Hello all,
This is my first foray into Arachne.
I've been following the thread about making prickings from copies too dark
to photocopy. If the pattern is fairly small and simple, I have been known
to use tracing paper - in the U.S., this is a thin, tissue-like paper that
is translucent. Placing the tracing paper over the dark pricking (or over a
pattern in a book), fastening it in place with paper clips or tape, I
carefully draw the dots onto the tracing paper. Then I can simply photocopy
my tracing-paper copy onto cardstock.
Or, under the right circumstances, I actually prick the tracing paper.
Sometimes I have to fiddle around with the background to get the dots to
show up. Sometimes I prick the tracing paper and then draw the dots in
place with an architect's felt pen.
Either of these ways will get a workable pricking; again, as long as the
pattern is not too involved.
I agree with the writer(s) who said that drawing in one's own markings
helps one to understand the pattern. So, although it takes some time, in
the end it's for the best.
I print on several colors of pastel card stock so that I will have a choice
of thread colors, and then I cover the pricking with matte Contact Paper.
Greetings from western Oregon, USA,
Sally
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