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Post by flights on Jan 11, 2021 8:51:10 GMT
Prairiesky - you need to pull fibres for the veins from viscose or silk, not from your silk hankies. I may have misunderstood what you meant, but the hankies in Katerina's videos are only for the leaf shapes, not the veins. Hope this helps if that is what you had been trying to do. Incidentally, working with hankies is easier if you have vinyl gloves on unless you have VERY smooth hands!
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Post by prairiesky on Jan 22, 2021 3:33:24 GMT
No, I was using the viscose as veins on top of the stretched silk hankies. It is a challenge to get a consistent amount of fiber from the viscose hank and then make that floaty piece of stuff lie just where I need it to so it looks like a vein on a leaf. Thanks for the help, though. I saw a really wonderful tip on how to stretch hankies for projects where you needed to really work them. The gal used the back of a ladder back chair, put two corners of the hankie on each of the back rung and pulled from there. You can get some mighty fine fibers from that technique.
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 22, 2021 14:23:44 GMT
When stretching hankies you need to start with the edges and if you bounce them ( pull, release, pull, release)rather than just pulling hard the edges open up and you can stretch much easier.
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Post by flights on Jan 24, 2021 8:55:06 GMT
That's really helpful. I'd been shown an interesting 'gadget' someone made with two nails protruding from a plank of wood. The idea is that you hook two corners over the two nails and pull gently out. All well and good, of course, until you need a bit more stretch!
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