Re: [lace] major disaster
It is my feeling that it is time to admit that the amount of effort required to complete this piece of lace and to afix it to an antique tray cloth that has waited for 25 years to be trimmed is excessive. Clearly this is some kind of exercise in sentiment with huge emotional content, not the mere production of a tray cloth. I think that you should buy a shadow box and then artfully arrange the lace, with or without the tray cloth, in the box so that the best parts are prominently displayed and the worst parts are concealed somewhere in the rear. Careful arranging, possibly in casual folds (held in place with a few stitches if necessary) could obscure the difference in size between the sides. You could have a nice card in the box, possibly done in calligraphy, describing any salient facts about the piece, such as the 25 years it took to produce and the fact that it was completed by a different person than the one who started it. Maybe you could even put a couple of the bobbins used to produce it in the box. If it were me, I would enjoy looking at it in the box more than I would enjoy using a tray cloth. After all, if the cloth has to be laundered all the picots will have to be pinned out again. Devon lazy as ever - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] major disaster
Thank you to all you kind, sympathetic, spiders for your thoughts about my latest episode. I had known right from when I discovered my mistake that I would probably end up undoing the lace. The fates were just against me on this one. The whole idea of undoing the tiny hidden knots in the finish has me scared spit less. What if I accidently cut the lace? The thread is so old supposing it just shreds on me? Iâm going to need not only my Maglite but probably magnifiers on my glasses as well. However, tomorrow Iâll bite the bullet and hopefully nothing untoward will happen. Iâll keep you posted. Sharon, on Vancouver Island where the rain is just relentless. - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] major disaster
My friend made a round tablecloth. The instructions on the outside ring listed the wrong number of repeats. It was too small by one repeat when she tried to assemble the rings. She had to cut it open next to the start/finish line, remove the old tie-off threads, wind and sew on a new set in the loops of the start, and make a couple repeats. This then required the overlap method of finishing to attach the new section to the old neatly. She had no choice of method since this ring had to fit around the previous ring on the cloth. If you stretch/shrink the lace to fit, it will revert to the original size when it's washed. You have two choices to make it look good. One is to do as listed above, and make another repeat. The other is to cut the long side, overlap the edges one repeat worth, and sew together in the overlap method. Since both methods will require the same type of overlap finishing, it would be faster to shorten the long side instead of making more lace to lengthen the short side. It depends on the item you are putting the lace on, which way would be best. Do you need the full length of the long side? Or will the shorter length work? Best wishes to the project. Alice in Oregon -- where it's gray, no sun, just fog all day. - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] major disaster
Make a separate piece, about 1.5 motifs long, undo the join you just made, and patch it in. You will have 2 finished joins instead of just one, but otherwise it will be easier to make it look nice than trying to work in the threads you’ve already cut off. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > On Feb 13, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Rick & Sharon Whiteley > wrote: > > Remember the problem picots? I’ve spent hours pinning it all out, the lace > looks beautiful. I’m on the final couple of inches and disaster has struck. > I had wrongly assumed that the pricking was of a quarter of the edging. It > wasn’t. I am a whole motif short on one side ..and that after having made > an almost invisible join. The way I see it I have two options, neither is > going to be perfect. One is to try and stretch the short side out as far I > can and shrink the long side ..about an inch and a quarter. The other, which > I’m horrified even thinking about given my almost perfect join, is to unpick > about three inches, join in new threads, and lace in the missing length ..that > could take days. I feel absolutely sick because I have to say I had done a > darn good job up until now. What would you do? Any opinions would be > gratefully accepted. Sharon on dark, soggy Vancouver Island (matches my > current mood) - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] major disaster
Remember the problem picots? Iâve spent hours pinning it all out, the lace looks beautiful. Iâm on the final couple of inches and disaster has struck. I had wrongly assumed that the pricking was of a quarter of the edging. It wasnât. I am a whole motif short on one side ..and that after having made an almost invisible join. The way I see it I have two options, neither is going to be perfect. One is to try and stretch the short side out as far I can and shrink the long side ..about an inch and a quarter. The other, which Iâm horrified even thinking about given my almost perfect join, is to unpick about three inches, join in new threads, and lace in the missing length ..that could take days. I feel absolutely sick because I have to say I had done a darn good job up until now. What would you do? Any opinions would be gratefully accepted. Sharon on dark, soggy Vancouver Island (matches my current mood) - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Lace boat
I had already emailed my suspicion to Tess, but checking Pinterest has confirmed that it was one of my former students, Jenny Boonham's entry for The Lace Guild's Movement competition in 2010. My memory of the boat was hazy, but I remembered her working on the waves. Jenny also created the cyclist figures for our group entry, Going for Gold. Sent from my iPhone - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Thread book
Hi Miriam If you have anything other than the latest version you need the addendum list with the same number as the book you have plus all earlier addendum lists. For instance if you have Ed4 you need Addenda 4, 5 and in due course 6. Anyone who buys Ed 6 will only need Addenda 6 - which will start when something different comes along. Brenda in Allhallows paternos...@appleshack.com www.brendapaternoster.co.uk > On 13 Feb 2015, at 16:52, Miriam Gidron wrote: > > Hi Brenda, > > Congratulations on your new thread book. > > Will there be an addendum/supplement for those who have an older edtion of > your book.or willwe have to buy the new edition. > > Miriam > In a very dusty Arad, Israel > > - > 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Boat
Hello Tess and everyone This is a well-made and inventive piece of 3D lace! If you have the pinterest page it is on, there is a 'pinned from' link below the image. Click to find where it came from, could take a few jumps for the original source. If you only have this picture, let's hope someone recognizes it. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Tess Parrish wrote: > A recent posting on Pinterest has come to my attention, and I would like > to be able to give the lacemaker her proper due. See: > > > http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/1200x/7a/18/02/7a1802d66f98faedffb4aa5d21e8d5a3.jpg > > -- Bev looking at early spring flowers 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Thread book
Hi Brenda, Congratulations on your new thread book. Will there be an addendum/supplement for those who have an older edtion of your book.or willwe have to buy the new edition. Miriam In a very dusty Arad, Israel - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Boat
A recent posting on Pinterest has come to my attention, and I would like to be able to give the lacemaker her proper due. See: http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/1200x/7a/18/02/7a1802d66f98faedffb4aa5d21e8d5a3.jpg It is a little sailboat with one of the most inspiring and original treatment of ocean water that I have ever seen. If anyone knows who made it, I'm sure we would all want to thank her for it. Tess (tess1...@aol.com) in Maine where more snow is predicted for tomorrow--3 ft. deep already, the problem being where to put it all after shoveling and plowing! - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
