Re: [lace] Wrapps per inch
On 6/06/11 11:27 AM, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: The beauty of Brenda's book, is that all the wpi are done by her, - therefore the same hand and the same tension. This means it is a better comparison than each of us doing our own measure! Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz lizl...@bigpond.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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 NO tension by the same hand can vary quite significantly! Anna - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Wrapps per inch
NO, tension by the same hand can vary quite significantly! But surely not as much as us each doing our own. So long as the winder is aware of the amount of tension they are putting on the thread, and with practise, there will be some consistency. Also I think I am right in saying that Brenda does more than one for each thread, and the final figure is an average. I have always found it an excellent book for selecting threads as substitutes to those suggested by a designer, or to change from one fibre to another, or to collect a group of very similar threads to sample for a particular grid. But NO book or chart will completely replace working a sample, because in the same way as each person will thread wrap differently, each person's lacemaking tension is different. Because of the more stretch/thinner thread relationship, someone with very firm tension can work with a thicker thread than someone who has slacker tensioning. Thus, if the original sample of a piece of lace is worked with a thread towards the thick range for that design, and another lacemaker with less tight tension works the same combination, the latter will most likely struggle to make the lace, and will end up with a clumpy looking piece of work. The reverse, of course, is that if your tension is tighter than the original lacemaker's, your lace may end up looking too whispy for your taste. So, particularly if you are about to start a large project, even if you have bought a pattern and the recommended thread, please take an hour or so to work a small sample of something like a cloth stitch diamond and a little ground; this you can unpin and have a sample to handle as well as seeing what it looks like, to decide if it is the right thread for you, your lacemaking with that pattern, and how you like your lace to look and feel. When the project itself may take you hundreds of hours, this small precaution is well worth doing. Jacquie in Lincolnshire - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Postcard Exchange
I have received 24 participation requests from the following arachneans (in order of receipt): Lorri Ferguson of Washington, USA Sallie Owenby of Wyoming, USA Sue Duckles of East Yorkshire, UK Anne Nicholas of Middlesex, UK Antje González of Spain Joepie Hammett of East Sussex, UK Pat Hallam of Nottingham, UK Ilse Depaepe of Belgium Laura Sandison of New Mexico, USA Miriam Gidron of Israel Janet Theaker of East Yorkshire, UK Lesley Blackshaw of Cheshire, UK Dawn Podsiad of Delaware, USA Beth McCasland of Washington, USA Nicky Hoewener-Townsend of Suffolk, UK Barbara Stokes of NSW, Australia Sue M. Harvey of Norfolk, UK Diane Z of Maine, USA Amber Lackey of Virginia, USA Eve Hoffenkamp of Minnesota, USA Dona Bushong of Guam Laura Forrester of Tasmania, Australia Kathy Hensel of Oregon, USA Let me know if you sent me an e-mail your name is missing. We have 6 new participants this year. Does anyone else want to be included? Deadline is Friday, 15th June then send out addresses on the Wednesday, 20th June. Ciao for now, Pene in Tartu, Estonia where it is warming up the mosquitoes are swarming! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Re: black thread
Dear Alice, DO NOT use blue film for black thread. The contrast is poor. White might be a bit stark, but a light pastel sounds like a better choice. I know now, for next time. I know exactly what you mean, and in my experience I find it easiest to use blue backing for white thread and an apple green colour for black. Not sure why this works so well as my colours are much richer than pastel. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Wrapps per inch
So long as the winder is aware of the amount of tension they are putting on the thread, and with practise, there will be some consistency. Yes with practice tension on a winding does become more even. I know that I usually knit or crochet to the stated tension if I'm using the same yarn and needles/hook, and I think that I probably use a fairly average sort of tension when making windings. Also I think I am right in saying that Brenda does more than one for each thread, and the final figure is an average. Yes - if it comes out the sime first two times that's it, but if it varies sometimes needs four or five wrappings to get the final/published figure. but NO book or chart will completely replace working a sample, There's so much more to a thread than just the thickness. Direction and firmness of spinning, fibre content and various treatments that the fibres may or may not have had during the thread manufacturing process. So, particularly if you are about to start a large project, even if you have bought a pattern and the recommended thread, please take an hour or so to work a small sample of something like a cloth stitch diamond and a little ground; this you can unpin and have a sample to handle as well as seeing what it looks like, to decide if it is the right thread for you, Jane Atkinson's new book 'Contemporary Lace for You' has a very simple diamond and ground pricking in graded sizes from 3mm between foot edge pins to 10 mm between pins which she uses for sampling threads. It is surprising sometimes just how much variation in the density of pinholes some threads can take. There will always be an optimum pin density for any given thread, but spread the pinholes out for a lighter airier look and crowd them in for a heavier, denser appearance. Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Spider Web fabric
Hi All, I was just exploring a little and came across this wonderful spider web fabric. Very cute! The Eric Carle museum focuses on children's pictures books, Eric Carle illustrated The Hungry Caterpillar among other books. http://www.carlemuseum.org/Shop/Fabric Jane in Vermont, USA where we are having a lovely day- blue skies, temperate temperatures and green leaves! jvik...@sover.net - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Jean's Floral Bucks Book
Hi David and everyone My copy arrived last week - as Jean points out the craftsmanship is exceptional. Each pattern composed from a unit pricking. I want to focus on a Binche project before hanging bobbins for one of the florals - in the meantime they are good reading, much like reading a piece of music to oneself, would anyone else agree? What a gift from Joyce via her daughter Maggy, and Jean. On 6/6/11, David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au wrote: Dear Jean, your Floral Bucks Point book arrived here safe and sound today, and what a feast for the eyes. These pieces are exactly the type I love so much. -- 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Re: working with black thread
I use light or medium grey as background for everything -- white, black and colour. It provides enough contrast for me (except grey itself, of course), being a neutral colour it doesn't interfere with any other, and it doesn't make my eyes tired from being loud or too distinct. Years ago, I bought two huge rolls of medium grey transparent Contact plastic and put that over patterns printed on white paper. Now that its beginning to run low and I'm trying to conserve it as much as I can (I've not been able to replace it), I laid in a supply of grey printer paper, run my patterns off on that and cover them with the -- easily available -- transparent, no colour, Contact plastic. The colour of the card is, for me, immaterial, since the pattern (printed on ordinary weight paper -- cheaper than card) is stuck on top of it, before the whole is covered with plastic. -- 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] of lace bicycle baskets
Hello All! I must be channeling Lyn or vice versa! I too saw an opportunity for creatively saving money on a bicycle basket but I didn't plan to do all the work myself. Lyn, you're an over-achiever!! On Sat. I was in Waterford, PA in a little antique shop was looking over her fine selection of vintage lace linens when the air raid/tornado siren went off. Heck yes--it was a tornado a monstrous, funky black saucer shaped cloud that looked like an alien space ship passed near the downtown with thready funnel shapes dangling from it. Horizontal rain, hail waves in the street. Needless to say, as soon as it passed I headed for home without purchasing anything but this place is worth a return trip with lace doilies lace trimmed embroidered items for $2-3 each. My thought was to make a patchwork of vintage pieces cover a new or used basket. Sort of like the cloth lining on a picnic basket except on the outside. Here in Millcreek Township, the recreation center runs basket making classes they are free for seniors! The same guy that taught me to cane a chair seat teaches the baskets other types of weaving. Although I don't own a bike, it sure would make a clever personal gift. Hmmm. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA where it will be 90* on Wed so I'd better finish planting my flowers tomorrow - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
