[lace] thread for Hollie Point

I've completed a Hollie Point needlelace exercise! Great, right? On to the third exercise! Except, suddenly I feel disenchanted with my thread. It's Tanne 50, a cotton thread. Should I try a different thread? I guess threads are either cotton, linen, or silk. Or any of those types right

Re: [lace] blocking silk scarf

I am so sorry, spiders. Two weeks ago I posted and said I was just about to wash and block my newly completed Torchon silk scarf. This turned out to be lies. I did finish my scarf but it has not been washed or blocked. After I took it off of the pins, I looked at it and it looked ok and all my

[lace] blocking silk scarf

Hi all I am about to start the last repeat of a red and pink silk Torchon scarf (from Brigette Beldon's book). I bought a package of "Knitter's Pride Blocking Mats", which are like blocks of soft styrofoam. When I finish the scarf (tonight??) I plan to submerge the scarf in warm water mixed with a

[lace] Must I push down pins?

I'd like to make a lace scarf because why not? I've never made a lace scarf before. I'm using a design, design 11, from Brigitte Bellon's Kloppelmuster fur Schals und Tischlaufer. Bellon's scarves are not worked by starting at the top and working down in one long vertical strip. Instead,

[lace] Multi-part prickings tricky; skeins also tricky

I'd like to make a lace scarf because why not? I've never made a lace scarf before. I'm using a design from Brigitte Bellon's Kloppelmuster fur Schals und Tischlaufer Last Saturday morning I decided to devote the weekend to prep work--making a pricking and winding bobbins. The day before I had

[lace] pricking size for scarf

I would like to make a silk scarf because why not? I've never made a scarf. I have a design and I have silk yarn. However, I don't know how much to enlarge/reduce the pricking so as to fit the yarn. I have made teeny samples of various sizes but I don't know what to look for. What? What

[lace] Mechlin, where did the pins go?

Hi Spiders My background is Torchon and Bucks Point and now I am trying to do the first exercise in the Mechlin book Rita Thienpondt's Syllabus Mechelse Kant I. Thank you for answering my questions about terminology last week; it was very helpful and motivating. I am not having any

[lace] Mechlin terminology

Hi Spiders I just bought a How to Make Mechlin Book. It is Rita Thienpondt's Syllabus Mechelse Kant I. It looks like fun. Right now it is fairly impenetrable, but I think I'll be fine once I assay a few exercises. To make it more fun for me, could someone explain some of the terminology

[lace-chat] Re: Mac Duff, a question

Surely my family is not the only one who says Lead on, MacDuff instead of Carry On, MacDuff. Since lead on sounds so much like lay on I always figured that the phrase came from the Shakespeare play MacBeth, even though the meaning was different. In our family, the meaning was similar to

[lace] Re: failure of brownies to appear

Hi Tamara Did you remember to leave out a bowl of milk? Maybe you could try putting the bowl of milk near your lace pillow? As a sort of hint as to what the desired behavior is? And, it turns out that the pesky question - *why*, after a whole repeat which went smoothly with pairs just

[lace-chat] Lace and fairy tale

Hi Spiders Some months ago I for the first time started a lace piece that had recognizable pictures instead of just abstract figures. The novelty has now worn off, but for the longest time whenever I sat down in front of my pillow I was inescapably reminded of the fairy tale of the little

[lace] pair or two singles

Hi Spiders. I thought I would take a break from the slow progress on my Chantilly fan and make a post. When adding in a pair of bobbins at the gimp in point ground lace (Chantilly, Bucks Point), should I add in a pair of bobbins or 2 single bobbins? Does it matter? A pair of bobbins

[lace] Enthusiasm about Lohr design

-- - In a message dated 8/19/2004 3:33:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Tamara Duvall writes: she's been tackling - for several months and unfrustrated - a Chantilly fan, then she

[lace] completed favor re Ulriker Lohr's Hausdragon

Thank you Spiders for your overwhelming and prompt reply to my request for copies of two pages from Ulrike Lohr's Hausdragon box of patterns. An important request to me because I am now deep in the middle of making the pattern and I think the pages will be helpful. It turns out that I was

[lace] A favor re Ulrike Lohr's Hausdragon

I have a favor to ask. Could some obliging American spider who has a copy of Ulrike Lohr's Hausdragon box of patterns go photocopy the first page of pattern #12, a black fan with 2 bird heads and two dog-like heads, and mail it to me? Email me for my address. I can pay, although I'm

[lace] pins

I am working on a Chantilly fan and I am thinking about pins. None of my lace books talk about this subject. I have three boxes of pins: 38 x .40 mm long and thin 30 x .50 mm -- my usual -- 17 x .45 mm short and thin Recall that Chantilly is a you can never have too

[lace] Re: pricking too big

A couple of weeks ago I sent a post saying that I had a point ground (Bucks Point, Chantilly, whatever) pattern that was too big to fit on one piece of pricking. I was delayed in starting this project, but now here is a follow-up post. You spiders were great! Your replies were just what I

[lace] [lace} pricking too big

I want to make a piece of Point Ground (Bucks Point, Chantilly, whatever) but the pricking is too big to fit on one piece of cardstock. What should I do? Be very specific. It seems to me that I've heard people talk about putting a pricking on two pieces that fit together, but I don't

[lace] Re: wide floral Bucks Point

And my lace content: I'm struggling to finish pricking a wide floral Bucks handkerchief edging - I'm coming down the fourth side now. It'll be a relief to start working it, after all this pricking! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) I wish I could make floral Bucks. I've been ages