While you appreciate us, I appreciate you and all you share with us. While my life has been going through an exhausting, devastating, embarrassingly protracted disheartening, discouraging, debilitating rough patch, your videos - digital gifts - of thoughts, gorgeous projects, musing on challenges, challenging the -isms, invitations to create and/or make and/or try and/or improve and/or disappear...delicately...or aggressively present yet removed ('I do not wish to be perceived'), as you like - are soothing salves and ebullient balms that I wholeheartedly treasure and delight in. Thanks for being and sharing as you're being. I dig your art.
I don’t do costumes and I don’t do machine embroidery but I found this very interesting! I’m currently learning to make lace the traditional way, and it is a very slow process! The lace I can make is still only very basic designs, so I can totally appreciate why those of you who make historical costumes would want to use a quicker way to make fancy lace patterns! (Otherwise you’d be stuck with only ever making peasant costumes haha).
thank you! it sort of took me by storm as well. After a bit of time looking and copying and testing... making my first lace, that actually stayed together in the water... was the most amazing moment
Thank you for this I really appreciate this. And also a debunks My notions of these fantastical costumers who claimed they actually sew their lace; And produce costumes almost on a monthly basis. To Hand sew yards and yards lace would take months be clearly machine made them.
@@dsathreads There are definitely Bobbin Lacemakers no doubt about it. I appreciate how labour intensive and intricate on how technically superior skills are needed to do hand bob and embroidery. There is a BBC series called “return to Cranston“ you might have seen it. There’s a scene where the cat takes off with a piece of lace made by Dominican nuns and they freak out trying to get this lease back because they no longer make it. It makes me so appreciate the preciousness of lace and how much care and detail and time and attention is needed to make it. Back then if a piece of lace was destroyed the process had to start all over again by hand, here we have some efficiencies that a machine can make it so quickly.
I learned how to type on a Brother electric typewriter. Then I moved up to the Selectric with the replaceable font balls (Mister Husband found one for Latin a bunch of years ago). So. Suffice to say that me and my 1915 hand crank Singer 99K are feeling a little... old? This, for me, is an entirely theoretical discussion because we're presently maxed out for space in our one-bedroom. So I shall live vicariously. And in the meantime, continue to fart around with free-hand embroidery on the hand-crank - it's a pat your tummy while rubbing your head sort of motion... - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Do u share or sell the digitized lace patterns? I'd like to make my own clothing. I need corsets and stays for multiple health reasons. The rest of the garments go with them. So anyways, I'm learning to sew. I crochet intricate doilies and beginner knit so I could hand knit and crochet some buuuuuuut it's very time consuming and want that fine fine lace. I love lace.
This is really interesting. I am feeding the algorithm because I know I don't have the attention span to learn something like this.
Thank you for feeding the algorithm :)
@@dsathreads Your stuff is amazing. More people should see it, therefore the algorithm needs feeding?
While you appreciate us, I appreciate you and all you share with us. While my life has been going through an exhausting, devastating, embarrassingly protracted disheartening, discouraging, debilitating rough patch, your videos - digital gifts - of thoughts, gorgeous projects, musing on challenges, challenging the -isms, invitations to create and/or make and/or try and/or improve and/or disappear...delicately...or aggressively present yet removed ('I do not wish to be perceived'), as you like - are soothing salves and ebullient balms that I wholeheartedly treasure and delight in. Thanks for being and sharing as you're being. I dig your art.
This is so amazing, thank you!
I've been debating whether or not to buy an embroidery machine so this was very helpful! thank you!
I don’t do costumes and I don’t do machine embroidery but I found this very interesting! I’m currently learning to make lace the traditional way, and it is a very slow process! The lace I can make is still only very basic designs, so I can totally appreciate why those of you who make historical costumes would want to use a quicker way to make fancy lace patterns! (Otherwise you’d be stuck with only ever making peasant costumes haha).
Not me watching this studiously, while not knowing I was interested in embroidery until 5 minutes ago lol. Good video!
thank you! it sort of took me by storm as well. After a bit of time looking and copying and testing... making my first lace, that actually stayed together in the water... was the most amazing moment
Thank you for this I really appreciate this. And also a debunks My notions of these fantastical costumers who claimed they actually sew their lace; And produce costumes almost on a monthly basis. To Hand sew yards and yards lace would take months be clearly machine made them.
Oh yeah, I think most people don’t make it. There ARE bobbin lace makers. But even by machine making enough is a few days depending on the project.
@@dsathreads There are definitely Bobbin Lacemakers no doubt about it. I appreciate how labour intensive and intricate on how technically superior skills are needed to do hand bob and embroidery. There is a BBC series called “return to Cranston“ you might have seen it. There’s a scene where the cat takes off with a piece of lace made by Dominican nuns and they freak out trying to get this lease back because they no longer make it. It makes me so appreciate the preciousness of lace and how much care and detail and time and attention is needed to make it. Back then if a piece of lace was destroyed the process had to start all over again by hand, here we have some efficiencies that a machine can make it so quickly.
I learned how to type on a Brother electric typewriter. Then I moved up to the Selectric with the replaceable font balls (Mister Husband found one for Latin a bunch of years ago). So. Suffice to say that me and my 1915 hand crank Singer 99K are feeling a little... old? This, for me, is an entirely theoretical discussion because we're presently maxed out for space in our one-bedroom. So I shall live vicariously. And in the meantime, continue to fart around with free-hand embroidery on the hand-crank - it's a pat your tummy while rubbing your head sort of motion...
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Live vicariously! That's part of why I'm here, lol. I'm glad you're here for the ride. :)
@@dsathreads Huzzah to Vicarious. I enjoy being part of the ride. Thank you.
LOVE ALLLLL YOUR VIDEOSSS
Thank you so much for this! You have no idea how much you just helped me!
Oh good to know!
Do u share or sell the digitized lace patterns? I'd like to make my own clothing. I need corsets and stays for multiple health reasons. The rest of the garments go with them. So anyways, I'm learning to sew. I crochet intricate doilies and beginner knit so I could hand knit and crochet some buuuuuuut it's very time consuming and want that fine fine lace. I love lace.
At the moment I haven’t loaded the designs on my website. I have a few embroidery designs up there.
Just not the lace.
Do you ever sell your pattern files?
I have a few In my shop on Etsy.
I wonder about the darning eye freehand embroidery foot on a sewing machine. Have u tried that?
I haven’t. Worth a shot if you have one!