[lace] colour run
Happy New Year everyone. Just a very brief update to tell you the outcome of the red colour problems. I did a quick hand soak on the white undies in my normal liquid which removed almost all of it, and then into the washing machine with the normal wash plus one of the colour catches (in the same net bag). Almost completely pure white again and its fine, I think the next wash will remove any last minute amount of colour. I have just taken the cotton red top out of the machine where it was washed with my burgundy tablecloth, my previously washed hand made ruby napkins with lace trim and 2 well washed red jumpers. I again put the top in with 2 of the colour catcher sheets and it is looking good, white insert and red top. I had previously emailed the company and got a reply saying if I thought it was faulty I could return the top to the shop for a refund or exchange, so decided I had nothing to loose my following their washing instructions (along with our own ideas and caution). If it had gone wrong I would have returned it with the email and receipt or made a new insert (once I was happy it wouldn't bleed onto that which would have been a much bigger disaster) but as it is I can continue to wear it in the future. Thank you for your good ideas and advice. Sue T Dorset UK www.hurwitzend.co.uk - 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
[lace] Colour run
I've noticed on a particular TV quiz show that the producers obviously don't like the ladies to show too much leg or any cleavage whatsoever, and I suspect the wardrobe department has a stock of black leggings to wear with short dresses and both black and white lace-edged rectangles of fabric to use as modesty panels on their idea of a low neckline. I can't imagine that there are that number of women wearing either/both of these in the general population. I know that the contestants have to take three outfits that they think they could wear and the wardrobe department decides which. If none is considered suitable, the wardrobe department provides them with clothes for the show. The modesty panels must just be pinned inside the garments, which have a variety of neck shapes. What's visible varies from just a lace edging at the very bottom of a V, to quite a large area of plain fabric edge with lace filling a wide neckline half way up to the shoulders. So Beth's suggestion of a folded large lace-edged hankie which can be unpinned for laundering would seem to be ideal. Or you could make a piece of wide lace edging about 12 inches long if you wanted it to be all lace. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - 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
Re: [lace] Colour run/ modesty panel
I like this one too Jean. I have a couple I have made plus one commercial one, so I will try pinning and playing with them to see what looks ok, what good and what great, before I decide to make any specific lace, which I have now decided is a must. Perhaps I will achieve something before my birthday so I can wear it out:-) I have been looking at the new fashions, some gorgious, some very pretty and others not so good. I might have to hunt down some clothing I have had hiding in my wardrobe for a while. I might just manage to be a little bit fashionable for a change, grin Sue T and both black and white lace-edged rectangles of fabric to use as modesty panels on their idea of a low neckline. The modesty panels must just be pinned inside the garments, which have a variety of neck shapes. What's visible varies from just a lace edging at the very bottom of a V, to quite a large area of plain fabric edge with lace filling a wide neckline half way up to the shoulders. So Beth's suggestion of a folded large lace-edged hankie which can be unpinned for laundering would seem to be ideal. Or you could make a piece of wide lace edging about 12 inches long if you wanted it to be all lace. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - 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
[lace] Colour run
Thank you all for some good replies, I do have some of those vanish sheets so hopefully it will remove the pink from the white clothing which includes the underarm seam of a 30 year old hand knitted aran. I am going to be cautious with the top for now as I haven't yet washed it, so the lace is still white and the top still red. If all else fails I will definately be tempted to make up a new insert to tack over the top of the commercially made one. Sorry about not including lace content in my first email but I didn't expect so many of you to be around to answer:-) and brain not in gear. Now some proper lace content. I have another new top, not yet worn, grey with pattern and a few sequins over the top and the neck line is a tad low on me, so a modisty panel would definately be useful. Having never yet made anything that actually had to fit clothing yet I have no idea where to start. Maybe a paper pattern shape drawn with some seam allowed extra? Sue T Dorset UK www.hurwitzend.co.uk - 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
Re: [lace] Colour run
Sue wrote: Having never yet made anything that actually had to fit clothing yet I have no idea where to start. Maybe a paper pattern shape drawn with some seam allowed extra? I had the same problem with a v-neck tee that I bought in England in April. I made a same-colour piece of Idrija to fit the space, but an easier solution if you are a little nervous about getting a good shape is to measure the widest part of the 'v' and make a strip of lace a little bit longer than the measurement. You can then tack it in to the space. If you start on a slope and finish on a slope you will get a v shape, but make sure it is long enough to lay flat and not pull the garment. Depending on whether you want to remove the lace to wash the garment will determine how well you stitch the piece into the garment. Mine is in permanently and I have washed it in the machine. I do sometimes have to dampen the lace and pull it out flat after the garment is dry (I hang things to dry outside in the summer not drying in a machine) Malvary in a very snowy Ottawa where we had about 1cm for Christmas but have made up for lost time overnight - 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
Re: [lace] Colour run
This neckline is a sort of horseshoe shape, but I will keep your bigger V in mind for that shape. I dont have a dryer machine, so my garments hang either on a coathanger, or over a clothes rack to dry, depending on what it is. This grey one is definately one for the coathanger (I have some nice padded ones) to keep them on. I do smooth and flatten the lace on the napkins in this way while damp and usually iron/press while damp as well, so will keep that in mind for the top. I had wondered about the shape pulling on the garment rather than sitting well, myself. Sue T, in sunny dorset, where the sun is shinning and then it keeps raining and drying quickly in very windy weather:-) You are welcome to my share of any snow. Sue wrote: Having never yet made anything that actually had to fit clothing yet I have no idea where to start. Maybe a paper pattern shape drawn with some seam allowed extra? I had the same problem with a v-neck tee that I bought in England in April. I made a same-colour piece of Idrija to fit the space, but an easier Malvary in a very snowy Ottawa where we had about 1cm for Christmas but have made up for lost time overnight - 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
Re: [lace] Colour run
If the neckline is an awkward shape to design/make a piece of lace to fit without pulling the garment out of shape, a wide edging sewn to one edge of a piece of fabric can be pinned or tacked in place where the lace-trimmed upper edge meets the sides of the neckline and tucked inside the garment. (I quite often pin a fairly large lace-edged hankie - folded in half to get a double row of lace - as a modesty piece inside a rather too deep v-neck jumper) Beth In a very windy Cheshire, NW England On Wednesday 28 Dec 2011, you wrote: This neckline is a sort of horseshoe shape, but I will keep your bigger V in mind for that shape. I had wondered about the shape pulling on the garment rather than sitting well, myself. Sue T Sue wrote: Having never yet made anything that actually had to fit clothing yet I have no idea where to start. Maybe a paper pattern shape drawn with some seam allowed extra? - 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
Re: [lace] Colour run
-Having never yet made anything that actually had to fit clothing yet I have no idea where to start. Maybe a paper pattern shape drawn with some seam allowed extra? I would make the lace a pattern that is forgiving of size/shape (not a pictorial motif that absolutely has to fit perfectly or it'll look funny), something like an overall design. I'd make it a little larger than the opening. Then I would add a seam allowance to that. This gives you lots of freedom when fitting the finished lace to the opening. I wouldn't try to sew the lace exactly at the edge of the fabric, but would allow it to go underneath a short ways before sewing. It will look more like an undergarment than something stretched across the opening. (IMO) Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com - 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
