill the bobbins because my intension is to make the edging until the thread is all gone... so I end up throwing thread away usually that I take off the bobbins unless I am planning on using the same thread in another project right away. I am not a bobbin collector for I don't have money for that...so I don't keep bobbins laying around just because I have thread left on them. I just take the thread off...say good bye to it and chuck in the garbage and put my bobbins I do have right back in to use. I have enough thread to go to generations of lacers after me. Anywho...whoowhoo...that is my opinion on to tie or not to tie...that is the question. Tomorrow I will be in Ithaca and I can't wait...signing here...vacation here I come even if only for a couple of days. Wind To Thy Wings, Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com http://celticdreamweaver.com/ http://celticdreamweave.blogspot.com/ Nata 616 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Re: Tying thread on bobbins
I started out tying. When you're a beginner there are so many occasions when your hitch undoes itself and your bobbin suddenly leaps off your pillow and clatters onto the floor, and it helps so much if you can just haul it in again on its little tether. Then I found out what a pain it is to try to get the tied bit off the shank. It's not so bad if you're using heavy thread, but I had thin thread and couldn't get my scissors between the thread and the bobbin. Trying to break it off cost me a bobbin when the neck broke before the thread did. I tried making a slip knot in the way that it would pull itself open if you pulled on the thread, but I found that it was just so much easier and faster if I didn't tie a knot at all. So I started not tying, which is my usual practice now that my hitches are reliable. But it's funny this topic came up just now, because only this morning I tied a thread onto a bobbin. Why? Because it's a gimp going around a little half-stitch circle, and I know I'm only going to use a couple of inches of thread, and I didn't want to waste three or four times that by having to wrap the thread around the bobbin enough times that it wouldn't come undone on its own. It's a thick thread (DMC Broder Speciale #16) and would need quite a few wraps to make it stay put. So in the end I suppose you could look at it this way: The thicker the thread, the more likely the hitch will come undone, and the thicker the thread the easier it is to get a scissors point between thread and bobbin. So tying the thread onto your bobbin gets more desirable as the thread gets thicker. Just my 2 cents. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) On 2010-10-08, at 1:21 PM, Tatman wrote: > I am finding this little thread of "to tie or KNOT to tie"(pun intended) > your thread onto the bobbin really intriguing. What are the reasons you tie > or not to your bobbins? > > For me it was that is what I was taught and it stuck with me. My lace > teacher was unconventional and didn't do things strickly by the book. She > used her own ingenuity to solve her problems. > > Also as I explained earlier, I run out of thread and try to get the most out > of it until I have to work in another full bobbin. This was before the > invention of those trusty hook/clamp bobbins. Only have one and haven't > used it yet! > > -- > Mark, aka Tatman > website: http://www.tat-man.net > blog: http://tat-man.net/blog > Magic Thread Shop: http://www.tat-man.net/tatterville/tatshop/tatshop.html > email: tat...@tat-man.net > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tatmantats > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] Re: Tying thread on bobbins
I have some spare bobbins with thread left on them and when using short lengths of thread - for example, doing Christmas decorations or the gimp in a bookmark, I tie my short length of thread to the existing thread. I especially do this when getting beginners to do the Springett Snake. I don't like thread tied to bare bobbins, too much trouble to get the off. Noelene in Cooma nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au > > I am finding this little thread of "to tie or KNOT to tie"(pun intended) > your thread onto the bobbin really intriguing. What are the reasons you tie > or not to your bobbins? > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Re: Tying thread on bobbins
I am finding this little thread of "to tie or KNOT to tie"(pun intended) your thread onto the bobbin really intriguing. What are the reasons you tie or not to your bobbins? For me it was that is what I was taught and it stuck with me. My lace teacher was unconventional and didn't do things strickly by the book. She used her own ingenuity to solve her problems. Also as I explained earlier, I run out of thread and try to get the most out of it until I have to work in another full bobbin. This was before the invention of those trusty hook/clamp bobbins. Only have one and haven't used it yet! -- Mark, aka Tatman website: http://www.tat-man.net blog: http://tat-man.net/blog Magic Thread Shop: http://www.tat-man.net/tatterville/tatshop/tatshop.html email: tat...@tat-man.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tatmantats - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Tying thread on bobbins
Hi All, I tie my thread on my bobbins, for three reasons. * Demonstrating at my favorite park (Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area) in Morris, Illinois, I am sometimes in the Cragg Cabin. That cabin has cracks in the floor between the floor boards and if I drop a bobbin or a tool for that matter, it is gone. * Working on my deck in the summer, my deck has cracks between the boards, and if I drop a bobbin, it is hard to retrieve it. * Demonstrating anytime, anywhere; I hate to put my butt in the air, looking for my bobbins, (all right stop laughing! :-)) so I prefer to pull my bobbin back into play by the thread, kind of like the fishing line. Tying on just makes sense for me. Susie Susie Susie Johnson, Vice President and Newsletter Editor Member L.A.C.E., I.O.L.I., Arachne List Morris, Illinois cjohnson0...@comcast.net http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org http://home.comcast.net/~cjohnson0969/home.html [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Re: Bobbin-A-Long School of Lacemaking
I am not a fan of tying thread to bobbins either unless it is the only way for the person I'm teaching to get on with lacemaking. Fiddling with knots is time-consuming. Use more thread - it is the least of our expenses, yes? I use the amount of thread on the bobbin as an anchor, *a tool in itself* and I don't skimp on the thread unless I have to, in which case I will have a leader cord on the bobbin. On 10/8/10, Tatman wrote: > This is true. Normally you just hold the thread end in place as you wind. > My exception is that I wind too little of thread(the frugal part in me) and -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Re: Bobbin-A-Long School of Lacemaking
This is true. Normally you just hold the thread end in place as you wind. My exception is that I wind too little of thread(the frugal part in me) and I am always running to the end of the thread, but just enough to finish the small project. That is why I did that. I can show the optional method as well. No problem! :) Thanks for checking it out. Not sure who made the one and only bobbin hook that I have. It is the bottom half of a bobbin and then has a retractable hook to hold the thread end as you finish up a project. I got it from Susuan Groh of Unique Expressions. Haven't had the chance to use it yet! -- Mark, aka Tatman website: http://www.tat-man.net blog: http://tat-man.net/blog Magic Thread Shop: http://www.tat-man.net/tatterville/tatshop/tatshop.html email: tat...@tat-man.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tatmantats On 10/8/10 1:40 PM, "Janice Blair" wrote: > Hi Mark, > I think your site is great. I love your pictures, but I have one objection to > your instructions. > > I really dislike it when beginners tie their thread onto the bobbins as I am > the > one who usually empties them and rewinds for the next group of beginners. One > time I found they had been tied on and someone helping me used scissors to cut > the thread off and damaged the bobbin neck. I teach beginners to hold the end > of the thread with their thumb, wind the thread over the tail a couple of > times > and then wind in the normal fashion. Beginners usually wind on more thread > than > is necessary so they usually don't have a problem with the bobbin falling off > near the end of the work. That does happen to me as I am mean when winding > thread for my projects. This happened this week when I used remaining thread > from a christmas ornament for a second one. By the time I finished I had > three > threads attached to hackle pliers with just enough to finish and some for the > tassel. > > I have been collecting fancy hackle pliers and love the ones made by Richard > Worthen. I usually try to buy them when he is at conventions. I have seen > his > work on www.Etsy under bobbin lace and he calls them a Thread Clamp. No > connections, just a happy customer. > > Janice - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Bobbin-A-Long School of Lacemaking
Hi Mark, I think your site is great. I love your pictures, but I have one objection to your instructions. I really dislike it when beginners tie their thread onto the bobbins as I am the one who usually empties them and rewinds for the next group of beginners. One time I found they had been tied on and someone helping me used scissors to cut the thread off and damaged the bobbin neck. I teach beginners to hold the end of the thread with their thumb, wind the thread over the tail a couple of times and then wind in the normal fashion. Beginners usually wind on more thread than is necessary so they usually don't have a problem with the bobbin falling off near the end of the work. That does happen to me as I am mean when winding thread for my projects. This happened this week when I used remaining thread from a christmas ornament for a second one. By the time I finished I had three threads attached to hackle pliers with just enough to finish and some for the tassel. I have been collecting fancy hackle pliers and love the ones made by Richard Worthen. I usually try to buy them when he is at conventions. I have seen his work on www.Etsy under bobbin lace and he calls them a Thread Clamp. No connections, just a happy customer. Janice This is a project that I have been working on for quite some time. I know there are several websites out there that have instructions on bobbin lace. But I wanted to create my own version in my own style. Plus it gives newcomers a different perspective and hope that if one instruction doesn't help them, then maybe mine will. You can get to my bobbin lace instruction from my website (http://www.tat-man.net) and clicking on BOBBINBURG (http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/bobbinlace.html) and then go to BOBBIN-A-LONG SCHOOL OF LACEMAKING (http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/howtoBL/Basic_BL_Supplies.html)."Home of the flying bobbins!" Yeah, I know...sort of cutsie. But I tend to gear my instructions to the younger crowd in hopes that it will spark more interest in that generation and for the future of lacemaking. Here is the direct link to the first page: http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/howtoBL/Basic_BL_Supplies.html I only have worked out instructions so far into the program. I still have more things to add as you may notice. So far there are 10 pages of instructions. I am up to the part of the student learning the cross and twist movements. then I move on to adding more pairs to start working out a design. Let me know what you think of how it is presented. Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Re: asking for help
Hello All, a few days ago somebody sent us a link for a site of a lace-seller, which was so wonderful done. with lots of close ups. Today I want to look at all the dresses, laces, fans and so on but I couldn't find it any longer. Could somebody please so kind and send it again to me privately? Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Update on my website
Hi all, I updated my bobbin lace lessons on my website. Added a beginning page that lists the lessons for easier navigation instead of having to go from the start to get to a certain page. Also added videos of several of the steps. Check it out! http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/howtoBL/howtoBL.html Thanks for letting me share, -- Mark, aka Tatman - in Greenville, IL USA where Fall colors are shining, but not quite peak time. website: http://www.tat-man.net blog: http://tat-man.net/blog Bobbinlace Lessons: http://www.tat-man.net/bobbinburg/howtoBL/howtoBL.html Magic Thread Shop: http://www.tat-man.net/tatterville/tatshop/tatshop.html email: tat...@tat-man.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tatmantats - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Posh Bags
Which one of her bags have you seen. She makes pillow bags and small "dumpy" bags which have a few different removable inserts. I have two with inserts for bobbins, and very useful they are too. They come in two sizes - I opted for the one with 48 bobbin pockets as opposed to 96 because of the weight when full. Each pocket will easily hold two pairs.There's room between the double row of bobbin holders for things like thread, puller/pusher, scissors, etc. Other inserts have larger pockets in place of the bobbin pockets intended for needle/other craft items instead of bobbins. I believe there's also one with a combination of bobbin and larger pockets. They are expensive, but, in my view, worth it. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
