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
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
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
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
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
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
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
-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
