On Jan 13, 2007, at 10:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacquie) wrote:
Use a pin to hold both the knotted and loop end to the back of the
work.
Make sure that you haven't pulled the pairs away from the pin as you
do this;
leave a little slack in the magic thread.
As you work around you will need to move the pin and thread out of
your way,
probably more than once.
This pinning of the ends used to bug me no end; not only did the pins
have to be moved, but they, somewhow, always managed to be in my way
anyway. So now, I just put the knotted end through the looped end and
pull, gently, till the magic loop is *almost* entirely the knotted end
(I don't tighten it).Then, throughout the work, I just sweep all the
long, knotted ends out of my way, en masse, and tuck them under the
work cloth. And sort them out when I'm ready to use them. I then put a
blunt needle into the loop and pull the loop end to release the knotted
end and to make it available for its real purpose.
Mind you, if I have more than 10 of those, sorting them out is a job
for Job -- tedious in the extreme and requiring more patience than I
usually have. Sue Fink's idea of pinning them all onto a single,
move-able strip of styrofoam might be a better solution.
When you are ready to do the sewing, sort out the appropriate magic
thread
and make sure it is sliding freely.
One way to make sure that the magic thread is, in fact, sliding freely
is to set it up slightly differently. Jacquie said:
Hang the pair(s) on at the pin hole as needed and pass the loop end of
your
magic thread into the centre of the pair(s) and out under one side.
If you make sure that the magic loop goes under the pairs *and under
the pin* before going over the pairs, enclosing the pin (working pairs
on top of it, the magic loop below), then you'll have enough wiggle
room, once that pin is removed, even if you managed to tension your
working pairs more than you meant to. Well... It's true with most pins;
don't know how much extra room an insect pin would add :)
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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