Hi Agnes and Spiders, I have bought several lots of the emery powder in the past, and made small pincushions for myself, and others, and have never had any trouble with the powder getting onto the lace. The emery powder isn't really like talcum powder, and very smooth - it is more like a fine sand, so doesn't tend to escape the pin cushion, so long as one uses a quite sturdy fabric in which to put the emery. I use a sort of ticking - that old bolster (bed - not lace!) pillows used to be covered in - and then put all that inside a prettier material, and sometimes even put lace around the edges of same. They do seem to be good for the pins, but what I have also seen is an 'ordinary' pincushion, filled with whatever one usually fills pin cushions, and then, attached to this 'mother' pin cushion by a very posh tasselled braid, a minuscule emery powder pincushion, which you jab the pins into every now and again. Very pretty, and no doubt that works well too ...
Hope this helps, but I am sure there will be as many opinions as there are respondents to the thread! Carol - in Suffolk UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Agnes Boddington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lace" <lace@arachne.com> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:38 PM Subject: [lace] Emery powder - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
