Hi all
I use one of the magnifiers that's pins to your lace pillow, adn cannot
work without it.
I bought mine from the daylight company.
The only problem I have found is, the lens being some kind of
plastic/perspex or whatever, it scratches easily, and
I managed to do so somehow when pulling
I use a pair of 3.5 drugstore reading glasses for sewing.
They are half glasses, so I can look over them if I want to
see who has come into the room, and they fit into a
container like a toothbrush case, so I can always have them
in my pocket. I don't have any problem wearing them over my
prescri
e I use
them more consistently.
Clay
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From: "Panza, Robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Arachne lace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: [lace] Re: Magnifiers
> For fine (anything beyond 28 threads/inc
For fine (anything beyond 28 threads/inch) embroidery, I use magnifiers that
clip to my eye glasses. I simply can't resolve the holes any more, and come
up/down in the wrong hole too often. However, those focus too closely to
use for BL. They're for work in-hand.
This weekend I sure could hav
The Daylight Company website I quoted http://www.daylightcompany.co.uk/";>http://www.daylightcompany.co.uk/ also
has a link for US visitors to their US site - http://us.daylightcompany.com/";>http://us.daylightcompany.com/
Hope this may help - I know they aren't cheap but they are fantastic qual
In a message dated 18/10/2003 04:45:38 GMT Daylight Time, Tamara
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> I have to agree with Susie -- leave the magnifer off as long as you
> can. At least in BL, anyway :) In BL, you move by touch most of the
> time; after you know what your'e suposed to be doing, that is
r bit doesn't get used an awful lot.
Carol - in a sunny but windy, therefore chilly, East Anglia, UK
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From: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Arachne lace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:39 AM
Subject: [l
On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 16:54 US/Eastern, Jane Viking Swanson
wrote:
Hi All, Something else came up in Ithaca. I used a magnifier (fits
on my
head and the lenses go up and down) for my Needlelace class
like I did when I learned Carrickmacross. Sumac's Withof teacher,
Susie
Johnson, su
