Sorry not to snip but need both posts to explain my answer.
When I make a mistake on the lines on my pricking, I very, very gently scratch
the line out and the rub the offending place down with the wooden end of my
bulbous pricker. After I've made my first piece of lace with the pricking you
w
Can you still get that now?
If not a small tube of acrylic paint could be substituted, but choose an
opaque colour, not a transparent one! Yellow ochre is opaque as is titanium
white.
Brenda
> On 16 Jun 2015, at 08:33, Leonard Bazar wrote:
>
> Using permanent ink means a bottle of white typing
Alex Stillwell wrote:
but am puzzled why so many continue to use it on bobbin lace prickings.
I usually cover my prickings with clear plastic, for several reasons:
1. As others have said, to protect from moisture. Those of us living in dry
climates (humidity here can be so far below 1%
"I'm assuming laser dots are colour fast?"
I use a HP Laserjet 1022 and no, it is not color fast. In fact I can even
erase it off the paper.
Susie in Illinois
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And I found that my carefully pricked holes closed up in the plastic cover.
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And I found that my carefully pricked holes closed up in the plastic cover.
Cynthia
On Jun 8, 2015, at 4:47 PM, Alex Stillwell wrote:
> Hi Beth
>
> Re: Copying a brown pattern-clear contact paper - I still prefer to prick my
> patterns the traditional way ...
>
> It is good to see some lacem
i found many years ago while demonstrating that if i put my feet up on a
flat brick, that little bit saved not only my feet but my lower back too.
it is tense work sharing our lovelies. because of the weight, i didn't
want to carry 2 bricks with me so i got styrofoam and used that. you can
cover
Hi
I probably got my heelball from you, have had it since I lived in Essex.
Just got back from a day of demonstrating lace in our local garden centre which
is based in an old commercial greenhouse. Well I didn't do a lot of lace but
several kids went home with fish. It was not as hot as last
Called 'eaches' (sp?).
:)
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Kathleen Harris wrote:
> ...I have forgotten what they are called
> Sorry - that should be linen ends, not line ends!
>
>
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Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of
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Peg,
A suggestion re using pens, etc., may I suggest you invest in some lignin
free pens. You can get them in the scrapbook section of Michaels or >Hobby
Lobby. They work great & have no acid properties on them as regular pens
have.
Sallie in Wyoming
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Thanks, Sallie.
Read the posts about storing used prickings. Lots of good information.
I, too, like to keep them in the book the pattern came from if possible. I
keep them in plastic page protectors...cut to fit the book if need
be...keeps them from falling out when you open the book.
I've found out the ha
Lorelei Halley wrote:
I've noticed that a lot of art supplies that used to be easily available just
don't exist any more. I
suppose the age of computer art has destroyed all the felt markers, colored
plastic sticky film. But there are still people who use actual paints, aren't
there?
David,
You have enough pattern hanging off the back of the roller to reach back, match
up the top and bottom sections of the pricking and hold the two together when
you are ready to roll up your work. Pull firmly in place and pin the next inch
or two of the pricking (depending on your roller si
pins going
even further back along the pattern
Sue
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To: "Charlotte Moore" ;
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 8:05 AM
Subject: RE: [lace] Prickings
I couldn't stand to have to do that. There are 90 pairs of bobbin
Dear Charlotte and other kind Helpers,
I tried using pins along the sides to keep the pricking in place and
as I recall that helped some. But basically I would have to lift the
pricking, lace and pins and move them back into position.
I couldn't stand to have to do that. There are 90 pairs of
I will admit I've never been patient enough to get up and find a ruler and
measure a set distance from the side of the roller to the footside. I've
always been to keen to get the pricking on the pillow and get started, and
found that just eye-balling it isn't completely reliable, and the prickin
If you have cut the edges of the pricking parallel to the pricking, perhaps
you could wrap a tape or ribbon around the roller at the edge of the
pricking as to act as tramlines; as you work you just need to keep the pricking
sitting squarely between them and do tiny tweaks as necessary.
Obvious
Dear Alice and other Friends,
Many thanks for this interesting email.
I too use paper prickings with plastic contact covering. However, I
very rarely use the same one twice. I've always meant to make a
folder for these finished prickings, but at present they are all in a
drawer. I do make a po
The modern lacemaker seems to do a wide variety of patterns rather than
concentrating on just a few for her lifetime.
If a pattern is going to be used only once, there's little concern that the
pricking will endure. However, I have found that I will repeat some patterns
several times, or many
Dear All
I also use architects linen where I can when I work needlelace but agree
with Catherine that architects linen is very pale. I had a reasonable
store of this as I worked in a solicitors office and they used to use it for
the plans on legal documents but now that everything is compu
I have a One and Only that I got soon after learning BL and it's been in almost
constant use for 15 years. None of the blocks have needed replaced yet. I
also have a second one (which a friend is currently using) and plan to cover a
third one which I won't lend out.
I put a circle of felt on
Yes, but to be strictly accurate, if you're using the pillow for more
than one project, then you'll need to order and cover at least one extra
block for each extra project!! (But... that's a pittance, compared to
buying another pillow!!)
Also, I've known people who headed off the light-weigh
Clay Blackwell wrote:
Assuming you only work one piece at a time, this pillow will serve you
for almost anything you want to make. (But... in honesty, only working
one piece at a time is way more disciplined than most of us want to be!!)
Ah, but Clay, you can have a second project
Michele Griffin wrote:
what is a good, inexpensive pillow for teaching a new person and for someone
that can't afford to go pillow comparison shopping. All of our lace purchases
(save thread) are made onlineso links would be great too. -
Hey, don't go back to lurking. Stay and
Thank you so very much. Everyone is so, so kind.
=)
Sr. Claire
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Antje González
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> Here you are, Sister Claire: http://couvige.virtuel.free.fr/torchon/ You
> can
> see four patterns.
> You can't copy and paste these pattens but just print the
Here you are, Sister Claire: http://couvige.virtuel.free.fr/torchon/ You can
see four patterns.
You can't copy and paste these pattens but just print them. As they come out
very big (at least with my printer), you will have to reduce the size
afterwards.
Here another one: http://www.laceresources.
Thank you everyone, on- and off-line. An embarrassment of choice.
This was the most ridiculous situation and you've helped me avoid
embarrassment.
Three chairs for Arachne!
Sr. Claire
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Sister Claire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got myself
In my experience, this varies with the teacher and the
lace. At Arachne 98 conference, we met the teachers
the evening before classes started and got our
patterns. We were to have them pricked by the time
class started. This gave a brief meeting with the
teacher for choosing an appropriate patte
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It would be very hard for a teacher to send
the prickings in advance so they could be pricked. Who should she send
each pattern to?
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly
From: Noelene Lafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've been having a discussion with some Australian lacemaking
> friends about
> whether photocopied prickings should be supplied to participants
> before a
> workshop, so that they can prepare their prickings properly before the
> workshop begins.
In
This is an exception, I'm quite sure, but Gunvor Jorgenson, who teaches
Tonder lace, comes to class with prickings already pricked on card stock and
distributes them to her students at the beginning of class!
Tonder is a Danish point-ground lace, similar in some ways to Bucks, but
with some very d
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Hi, can I suggest you are not using the right sort of blue film. The one me
and my friends use is not shiny but matt and does not make your pins sticky.
Dear Friends,
Can I also suggest that the shiny transparent plastic we get here is less
than
I use a cork mat, and pricking parchment that I get from lace suppliers. I
have two sizes of cork mat, as it's not easy having to move large prickings
halfway through. I put a photocopy of the piece on top, fixed with paper
clips and use drawing pins to hold the two sheets firmly in place on the
I tried a cork mat at my lace class, and it seemed tougher to push the
pricker in
to than the polystyrene. The waxed paper sounds like a good idea - is it
called
baking parchment? If so, I already have some, though I can't remember why
I bought it since I hardly ever bake. (I love baking, but si
At 08:32 AM 8/16/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Laminating - what a brilliant idea! My office has a photocopier, a lot of
>blue paper and a small laminator - I'm all set!
A word of caution -- there are different weights of laminating film. Be
sure you have the very lightest/thinnest weight for patter
Hi, can I suggest you are not using the right sort of blue film. The one me
and my friends use is not shiny but matt and does not make your pins sticky.
KEEP LACING, VIVIENNE, BIGGINS
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:34:04 +0100, Milada wrote:
>Following recent local talk about the method of doing prickings, may I ask
>what is your normal / preferred method?
I use 2 methods, depending on whether I need to work repeats on the same
pricking for that piece of lace. My choice of methods is de
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:26:16 +0100, Annette wrote:
>I don't have anything to prick onto yet, so I use the bottom of my polystyrene
>mushroom pillow. I've just bought a block pillow, and intend to use the side
>of the blocks to prick. I suppose I ought to go and get a polystyrene ceiling
>tile fro
e. I
keep all patterns I have used. but then I am a packrat at heart! ;>) Have
a very nice day! Helen, Virginia Beach
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Dear Lacemakers,
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Subject: [lace] Prickings for lace
> Following recent local talk about the method of doing prickings, may I ask
> what is your normal / p
Well, since I'm such a beginner I try and find fast and easy ways to do
prickings. Since I'm not absolutely sure which enlargement or not will work
best with my threads I make photocopies and then enlarge them at the local
Staples onto coloured card in various degrees of enlargements. For those I
u
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