[lace] lace photos
If you love ferns, you will love this lace: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bobbinlace/pool/with/7886470258/#photo_7886470258 Lorelei - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace] lace photos
Wow, her lace is amazing, and I love her use of stitches in the swan and the ferns. Does Pene Piip, perhaps, know who Helene Kuma is and something about the Museum of Amandus Adamson, Paldiski, Estonia Janis in Honeydew South Africa where we are promised the first rain of the season today. -Original Message- From: Lorelei Halley If you love ferns, you will love this lace: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bobbinlace/pool/with/7886470258/#photo_7886470258 - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] Hydrating threads ... what not to do
I have been doing a project with a linen thread that came from a consignment table. I have no idea how old it is or how it was stored. There has been a series of broken threads throughout the project... threads just splitting. It's as likely to happen at the bobbin as it is nearer the lace. The broken threads started in the first for inches of project. This summer I worked on the project outdoors for two hot days and then had a succession of broken threads. Thinking that the treads were just dried out, I put a damp towel over the threads for a while, then the project was put away for a few weeks. I've been working on it again at state fair and started having several broken threads again. I tried the damp towel idea again and let it sit over night that way. When I started working on it again, I noticed that some of the threads were discolored. Looking carefully, all the discolored threads were on rosewood bobbins. I had put too much moisture on the bobbins and the wood color had leached out to discolor some or all of the threads on those bobbins. Fortunately, there were only a few of the dark bobbins. Mostly I had used light bobbins. I have now completed that job of replacing the discolored threads. I cut off the bobbins, wound new thread on light bobbins and tied the new threads to the old ones. There will be a bunch of knots in a couple inches of pattern but it can't be helped. I don't think it will show when the ends are trimmed. You have now been warned don't put too much moisture on your bobbins. You may find that you have a two-toned item afterwards. Alice in Oregon --- where I just entered a collage of lace roses with a butterfly in an artists exhibit that will be on display for a month. - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace] Hydrating threads ... what not to do
Rather than having knots in the lace, if there isn't space to work the two threads together for a while I hang the new thread in and leave enough of a leash to be able to darn back afterwards - if threads overlap for an inch or so there is no need for a knot. In message 894650458.1615399.1346832687830.javamail.r...@cl04-host04.dlls.pa.fronti ernet.net, lacel...@frontier.com writes I have now completed that job of replacing the discolored threads. I cut off the bobbins, wound new thread on light bobbins and tied the new threads to the old ones. There will be a bunch of knots in a couple inches of pattern but it can't be helped. I don't think it will show when the ends are trimmed. -- Jane Partridge - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
