In message <[email protected]>, David C
COLLYER <[email protected]> writes
Dear Friends,
I photocopy onto green paper, assuming I'm using white thread. No
film needed, if one is only doing it once.
Of course - now why didn't I think of that? No more hunting for rolls
of cheap film at supermarkets for me.
David in Ballarat
What works in one climate won't necessarily work in another. The main
reason for using the film is to stop any of the toner/ink getting onto
the thread - and in England I have found that ink-jet ink isn't
waterproof - that discovery, before we had laser printers at work, made
me decide that printing the addresses on envelopes wasn't a good idea
knowing how soggy our post sometimes gets! Even now, the laser printer
I'm using doesn't always fuse the toner to the paper properly and it
will lift if you brush a finger across it (I've more or less sorted that
problem by changing the paper setting to "heavy") - and photocopiers
work much as a laser printer, so I wouldn't necessarily trust those not
to discolour threads.
Unless you are certain (through testing) that the print is waterproof
and won't flake off, I would suggest you stick with the film.
Personally I prefer card prickings, which I pre-prick and mark where
necessary with a waterproof pen. It doesn't really take that long and
gives you a chance to "read" the pattern in advance and sometimes work
out how to go about it - choices as to stitches, etc. In the days before
computer printouts, pre-pricking also gave us the chance to true-up the
prickings - some of the printed patterns in books are awful! The other
thing I've found in teaching and for myself, is that your accuracy in
pricking a pattern can show up when you need to visit the optician
quicker than anything else! No problem with the film closing up over
time... no residue of glue on the pins... no calluses on the fingers
from putting pins up... but, each to their own!
The card is supposed to help support the pins - possibly another
consideration where whether to use card or paper is concerned is how
hard the pillow is, as to what support it gives the pins and whether
extra support is necessary.
I've also found that the window/shelf covering self-adhesive plastic
film sold by the metre in d-i-y or decorating shops can work out cheaper
than the book covering film - you can get a clear matt version whereas
most of the book films are shiny.
--
Jane Partridge
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