At a recent workshop, Dianne, we were told to
gather your bobbins into sets of 4 or 6 and make
a plait with each bundle about an inch long before
we cut off. Perhaps if you made your plaits 2 inches
long, then cut in half, it would secure both ends for
you.
Noelene in Cooma
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Especially at Christmas,
Here's a greeting that brings
A whole lot of wishes
For life's nicest things-
May your lace give you pleasure
May your pins never bend
May the thread on your bobbins
Last right to the end.
May there always be prickings
And bobbins galore
And lacemaking friends
Coming in y
made a scarf in 1 ply pure wool when I first started
bobbin lace, before anyone told me it ought to be difficult
to work with. As I had not yet got used to tensioning
Torchon by tugging hard, it turned out beautifully! The 1 ply
wool was about equivalent to 20 crochet cotton. It shrunk
by abou
Talking of printer problems - I recently bought the
HP PSC 1410 printer/scanner/copier, and found if
I scanned prickings at a high quality then moved them
into Paint Shop Pro for resizing (for different thread),
then it was as if the original scan was an enormous sheet
of paper, and if I resized ba
eBay Australia has some unusual tatting hooks for sale -
I think they may really be tatting hooks too, and not something
misnamed. It looks like the loop would fit on your finger.
The item number is 6244254375
or do a search on eBay for "Folding tatting hooks". They
are featured with a pair of "
Late last year I did a class in Russian tape lace with Nadine Pauwels
when she was visiting Australia. Among the lace pieces she brought
for display, were some beautiful tape lace mats including a circular
one about 2 ft (80 cm) in diameter and some long rectangular mats.
Does anyone know what ty
Steph writes
>Flanders has so many worker exchanges where 4 bobbins cross
>the gimp, that a coloured gimp shows up as a dotted line
While talking of coloured lace - a couple of years ago, I started
a simple piece of Torchon and found I didn't have the right thickness
in Perle for the gimp. I was
I'm in favour of Joanne doing the commems again this year.
"Member since" could be fun, but not essential.
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Janice, your Belgian bobbins would be fine "square" bobbins if
you can sand them down on four sides
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> When I needed some more wire lace bobbins I used some of the belgian bobbins
> I b
