RE: [lace] Miss Channer receives.../ideas for stacking bobbins

2009-03-10 Thread Margery Allcock
[mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of David in Ballarat Sent: Monday 09 March 2009 14:56 To: bev walker; Cher Cc: lace@arachne.com Subject: Re: [lace] Miss Channer receives.../ideas for stacking bobbins I watched a lacemaker working with hundreds of Midlands pairs, a big Beds

Re: [lace] Miss Channer receives.../ideas for stacking bobbins

2009-03-09 Thread David in Ballarat
I watched a lacemaker working with hundreds of Midlands pairs, a big Beds. piece on a large cookie pillow, and she was able to pick up groups of bobbins, twist the bundle once so that the leader threads were all together, and left them back of the pillow. Now THAT'S an intriguing idea which I

Re: [lace] Miss Channer receives.../ideas for stacking bobbins

2009-03-08 Thread bev walker
This is a good idea for a given amount of a lot of bobbins. The pattern I was working on with 140 continental pairs, I shifted groups out of the way in layers, first placed a group on a stick (the stick with an elastic threaded end to end), then the stick on a work cloth, and stacked them