[lace] A Sorrel Leaf & orts

2010-01-23 Thread hottleco
Hello All! Boo-yah, the small Sorrel leaf is sewn & off the pillow!! Many thanks to Jacquie, who generously came to my rescue with excellent advice. Before I tackle my next motif, I wanted to share a project for your orts. I have this lovely pile of spent Sorrel threads & recall that someone

Re: [lace] A Sorrel Leaf & orts

2010-01-23 Thread bev walker
Q. What is an ort? (please) A. ? (thanks!) On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:12 AM, wrote: > Hello All! Boo-yah, the small Sorrel leaf is sewn & off the pillow!! Many > thanks to Jacquie, who generously came to my rescue with excellent advice. > Before I tackle my next motif, I wanted to share a p

RE: [lace] A Sorrel Leaf & orts

2010-01-23 Thread Patricia Dowden
...@neo.rr.com Cc: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] A Sorrel Leaf & orts Q. What is an ort? (please) A. ? (thanks!) On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:12 AM, wrote: > Hello All! Boo-yah, the small Sorrel leaf is sewn & off the pillow!! Many > thanks to Jacquie, who generously came to my rescue

Re: [lace] A Sorrel Leaf & orts

2010-01-23 Thread bev walker
Thank you Patty, and to Susan who replied to me privately. I had not heard the term until now! I call them 'thread ends' those bits of left over thread :) On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Patricia Dowden wrote: > Dear Bev, > > An ort is a bit of thread left over from a project. That little bit

Re: [lace] A Sorrel Leaf & orts

2010-01-26 Thread Celia Mulhearn
An ort is a bit of thread left over from a project. That little bit left on the needle or bobbin or I work in a pre-school (for ages 3-5yrs) and I save my ' orts' in an old sweet jar to be used by the children for their collage work with lots of glue they get used for hair, clo