On 5/28/10 11:48 AM, Mark Myers wrote:
It is about 1mm thick and has a glazed coating.
The oaktag that I saw in a bookstore near Purdue
University in the sixties would substitute for this stuff as
sewing-pattern paper. Don't know how it would do for prickings.
Alta Vista suggests that the
Nice repurposing of cereal boxes. Will have to remember that. I am always
searching the house for some card stock to trace the pattern onto and then
lay clear contact sheet over. Sometimes I raid my wife's scrapbooking card
stock BIG GRIN
However, I acquired some thick card stock from where I
Myers
Sent: 28 May 2010 17:49
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Subject: [lace] Re: Pricking card and cereal boxes
Nice repurposing of cereal boxes. Will have to remember that. I am always
searching the house for some card stock to trace the pattern onto and then
lay clear contact sheet over. Sometimes I raid my
I could. I guess I would have to leave it taped on or pinned on to the
card. But eventually that will get worn out. But the card with holes won't
;) I haven't used it much and the prickings I have used with it are not
difficult.
--
Mark, aka Tatman
website: http://www.tat-man.net
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I cover pattern and card with clear tape, the transparent 'magic' tape is
good because it doesn't cause glare, and it is cheap. Others use the blue
plastic film you can purchase by the length from lace suppliers. I don't
archive prickings, but I do like to use them more than once, often many
times
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carol Adkinson
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at least by copying the pattern, one doesn't have to waste umpteen
pieces of card just to get the ink markings correct!
I use Typex if I make a mistake - alternatively go over the mistake with
another colour pen - and
In a message dated 04/03/2005 14:09:29 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
at least by copying the pattern, one doesn't have to waste umpteen
pieces of card just to get the ink markings correct!
I use Typex if I make a mistake - alternatively go over the mistake with
another
On Mar 1, 2005, at 13:07, Jane Bawn wrote:
Personally I didn't use plastic film for a long time, I pricked
straight on to the card from my paper pattern and then just used the
card,
after all if you are only going to use the pattern for a short period
and
then never again it is pointless going
If you use plastic film to cover your prickings try to get hold of the non
reflective kind its easier on the eye when you are looking at it for long
periods.
If you can't get the non-reflective type just rub the other one over with a
metal scouring pad, it dull it sufficiently.
Shirley in
