Hi Sue and everyone, Lots of good advice - to followup on what someone mentioned from Ulrike, if you have a spray product, spritz it into a clean container like a small plastic food tub, dab the liquid on the lace with a cheapie craft paintbrush. Then you aren't getting spraylets everywhere.
Plan ahead if you are going to starch a piece - I used to take the lace off the pillow and carefully repin to a hard foam scrap but that was time consuming. I now starch right on the pillow - *but* I have a layer of craft foam between the pricking and the cotton pillow surface. The foam extends quite a bit past the pricking, just in case, to protect the pillow surface. For the pricking: I make it on quite stiff card, paste the photocopy of the pricking on, and put clear adhesive tape in overlapping layers on the pricking to prevent the photocopy ink from getting damp (then I can use the pricking over again). I don't use the adhesive film because I usually mess up the placement, with wrinkling. On the finished lace, still with most pins in to keep the shape, I dab the starch on with the craft brush - v. cheap nylon brush (I use Moravia but this applies to any stiffener, I should think). When the piece is dry to touch, I take out the pins, push them into one of my wool-stuffed pincushions to clean them (starch doesn't seem to adhere to stainless steel much?) and while the starching is still pliable, bend or shape the piece to suit. There is a buildup of shiny areas of starch on the pricking, which doesn't affect the use :) I tried hairspray, doing the spray into container, dab with a brush method, and don't like the finished effect :( Now what do I do with a nearly full bottle of this hair spray... anyway, hope this else helps On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Sue <hurwitz...@talktalk.net> wrote: > I dont want to spray things onto my pillow, so I am expecting to take them > off there but could pin them out onto another surface before spraying, > pasting, or whatever. > Any comments or advise mose welcome. > > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
