Re: [lace] dilema
Dear Friends, How about using simple flour paste -- flour and water (mix and cook one minute in the microwave). It dissolves in water if you want to loosen it. This paste is used to mount fans leaves to fan sticks so should work on your backing fabric. My Granny always added a little Methylated Spirits to that glue - she said it stopped it going off and smelling. She used an awful lot of it in her Papier Mache and I still have a couple of examples which are just fine, even though they are now over 70 years old. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] dilema
If you have enough thread length to sew in, but not enough to thread a needle, you could try using a thread loop to weave it in, i.e. folding a fine thread in half and feeding the loop through the eye of a needle as has been described here for doing sewings or adding beads. I've used this method for weaving in short threads in lace and in my other needlework. Lisa Thompson in Plano, Texas USA Rhiannon wrote: I have some ends from sewing out which have come undone from their knot ... I am trying to sew these out through some fabric backing but very short now! Does any one know of a miracle to solve this issue? fray check from the other side of fabric? I'm sure as always someone will have a cunning plan! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] dilema
Hello to you all, I have some ends from sewing out which have come undone from their knot ... I am trying to sew these out through some fabric backing but very short now! Does any one know of a miracle to solve this issue? fray check from the other side of fabric? I'm sure as always someone will have a cunning plan! Thanks in advance Rhiannon (in chilly Ireland) _ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] dilema
Definitely not fray check - it goes yellow after a short while. Sue - Original Message - From: Rhiannon Mann To: arachne Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:20 PM Subject: [lace] dilema Hello to you all, I have some ends from sewing out which have come undone from their knot ... I am trying to sew these out through some fabric backing but very short now! Does any one know of a miracle to solve this issue? fray check from the other side of fabric? I'm sure as always someone will have a cunning plan! Thanks in advance Rhiannon (in chilly Ireland) _ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] dilema
Thank SUE but ends would be on other side of backing fabric and the thread is blue so maybe i would go green?? Rhiannon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] dilema Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:28:48 -0500 Definitely not fray check - it goes yellow after a short while. Sue - Original Message - From: Rhiannon Mann To: arachne Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:20 PM Subject: [lace] dilema Hello to you all, I have some ends from sewing out which have come undone from their knot ... I am trying to sew these out through some fabric backing but very short now! Does any one know of a miracle to solve this issue? fray check from the other side of fabric? I'm sure as always someone will have a cunning plan! Thanks in advance Rhiannon (in chilly Ireland) _ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] dilema
It depends on what you're planning to do with this. If it will be framed under glass, then perhaps a solution would be to use a drop of super glue on the tip-end of a tooth-pick to coax the thread end into position. Remove the toothpick immediately, to avoid that becoming a permanent part of your piece!! The place that you have super-glued will be very inflexible... so be sure it is flat when you're working it. Unless you add far too much super-glue to the tip of the tooth-pick, the tiny speck of glue will hold the end of your thread to just the point you want - and nothing else. Still, as Geri and any other textile purist will tell you, this diminishes the value of your work unless all you really want is the joy of seeing a pretty piece you lovingly worked for so long! And... this is often all we ever want! This won't be one of your State Fair entries. But a casual observer will scarcely notice. Clay Rhiannon Mann wrote: Thank SUE but ends would be on other side of backing fabric and the thread is blue so maybe i would go green?? Rhiannon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] dilema Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:28:48 -0500 Definitely not fray check - it goes yellow after a short while. Sue - Original Message - From: Rhiannon Mann To: arachne Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:20 PM Subject: [lace] dilema Hello to you all, I have some ends from sewing out which have come undone from their knot ... I am trying to sew these out through some fabric backing but very short now! Does any one know of a miracle to solve this issue? fray check from the other side of fabric? I'm sure as always someone will have a cunning plan! Thanks in advance Rhiannon (in chilly Ireland) _ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get 30 Free Emoticons for your Windows Live Messenger - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] dilema
At 07:28 AM 17/10/2008, Sue Babbs wrote: Definitely not fray check - it goes yellow after a short while. I've heard that. but it is my experience that the Australian version of Fray Stop does NOT go yellow. Wonder what the difference is??? David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] dilema
Not Fray Check..please. I doubt you'd see blue, just yellow. Anyway there are some brands of similar stuff that don't turn yellow. I would suggest common white glue...if the item is never intended to be unframed. If there is any possibility that it might be taken apart in the future, how about using simple flour paste -- flour and water (mix and cook one minute in the microwave). It dissolves in water if you want to loosen it. This paste is used to mount fans leaves to fan sticks so should work on your backing fabric. And remember not to seal the back air tight if you have glass on the front. Leave some 'breathing' space between the glass and the lace also. If there is no glass on the front, then there's lots of breathing space. Alice in Oregon -- just home from Theology of Wine class. Tonight was German wines. - Original Message ...but ends would be on other side of backing fabric and the thread is blue so maybe i would go green?? - Original Message - From: Rhiannon Mann To: arachne Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:20 PM Subject: [lace] dilema Hello to you all, I have some ends from sewing out which have come undone from their knot ... I am trying to sew these out through some fabric backing but very short now! Does any one know of a miracle to solve this issue? fray check from the other side of fabric? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
