RE: [lace] Copies of prickings from dark sources

2015-06-14 Thread Jean Nathan
Tracing and drawing are fine if your hands do what you want them to do. Mine don't now and it's very frustrating. Threading needle is difficult enough even with one of those wire thingies that you put trough the eye and pull the thread through, but getting a dot or a line (and a straight line) on

[lace] Copies of prickings from dark sources

2015-06-13 Thread Sally Jenkins
Hello all, This is my first foray into Arachne. I've been following the thread about making prickings from copies too dark to photocopy. If the pattern is fairly small and simple, I have been known to use tracing paper - in the U.S., this is a thin, tissue-like paper that is translucent. Placing