On 31 Jul 2005, at 02:00, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
We were told to bring #5 pencil. WalMart has never heard of it and,
truth to tell, I heven't seen one since I left Poland (1972), so I
didn't have one. Deb Bender (the organiser of the workshop) had
supplied a box of them, for all other lame ducks like myself, but I
never got to use it. By the time I got past the stitch-counting stage
and to the free-drawn design, it was quite evident (from the speedier
learners' efforts) that a pencil that hard may keep its point very
well, but doesn't leave a very visible line behind it...
What's a #5 pencil?
In UK our pencils are graded from 9B, 8B..........B, HB, H,
2H...............9H with the B grades being progressively softer and
blacker whilst the H grades are harder and less dark. The H grades are
used mostly for technical drawings whist the B grades are used by
artists. HB is the bog-standard writing pencil.
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk
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