Re: [lace] Magic threads

PS, the book Ilske mentions is terrific and worth getting. Nancy On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 9:44 AM, N.A. Neff wrote: > Hi Ann, > > Also you can always try looking in the archives: https://www.mail-arc > hive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html > > I think the post you

Re: [lace] Magic threads

Hi Ann, Also you can always try looking in the archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html I think the post you remember may be https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg19856.html. (I searched on "magic threads Ilske".) Happy lacemaking! Nancy Connecticut, USA -

Re: [lace] Magic threads

Dear Ann,   Since you have written from the UK: There are very clear instructions in the 2002 38-page "Magic Threads" booklet by Christine Springett (UK).  It has wonderful photos/illustrations and can be very helpful for people who have to join lengths of lace.  Perhaps one of your usual

Re: [lace] Magic threads

Hello Ann, do you have the book „Unsichtbar - Invisible“ from M. Wolter-Kampmann? There you’ll find on different pages everything you can do with magic threads. If you don’t have the book I’ll try to explain the special way you are looking for. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to

[lace] Magic threads

Many years ago Ilske Thomson gave a very detailed explanation how to put in magic threads and it worked very well. Unfortunately that was a long time ago and now I have forgotten. Can anyone help? Ann UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace] Magic Threads - Let's stop using term Lazy Loops

There are many memos in our Arachne archives about Magic Threads. Lacemakers do not want anyone to think we do anything "lazy". Do you remember how confusing it was when you were first learning to make lace, and there were several words for each technique you were trying to learn?

Re: [lace] Magic threads

I have found you on Facebook and looked at the shawl! *Very* pretty! Congrats! Clay Sent from my iPad > On Apr 11, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Ann-Marie Lördal wrote: > > Hi > I have been off bobbinlace for about 10 years and have not read this list > since then. I have now found

[lace] Magic threads

Hi I have been off bobbinlace for about 10 years and have not read this list since then. I have now found the inspiration again and have finished my shawl in silk I started on 12 years ago. Is the list as active as it used to be or has it moved to another place? Now I have to ask about the Magic

[lace] Magic Threads

Forgive me for making a suggested refinement for a technique that I have not yet tried myself!!! I have really appreciated the notes on Magic Threads as this is something I do intend to try at some stage. I note that someone suggested pinning the threads behind the work to keep them in order

[lace] Magic threads

Sue wrote - I note that someone suggested pinning the threads behind the work to keep them in order etc. I wonder if it would help to pin them into a strip of Styrofoam. It seems to me that it would then be an easy matter to move them around the pillow as the work progressed!! Does this

Re: [lace] Magic Threads

The styrofoam would probably work, if the bulk and weight of it is not in the way. When I did a piece where the beginning was not kept pinned to the pillow the whole time, I slipped a small piece of fabric under the start of the lace. Then the lace and the magic threads were pinned to the

RE: [lace] Magic Threads

I often use magic threads at the beginning of a piece, and at a place of multiple crossings in Russian tape lace or Beds. With the bunch at the beginning, I use (as has earlier been suggested) very long threads, and twist them or plait them together, twist the end around a glass headed pin, and,

Re: [lace] Magic Threads

Sue, I have used magic threads. And I don't think I would like the 'excess' of a piece of Styrofoam on my pillow. What I did was use threads in the color of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet or 'Roy G Biv. By just remembering the 'Roy G Biv', you know the order