PS, the book Ilske mentions is terrific and worth getting.
Nancy
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 9:44 AM, N.A. Neff wrote:
> Hi Ann,
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> Also you can always try looking in the archives: https://www.mail-arc
> hive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html
>
> I think the post you
Hi Ann,
Also you can always try looking in the archives:
https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html
I think the post you remember may be
https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg19856.html. (I searched on
"magic threads Ilske".)
Happy lacemaking!
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
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Dear Ann,
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Since you have written from the UK: There are very clear instructions in the
2002 38-page "Magic Threads" booklet by Christine Springett (UK). Â It has
wonderful photos/illustrations and can be very helpful for people who have to
join lengths of lace. Â Perhaps one of your usual
Hello Ann,
do you have the book „Unsichtbar - Invisible“ from M. Wolter-Kampmann? There
you’ll find on different pages everything you can do with magic threads.
If you don’t have the book I’ll try to explain the special way you are looking
for.
Ilske
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Many years ago Ilske Thomson gave a very detailed explanation how to put in
magic threads and it worked very well. Unfortunately that was a long time ago
and now I have forgotten. Can anyone help?
Ann
UK
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There are many memos in our Arachne archives about Magic Threads.
Lacemakers do not want anyone to think we do anything "lazy".
Do you remember how confusing it was when you were first learning to make
lace, and there were several words for each technique you were trying to
learn?
I have found you on Facebook and looked at the shawl! *Very* pretty! Congrats!
Clay
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> On Apr 11, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Ann-Marie Lördal wrote:
>
> Hi
> I have been off bobbinlace for about 10 years and have not read this list
> since then. I have now found
Hi
I have been off bobbinlace for about 10 years and have not read this list
since then. I have now found the inspiration again and have finished my
shawl in silk I started on 12 years ago. Is the list as active as it used
to be or has it moved to another place?
Now I have to ask about the Magic
Forgive me for making a suggested refinement for a technique that I have not
yet tried myself!!! I have really appreciated the notes on Magic Threads as
this is something I do intend to try at some stage. I note that someone
suggested pinning the threads behind the work to keep them in order
Sue wrote - I note that
someone
suggested pinning the threads behind the work to keep them in order
etc. I
wonder if it would help to pin them into a strip of Styrofoam. It
seems to
me that it would then be an easy matter to move them around the pillow
as
the work progressed!! Does this
The styrofoam would probably work, if the bulk and
weight of it is not in the way.
When I did a piece where the beginning was not kept
pinned to the pillow the whole time, I slipped a small
piece of fabric under the start of the lace. Then the
lace and the magic threads were pinned to the
I often use magic threads at the beginning of a piece, and at a place of
multiple crossings in Russian tape lace or Beds.
With the bunch at the beginning, I use (as has earlier been suggested) very
long threads, and twist them or plait them together, twist the end around a
glass headed pin, and,
Sue,
I have used magic threads. And I don't think I would like the 'excess' of a
piece of Styrofoam on my pillow.
What I did was use threads in the color of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, indigo, violet or
'Roy G Biv. By just remembering the 'Roy G Biv', you know the order
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