Hi everyone
I'm all for labour-saving steps - I seldom pre-prick a pattern, but if I
do, it is when the pricking is in place on the pillow. My pillows are of
straw or ethafoam - but only occasionally I make a pattern more than once.
Before Christmas I made a half dozen bangles from the same
In a message dated 07/01/2004 18:00:33 GMT Standard Time,
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I don't see the *need* to pre-prick a pattern
Time to add my tuppence worth. The *need* depends very much on the lace you
are making. It is relatively easy to prick-as-you-go when you are doing lace
of
From: Bev Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm all for labour-saving steps - I seldom pre-prick a pattern, but if I
do, it is when the pricking is in place on the pillow.
There are times it becomes pretty important. For example, I find it very
hard to get pins accurately placed on roller
Hi all
Further to the *need* to pre-prick - I do Bucks, and with fine thread, and
I don't bother to pre-prick an entire pattern - it is too hard on my
hands. I have a brand of stationery's copy card that is firm enough to be
a pricking, and soft enough to permit pinholes as I go, or prick ahead
Actually, now this shows how I haven't made any lace for two months, I
got my big pillow out that I was blogging on and thought about what I
had said about having it prepricked as it was so big so I could work out
where the two halves should be.
Here is another reason for pre-pricking if you
From: Karen Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Similarly, the inexpensive polystyrene pillow I bought to try Honiton
developed a hole in the centre. It is still usable, with pieces of green
baize packing the hole, but as I've since bought a traditional Honiton
pillow, it is only used
From: Tamara P. Duvall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You don't view yor pricking from the same angle when you prick on a
corkboard set flat on a table and when you prick on a pillow; you're
less likely to be *accurate* when pricking on a pillow.
I'm not convinced this is necessarily so. May vary
Tamara,
The thank you was for putting me up for 2 months in her flat whilst I
was working away from home and now, come to think of it, as I also paid
her rent, no it was too much and I was conned but as I had made the lace
for my wedding dress which never got made at least I don't have to look
Ok, here are my reasons -
1) pricking as you go damages your pillow as you have to use more force
to go through the card and my cork board is cheaper and more replaceable
than my pillows
2) When you work unusual patterns such as ovals on a block pillow, if
you don't have all the pattern how
Just loved your story, Liz.
One of my best is when we were demonstrating lacemaking at an exhibition, one
lady hovered for ages, then asked if lace bobbins were sold in John Lewis (a
well known English department store). We said it was possible, but not
likely, and offered her lace supply and
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