Re: [lace] lace on hankies
On 3/14/09 2:51 PM, Lorri Ferguson wrote: . . . . You can often find good quality handkerchief material in 'men's' handkerchiefs. They are usually larger than women's so after finishing your 'lace edging' in a square, cut down the center of the 'man's handkerchief' to the size needed. No need to purchase the full width of a piece of yardage. Look for shirting as well as for lawn. Truly-fine shirting is almost as hard to find as real handkerchief linen, but there are still men around who pay thousands of dollars for suits and want shirts worthy of them. I bought some plaid linen-blend shirting because it was on clearance, and found that it was meant for fine shirts -- twelve-inch squares of it make splendid spectacle-cleaning rags, and fit my back pocket better than sixteen-inch men's hankies. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where sheltered daffodils are in bud. - 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 hankies
Has anyone thought of Copeland Linens in Ireland??? They do hankerchief linen as well as linens for embroidery. Daphne Martin norfolk England Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:54:29 -0500 From: joybee...@comcast.net To: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] lace on hankies On 3/14/09 2:51 PM, Lorri Ferguson wrote: . . . . You can often find good quality handkerchief material in 'men's' handkerchiefs. They are usually larger than women's so after finishing your 'lace edging' in a square, cut down the center of the 'man's handkerchief' to the size needed. No need to purchase the full width of a piece of yardage. Look for shirting as well as for lawn. Truly-fine shirting is almost as hard to find as real handkerchief linen, but there are still men around who pay thousands of dollars for suits and want shirts worthy of them. I bought some plaid linen-blend shirting because it was on clearance, and found that it was meant for fine shirts -- twelve-inch squares of it make splendid spectacle-cleaning rags, and fit my back pocket better than sixteen-inch men's hankies. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where sheltered daffodils are in bud. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com _ All your Twitter and other social updates in one place - 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 hankies
I found some lovely quality mens handerchiefs on ebay and have them here now for when the lace is ready. First one on the pillow now. Taking it on my travel but will wash and press the hanky before I attach one to the other. Sut T, Dorset UK . . . . You can often find good quality handkerchief material in 'men's' handkerchiefs. They are usually larger than women's so after finishing your 'lace edging' in a square, cut down the center of the 'man's handkerchief' to the size needed. No need to purchase the full width of a piece of yardage. Look for shirting as well as for lawn. Truly-fine shirting is almost as hard to find as real handkerchief linen, but there are still men around who pay thousands of dollars for suits and want shirts worthy of them. I bought some plaid linen-blend shirting because it was on clearance, and found that it was meant for fine shirts -- twelve-inch squares of it make splendid spectacle-cleaning rags, and fit my back pocket better than sixteen-inch men's hankies. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where sheltered daffodils are in bud. - 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 hankies
Sue T Dorset, UK Bobbin Lace and Glass engravings http://www.hurwitzend.co.uk Liz, This one had me wondering about thread sizes and choice of hanky material. If you were working lace of any kind in say cordonet 100 or something similar on one and then chose to work bucks point which would be probably something like the broder machine 50, would they both still look reasonable on the same fabric, or one a bit heavy and one very delicate on too heavy cotton? As you can see, even 2 hours short of sleep again, you have my brain working away, g Sue T Hello Spiders, Janice wrote that she made the lace very slightly larger than the actual hankie and eased the fabric along the sides and corners to make the lace fit. This reminded me of the first Bucks hankie edging that I made. I originally had planned to make a sample, but I was enjoying it so much that I decided to continue it into a square. I was so pleased with it that I wanted to enter it into the County Craft show, so I began to mount the lace on to an oversize piece of fine cotton fabric. That's when I discovered that three sides had 12 heads and the fourth side had 13!! I had lots of 'fun' stretching three sides and easing the fourth one on to the carefully pulled thread square. Funnily enough the judge didn't notice that there were too many repeats in one edge. She only saw my straight start which I did because it was only going to be a sample. Since that day I've never been worried what judges think of my work. I know my faults and always say, I'll do it better next time. Liz Pass In Poole, UK After a beautiful spring day - 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 hankies
I bought a whole batch of different size hankies by mail order from the UK many years ago. The edges were hemstitched ready to take lace, the quality was beautiful fine Irish linen, but they were definitely NOT square. I ended up drawing up my own simple edge which worked up about 4cm deep, but only had a 1.4cm repeat to the pattern when worked in Finca 40,so that I could put an extra repeat in two sides. I called it the Cooma Kiss (for Keep It Simple Stupid). It just consisted of a little crown on the head side, a row of diamonds in cloth or half stitch, two rows of spiders (with or without gimps), another of diamonds and a little bit of ground. If anyone wants a PDF file, just email me direct and state the type of thread you would be using. Noelene in Cooma nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au Another thing to bear in mind is that often the premade hankies with the entredot sp edging are not always square. Janice - 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 hankies
Hello Spiders, Janice wrote that she made the lace very slightly larger than the actual hankie and eased the fabric along the sides and corners to make the lace fit. This reminded me of the first Bucks hankie edging that I made. I originally had planned to make a sample, but I was enjoying it so much that I decided to continue it into a square. I was so pleased with it that I wanted to enter it into the County Craft show, so I began to mount the lace on to an oversize piece of fine cotton fabric. That's when I discovered that three sides had 12 heads and the fourth side had 13!! I had lots of 'fun' stretching three sides and easing the fourth one on to the carefully pulled thread square. Funnily enough the judge didn't notice that there were too many repeats in one edge. She only saw my straight start which I did because it was only going to be a sample. Since that day I've never been worried what judges think of my work. I know my faults and always say, I'll do it better next time. Liz Pass In Poole, UK After a beautiful spring day - 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 hankies
I must say I prefer the lace with corners to considering cutting lace, g, and for my current purposes I will be doing this method, but I have made some lace yardage to edge things, in the way you describe and it worked well. I have phoned and found my local fabric shops sells some cotton lawn, I expect I will be trying to make my own hanky. Unless I come across something else that will work for my purpose. Thank you all for the great help and insight. I know you have been here before and thank you for sharing your thoughts with me and others. Sue T Bobbin Lace and Glass engravings http://www.hurwitzend.co.uk We touched on the subject of lace on hankies, and had reference to edging a hanky with store bought lace. Since we had new people on the List who have not seen the previous discussions in the past, I wanted to review a couple things about lace on hankies from previous discussions. Lace can be made for hankies in two different ways. One is the four cornered square of lace that will like mostly flat when sewn to fabric. This is very common now when we know we want a hanky and have more time to make it exactly as we want it. The other method is to make a long straight edging, then gather the lace around the corners of the hanky. (Our archives will have our extension discussions and directions for doing this.) This hanky may not lie completely flat when done, but does not take specially designed corners. This was the way lace was put on hankies way in the past when the lace was made one place, and sewn to the fabric by a different person. The lacemaker did not know the destination of her lace when she was making it, so much yardage was made, then adapted to the desired use by the purchaser. Yes, the lace yardage could have been cut to make mitered corners but fine handmade lace was seldom cut any more than absolutely necessary. Lace was re-used, and I would guess that one long piece was much more usable than four short pieces. Alice in Oregon -- had a lovely day but two rain fronts are due tomorrow. - 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 hankies
Just a reminder as I believe it has been mentioned here before. You can often find good quality handkerchief material in 'men's' handkerchiefs. They are usually larger than women's so after finishing your 'lace edging' in a square, cut down the center of the 'man's handkerchief' to the size needed. No need to purchase the full width of a piece of yardage. Lorri I have phoned and found my local fabric shops sells some cotton lawn, I expect I will be trying to make my own hanky. Unless I come across something else that will work for my purpose. Thank you all for the great help and insight. I know you have been here before and thank you for sharing your thoughts with me and others. Sue T - 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 hankies
If you want some nice hankies all ready to attach lace try hhtatting.com (Handy Hands Tatting) and check out their catalog. Norma (Salem, VA) http://normasneedlez.blogspot.com http://sistersstitching.blogspot.com NATA #847 Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
