[lace] Sorry for this post OT Clay Blackwell

2012-08-18 Thread Celtic Dream Weaver
Could Clay Blackwell please send me an email...for some reason I can't read or message her on facebook. I was not able to read your message you sent to me. Thank you muchly and I am sorry my fellow lacers.  Wind To Thy Wings, Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com http://celticdreamweaver.com/ http://

Re: [lace] All that thread on one bobbin?

2012-08-18 Thread Sue Babbs
I would use a combination of adding in new thread, and twisting out my worker with a passive. Put lots of thread on to the worker and the two outside pairs of the cloth stitch area, and use cttc to swap the workers for passives, when needed. If you tension carefully this is hardly noticeable.

Re: [lace] All that thread on one bobbin?

2012-08-18 Thread Clay Blackwell
yes, Brenda... Weaver's knot is what I meant. Since I'm accustomed to dropping in and throwing out in Binche and Flanders, the term escaped me at the time. But I have no argument with your assessment... because I am not as experienced with the heavier threads, and because... Key point...

Re: [lace] All that thread on one bobbin?

2012-08-18 Thread Lyn Bailey
This is a project I want to get right, really right, especially since I will be using it in the church to educate people about bobbin lace by doing the pattern during the ubiquitous Episcopalian (Anglican) coffee hour. They can see how it's going on, and what bobbin lace is all about. I am pre

Re: [lace] All that thread on one bobbin?

2012-08-18 Thread Brenda Paternoster
> and then when it gets near the end, bring in a newly wound bobbin, work > together for a couple of stitches, and then throw out the old. Another > option might be to use a tailor's know (I think that's what it's called) to > tie the new to the old and throw out the old, but that would be mor

Re: [lace] All that thread on one bobbin?

2012-08-18 Thread Dmt11home
Lyn, I am posting a diagram of how you switch a short thread for a long thread on laceioli.ning.com You can do this from time to time. Instead of starting with two very long threads for the workers, you start with all your threads a bit longer than you might have planned for passives and j

[lace] all that thread on one bobbin

2012-08-18 Thread Lorelei Halley
Lyn I don't think there exists a bobbin that will hold all the thread for such a large piece. I think you will have to replenish bobbins part way through, probably all of them. But if you replenish bobbins by working the old thread and the new thread together, and do the replacing in a cloth stit

[lace] Breaking Threads

2012-08-18 Thread Miriam Gidron
Alice wrote, Hi Alice and spiders, I think we had this thread already. But anyway, we had a very hot and dry summer this year with temperatures rising to 38 C with no relief in the evenings or nights, I was just working on a Kortelahti pattern which took about a month to complete. I never used

[lace] All that thread on one bobbin?

2012-08-18 Thread Jane Partridge
I wouldn't even consider putting that amount of thread onto the bobbins. My bobbins are full at about 3-4 yards, if you wind the thread so that it goes beyond the wood diameter of the bobbin you are putting the thread at risk of picking up dust from the pillow, quite apart from the wear as it m

Re: [lace] All that thread on one bobbin?

2012-08-18 Thread David C COLLYER
Lynn; Can you switch worker pairs when it comes to the cloth st sections, so that for each section you have a different worker pair??? And extra twist is all it would take to switch, and when done, who would notice? Lauren in Snohomish Lauren, that's exactly what I often do when working a lar