[lace] Prickings
Hi Arachnids If you use a good quality pricking card, not necessarily a thick one, your holes will not enlarge and you will be able to reuse it many times. Hence, no need for plastic. Happy lacemaking Alex P.S. Check that your pricker needle has the same diameter as your pins. Then the pins will pass through easily and at the same time they will be held firmly upright and not wobble as they would if the holes were larger, much better than relying on the plastic to reduce their size. - 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) card and film
Hello fellow spiders For my pickings,I print my patterns out on pastel coloured card and use clear film from the hardware shop. Also you can use pastel coloured card and laminator pouches.You can buy Matt ones.Both work fine. I am finding this thread interesting to see what other lacemakers use and what works for them. Daphne Martin Norwich UK. Sent from my IPad - 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] Reusing Prickings
I suspect that prickings, except for those specialized ones where the sewings are many, and you have to dig into the pricking, can be used more than one thinks. Certainly a simple photocopy on photocopy paper can be used more than once, probably several times. I remember that David Collyer once wrote about the many, many times he had used a simply created pricking. I forget the nature of the paper, but it wasnât anything special. And I simply photocopied a Bucks pattern onto card stock, nothing fancy, and no plastic, put it around a thin travel pillow roller and made more than 75 inches of lace on it. It still can be used. The parchment prickings that we see mutilated and difficult to use, needing a repricking with a view to straightening out all the misplaced pinholes was probably used hundreds of times, if what they say about a lacemaker making the same pattern for years and years, working all day at it. Very few of us will ever use a pricking to that extent. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where I am sick of the clouds that have been around for at least a week. If only it would rain, and then the sun actually come out and stay out, instead of all this lowering cloud cover most of the time. - 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] (Lace) card and film
Hello to One and All! I usually copy the prickings onto blue card stock or paper. I'll always cover the pricking with clear packing tape. They last longer. Hugs, Susie Rose  My stores: https://www.zibbet.com/SusieRoseDesigns https://www.zibbet.com/MountainRoseFoods https://SusieRose.Blujay.com Group: ufo12fo...@yahoogroups.com Blog: http://fiberismybag.wordpress.com From: Daphne Martin Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:36 AM Hello fellow spiders   For my pickings,I print my patterns out on pastel coloured card and use clear film from the hardware shop. Also you can use pastel coloured card and laminator pouches.You can buy Matt ones.Both work fine. I am finding this thread interesting to see what other lacemakers use and what works for them. Daphne Martin Norwich 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] Plastic film
Dear Friends, this is just a handy tip (or reminder because sometimes I forget to do it). When you cover your prickings with coloured plastic film (or Contact) don't forget that if you use a brand new kitchen scouring pad on it for about 20 seconds, it will become matt. This makes such a difference when you are working the lace - no glossy reflections. David in Ballarat, AUS - 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] Plastic film
Just recently I finally finished up the roll of clear plastic contact film I bought when I started lacemaking in the 80s. When I went out to buy another roll, I was pleased to discover that I can now buy the film with a matte surface. It’s lovely. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > > When you cover your prickings with coloured plastic film (or Contact) don't > forget that if you use a brand new kitchen scouring pad on it for about 20 > seconds, it will become matt. This makes such a difference when you are > working the lace - no glossy reflections. > David in Ballarat, AUS - 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] Pricking card & sticky film
Hello All! Just wanted to add--if you use a piece of waxed paper between the pricking & your cork pad, the needle seems to stay clean & free of gunk. Since I don't always have waxed paper with me, I tried using the plasticky paper that peels off the film itself. It worked for me too. My pricker is stored with the needle poked into a wine cork & I occasionally clean it with my emery. A friend who makes the most luscious strawberry emeries from hand dyed velvet let me take a few to Sweet Briar where they were quickly adopted! Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie PA USA iPhone - 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] Bookmark- plastic film
Hi Fellow Arachnids, A few days ago I received a beautiful bookmark in Romanian point from Sue Turnbull. Thank you very much indeed Sue I am delighted with it and hope Sue likes the bookmark I sent her yesterday as much. I was later than I had hoped with this as time at present seems to be in very short supply -or is it that as one grows older time seems to go quicker and quicker ;-). As to using plastic film or not on the patterns; I use it as I have had problems with both so-called permanent markers as well as printed patterns in the past. The only safe way is to use Indian ink for marking -I do this on lace card for patterns to be used several times- or cover with plastic film. Soft blue, grey, peach, green, mid-blue or clear plastic film depending on what I am doing and the base colour of the paper, but always matt. The bookmark I did for Sue was done on 2 mm graph paper over a piece of data card covered by mid-blue film and vaguely lined out to show where I wanted elements to go as it was a âone offâ piece. Again my thanks to Sue. Happy lace making to all. Joepie in East Sussex, UK, where it is chilly for June.-about 11 C (54 F) - 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 pricking card
No one has mentioned this, perhaps Iâm the only one with this experience? Back in the days when we didnât have scanners and our computers ran on tapes there was no option but to draw out our prickings by hand. I well remember the first big project I made, it was a doily. I had just taken it off the pillow and laid it out on the coffee table to admire when our dog snatched it up and ran off with it. While there was no damage to the actual lace (or the dog) it was pretty dirty and I had to wash it. It shrunk, so I used the pricking to block it. Naturally, in spite of indelible ink, it bled into the lace. This year I had occasion to block a large piece of lace (the major disaster I wrote about) and, in spite of using two layers of plastic over the original pricking, the ink still started to bleed up around the pins. Fortunately I was watching closely and I removed the lace before it got dyed. Normally you can block out lace without having to use the original pricking but if the shrinkage is too much you have to use the pricking as a guide? How do others solve the problem of blocking? Sharon on Vancouver Island - 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] Bookmark- plastic film
I am really pleased that you have it and like it Joepie. I will let you know when yours arrives. I have already sent a scan of the one I sent to you so now she can know that its ok to add to her website when she is ready. On the subject of plastic film, I have used the matt blue for the last 14 years for most of my prickings occasionally not bothering, just printing straight onto a slightly lighter card of what ever colour I think I have that will go with thread colour I am using to allow me to see it. I recently started to pick up some colourless locally and didn't realised the blue had stopped being produced.Now it is a shame to me, not the devastating news it might have been a few years ago. I have learned so much from all my fellow Arachnids. Sue T in Dorset UK, where we had a fabulous sunny and warm day yesterday but sunny and chilly today, temps about 58 F cooling a lot overnight, going down hill by thursday, :-( Hi Fellow Arachnids, A few days ago I received a beautiful bookmark in Romanian point from Sue Turnbull. Thank you very much indeed Sue I am delighted with it and hope Sue likes the bookmark I sent her yesterday as much. I was later than I had hoped with this as time at present seems to be in very short supply -or is it that as one grows older time seems to go quicker and quicker ;-). The bookmark I did for Sue was done on 2 mm graph paper over a piece of data card covered by mid-blue film and vaguely lined out to show where I wanted elements to go as it was a ‘one off’ piece. Again my thanks to Sue. Joepie in East Sussex, UK, where it is chilly for June.-about 11 C (54 F) - 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/
