[lace] Shredding threads
In message 8cc83ee338e6ff2-5d24-3...@webmail-d011.sysops.aol.com, Vicki Bradford twohappyb...@aol.com writes I, too, use continental bobbins exclusively and have not had the shredding problem so that might be an explanation. I'm wondering if there are several problems being discussed and the description meaning different things to different people! To me, shredding means losing fibres by being worn away in a cutting/grating sort of fashion - such as you shred paper - this would happen relatively quickly. Shedding, where small fibres from the thread are lost in use, is usually caused by friction - and is gradual - moulting. In other words, in the first you end up with a pile of little bits, the second the thread is worn out gradually. Neither describes the problem caused by threads unspinning - where you start with fibres about 1.5 inches long twisted together to form a thread - take the twist away and the fibres separate, and part company very easily - hence a broken thread. Snapping is when you pull on a thread too hard, and cause the thread to break - not necessarily parting the individual fibres. This can be due to the thread being too weak for the tension put on it (due to a variety of causes) or heavy-handedness on the part of the lacemaker. The causes of the thread being weaker than it should be can include shedding fibres and shredding. Over the years, the reasons why my threads have broken have been down to either too much tension for the thread, weakness in the thread probably due to dryness - both snapping - and unspinning. Occasionally stabbing the thread with a pin hasn't helped! I haven't had any of these caused by wear of the thread against the cloths. Bobbins - I use either Midland or Honiton on either a domed or block pillow, and work palms down. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] horsehoe thread lifter
I attended a class one time where we were told we needed a horseshoe type tool. We had not been told in advance. Some of the people made a quick purchase the first evening of some 1/4 inch plastic tubing and some pipecleaners.Cut 10-12 inches of tubing and 2-3 inches of pipecleaner. Use the pipecleaner inside the tube ends to hold them together. Instantlya closed circle that can easily be opened to move or remove. Lifts the threads up a fair distance so don't make the circle too small. I didn't know of the tubing idea at that time. My roommate had one of the horseshoes so I traced it on the lid of a food container and cut out a horseshoe shape. I left the outside rim and just trimmed the inside to shape. It wasn't fancy but it worked for it's purpose. Don't know about shredding threads, but I didn't have the problem when I used these tools. The threads are lifted above the area of both the pinheads and workcloth edges. Any shredding would have to be from other causes. I later got a horseshoe and the tubing circle. I prefer the tubing which gives a closed circle. Alice in Oregon -- where I must do some house chores. Spent the past two days just making lace and ignoring the chores. - Original Message From: Vicki Bradford twohappyb...@aol.com I wonder what experience others have had using the plastic green 'horseshoe' intended to raise threads a bit to avoid catching on exposed pins? I confess I own one but have never used it. Has anyone found that it helps with the shredding problem? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re:horsehoe thread lifter
Alice in Oregon -- where I must do some house chores. Spent the past two days just making lace and ignoring the chores. And that is a good thing! Lace forever, housework whenever! :-D -- Mark, aka Tatman in Illinois (who hasn't had the chance to lace for a while. Too busy making costumes for the HS musical) website: http://www.tat-man.net blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com etsy shop: http://tatman.etsy.com FB: http://www.facebook.com/tatmantats - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Shredding threads
I agree with Jane. To me shredding means the thread disintegrating due to friction , snapping is a sudden breakage caused by too much tension, either heavy handedness or a weak thread and feathering is the thread just pulling apart, usually because it has become untwisted. I don't usually have too much of a problem with any of these but the current project has been a trial - mainly because I started it using a one ply weaving linen! Where the thread has held together it looks fine, but even with making an effort to keep the threads twisted I had half a dozen feathering breaks in about three inches of lace and I couldn't pull hard enough to tension the spiders properly and so I gave up and started again using Moravia 40/2. Problem solved. I had a similar problem when I tried to use Shetland wool singles yarn for BL. I'm using a novelty metallic thread for the gimps and outside passive pair. It's a chained thread with added bits of glitter, a bit like metallic chenille. I have to tug it pretty hard to tension it but no problems other than the fact that at the end of each session there are several tiny pieces of the glitter fibre on the pillow caused by friction (shredding), but no breakages. Brenda I'm wondering if there are several problems being discussed and the description meaning different things to different people! Brenda in Allhallows paternos...@appleshack.com http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Finally finished a shawl
Thanks for the support. I replied to a few people and unfortunately most of them, it seems, went private due to me forgetting that I have to hit reply ALL not just reply when I send. If anyone wishes to share their reply with the group.please feel free to do so. Cearbhael _ From: Norma Harris [mailto:nrm_h...@yahoo.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:18 PM To: 'Avital'; 'Arachne.com'; cearbh...@mywdo.com Subject: RE: [lace] Finally finished a shawl I'm another who is enjoying the lace shawl discussion and hope it will continue here. Haven't decided on my next lace shawl, but an leaning much. Thanks, Norma (in VA) http://normasneedlez.blogspot.com http://sistersstitching.blogspot.com NATA #847 Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Finally finished a shawl
I am still waiting to get the Estonian Lace Shawls book. I have a pattern or two of Nancy Bush's that I found in Piecework magazine and out of another knitted lace book. The book is on my wish list at Amazon LOL... Cearbhael Me too! Especially as I was given Nancy Bush's Estonian Lace Shawls book for Christmas Sue - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
RE: [lace] Finally finished a shawl
When my mother was still with us, every time there was a new baby expected in the family she would knit a shawl called The Tree of Life it is a beautiful pattern and I lost count of how many she had knitted. When she passed away my youngest son and his wife has just got married and when they were expecting their first child my DIL was quite upset because she would not get a shawl like all the others for their babies, luckily I had kept some of mums knitting patterns (the ones that had memories mainly) so I took on the mantle of new baby shawl knitter I am so glad that there have not been too many babies since that time because it is extremely time consuming, but satisfying. If you want to see the pattern it is on webshots if anybody wants any further information please contact me privately Sue M Harvey NorfolkUK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] Finally finished a shawl
Hi Sue - I tried to see your shawl on the webshots site, and although I found your file, there wasn't a picture of the shawl in it. Did I do something wrong? Clay On 2/25/2010 6:37 PM, Sue wrote: When my mother was still with us, every time there was a new baby expected in the family she would knit a shawl called The Tree of Life it is a beautiful pattern and I lost count of how many she had knitted. When she passed away my youngest son and his wife has just got married and when they were expecting their first child my DIL was quite upset because she would not get a shawl like all the others for their babies, luckily I had kept some of mums knitting patterns (the ones that had memories mainly) so I took on the mantle of new baby shawl knitter I am so glad that there have not been too many babies since that time because it is extremely time consuming, but satisfying. If you want to see the pattern it is on webshots if anybody wants any further information please contact me privately Sue M Harvey NorfolkUK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace-chat] UK Shonky Deal
I've just downloaded my emails and among them is an email supposedly from a solicitor in London saying that I'm due to receive $3,000,000 from a relative who died in 2002. All I have to do is sent my personal details and they'll wire it to my bank account. Yeah, right! Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Tech-challenged seniors
Been there, done that... at least for part of the way :) From: R.P. I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1,800 employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space. That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world. My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag. The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [Blue tooth but it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife as everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and I got a little loud. I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, Re-cal-cu-lating. You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good. When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me (after 50+ years I certainly hope so). To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings. It was a lot easier when it was connected to a cord (for the kids out there reading this, yes, there used to be a cord attached to the phone - and we only had one phone in the house! I won't even go into party lines but older folks know what I'm talking about). The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden Paper or Plastic? every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused but I never remember to take them in with me. Now, I toss it back to them. When they ask me, Paper or Plastic? I just say, Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual. Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
