Leon Conrad Elizabethan Elegance series

Even though I have been playing with this on and off for years, I finally found a use for the textile so will finish them all now. I think there are 12. I am going to do them and then make a black/white toile quilt. I purchased 10 yards of French toile with lovely French country scenery on it and think this will be quite fun now to make up. In fact, I bought grosgrain for the dividing of the linen pieces and for the binding and think the beading on the pieces will be really interesting as a quilt. Now to finish them ! Can you dry clean Au Soie? barbie in williamsburg

Sounds like a beautiful project Barbie! For anyone interested you can see the designs here:

Thanks and Hi Mavia, I wonder why Mimi has only 9 designs? There were 12 as she stated. Wonder why she is missing 3... I feel so fortunate now that I did not do them one over one as I had first imagined I was going to do. I did it over two on Edinburgh. The antique ivory is a little white hued compared to my toile background but I think it will be okay. It is pretty close and best to not have a yellow or gray hue difference. It is the right range , just a tad lighter. I will be laying the black grosgrain between so it out to be okay I think. barbie

No matter what - it is going to be gorgeous!

Cheryl

bdiane wrote: Can you dry clean Au

Do you mean d'Alger? Soie means silk. Kreinik recommends - for all silk - the dry, dry cleaning method (whatever that is). I have washed all of my silks without problem - but I haven't use unusually dark colors. I just remember to always use a detergent that doesn't contain bleaching agents - which will ruin silks. Ask me how I know that! :-) Dianne

Yes I meant the silk; isn't it Soie? I liked spelled it wrong. I am definitely dry cleaning this ! barbie

Your question was, "Can you dry clean Au Soie?" So many people use that term when they mean to say d'Alger. There are so many different types of silk. Au Ver a Soie is a brand name which means At the Silkworm. I was just pondering whether you were asking about a "type" of silk, or all silks in general. I wash silks, but my main experience with the darker colors has been the Madeira line. They haven't bled.

Dianne

bdiane wrote:

Well if it is dry cleanable or not , too late cuz I am starting the project after my trip ! !! Thanks Dianne !

I didn't realize that you had them already stitched! I hope we get to see a picture of the quilt when it's finished.

Mavia

Oh no I wish Mavia! I only have one done so far !!!!!

----- Original Message ----- From: "bdiane" Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles.needlework Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:18 AM Subject: Re: Leon Conrad Elizabethan Elegance series

Oh well...that's one more then most of us have done! :) I have know doubt that you will finish the rest of them! I love the designs myself! We'll be looking forward to seeing pictures in the new Yahoo group that Rusty formed for us. RCTN-Photos!

Mavia