I've been playing with my CD this morning. I have just the first CD without
the techniques one, but that wouldn't make any difference to my opinion.
The instruction and projects videos seem to be made with a handheld
camcorder in their living room - very amateurish. The quality of the actual
Just got the program to accept my own images. They have to be monochrome
(black and white) images, not grey scale, but can have dithering. So all the
detail of scans or pictures is lost, which is why the lace images supplied
on the CD are so poor. It dies mean that black and white line drawings
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The cd has been made for the card makers amongst us.
If you have`nt got Sky, then you will find it on Alan Gear and Barry
Freestones website.
Wonder if they've latched on to this having seen Anne Weston and myself
demonstrating lace
If you have no one to help create tension as you wind the felted
material around the core, open a window (sash type), and close it
on one end of the material. Then begin winding, pulling hard against
the end caught in the window. I have done two bolsters this way:
they are nice and firm.
I think it would need something considerably thicker than a broom handle.
Maybe a short length of plastic pipe or drainpipe in the thickness
required...
Karen
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Help! Is there anyone on the list who knows the SW Portland area, and
can suggest any inexpensive place to stay within easy driving distance
of the Garden Home Recreation Center (7425 SW Oleson Road)?
I am considering taking a course there at the end of the month (not
lace-related) but it
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I think it would need something considerably thicker than a broom handle.
Maybe a short length of plastic pipe or drainpipe in the thickness
required...
Sure, a larger core would give an advantage, in that you'd have to
wrap less fabric around
Hello Spiders
It takes to to tango or stand on it are so obvious to get tight tension,
I wonder why I didn't think of it. Stapling the start to the (wood) core
seams better to me than taping.
I have already a selfmade bolster with other stuffing. The tin-can core
allows for a plastic bottle:
I'm sure that most, if not all countries, have carpet shops and their
carpets are wrapped around heavy (very thick) cardboard or fiberboard cores.
These cores will take staples and even carpet tacks. That is what I use - FH
cuts them the length I want with his woodshop saw, but any saw will do.
Cardboard is not water proof, but I could examine fiberboard.
I'm sure that most, if not all countries, have carpet shops and their
carpets are wrapped around heavy (very thick) cardboard or fiberboard
cores. These cores will take staples and even carpet tacks. That is what I
use - FH cuts
I took time off writing to attend the Textile Society AGM weekend at Leicester
University Halls of Residence in central England and returned home today. I
was so pleased to see another Arachne member there, my good friend Jane
Partridge. Although the weekend was devoted to subjects connected
Does it need to be waterproof?
Another source: If you have a printing press shop near you - they
could have a roll from the paper in the recycling bin (i.e. to give
you for free). I saw heaps of these at a place in town recently,
hadn't a use for them at the time and passed them by.
On 9/3/06,
Hello all,
Just wanted to say Hello and to let you know that I am back home from the
hospital now. Whew! What a week.
Lynn
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Ok here goes.
Sunday the 27th was my birthday yeah 51but I had flu like symptoms for a
few days. Monday I started having trouble breathing, thought maybe I had
thrown another clot into my lung. Off I go to the hospital, right back into
emergency room they run tests and only find that my
You poor thing! Thank goodness you are home and able to write about it. A
belated Happy Birthday, and lasting good health to you.
Margaret Holsinger
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