Jane, Mary and the Spiders,
This thread brings sparks a great interest in me! One of my class has the
most awful trouble with threads unwinding, and nothing any of us can suggest
makes any difference.
Most of my class members use my threads (?) and the bobbins the lady is
question uses are
Does that student have her pillow very flat - ie parallel to the table
so that there is no tension whatsoever on the threads as they lie on
the pillow? Only other suggestion is that her Richard Ives bobbins are
*very* smooth and thus allow the hitch to slip.
Brenda
On 1 Apr 2005, at 12:08,
At 03:08 AM 4/1/2005, you wrote:
We have tried extra
hitches, which works until one wants to lengthen the threads, winding the
'wrong' way ie. counter clockwise, and whatever the rest of the class
suggests but - no joyCan I prevail upon you all to give some answers
to this?
First, hitching
And on a related theme to Carol's request for ideas why one lady's hitches
won't stay even though using the same thread, bobbin and method as the rest of
the class, has anyone got any thoughts about why just one or two threads out
of
40 or 50 on a pillow untwist and run the risk of breaking.
Hi everyone!
I just got a message, and realized that I forgot to put down Divider pins!
Yes, they are available, the price is $3.00 US. If you want to know what that
amount is without doing a currency conversion, just look at what the price is
for shipping and handling, it's the same amount.
Hi all!
I read Tamera's note about not getting last years' commeratives. I do have
some left over, also some from 2003. Buzz me if you want more info.
JoAnne Pruitt
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Hi Mikki
I would love to see your photos but cannot find them using this URL. I was
in South Africa 3 years ago and saw some lace in the Orange Free State made
by Emily Hobhouse. Can't remember the name of the museum but there was a
memorial to the Boer Women outside. The staff were very
Hey, I thought I was the only one that stuck her finger out to make hitches!
LOL!
I think I must have learned this method from my very first lace teacher,
Betty Alderson.
Jane wrote:
If your thread is wound clockwise as you look down on the head, if you
hold the bobbin horizontally in your
Brenda et al,
No - she uses a cookie pillow of her own, or one of my 'roller' pillows at
the moment. Same trouble - and it isn't just one of the bobbins, it is
most, if not all, of them. Personally, I put it down to gremlins, and have
no idea what to do about them!
Carol - with thanks to all
From: Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One of my class has the
most awful trouble with threads unwinding, and nothing any of us
can suggest makes any difference.
Well, several people have talked about the direction of the hitch. Another
thing is how you pull on the bobbin, especially to
From: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Only other suggestion is that her Richard Ives
bobbins are *very* smooth and thus allow the hitch to slip.
I've gotten rather fussy about the bobbins I buy. Some may be gorgeous, but
don't have a good enough head for me (if I remember correctly,
From: Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One of my class has the
most awful trouble with threads unwinding, and nothing any of us
can suggest makes any difference.
To anyone not sure of the double hitch, it's not two separate hitches.
It just means that, when you make the loop around the head,
Sounds to me like she hasn't got her bobbins properly trained! You've got to
teach them who's boss, just like horses and computers. One bobbin like that is
a renegade, but a whole pillow full is poor training. G
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Robin said:
I've gotten rather fussy about the bobbins I buy.
Some may be gorgeous, but don't have a good enough head for me
I whole heartedly agree with Robin, particularly when I'm using unusual
threads (cotton linen tend to behave nicely, but that isn't true of all
threads)
My favourite
Hi everyone!
I just got a message, and realized that I forgot to put down Divider pins!
Yes, they are available, the price is $3.00 US. If you want to know what that
amount is without doing a currency conversion, just look at what the price is
for shipping and handling, it's the same amount.
Hi all!
I read Tamera's note about not getting last years' commeratives. I do have
some left over, also some from 2003. Buzz me if you want more info.
JoAnne Pruitt
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Hi All,
This is pyrographed on a beeswax holder I had from Peter Papworth, here in the
UK, quite a few years ago now - he was a great bobbin maker, but I think he
retired, and I haven't seen him for some years.
'I pray that, risen from the dead,
In glory I will stand.
A crown perhaps upon my
Well, friends--making lace in the hotel lobby will *not* count as
official demo time. The hours reported must be connected with some sort of
organized event.
So...continue to do demos at all those museums, fairs, craft shows,
schools, quilt shows, and similar acitivities. Then,
How can the IOLI convention not count as an organized event?!!!
Sue
Well, friends--making lace in the hotel lobby will *not* count as
official demo time. The hours reported must be connected with some sort
of organized event.
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Yes -- IOLI Conference is organized for *lacemakers* -- not the general
public. It does take a lot of organization to put one on -- but it would
be called a private event, rather than public. The words that came to me
defined it a 'formal' event, something organized, such as a festival or
Hi Spiders
For anyone in Suffolk and in particular the Lowestoft area the place to be
on April 9th is Carlton Colville for Suffolk Lacemakers second lace day of
the year. We have Jo Firth and Geoff Mudge attending as suppliers and our
speaker is Leslie Sercombe. Should be another good day, I'm
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