You could also try using pinking shears to trim it. Personally, if I don't have access to the machine to overcast, or zigzag, I carefully use Fray Check. Just be careful not to get it in the center of the linen (although acetone will remove it). Works fine, and doesn't affect the framing after.
You could, as an alternative, iron on something like fusible seam binding - Steam a Seam (light weight).
Just some ideas.
ellice
Agree completely. I usually stitch a sash of muslin around the outer edge if I'm lacing. Don't know if it's just me, but it seems to apply an even pull on the fabric edge when lacing.
Tara
Er - are you thinking of "serged" - bound off with an overlock stitch done by a serger?
Re: the pink tape - used a lot by np-ers. It's great when you're working a complicated design and have several threads going at one time. Rather than ending them - just coil up the tail, after running the line of thread a few inches from where you're working - and then tape it to the surface of the canvas. Just parking it out of the way, without the needle, is a handy thing. Doesn't get tangled, and saves you from a lot of ending and starting again. The pink hair tape seems to not leave residue, and is pretty repositionable. I've used it with metallics, metal, silks, cotton, wool, rayon ...
Happy stitchin' ellice
I have had the same experience Dianne writes about , a piece of [quite delocate] linnen that unraveled , and unraveled , every time i looked at it , Thus i started to hand hemstich them all before starting my embroidery .. mirjam
Your mom is right - it's not that easy to find. But, IME it can be found at CVS drug stores, and a lot of beauty supply shops. I've also seen it in the hair stuff aisle at some grocery stores. One dispenser lasts a long time. If you can't find, and need some, LMK off line - it's an easy thing to stick in an envelope and mail (pun not intended).
ellice
Sally Beauty Supply should have it. It is listed on their website as Beauty Mark Professional Hair Styling Tape, By: 3M Company, Sally Item #: 730895, Size: 18 yards. They don't appear to sell products online though.
The stores nearest you are near the Osco on NE Barry (west of N Oak Tfwy), on 4th near the Wal-Mart in Leavenworth, and on the 169 Beltway near Hy-Vee in St. Joe. Oddly enough I'm pretty sure I could drive right to the two on the MO side.
Didn't know that. Ya know us easterners, well, we forget about the rest of the continent! Is it Osco - as in Jewel-Osco - which was the "good" grocery (besides Wild Oats) in Albuquerque when I lived there?
Ellice
Osco is now Brooks locally, unless the pharmacy is in a Shaw's. Then it's Osco again.
I'm getting dizzy.
Cheryl
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