Re: [lace] Needlelace pillows
I don't do needlelace, but my friend used a pressing ham - those hard packed ham-shaped things that all dressmakers have in our sewing rooms. Betty Ann in Roanoke, Virginia USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Favourite pillows
On Jan 26, 2005, at 21:41, Alice Howell wrote:
At 08:18 PM 1/25/2005, you wrote:
What is your pillow of choice and where did you come up with it?
This may seem like a simple question but it doesn't have a simple
answer.
There is no way I could have ONE pillow of choice.
I'm a conservative when it comes to lacemaking (spending money or time
is where I'm on speaking terms with "conservative" ); pillows,
bobbins, threads, pins... I only add as "the last resort" (and, no, I'm
talking about a beach kind of "resort" ). For the first few years of
my lacemaking career I only *had* one pillow; when it became too small
(within the first 6 months), I remade it into a bigger one. But now (16
yrs later) I'm like Alice - I have more than one favourite...
Please bear in mind that I'm "particular"... I like my pillows *big*
(possibly, to compensate for the fact that *I* am small ). And I
like for my pillows to have a natural fill; many people say they don't
hear the "squeak" of pins inserted into plastic, but it sets my teeth
on edge. Repeat by several hundred times, and I'm a wreck And,
unlike many people on this list, I do not go demonstrating (don't need
a special pillow for an easy, always on-going, project), and I do not
have a group with regular meetings (so the issue of transport hardly
ever surfaces). Given the above "caveats"...
My two "mostest favourite" pillows are:
1) a wool-"compound" filled, 24" diameter cookie, which I bought from
someone (a man, can't remember the name, can't remember where he was
from. All I know is he's not making them anymore) at the Bethesda IOLI
Convention ('99?). Perfect for everything which needs frequent turning
around in small increments - Milanese, Russian, wire, and now Rosa
Libre.
2) a wool-"compound" filled, 24" square, all-block, which I got from
Gabriele Kister-Schuler (from Germany) in '01, in Tonder (Denmark).
It's perfect for just about everything else - yardage, corners... I
have enough blocks for it to fill the frame twice over (with some
spare, due to different arrangement of blocks I might need at any
time), and am getting a few more in time for the Denver-do.
Those two are what I use all the time. It keeps my priorities clear; I
fish or CUT bait, and I don't need more than a 100-150 pairs of
bobbins.
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Everything else is self-indulgence and mostly a mistake, at least the
way I work, which is one project at a time, most of the time... :)
I don't like my "Swiss" - whined out of DH one Christmas (too expensive
for me to buy). It's a lovely pillow, craft-wise... Working blocks down
the middle, bobbin-resting, slanting surface on the sides, slanting
towards the worker as well as sideways (both slants aid proper
tensioning), with storage drawers in the frame.
But the 2 blocks add up to slightly less than 13" of working space; add
a 4-6" "leash" on the bobbins, add 4" of bobbin length itself, and
you're moving up your blocks every few rows, which is annoying. I added
a - removable - "T-extension"... Literally a "T", big enough to house a
full block in the centre and with its own sloping sides (though I was
unable to match the original ones), which extended my working space by
6.33", and made the pillow acceptable for size. But there was nothing I
could do about the "squeaky" working blocks, so the pillow has been
"resting" for over 4 yrs :)
After years of saying that I didn't even want to *think* about a roller
pillow, I now have two - a home made, and a Toustou - and have doubts
about both.
While I've found that I like working on a roller much better than I'd
thought possible (the natural tensioning is terrific, and the
management of "resting bobbins" much easier than envisioned), neither
pillow is perfect. In the home made one, the roller (all wool) and its
controlling device (a wooden wedge, jammed between the roller's wooden
side and the box holding the roller) are *most excellent*. I spent
*weeks* tightening the roller "just so", and it's both smooth (as
regards inserting pins) and hard (as regards holding pins in place).
And the wedge-control allows - easily - for *tiny* adjustments,
including rolling back (if one wants to pursue a diagonal angle to its
logical conclusion, and then go all the way back and start again). But
the bobbin-resting area ("apron") was filled with compressed soft foam,
and it *drums* like heavy rain on a tin roof... Drives me batty, and I
don't use that pillow often.
But, at least, it was cheap, being home made and using scrap wood
(Clay's DH put all the wood stuff together, for free) and scrap wool...
The Toustou pillow has a roller which is as good as mine - hard as a
rock, but smooth as butter - and whatever's been used for the "apron"
is also excellent; the whole thing is as quiet as a millionaire's
Rolls-Royce :) But the roller is controlled by a gear system. Lovely to
look at - brass - and, doubtless, difficult to make and to synchr
[lace] Suprise
Dear Spiders, I just wanted to share with you, my son (bless his heart) has bought me a new book, The Technique of Bobbin Lace by Pamela Nottingham, I have been looking through it and I love it, I can't wait to learn more and actually try and do all this stuff. Kids sure can surprise you once in awhile. I just love learning to make lace. Bye-Bye for now, Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: CT/KD
On Jan 27, 2005, at 3:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacquie) wrote: This is precisely what "Cook and Stott" did in their Bucks Point pattern books, [...] And others as well (Stott's "The Bobbin Lace Manual", for example, which is a beginner's book). There was a lot of grouching at the time [...] Anyway, the diagrams are easy to work from and the twists are easy to follow. Indeed, they were... *Once* it finally penetrated through my thick skull that, although the colour is red and the term is "whole stitch", it's not the same red and the same "whole stitch" as in the Belgian Colour Code. Until then, when I saw a red line with a cross-hatch, I interpreted it as CTCT+T, and then wondered why my lace didn't look as the lace in the picture... :) For people who were unfamiliar with the BCC, the introduction of colour for different stitches in the Cook and Stott books must have been like manna from heaven. But, for those who'd had a taste of BCC (and a struggle learning which colour meant what ), it was just confusing, at least at first. Hence the grouching. I suppose, early on, when those books were first written, nobody much expected them to escape the confines of UK. Or for the UK lacemakers to start going abroad for workshops. The *idea* of streamlining the diagrams and representing 3 stitches with just 2 colours is excellent (IMO, anyway). The colour choices, OTOH, didn't allow for globalization catching up with lacemakers... :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace identification
After years of going into one of our local shops, which sells victoriana, and harping at the owner about mislabelling her lace, the owner has asked me to come and actually identify the stuff. (called putting my money where my mouth is, calling my bluff etc. ) That shouldn't be too much of a problem really except for one type of little doily of which she seems to get quite a few. The doilies are very nicely made, nothing like the chinese variety. The style is Cluny but one thing puzzles me. The pattern is basically big scallop motifs, little scallops around the edge, plaits, and a fan of 6 leaves attached to the footside, or centre in this case.. all making the one big scallop shape. It's a fairly common design anyway. What's odd about it is that the fans of leaves are hand sewn separately onto the footside. The plaits are worked in normally though. Has anyone seen this before? Sharon on dull but warm for this time of year Vancouver Island -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.2 - Release Date: 1/21/05 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re:needlelace pillows
Hi I do have 2 needle lace pillows and I prefer to use the. The pillow helps me keep the tension the same. One of my pillows is smaller so easier to carry. Hannah - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth Collection
Hi Everyone Sorry to be so long in replying to Jeris enquiry about the Rachel B Kay-Shuttleworth book. They have some books. The main problem is trying to find out how you can pay. I have not got all the details yet, but I have not forgotten. The discussion about cloth stitch, half stitch etc - I use the term cloth stitch but I know that some people use the term whole stitch to mean the same thing. When I have been writing descriptions of lace for cataloguing the lace of the Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth collection and so many terms are use to describe the same thing tally = Barley corns, Coxcombs, Cutworks, Grains, Leadworks, Leaf, Grains, Wheat-ear, etc. Which term should I use? Some are quite local terms used in a small area. I decided to use the name tally and sometimes the local name in brackets. But if someone came to research a certain term they may not necessarily find what they are looking for. So I decided to make a glossary of terms which hopefully may help someone in the future with their research. I am going through my books looking for the meanings but the list grows! Where should I stop? Something some of you may find of interest is a large card, which will have to be dismantled because it isnt acid free. The pieces of lace are sewn onto velvet, which is sewn onto the card. Its title is Arab, Palestinian and Cyprus Lace. I have not seen any Arab Lace before. Rachels note says Probably the oldest type of lace, but until recently unknown, being made in the harem for home use. There are eight pieces from Bethlehem, some from Tunis, Armenia, Persia and Cyprus. They look like netting with a fine thread. There are dates on some they seem to have been made in the 1920s. It says Sheet 1 so maybe I will find some more, sometime in the future. The stitches look to be knotted. There are some circular mats, edgings and insertions. Two little pieces look like Torchon in design but worked with the old Arab stitch. The pieces from Tunis, all 1920, say all the very old traditional designs. One of the motifs looks like needlelace some of the areas in the design like Bebila. Hope this is of interest. Dianne Derbyshire City of Preston __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] needlelace pillows
Irma Osterman had us buy a tailor's ham to use as a needle lace pillow. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] needlelace pillows
Another method that I have heard of for making a needlelace pillow is to use an empty baby milk tin. you can pad it and cover it with a snug drawstring bag which you can have in such a way that you can still open the milk tin and store your threads etc inside it when you are not working on your lace. Claire Kent,UK Miserable and chilly today but not as cold as it has been. On 27 Jan 2005, at 2:20 pm, Maureen Harvey wrote: Hallo Jen and all spiders, My lace tutor taught us how to make a small pillow for needle lace that I have found very useful although my first love is BL. Find a piece of rigid tube ( I got a piece from the carpet shop it is the centre that the carpets are rolled onto) mine was 3inches across cut to 9inches long. lightly pad it with felt or something of that thickness and cover with a material similar to what you would cover a bobbin lace pillow i.e. lint free. Make it slightly longer than the roll so that you can tuck the ends into the roll to get them out of the way. You can then hold your work on it with a piece of elastic both ends, this makes a comfortable small pillow that sits on your lap or can be held in the hand whichever you find more comfortable for working. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK Just managed to prick out Bridget Cooks small fan pattern and wound bobbins in readiness for when the cast comes off my arm next Tuesday.. Yippee. Message - From: "Jennifer Audsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:35 AM Subject: [lace] needlelace pillows Hi Spiders, I'm curious as to whether many needlelace makers on the list use pillows or not. The Valerie Grimwood book I have suggests using a pillow, however to date I haven't used one. Too lazy to make one, don't feel like buying one as yet. What have benn your experiences pillow vs no pillow? Thanks, Jen in (warm and sultry) Melbourne - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] needlelace pillows
Hallo Jen and all spiders, My lace tutor taught us how to make a small pillow for needle lace that I have found very useful although my first love is BL. Find a piece of rigid tube ( I got a piece from the carpet shop it is the centre that the carpets are rolled onto) mine was 3inches across cut to 9inches long. lightly pad it with felt or something of that thickness and cover with a material similar to what you would cover a bobbin lace pillow i.e. lint free. Make it slightly longer than the roll so that you can tuck the ends into the roll to get them out of the way. You can then hold your work on it with a piece of elastic both ends, this makes a comfortable small pillow that sits on your lap or can be held in the hand whichever you find more comfortable for working. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK Just managed to prick out Bridget Cooks small fan pattern and wound bobbins in readiness for when the cast comes off my arm next Tuesday.. Yippee. Message - From: "Jennifer Audsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:35 AM Subject: [lace] needlelace pillows > Hi Spiders, > > I'm curious as to whether many needlelace makers on the list use pillows > or not. The Valerie Grimwood book I have suggests using a pillow, > however to date I haven't used one. Too lazy to make one, don't feel > like buying one as yet. > > What have benn your experiences pillow vs no pillow? > > > Thanks, > > Jen in (warm and sultry) Melbourne > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Belgian Colour Code
At 1:08 PM +0100 1/27/05, Ilske Thomsen wrote: Torchon ground = in engl ? ctt pin ctt brown Ilske, I recognize this stitch as Honeycomb ground in Bucks Point. -- Mary, in Baltimore, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Belgian Colour Code
Hallo Lacefriends, After the Belgian Colour Code half stitchgreen linene stichviolett double stitch red only one thread as in thread diagramms yellow picot if they are only one thread yellow picot with two threadsblue gimp very thick line or blue plaits blue Torchon ground ct pin ct green Torchon ground = Dieppe stitch ct pin cttorange Torchon ground = Brussel stitch ctct pin ctct red Torchon ground = in engl ? ctt pin ctt brown Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: winter (not lace)
Hello Lacefriends, I saw some pictures from the US where whole houses are totally covered with ice, awful. Hope nobody from the list is involved. I didn't hear anything from Lorelei or Jeri. Hope everybody is ok. Here in Europe winter plays crazy too. On Mallorca where people like to fly for the flowery almond trees at january ( i was there myself years ago, it is beautiful) the strand are covered with snow. A thing nearly never happened. We have a litle snow since last night but no strong cold. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] double/half (retry)
This makes sense for me. Carolina, from a frozen Barcelona. (Spain) _ Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego Apartments for rent on Spanish Coast http://www.winterinspain.com J. Falkink wrote: In Dutch we also have name variants for the same stitches. But it are consistent and logical sets that are never mixed. set 1: netslag (ct/tc) - dubbele netslag (ctct/tctc) set 2: halve slag (ct/tc) - hele slag (ctct/tctc) In both sets linenslag for ctc halve = half hele=whole dubbele=double net=net slag=stitch - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: CT/KD
In a message dated 27/01/2005 00:30:40 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Jo, what Alice said is precisely what I meant: 2 colours, instead of 3. > That is, green as usual for half stitch (with an extra cross-hatch for > the honeycomb. Or "roseground" in Denmark). But a *single colour* > (purple, red, I don't care which) *for both* the cloth (linen) and the > whole (double) stitch. The only difference being an extra cross-hatch > on the cloth stitch colour, to denote the whole stitch. > This is precisely what "Cook and Stott" did in their Bucks Point pattern books, but for some reason they chose blue for the half stitch and red for cloth/whole stitch. There was a lot of grouching at the time (which was just about when English lacemakers were becoming aware of these fancy, coloured, continental diagrams) because they'd used the colours for different stitches. Now it's possible they felt there would be a clearer difference between red and blue than green and blue which is what the "international colours" would give, but I would have thought that a mauvish blue would give a good contrast to green. All the other notations (gimps, twists etc) are in black; some heavy, some fine. Anyway, the diagrams are easy to work from and the twists are easy to follow. Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] needlelace pillows
Hi,Jen I have a needlelace pillow, but I never use it. I prefer holding the lace in my hand while I work, and it's much easier to carry around that way (useful for taking to meetings when a bobbin lace pillow is too awkward to manage on public transport). The biggest piece I've done without a pillow was about 12 inches tall by 6 inches wide (I think - I can't be bothered to take it down off the wall and measure it), and as far as I can remember I didn't have too much trouble holding it. Could you borrow a pillow to try, to see whether it suits you to work that way? Beth in a damp, grey Cheshire, England Jennifer wrote: > I'm curious as to whether many needlelace makers on the list use pillows > or not. > What have benn your experiences pillow vs no pillow? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Needlelace pillows
One of or lace group went to a needlelace class and was told to take a full kitchen roll to use as a pillow. A cheap way to decide if you want to use one or not. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] double/half (retry)
Funny how my messages do not always reach the digest. Yesterday I wrote two, with only one or two minutes interval. Both are in the archive, but http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg10234.html didn't appear in the digest. So here it is again: In Dutch we also have name variants for the same stitches. But it are consistent and logical sets that are never mixed. set 1: netslag (ct/tc) - dubbele netslag (ctct/tctc) set 2: halve slag (ct/tc) - hele slag (ctct/tctc) In both sets linenslag for ctc halve = half hele=whole dubbele=double net=net slag=stitch Inconsisted and mixed translations to English (if I'm well informed bobbin lace traveled from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium to England) might be the cause some came up with "double stitch" for twice a half stitch and the rest of the confusion. I'm wondering about the French terms. Jo Falkink - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: CT/KD
Here in Denmark we have green for CT halvstitch, blue/light purpel for CTC linenstitch, read for CTCT fore hole/doublestitch, black for the gimp, C-hatch Dorte from a finely white DK www.f2.pg.yahoo.com/ph/dorte_zielke/my_photos -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.7.1 - Release Date: 19-01-2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
