Tamara and al spiders, I have'nt thought of not putting in the middle pin of a spider, I suppose because that was the way I was taught, but I have now tried it and find it looks much neater, thank you Tamara Sue Harvey Norfolk UK
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tamara P Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lace Arachne" <lace@arachne.com> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:41 AM Subject: [lace] Re: BLacing with hair > On May 26, 2005, at 9:47, Mark, aka Tatman wrote: > > > You don't need a pillow and bobbins to do bobbinlace LOL! > > No, you don't :) > > > I used a halfstitch ground to weave the back of my niece's hair for > > prom this year. Kind of tiring on her part to lay there as we > > separated the strands, gelled them, > > and attached clothes pins to the ends to act as bobbins. [...] > > This is probably not a new idea, but thought I would share that. :) > > I BL-ed my oldest stepson's wife's hair (in rose/Flanders ground) one > year, for a Christmas party. She's Chinese, has strong, thick, hair > "down to there" (around her hips), and it seemed to be a natural thing > to do :) I didn't gell it, and I used hair-clips to hold the strands, > and I did it "curtain style" - 8 pairs, from the top of the head, made > two "roses" on top of the lower hair, which was left loose. > > I got the inspiration from David Downunder (D. Collyer in OZ), when he > wrote us a report of making lace with the parasitic vines climbing a > tree in the courtyard of the hospital he was working in at the time. > "Anything you can do, I can do better" sang Annie Oakley (aka T > Duvall), and Kathy got her unique hairdo as a result :) > > > The only thing my wife didn't let me do is stick a pin in her head so > > I could finish > > the second half of a spider > > I highly recommend working a bit with either Freehand Lace or else > Milanese... You'd discover very soon that central pins aren't always > necessary for spiders; in fact, they can be a nuisance, since - often - > the threads bunch around the pin in a sort of "nipple". Without the > pin, the pairs settle down flat, and the whole spider looks much > better. > > -- > Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ > Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
