Bullion wraps

,I suppose using tissue might be okay for stem or outline stitch, but loose stitches like long and short or satin stitch might pull out of shape when you were tearing off the tissue..

L

Or you could scan a design and then print it onto photo transfer paper. I

*snip*

Maybe not out of print. There seems to be a fair amount of reprinted stuff. Anyhow, I'm working in the shop part time, and will get a chance to look on Thursday. Honestly, I think this is the rare shop that is stocking a bunch of crewel. But one of the women who is teaching a bit there, and at some point was involved in the ownership, designs crewel. They're very interesting, and so I think that's part of the reason they have a bunch in the shop.

Anyhow, I know that she carries kits from The Crewel Work Company

can't remember the others. And should go finally get dressed. Errands todo, and I get to go to a bris. What fun. (talking about little snips) ellice

Ellice! You better RDH after that one!

Yes, the stitching with tissue works very well also, I just find it quicker with tulle. All of a sudden, out of nowhere related comes that jingle, roses are dandy but likker is quicker lol

I've never tried tissue or tulle but I was worried that it would catch on the stitches. How do you get the tulle or the tissue off when it's finished? Do you have to cut around the patterns or does it tear away without leaving pieces or messing up the stitches?

All of a sudden, out of nowhere related comes

I think Ogden Nash said that slightly differently. Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

"Lucille" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

The tulle is to transfer a tracing. Lay tulle on pic, trace, lay tulle on fabric, go back over, lift, series of close together dots to indicate pattern.

With tissue, trace pattern on to tissue, lay tissue on fabric and stitch basting stitches all round the pattern. Take a corner of the tissue and riiiip off, as you would a bandaid, fast and furious! Basting stitches remain for the outline of the pattern.

Could well be lol Same general idea

Ah-ha!!! Now I get it. I did something like that many moons ago with some kind of thin left over cotton back when I was embroidering things on denim, but I think using tulle, or something else that's a bit see through, would be much better.

Silly me, I was picturing trying to get all the little threads or chunks of paper out from under and it just didn't sound like fun.

Sure, but it was irresistible. FWIW, the brit ws a lovely event, and the rabbi/moyle was pretty entertaining. He told some nice tales, and explained the history, meaning of the ceremony. And then when he got down to the deed, the baby had pooped his diaper - so the rabbi made some comment about the kid's tushie and cleaned him up saying "I'm a full service rabbi" . But, on the whole, the parents were thrilled, the grandma cried while reading a nice blessing, it was a very pleasant get together, all things considered. And there was another very young baby there - a little girl, maybe 10 days old. The rabbi made some comment about perhaps this would be a match and we'd all be at their wedding in umpteen years. Then the boy's grandma grabbed me and said "we expect you to do the wedding, and of course the bar mitzvah" . (for those who don't know, I have a little company doing event planning).

Hopefully I'll just be snipping thread tonight when I finally get to stitch.

And, came away with a ton of "jew food" (please, no one be offended) - there was way too much stuff so as part of the clean-up crew, I ended up with pound cake (going to work with DH) fruit, whitefish salad, lox, bagels, and rugelach, plus of course a ton of veggie cream cheese and fixin's. Yum.

ellice

OK - interesting association. I like the tulle idea. With the tissue, I know that I can leave it in place if necessary. When I did the Japanese embroidery class, we actually did that, pasting tissue down on some of the motifs and then removing them after the satin stitching first layer went in. Didn't hurt the stitches - but we did pull up the basting thread, IIRC.

ellice

Exactly. But if you do the machine pre-punched as I described - the holes are so close together it's like perforation. You can then either use the tissue to transfer a pattern. Or stitch the outline, and rip. It comes out

- no problem. You can afterwards pull the basting thread out if you like.

Must be a night for a toast to something!

ellice

You don't need to be able to draw, but you need to be able to trace. I recall practicing tracing when I was a child, and thinking that finding a bit of translucent paper was a special treat. It takes hours of practice to be able to trace neatly.

Oh - you are making me hungry. Rugelach, lox, real bagels, just can't get them here. C

Let me know if you find it, sounds like a good idea for mine too! C

Yum indeed. Can I come to lunch at your place?

Sara

Joy Beeson ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Or you can give them parchment paper from the kitchen if 'real' tracing paper is unavailable. Now that you mention it, you're right, I don't see kids learning to trace.

Me too, me too.. C

All kinds of paper is translucent: off the top of my head, I can name tissue paper, onionskin, nine-pound bond, copyset paper, and airmail paper. I recall using left-over curl papers. (With any luck, *those* are lost in the mists of history.)

"Erasable" typing paper was translucent -- but also sticky; that stuff wasn't even fit for starting fires.

But what one needs for stealth education is a pad with "use this stuff to trace pictures" printed on the cover.

(I have access to an inkjet -- I wonder whether Staples sells padding compound?)

Joy Beeson

Go to the big city some time. I'll bet there might be some within an hour.... Actually, even here the good bagela are about a 45 min drive time on average. If not more.

Ellice

Sure...guests always welcome. You just have to negotiate the mess that is inside - to get to the very pleasant deck and patio....

Got to say - we had "fish" dinner 2 nights in a row - talk about no cooking

- my big effort was slicing fresh tomatoes and pushing the toaster button. Oh, well, I did turn know on burr grinder to grind fresh coffee (ok, so I'm picky with my tea and coffee).

Ellice