Karen, Your students must be very grateful that they don't have to carry card, "paper scissors" and rare, expensive, imported, blue Contact paper to class, and then spend valuable class time cutting and sticking their patterns. Actually this is a return to the traditional way of doing things. When I started making lace in the 1970s my teacher pricked each pattern, several at a time, on a heavy tan card, inscribing the gimp line with in water proof ink with a fountain pen, and charged the student for the pricking. Photocopying and blue film freed the teacher from this time consuming process. We welcomed progress then. But now... Imagine if you were trying to interest a young person in taking up lacemaking, and you had to explain that a necessary prerequisite is to buy an extremely rare blue contact paper, imported from England costing $4.50 for a piece 15" x 16" to turn a single piece of white paper blue and stick it to a piece of card, thus simulating the effect of printing the pattern on a blue card. What do you think would be their reaction? In fact, try explaining this to your husband, and see what his reaction is :-) Since it would appear that Alice in Oregon's group is in the unenviable position of having to obtain a new roll of blue film to divide among themselves, now that the good Samaritan in Europe is no longer able to facilitate that process, perhaps they should lead the way by buying a package of blue paper (or card) at Staples and urging their teachers to use it for patterns. They could also buy a roll of clear matte film at Ace Hardware, if they want to divide it, although in that a roll of this costs about as much as a small piece of blue film, it would hardly seem to be worth the effort. Devon
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