Another approach is to make worm bandages out of very coarse thread that quickly adds up to something. My Compact Oxford English Dictionary has a bookmark that is a long strip of cloth stitch made of three colors of Knit-Cro-Sheen, with white bedspread cotton for the passives. The footsides are very untidy because Knit-Cro-Sheen is twisted the wrong way.
The units of measurement in The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics are marked by a fringe which, when pulled, reveals a bedspread-cotton bookmark like the one in the OED, but nicely made and only six inches long. I once braided strings for a pair of crocheted booties, which, with the aid of four bobbins, was less tedious than crocheting them. -- Joy "reflexes of a plant" Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
