Re: [lace] Lace on the pillow
My current was only started in September last year, but is the longest running project of my lace story...a Barbara Underwood floral Beds piece, started at a workshop, then well and truly tanggled by a curious student at school when I took it to show them what I was working on. I have finally untanggled the bobbins and have moved from 1/3 way around to almost 1/2 thanks to our heatwave - record high temp on Thursday - and a very eager visitor turned lace student.  I also have a tatted doily, finally making some progress, with 9 of the 30 final round motives completed, but wont be able to share a pic for a while. Warm regards,  Laura Forrester @++ warm and wet Launceston Tasmania  laura_ros...@yahoo.com http://lauraslace.blogspot.com/ --- On Fri, 30/1/09, Alice Howell lacel...@verizon.net wrote: From: Alice Howell lacel...@verizon.net Subject: [lace] Lace on the pillow To: lace@arachne.com Received: Friday, 30 January, 2009, 10:00 PM During the cold weather I've been making some lace. I pulled out a Binche project started long ago and have been working on it. A couple bobbins on it say Happy Birthday 1999...so I must have started it that year. I know it was before I retired, so that is about right. I did the first inch...looking good. Then the next half inch was one of those where the threads keep changing places, and it's all screwed up. I refuse to take a bunch of it out, so I will soldier on, and hope it straightens itself out when I'm back to the simpler section. This will definitely NOT be a contest entry piece. G I've been told that anyone who manages to complete this sampler piece of Anny Noben Slagers can do most Binche patterns. Hope so, because I have her Dolphin pattern waiting. It only takes about 128 pairs of bobbins so I may have to inventory my bobbins, and buy some more. Has anyone used Honiton bobbins for Binche? I have enough of them to do the pattern. The weight would suit the fine thread used. So far I've broken two threads. Is this just from pulling too hard? Or has 10 years of sitting on the bobbins weakened the threads? Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon still in dense fog. Should go away in a couple days. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com Make Yahoo!7 your homepage and win a trip to the Quiksilver Pro. Find out more - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace on the pillow
Hi Alice and all Has anyone used Honiton bobbins for Binche? I have enough of them to do the pattern. The weight would suit the fine thread used. I don't know about binche, I've never done any, but I did once use honiton bobbins for a piece of very fine torchon (doll's house tablecloth using Cotona 80 thread). I wished I'd used my honiton pillow for it, as lying on a flattish pillow the bobbins didn't quite tension enough so I had to keep pulling them (gently) to get the threads into place. Juding from that experience, if your dolphin is small enough to work on a honiton pillow or on a small cookie balanced on a couple of books or something to allow the bobbins to hang off the edge that should be OK for any fine thread lace. If not, it's probably worth ordering a batch of cheapish bobbins - the ones some lace suppliers sell in bulk as beginners bobbins - to make up the numbers. You'll enjoy the lacemaking experience more, and the finished result will probably look better. Good luck with your binche. Beth in a bright but cold and windy Cheshire, NW England where the weather forecasters are threatening us with snow in a day or two. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace on the pillow
Alice wrote: So far I've broken two threads. Is this just from pulling too hard? Or has 10 years of sitting on the bobbins weakened the threads? Alice, I think it is 10 years old that is the problem. I had the same thing happen. I had not made binch in years and just took the bobbins out of the roll and began lacing. Threads were breaking all over the place. It was very fustrating. Especially when it is a worker in a tally, I knew tension wasn't the problem! Then I realized most of the thread was 10 years old. It ended up that my husband flipped the pillow in a bazare accident and his look of horror turned to astonishment when I thanked him! I then pulled off at least 3 yards of thread off each bobbin to get the whole of the outer covering off and started again. That solved the problem. Linda Young, Virginia Beach - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace on the pillow
oh dear, at first glance I thought you had been sitting on your bobbins - but you meant the thread. Of course. If the bobbins have been left with thread on, but kept out of sunlight and in quiet storage, the thread should still be ok. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Alice Howell lacel...@verizon.net wrote: So far I've broken two threads. Is this just from pulling too hard? Or has 10 years of sitting on the bobbins weakened the threads? hmm, using Honiton bobbins for Binche...could be, if you are using all Honiton? worth a try, if you have enough of them to do the pattern. Has anyone used Honiton bobbins for Binche? I have enough of them to do the pattern. The weight would suit the fine thread used. -- Bev having done an inch of the edging since I last wrote 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 arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace needle Lace Pillow
SMP lace sells needlelace pillows for £4 uncovered (£8 covered) See http://www.smplace.co.uk/sfr_cat.htm Sue (in snowy Illinois) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace needle Lace Pillow
While I covet a needlelace pillow with beautiful wood and turnings and perhaps a little drawer like the ones seen in books, I took a class with Irma Osterman and she had us use a tailor's ham. It worked fine, was inexpensive and did not eat up valuable lacemaking time in having to construct the pillow. Devon **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/10075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace - Needle Lace Pillow
You can see a picture of my needlelace pillow at _http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/_ (http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/) Choose the Gallery option, and you'll be able to select a variety of pictures of lace pillows. Needlelace is 3rd from bottom of list. My needlelace pillow has a specially-made tote bag with draw strings in suitable shape (not shown), made from the same fabric. Everything was made by a friend over 15 years ago, from the instructions in Starting Needlepoint Lace - A Course for Beginners by Valerie Grimwood, ISBN 0-7134-5806-2 (Batsford), pg. 14, 1989. Foreword by Nenia Lovesey. (Please note corrected spelling of Nenia's name.) As to the late Nenia Lovesey, there is a picture of her making lace on one of these pillows on the back flap of the book jacket of her book The Technique of Needlepoint Lace, ISBN 0-88332-249--8 (Publisher: Larousse Co., NY), 1980. She is sitting at a table, with the pillow on the table top (not in lap). There is a picture of a young girl making needlelace on a pillow in another book by Lovesey: pg. 78 of Reflections on Lace, ISBN 0-85219-750-0 (Dryad Press), 1988. She is sitting at a table, with the needlelace pillow in a wooden stand to prevent rolling. Towards the front of this book are photos of very young children making bobbin lace! Some people prefer to make needlelace in the hand. I saw professional lace-making Hungarian women making Halas lace in this way. My needlelace pillow has been used for other purposes, such as to anchor small pieces of silk batiste that were being hand smocked -- dainty butterflies. Kept them from jumping around. When you handle needlework less, it does not get dirty from hands. A stand is nice, but a fluffy bath towel can be used as a base to keep the round pillow from moving around if you have problems. It will pack better in a tote bag. I liked the suggestions to use a tailor's ham or long pressing aid for seams. Please note that for most types of embroidery (which needlelace is) it is best to sit in a straight-back chair at a table, with suitable light. This is the way professional embroiderers work - and they are able to stitch many hours per day. Jeri Ames Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 1/11/2009 10:40:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, miness.stn.ba...@sympatico.ca writes: -A friend who is a superb needlelacer but is not on the Lace list send me the following -e-mail . I obtained a used copy of a book on needle lace, a great book by Nenia Livesay. Needle lace used to be worked on a needle lace pillow so you can use both hands and the author recommends using one. I have to hold it with one hand. There is a picutre in this old book. I have searched for one, have looked on the Lacis website and have not found any such thing. It is different than a bobbin lace pillow. Have you ever heard of a needlelace pillow in your years of doing lace? If I can't find such a thing, I may try to make one up to see if it helps when I start another project. -Replies to forward to my friend will be appreciated -Thanks in advance Hendrika van Kooten Simcoe County Lacemakers Township of Springwater Ontario, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/10075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Lace needle Lace Pillow
-A friend who is a superb needlelacer but is not on the Lace list send me the following -e-mail . I obtained a used copy of a book on needle lace, a great book by Nenia Livesay. Needle lace used to be worked on a needle lace pillow so you can use both hands and the author recommends using one. I have to hold it with one hand. There is a picutre in this old book. I have searched for one, have looked on the Lacis website and have not found any such thing. It is different than a bobbin lace pillow. Have you ever heard of a needlelace pillow in your years of doing lace? If I can't find such a thing, I may try to make one up to see if it helps when I start another project. -Replies to forward to my friend will be appreciated -Thanks in advance Hendrika van Kooten Simcoe County Lacemakers Township of Springwater Ontario, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Lace needle Lace Pillow
A needlelace pillow is smaller than a bolster pillow, but larger than the roller from a roller pillow. A padded cylinder on the order of 4-6 (10-15 cm) in diameter and 8-10 (20-30 cm) long. The actual size is not important. What is important is to have some curvature, to get the ends of the project out of the way. Put a dowel (may 3/4 or 18 mm) under the project at the point where you're working, to make it easier to get the needle under stitches and out again. The dowel is the equivalent of the finger you fold your work over while stitching in the hand. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com Hendrika van Kooten miness.stn.ba...@sympatico.ca wrote: Needle lace used to be worked on a needle lace pillow so you can use both hands and the author recommends using one. I have to hold it with one hand. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] lace keeping a pillow in place
Hello I used a thing called over here non slip mat. I have a group and I use it on the tables so the pillows don`t wander around the table. It used to be sold in QD stores, but I have got some from £1 shops. There is a range of colours as well. Camping and boating shops sell it as well. I have bought a very fine mesh plus a larger mesh. It does`nt mat which you use, it all works a dream. I could`nt do without it. It is nice to not have the pillow slipping and sliding around. DaphneSunny mild Norfolk England where spring has finally srung _ Win 100s of Virgin Experience days with BigSnapSearch.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
