At a Canberra craft fair last week, I purchased a couple of
hanks of a variegated yarn 60% cotton, 40% viscose in
wonderful colours. It's called Vittoria, from Filatura di
Crosa in Italy, each hank has about 1,400 metres, and
the thread thickness is about equivalent to Bockens 40/2
(22 wpc). It
Generally speaking, I don't like very much coloured laces, however I
found that to use variegated colour in working pairs (torchon
technique), just in the area of wholestitch and outside head of the
lace, is really attractive.
The stripping effect has been for me too, an effect to avoid, and I
These work well when doing Schneeberger lace. The variegated threads are
wound evenly onto the bobbins, plain thread being used for the weavers.
Since this lace is a type of tape, the light and dark portions of the
thread will appear at the inner or outer curves of the designs.
Lia Baumeister-
Robin wrote:
I used variegated thread for my Chrysanthemum lace class with Cathy
Belleville, and it worked beautifully! I used silk floss (Caron
Waterlillies, Thread Gatherer Silk 'n' Colors, and Gloriana).
Just curious, what size threads do these embroidery thread compare with?
Janice Blair
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Question is, what sort of patterns best suit variegated yarn? Cloth stitch
or half stitch diamonds/trails? Big or little spiders? <<<
Sounds lovely! What are the colors?
The elements that, IMO, best show off variegated threads are:
- Cloth (C
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:49:17 +1000, Noelene wrote:
>At a Canberra craft fair last week, I purchased a couple of
>hanks of a variegated yarn 60% cotton, 40% viscose in
>wonderful colours. It's called Vittoria, from Filatura di
>Crosa in Italy, each hank has about 1,400 metres, and
>the thread thic
Any hints about using variegated thread successfully? I've been using
some Valdani thread as workers in a piece of Torchon and it's comming out
in regular stripes - not the effect I wanted at all. Other times I've
used it and the patterns been completely lost and a mess. What's the
trick?
Hila
Hallo,
because of that "striping" effect
this kind of varigated thread is seldom uesed in industry
if fo any reason what so ever we realy need a varigated thread
we will do it a bit differend
we then use a gimped thread
the core yanr is then an even coloured thread which matches the most
common g
On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:35:56 +0800, Hilary wrote:
>Any hints about using variegated thread successfully? I've been using
>some Valdani thread as workers in a piece of Torchon and it's comming out
>in regular stripes - not the effect I wanted at all. Other times I've
>used it and the patterns been
I think Steff has hit the nail on the head here. I don't often use
variegated thread but if I do I choose subtle changes of colour. I
called in to Vivienne of Presencia UK yesterday and was looking at her
display of (colour photocopies of) the lace they sell patterns for.
One was worked with
This is a hot tip for using variegated thread (first some preamble)
It depends on the effect the lacemaker likes, doesn't it?
> but so long as you avoid half stitch,
Or meet it head on ;)
After some thought, what Brenda does with thread and lace inspired me about
the core of the matter - via thr
Roseground had Valdani thread for sale on their stall at The Chepstow Lace
Suppliers' Fair (run by Ann and Tim Parker). When I spoke to Pat about using
the variegated she showed me a couple of pieces she had done. In both of them,
the variegated was limited to cloth stitch trails, the rest of
I would have replied earlier as I use variegated thread a lot in my coloured
idrija, but Brenda replied for me.
I am currently in England to help Jacquie organize my dad's funeral. He
passed away on Saturday last week (10th) and I haven't had time to write
before.
Malvary (normally in Ottaw
Perhaps even more accurate: copy the pricking slightly larger
and sling the worker around its pins.
Jo
> So, hot tip for using variegated thread - wrap the thread around
> various widths of card to test the limits of the colour sequence.
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Hello everyone
My internet connection has been uneven this weekend but today I finally
uploaded several photos to my blog, of some experiments with variegated
threads.
My scanner was puzzled by the fabric backgrounds I used, and I should re-do
them with paper background. But - another day, when th
Following Bev's lead I have just scanned all the pieces of BL I have
which are made with variegated thread and uploaded them to
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/variegated/variegated.htm
Also a list of colour repeat lengths for the threads I have.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://pater
Hello All! In from the garden for the night so will toss in a comment about
variegated threads. Shortly after I started making lace, I fell in love with
Oliver Twist threads. They are easy to use, come in a wide range of yummy
colors & are a nice size for simple Torchon patterns. They are al
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Hello All! In from the garden for the night so will toss in a comment
about variegated threads. Shortly after I started making lace, I fell
in love with Oliver Twist threads.
Variegated thread is a goo
Jean Oliver is in England and her dyed cottons are definitely available in UK.
There's no website for Oliver Twists yet, but they are the first business
mentioned on
http://www.workshopontheweb.com/traders/admall.htm
For a bit of info about using variegated threads in BL, and a few pics have a
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