Hi Viv and everyone I have tried the pricking method mentioned by Malvary and it is good, and what Barb says here
Sometimes I have put pins and needles into wax to make them work more > smoothly.....great for sticky wooden drawer slides, too. > to which I will add the honey people at the farm market told me that beeswax is supposed to be superlative for preparing a baking sheet for cookie dough! I haven't tried that though. They had huge cake-size (as in birthday cake) slabs of beeswax for sale. The scent was heavenly, but at that size too much and too costly for using for little dibs for lacemaking. I still have some beeswax for lace, a wee amount given as a favour at a lace event. Someone had used plastic bottle tops for the containers, poured melted beeswax into them, wrapped pretty cord around the outsides, and a loop to pin it to ... the pricking surface I presume. I didn't use a pillow for preparing a pricking; I kept a piece of styrofoam and pinned the beeswax thingie to that. Now with the sort of laces I do, many my own designs, I don't bother with pricking holes ahead of time, but the beeswax bit is fun to find in the jumble of lace tools. -- Bev in Sooke BC (on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
