From: Weronika Patena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, I'll try that. As a beginner, I guess I'm just always worried about
not having enough thread, and tend to end up with twice as much as I
need.
I was there once, and speak from experience--you need to learn to add a
bobbin. It's not hard in
You can use it as a basting thread or hem things in those colors. I mostly
throw it away. I used to stash it in its own bag with thread nr but I never
used it. The thread is so cheap in view to all the work you put in a piece
of lace that I consider it a waste to keep it. But there are always
Yes, I always put too much thread on my bobbins too, mostly adding a bit
extra just to be sure and better safe than sorry :-) But when I keep to
the three times and a little bit extra it has always been enough but I am
still a bit unsure about it and I have been making lace for about 10 years
on
From: Weronika Patena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whenever I do a lace project, I end up with lots of thread left on the
bobbins. How do you deal with this? Is it possible to figure out how much
thread a project will take so that not much is left over?
1. Thread is not all that expensive.
At 09:12 AM 7/29/2004, you wrote:
Whenever I do a lace project, I end up with lots of thread left on the
bobbins. There's
quite a lot of thread on some of them, so I don't really feel like just
throwing it away, but it's hard to come up with a project to use it up,
since it's all
Alices suggestions are all excellent... May I add another?
As Alice said, it's possible to simply bundle all the loose ends and tie a
loop or a knot, and then work your leftover bobbins in this manner. And
while there may not be enough to complete a project, consider using the
leftover threads
And even if there are a lot of thread on one bobbin you
have to roll it on to two if you don?t make lace where you start with a
knot, and then the thread is sooo much shorter (found out the hard way
with
a lot of work winding new bobbins!) on two bobbins.
I must admit that when I make
Thanks! That's a lot of information!
1. Thread is not all that expensive. Even though a spool might cost
USD8.00, there's enough to do a lot of projects from that spool. Much of
my
thread is not worth (to me) the time and effort to store for re-use.
Probably true...
I save
up the
At 11:32 AM 7/29/2004, you wrote:
I must admit that when I make bookmarks or other things that don't require
joining, I just start with knots...
I was going to suggest this. Pin the loose ends 5-6 inches above the start
of the bookmark. Just start and work the pattern. Finish the bottom with
