Re: [h-cost] French hood gold

2005-07-29 Thread Elizabeth Young
Kimiko Small wrote: At 09:23 PM 7/28/2005, you wrote: Wooden toothpicks would work as well as matchsticks, and are available in every supermarket. -Helen/Aidan The only toothpicks I seem to find are the round ones with plasticy things on the ends. I will have to see if I

Re: [h-cost] French hood gold

2005-07-29 Thread Carolyn Kayta Barrows
or you might try wooden skewers (like for kebabs). They are longer than matchsticks or toothpicks and might be easier to hang on to. I think the ones I have in a drawer are actually bamboo and were sold in the chinese section of some grocery store. These are bamboo and make nasty splinters,

Re: [h-cost] French hood gold

2005-07-29 Thread Judy Mitchell
Elizabeth Young wrote: or you might try wooden skewers (like for kebabs). They are longer than matchsticks or toothpicks and might be easier to hang on to. true, but depending on how much fabric you have to take up, the diameter is not big enough. That's why (after tons of calculations) I

Re: [h-cost] French hood gold

2005-07-28 Thread michaela
I read one instruction set that calls for pleating organza by hand and pressing by iron, but that sounds tedious and not quite the right look. To my eye it looks more of a set pattern crinkle in an up and down pattern, not really pleated as in a knife pleat, if that makes sense. But I am kinda

Re: [h-cost] French hood gold

2005-07-28 Thread Kimiko Small
At 12:57 AM 7/28/2005, you wrote: Hi Kimiko, I have seen some danish peassants hats/hoods that has such a finely pleated band made of lace. They also show how this was pleated that way. They used small sticks. Place one stick under and one over - one under and one over etc. While the lace is

Re: [h-cost] French hood gold

2005-07-28 Thread Kimiko Small
At 08:59 PM 7/27/2005, you wrote: Find somebody with a pleating machine like they use pleating up fabric for smocking, and do your pleating on that. I only know of one person locally that has a pleater, and she's on vacation till September. :-( Kimiko