[lace] Plain text message
Vicky, your last message arrived in plain text and was Ok and easy to read. The previous, repeated, one was more difficult to read! Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] thread protection and apologies
Liz & others, I think the product you received in the secret pal exchange is the stretchy mesh that is made of nylon or some similar material...a bit like a very fine plastic? If so, I have seen it sold for this purpose, but discovered it can be had for free. Florist suppliers use it to protect flower blooms which have not opened much yet, and it is generally discarded when the flowers arrive at the florist shop. I saw it on some flowers which had just arrived at our local grocery store (which has a flower department) and asked what they were going to do with it, was told it would be thrown away, and they were very happy to give me all I wanted. Jeri can advise if this material is safe for thread, but flower petals would seem to be likely to react even more quickly to something caustic. Also, I apologize for the triplicate message I sent last evening regarding the discussion of the derivation of the word "pecadilles" (sp?). I was trying to send the message via the mail "app" on my new Surface tablet. The copies I received only had the first few letters of my message, but apparently some of you received the message in proper form, while others received more than I did, but with the *debris* embedded with something sent in html format. Thanks, Joepie, for suggesting switching to plain text (which is where my AOL settings are already), but after a lengthy discussion with Microsoft, it appears that is not possible to change to plain text on the Surface mail "app". So, I am sending this from my tablet, but through the AOL website, so I hope the dastardly html conversions do not appear. If so, I apologize again and will fade into lurkerdom until my laptop is repaired...)-: (I would appreciate hearing how it appears on the list, since my Surface copy doesn't seem to be reliable.) Vicki in Maryland -Original Message- From: The Lace Bee To: Arachne reply Sent: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 10:37 am Subject: Re: [lace] thread protection This is why I love Arachne so much. A few years ago when I participated in the secret exchange my fellow spider sent me an American product to put round spools and prevent them from unravelling. It is wonderful so when I saw some on a shop I pounced on it to discover it was nearly ten pounds for a small length because 'its imported'. Kind Regards Liz Baker - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Securing thread - test pH
Everyone: This is a good suggestion from Agnes (trimmed, below).. It is OK for a lacemaker who keeps to her lace-making and frequently uses up her thread supplies. We have many people who put away their supplies and return to them quite some time later. This is an international list. Climate differences can have a substantial impact. Please use caution. Make sure their is no acidic content in any paper/cardboard-based storage materials. Inexpensive paper products are usually made from wood pulp, which is not good. Conservation suppliers sell a pH Testing Pen. You make a mark on the paper product (even tissue paper) and watch to see if it changes from original blue to green. Or worse, to yellow. If it does change, there is wood pulp content, and it should not be used because it will cause white threads to turn beige and weaken over a period of time. (You may not see it, but colored and black threads will weaken.) My pen is quite old, was bought from Light Impressions in the U.S., their stock number 2396, and costs about $6.. Other companies use this stock number, so don't fall for expensive equipment. It looks like a felt-tipped pen. Scrapbookers use this pen, so if there is a retail supplier nearby, you could shop there. If you have precious heirloom garments, photo albums, antique books, this conservation knowledge can prevent devastating damage. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center -- In a message dated 3/19/2013 5:05:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ag...@weatherwax.karoo.co.uk writes: Next time you start a new ball/bobbin of thread, have a piece of card tubing (e.g. from parcel wrapping or kitchen towel) and an elastic band handy: - cut a piece of tube the length of your thread bobbin - cut the card lengthwise open - roll tightly up into itself without creasing it - let unfurl, and put over the thread, tighten up if necessary - secure on the outside of the cardboard with an elastic band (this way the elastic does not touch the thread at all) - you can even note on the outside the make and size of the thread - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] stumped by Honiton
Hello All! Has anyone worked Beginner Pattern #2 in Sheila Wells Honiton book? I'm stumped at the 4-pair beginning. It's a tiny area in which to start so I understand the purpose of starting with 4 pair--but there's no mention of knotted vs unknotted threads on the bobbins. My bobbins are wound "uneven" & I want to end up with workers & edge pairs having the most thread. Luxton & Dorsett both specify the knotted/unknotted arrangement of beginning threads but it involves starting with more pairs. When starting with 4 pair, should I wind all 4 "even"? Suggestions please? Many thanks. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Securing thread
Next time you start a new ball/bobbin of thread, have a piece of card tubing (e.g. from parcel wrapping or kitchen towel) and an elastic band handy: - cut a piece of tube the length of your thread bobbin - cut the card lengthwise open - roll tightly up into itself without creasing it - let unfurl, and put over the thread, tighten up if necessary - secure on the outside of the cardboard with an elastic band (this way the elastic does not touch the thread at all) - you can even note on the outside the make and size of the thread I have used this for many years on all sorts of things, e.g. kitchen foil, parcel wrap and of course my lace threads. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] thread protection
Fray Check does not wash out. It's a fabric glue that dries clear at the time. However, it has been known to yellow after some years. Do not use it on anything you want to preserve for a long time. I use it at times in my sewing but keep it clear of my lace. Alice in Oregon -- with gray skies and rain showers the rest of the week - Original Message - Fray Check can be bought in most sewing areas or shops. it does the same thing as clear polish, but washing out. Hugs, Lin and the Mali Overton, NV USA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Thread protection - Think of conservation
Spiders, this is a wonderful tip from Alex Stillwell (trimmed, below). My conservation advice: If the "bandage" will be left on a spool and put in storage, stay with simple cotton with no elastic content. Why? Remember I wrote about a Costume Society of America program of 20th C. conservation problems. Items from this period showed effects of "stretch". Clothing for performing (like figure skating costumes), undergarments, things with elastic at the waist, or beads strung on elastic for bracelets, often lost their stretch over a few decades. If you put your lace supplies away for a while, think of long-term effects on threads and equipment. Wrap wooden tools in a few layers of cotton to prevent off-gasing of acid from discoloring and damaging things in the same storage package. Acid can off-gas from wooden bobbins and cause discoloration and weakening of threads! Store these things in a normal living environment; not in the attic and not in the cellar. Put a date on your annual calendar to check for any developments, such as insect infestation, mold, rust. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 3/19/2013 5:00:31 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, alexstillw...@talktalk.net writes: For those of you having problems with keeping cotton thread clean and spools of silk undoing and getting into tangles I use tubular finger bandage, the type that comes in a long piece and you cut to the length you need. In UK there is a brand 'Carnation footcare' that is tubular knitted cotton. I cut this one on the diagonal as it unravels easily. In US there is an elasticated one sold by the yard. It comes it in several sizes. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] thread protection
Alex What about a dab or two of nail polish on the end of the circular bandage - like we used to do on our nylon stockings? That should stop any fraying. David in Ballarat, AUS This simple email from Alex has caused a large bright light bulb to come over my head and the simple thought of 'of course'. Normally I would just file the tip away but due to the lurking issues I have decided to say THANKS ALEX and remind myself that the things I take for granted as short cuts may not be known by others and should be shared. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] thread protection
This is why I love Arachne so much. A few years ago when I participated in the secret exchange my fellow spider sent me an American product to put round spools and prevent them from unravelling. It is wonderful so when I saw some on a shop I pounced on it to discover it was nearly ten pounds for a small length because 'its imported'. This simple email from Alex has caused a large bright light bulb to come over my head and the simple thought of 'of course'. Normally I would just file the tip away but due to the lurking issues I have decided to say THANKS ALEX and remind myself that the things I take for granted as short cuts may not be known by others and should be shared. L Kind Regards Liz Baker On 19 Mar 2013, at 08:55, "Alex Stillwell" wrote: > Hi Arachnids > > For those of you having problems white keeping cotton thread clean and spools > of silk undoing and getting into tangles I use tubular finger bandage, the > type that comes in a long piece and you cut to the length you need. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] thread protection
Hi Karen If you catch the end of the thread of our knitted tubes it unravels like any other knitting. By cutting on the diagonal the ends of the thread, hopefully, entangle each other and are less likely to undo. I like the idea of the garlic mesh - hope you wash them well! Happy lacemaking Alex - Original Message - From: Karen M. Zammit Manduca To: Alex Stillwell Cc: Arachne reply Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [lace] thread protection Re: Cover for spools of thread For the larger spools, I use the mesh that garlic comes in - or ankle high fine denier socks. But I love the finger bandage idea - much neater. I can't understand, though, why you would need to cut it on the diagonal for it to unravel? For the smaller ones, I love Hugo's Magic Tape which was once mentioned over here. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] travel equipment
Lin, I don't want you to have to spend more money on bobbins :-) but you do know you can get travel bobbins, which are shorter than the traditional ones and better suited to travel pillows, don't you? I use a travel roller pillow (made by a Finnish company who were at OIDFA in 2003) mostly, (most of the lace I have time to do at the moment is done on train journeys!) but also have a 12" cookie travel pillow and can work projects with up to about 28 pairs of travel bobbins on that, whereas it would be difficult to work with more than about a dozen ordinary pairs. In message , Lin Hudren writes Happy travels. i have a small 7" cookie pillow that fits into a backpack and after securing and covering and making it comfortable, it goes everywhere. you have bobbins hanging more than laying, -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] thread protection
Hi Arachnids For those of you having problems white keeping cotton thread clean and spools of silk undoing and getting into tangles I use tubular finger bandage, the type that comes in a long piece and you cut to the length you need. In UK there is a brand 'Carnation footcare' that is tubular knitted cotton. I cut this one on the diagonal as it unravels easily. In US in one of the chains (cannot remember which one, perhaps someone can help) there is an elasticated one sold by the yard. It comes it in several sizes suitable for our different sized spools and balls. Have fun lacemaking Alex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Lace Days in Bruges
Dear All A friend and I may be planning a trip to Bruges in the next few months and wonder if anyone knows about any Lace Days in that area so that we may plan our visit to coincide with a Lace Day. Thank you Maureen E Yorks UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Oops!
Hi Robin Sorry about your pillow Robin. When I was making my large piece 'Ye Greek Gods!' I went into my front room to find my stand overturned and my pillow upside down on the floor. I have no pets and my husband said 'Not Guilty'. It may have been the weight of all those bobbins. Fortunately I had strapped down most of the bobbins and only a few threads were broken. I also use the 'turning the pillow upside down' teick. You need a lot of courage - but it works. Happy lacemaking Alex - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
