Dear Friends,
I know we've discussed picots many times over the years, and ever
since I first learned them I've always done 5T pin, 2T which has
served me well.
However, some months ago I bought and read Ulrike VOELKER's book
called The Grammar of Point Ground. Many of her tips I had
Hi David Arachnids,
Thank you David for sharing this! Hopefully this will stop my picots leaning
back.
Happy lace making,
Joepie in a miserably rainy East Sussex, UK ( Good lace weather,
though!;-)
From: David C COLLYER
However, some months ago I bought and read Ulrike VOELKER's
Since we have had a discussion about muslin on the list before (different
meanings across the pond since we use it in various ways to subsidize our lace
making), I thought I would share the A.Word.A.Day information that came today,
that you might find interesting. (below)
Best,
Susan
Dear Susan,
muslin
ETYMOLOGY:
From French mousseline, from Italian mussolina, from Mussolo (Mosul, Iraq)
which was known for this fabric. Earliest documented use: 1609.
It just so happens that I am currently reading the original writings
of Marco Polo which have been annotated in the 1890s.
Hi David, like you I was taught 5t pin 2t never questioned it before, but
will certainly give it a try on the next picots that I do. Bye the way, I
never saw the poppies finished, did you post a picture, did I miss it
somehow?
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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I had been doing 3t pin 3t, as described in the book I have been learning
from, with little success. The two threads always popped apart when I took
the pin out. Another, much older, book it suggested 6t pin, which worked a
lot better. Based on this discussion, I will start giving 7t a try.
I thought this was a pretty presentation worth viewing, and provides some
inspiration (though cut lace doesn't appeal, perhaps folded does). S
http://www.womenbeforeus.com/aterforsaljare.aspx
Best,
Susan Reishus
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That sounds like a smart idea Malvery, I hadn't thought of that, yet although
I was wondering how wide would be ok on this pillow.
The way I am using the pillow at the moment I am able to place the edge
bobbins off the working apron out of the way giving me enough room to work
comfortably in the
How wide is a swedish one and how wide the apron. I did buy the foam roller
for the 5 and 1/4 inch block pillow but didn't get on with it (but maybe
might do better now I have got the knack, worth a try. We were considering
making one earlier this year, but in the end decided to buy as it
Thank you Jacquie,
Will consider all this when designing or choosing a pattern, both across and
pattern repeat. Will certainly work a sample piece to prove it works, or
not, on the pillow, it works with the thread and I like it enough to go all
the way around a rectangle table cloth. I had
It would be interesting to get opinions on the sensible, comfortable number of
pins in a given area of pillow. The roller pillow is
My napkins certainly go into the wash in a pillowcase and damp press rather
than allow to dry and they come up well each time. I also have a kerchief I
made which
Hi
I have had occasion to use three different UK suppliers over the last couple
of months and I would like to say what great service I've had from each of
them. All the things I ordered came far sooner than I expected and were just
what I ordered. So, thank you, in chronological order, Jo
The greater number of twists are for finer thread. I think it's a
matter of physics, the number of twists in total should be an odd
number but I'm too lazy to check this out.
For the double picot (with two loops snuggled into one), make sure
that once the loops are in place around the pin, that
Hi
It's nearly 2 weeks since I did my demonstration at our church's Christmas
Tree festival and I thought I ought to let you all know how I got on. It was
an interesting experience. I was there all day on Saturday, apart from going
home for lunch and for about 4 hours on Sunday afternoon.
I
Good advise as it isn't very wide. I designed this pattern as a square
photoframe for Alice for the Arachne exchange in 2008 I think, and have
since changed it to be this straight strip to try on this pillow. I called
it Alice of course:-) It is working up well and getting me into the swing
I have said on arachne several times over the years that theres no point
in doing twists after the picot; this is what I was taught by Pat Read in
the mid 1980s and I how I have done them and taught them ever since.
If you analyse where the twists go, the ones before the pin form the cord
Hi Lyn, go into arachne webshots and the Hurwitzend folder and it is the
first photo.
My cat, sadly is no longer with us and we were just talking about missing
him. He used to just hold the bobbins steady, he never upset anything.
He did occasionally get between me and the pillow (by
I am using a homemade block pillow at the moment which is about 24 inches
wide,
It is a D shape with moveable blocks down the middle. I made it to go
in a
suitcase. I have 22 pair of bobbins for a buckspoint pattern I
designed, which
is also called Alice, after my deceased MIL. I probably
Katelyn wrote.
I had been doing 3t pin 3t, as described in the book I have been learning
from, with little success. The two threads always popped apart when I took
the pin out. Another, much older, book it suggested 6t pin, which worked a
lot better. Based on this discussion, I will start giving
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It would be interesting to get opinions on the sensible, comfortable number of
pins in a given area of pillow.
The pins anchor the lace so subsequent tensioning does not pull it out of
shape. The closeness of the stitches, and the kind of stitches, will affect
The instructions for keeping the threads slack until the the pin is in
place are excellent; the problem with the Nottingham instructions is the three
twists before, three after the pin. The three before form the picot
itself, the three after have nowhere to go. If you look at the picots in
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c546551ff307cf428001639e689f106f04a03...@mbx2-node2.essex.ac.uk,
Gray, Alison J ag...@essex.ac.uk writes
I was using one of my own designs. But I was wondering whether anyone knows
whether it would be violating copyright if I were to use someone else's design
and sell it for
I am looking at the OIDFA Point Ground Study Book on the Picots page -
there are 23 different point ground laces listed in the chart, each
using one or more of *18* different ways to make a picot. Some of the
picot methods depend on what else is done immediately at the picot, in
the headside.
David C COLLYER responded
Did you by any chance try her suggestion of using a
thicker pin for the picots?
I've been doing that for years.
Hiya, David, I guess you're into spring now. Boggles my mind. How does the
picot pin improve things for you? Do you have big holes in your pillow? I
lynrbai...@desupernet.net wrote:
And someone else wrote that she had not used a roller pillow until relatively
recently. I know the old pillows, Le Puy, for sure, were roller pillows. As I
understand it, block pillows are a recent invention.
Mostly, yes. Swiss pillows may be an
Dear Friends,
today during my lunch time assignation, I got my partner Lindsay to
draw the 9 names of those who are to receive an Irish linen
spoke-stitched handkerchief. They are:-
- Shirley TREGELLAS
- Shirley McDANIEL
- Shirley MEIER (can you believe he drew the 3 Shirleys in a row!! -
G'day Lyn,
Hiya, David, I guess you're into spring now. Boggles my mind. How
does the picot pin improve things for you? Do you have big holes in
your pillow? I tried picot pins and didn't see much difference, and
I had big holes in my roller pillow. But then my picots are a work
in
Oh Lyn,
I guess you're into spring now.
I forgot to say, we're actually into SUMMER now and today is a gorgeous 30C
David
Boggles my mind. How does the picot pin improve things for you? Do
you have big holes in your pillow? I tried picot pins and didn't see
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Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.com wrote:
I have seen many Maltese silk pieces with turned corners, but these also would
be mid 19th century or just a little earlier, and I have no idea what shape of
pillow was used on Malta.
What today in Malta/Gozo is called a traditional pillow looks
I made a firm quilted mat with a U shape to fit around the roller on my
travel pillow, and the sides go over onto the back flap (where a beaded pin
holds the ends in place while I am working.
This stops the bobbins and threads falling in between the side flaps and the
gap before the back flap,
There were a total of three programmes about this choir and each one was very
emotional - but the third had me sniffing loudly! Glad to see it is getting
an airing outside Britain.
Patricia in Wales
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