[lace] A T-shirt for the in crowd?
I love it. On Monday, December 15, 2003, at 02:00 PM, Carol Adkinson wrote: If nothing else, we could have the slogan Lacemakers do it on a pillow on a sweatshirt/T shirt, with a piece of lace. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] A T-shirt for the in crowd
Ann wrote: The problem that I met with was that, after a couple of washes, the brightly coloured images had more or less turned into grey-scale, so I became discouraged by this disappointment. Can anyone tell me if there is any way to make the colours colour-fast? I don't know if there are differences in the inks for different printers, or if ink for modern printers is better than for the older ones, but DH has been wearing the two T-shirts he made on a modern Epson (not intending to advertise) in rotation throughout the summer. He goes out on his bicycle every day, and wears a clean T-shirt each day. They've each been washed by hand many times and the images are as good as the day he made them. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Weeell it all depends on the thread you've been using for the samples and the size of the pattern .. lol .. three huge tallies with a bad one in the middle should do the trick nicely . dominique from Paris Clay Blackwell a fait jouer ses doigts de fée pour écrire à ÒRe: [lace] A T-shirt for the in crowd?Ó. [2003/12/13 13:17] I think it's a clever idea - but wonder if the medium is going to do it justice? If you look at your other lacey t-shirts, you'll see that there isn't much detail to be seen... the individual threads just aren't there. So the oops samples may not look much different from the correct version... Hate to be a wet blanket, but I'm a skeptic... (in regards to this idea...) Clay - Original Message - From: Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace Arachne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:45 PM Subject: [lace] A T-shirt for the in crowd? Gentle Spiders, The last week or so, I've been corresponding with several BL novices on the finer points of Torchon bookmarks (I have the book in which the bookmarks were published, so could check what they were talking about). Three of them (the novices) mentioned -- as if it were a dirty secret -- a *general* problem or two they were having (not the same ones). I couldn't begin to understand why they thought those problems were something to be ashamed of; when I was starting, the overload of info was overwhelming -- *everything* was new, and everything had to be memorised before the fingers (skills) took over... Up a creek without a paddle is where I felt I was (of course, that was '89, I had only one book, with outdated info re: suppliers, and no Arachne in sight g). So, as I was writing back, I kept thinking: been there, done that... And then realised that, no, I did *not* have a T-shirt to prove it; I have several lacemaking T-shirts, but not *that* one. I'd love to have a T-shirt (either short or long-sleeved) which said been there, done that... Ooops and then showed some lace (Torchon?) with common oopsies... My personal favourite would be the messed-up footside -- pin under 2 instead of under 4 for just one pin -- that's one that still happens to me sometimes (in Milanese). But I'm sure there are other lovely ones worth commemorating... :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the bottom optional... Non-BL-ers wouldn't understand it, but then they don't understand the straight ones, either. For *us*, however... On the one hand, it's a statement of improvement (been there, done that, but am not doing it anymore). On the other hand, it'd be reassuring (I should think) to novices to know that *everyone* had, at some point, worn the lace diapers but did manage to get toilet trained in the end... If y'all think the idea is worth pursuing, and if there's someone among us who'd be willing to get such a T-shirt organised, I'd volunteer to make the oops-y lace for it *After* New Year's g) Provided, of course, other people on the list were willing to share their particular bugaboos (a pine-cone tally among a cluster of perfect ones?) overcome or not... - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ - 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] A T-shirt for the in crowd?
I think it's a clever idea - but wonder if the medium is going to do it justice? If you look at your other lacey t-shirts, you'll see that there isn't much detail to be seen... the individual threads just aren't there. So the oops samples may not look much different from the correct version... Hate to be a wet blanket, but I'm a skeptic... (in regards to this idea...) Clay - Original Message - From: Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace Arachne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:45 PM Subject: [lace] A T-shirt for the in crowd? Gentle Spiders, The last week or so, I've been corresponding with several BL novices on the finer points of Torchon bookmarks (I have the book in which the bookmarks were published, so could check what they were talking about). Three of them (the novices) mentioned -- as if it were a dirty secret -- a *general* problem or two they were having (not the same ones). I couldn't begin to understand why they thought those problems were something to be ashamed of; when I was starting, the overload of info was overwhelming -- *everything* was new, and everything had to be memorised before the fingers (skills) took over... Up a creek without a paddle is where I felt I was (of course, that was '89, I had only one book, with outdated info re: suppliers, and no Arachne in sight g). So, as I was writing back, I kept thinking: been there, done that... And then realised that, no, I did *not* have a T-shirt to prove it; I have several lacemaking T-shirts, but not *that* one. I'd love to have a T-shirt (either short or long-sleeved) which said been there, done that... Ooops and then showed some lace (Torchon?) with common oopsies... My personal favourite would be the messed-up footside -- pin under 2 instead of under 4 for just one pin -- that's one that still happens to me sometimes (in Milanese). But I'm sure there are other lovely ones worth commemorating... :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the bottom optional... Non-BL-ers wouldn't understand it, but then they don't understand the straight ones, either. For *us*, however... On the one hand, it's a statement of improvement (been there, done that, but am not doing it anymore). On the other hand, it'd be reassuring (I should think) to novices to know that *everyone* had, at some point, worn the lace diapers but did manage to get toilet trained in the end... If y'all think the idea is worth pursuing, and if there's someone among us who'd be willing to get such a T-shirt organised, I'd volunteer to make the oops-y lace for it *After* New Year's g) Provided, of course, other people on the list were willing to share their particular bugaboos (a pine-cone tally among a cluster of perfect ones?) overcome or not... - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ - 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] A T-shirt for the in crowd
DH has successfully printed T-shirts with photos of birds that he took with his digital camera. They came out extremely well because the colours were bright and the images sharp. He used T-shirt transfer paper for inkjet printers, which should be available from most computer supplies shops. The process was: open the image in a suitable program, mirror the image, print it selecting the appropriate setting on the printer for transfer paper, trim round the edge of the printout leaving a thin border around the edge. Then put a board covered with a pillowcase or similar inside a white T-shirt (needs to be white or light so the border on the print doesn't show), place the transfer paper, printed side down, on the T-shirt and iron over it as directed on the paper packet. Allow to cool, peel off the paper. Fix the image by placing a piece of white paper over it and ironing for 10 seconds. Peel the paper while still hot. Leave the T-shirt for 24 hours. Wash before wearing. Iron the image on the reverse side only. I was going to try it it with a scan of some of my nicer bobbins, but, being 3D, they created a shadow on the scan which I wasn't happy with. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] A T-shirt for the in crowd (2)
Forgot to say that the border round the print appears as a white boarder n the T-shirt. Might be got rid of if you were brave enough not to have a border round the edge. I assume that without it, the edges of the image might not appear sharp. Clay wrote: If you look at your other lacey t-shirts, you'll see that there isn't much detail to be seen... the individual threads just aren't there. I scanned my first folding fan into Photosuite which automatically magnified the image. I'd been very proud of it at normal size, but at two and a half times normal, every mistake jumped out of the screen and the paper I printed it on! Never again - unless it's to show the mistakes. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] A T-shirt for the in crowd
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:57:58 -, Jean wrote: DH has successfully printed T-shirts with photos of birds that he took with his digital camera. They came out extremely well because the colours were bright and the images sharp. He used T-shirt transfer paper for inkjet printers, which should be available from most computer supplies shops. I've used the process Jean described to put an image of lace on a T shirt. First I adapted an out of copyright Bedfordshire design and made the lace, a motif about 10 cm tall, to avoid having to ask a designer for permission to use their copyrighted lace. Then I scanned the lace into my computer. It took several evenings of working with a graphics program to delete the background, mess around with filters till I decided on a wood effect, enlarge the image to about 25cm, clean up all the stray pixels of the wrong colour, and work out the relationship between colours on the screen and colours on the printer to get the image I wanted on paper. The transfer paper (from a photographic shop in my case) prints a bit darker than plain paper. Then I took a white T shirt, dyed it in once in yellow and then a second time in blue to get a greenish textured effect and printed the image on to the T shirt. Finally I had something I could wear and was pleased with. A few of you will have seen the finished item at UK or German Lace Guild conventions. I call it my 'Grinling Gibbons' as it is lace rendered in a wood effect. I did another pink and yellow piece of lace on a blue T shirt but wasn't quite as pleased with it. But sadly I have to report that 2 years on the transfer is flaking off the T shirt, despite having been washed by hand (well at least until it had substantial damage). So these things don't last. But now at least I only have to print out the picture again and find a T shirt to put it on. -- A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live. - Voltaire Steph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tatting, lace stitching page http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] A T-shirt for the in crowd
When I was doing City Guilds in Creative Computing - Part 1, which I did actually finish! - I made quite a large number of T-shirts, most of them featuring original bits of lace. The problem that I met with was that, after a couple of washes, the brightly coloured images had more or less turned into grey-scale, so I became discouraged by this disappointment. Can anyone tell me if there is any way to make the colours colour-fast? Ann in Manchester, UK - Original Message - From: Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 1:57 PM Subject: [lace] A T-shirt for the in crowd DH has successfully printed T-shirts with photos of birds that he took with his digital camera. They came out extremely well because the colours were bright and the images sharp. He used T-shirt transfer paper for inkjet printers, which should be available from most computer supplies shops. The process was: open the image in a suitable program, mirror the image, print it selecting the appropriate setting on the printer for transfer paper, trim round the edge of the printout leaving a thin border around the edge. Then put a board covered with a pillowcase or similar inside a white T-shirt (needs to be white or light so the border on the print doesn't show), place the transfer paper, printed side down, on the T-shirt and iron over it as directed on the paper packet. Allow to cool, peel off the paper. Fix the image by placing a piece of white paper over it and ironing for 10 seconds. Peel the paper while still hot. Leave the T-shirt for 24 hours. Wash before wearing. Iron the image on the reverse side only. I was going to try it it with a scan of some of my nicer bobbins, but, being 3D, they created a shadow on the scan which I wasn't happy with. Jean in Poole - 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] A T-shirt for the in crowd?
Gentle Spiders, The last week or so, I've been corresponding with several BL novices on the finer points of Torchon bookmarks (I have the book in which the bookmarks were published, so could check what they were talking about). Three of them (the novices) mentioned -- as if it were a dirty secret -- a *general* problem or two they were having (not the same ones). I couldn't begin to understand why they thought those problems were something to be ashamed of; when I was starting, the overload of info was overwhelming -- *everything* was new, and everything had to be memorised before the fingers (skills) took over... Up a creek without a paddle is where I felt I was (of course, that was '89, I had only one book, with outdated info re: suppliers, and no Arachne in sight g). So, as I was writing back, I kept thinking: been there, done that... And then realised that, no, I did *not* have a T-shirt to prove it; I have several lacemaking T-shirts, but not *that* one. I'd love to have a T-shirt (either short or long-sleeved) which said been there, done that... Ooops and then showed some lace (Torchon?) with common oopsies... My personal favourite would be the messed-up footside -- pin under 2 instead of under 4 for just one pin -- that's one that still happens to me sometimes (in Milanese). But I'm sure there are other lovely ones worth commemorating... :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the bottom optional... Non-BL-ers wouldn't understand it, but then they don't understand the straight ones, either. For *us*, however... On the one hand, it's a statement of improvement (been there, done that, but am not doing it anymore). On the other hand, it'd be reassuring (I should think) to novices to know that *everyone* had, at some point, worn the lace diapers but did manage to get toilet trained in the end... If y'all think the idea is worth pursuing, and if there's someone among us who'd be willing to get such a T-shirt organised, I'd volunteer to make the oops-y lace for it *After* New Year's g) Provided, of course, other people on the list were willing to share their particular bugaboos (a pine-cone tally among a cluster of perfect ones?) overcome or not... - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
