Sunshine's Creations.Vintage Threads Inc.

Mom's lace

2012-01-14T10:43:00.000-07:00

I made this piece of Romanian Point lace when I was teaching myself many years ago about 10. It has lots of mistakes in it and things are a little wonky. But you know she loved it and had it her front room for many many years. Yesterday my father in law gave it back to me. Sort of a happy bitter moment happy thoughts of mom bitter becasue I will not see her in this life again.

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Romanian Point Lace cord

2012-01-13T07:29:00.001-07:00

lace cord made by my daughter, originally uploaded by sunshine's creations.

My oldest daughter has made 28 yards so far and as you can tell there is still more there for her to make. She is only 14 so I believe all children can learn this skill.

Video: Fabric Yo-yo tutorial

2012-01-12T15:00:00.000-07:00

One of my friends wants to teach her children some beginning sewing so she asked me to make a tutorial for her. So that she and her children can learn this and are able to review it several times. These are fabric yo-yos also known a Suffolk's puffs and Buttons in USA during the 1930'sand 1940's.

Other useful info on my blog: If you just want to see some examples here are all the posts on my blog about yo-yos alot of them. In these examples you will find how to lay them out what some ideas are for things I have used them in. Also there are tools out there if you want fancier ones. Some talk about other people that do yo-yos, examples of vintage yo-yos, there is a lot of info on here. Have fun searching through it all. Also good luck teaching the girls you will need to let me know how it goes.

Video: Removal of basting threads from RPL

2012-01-11T06:25:00.000-07:00

This is sort of self explanatory but just encase someone has a question on this.

Video: Removal of RPL from Pattern

2012-01-11T05:30:00.000-07:00

Removal of RPL from pattern. Sorry my phone rings half way through in the video and my door bell rings at the very end too. No one else called during the day or rang the bell it just had to happen in the 11 mins. I was making this video. I apologize for that but the rest of the tutorial is fine.

RPL purple doily finished

2012-01-10T14:10:00.001-07:00

finished, originally uploaded by sunshine's creations.

For those who wanted to see what it looked like done. I should have taken this from a better angle and laid it out neater. But I still think you get the idea all the same. Have a lovely day.

update : my middle daughter has claimed this as hers to use in her "Monster High" doll house as a rug. Funny it is about the right size for that but I have not given in yet. As I want to take photo at the end of the year with all the items made for the year and make it the top picture in the Master RPLAL post. So told her maybe at the end of the year when I have my photo she can have it.

Part 3: Video center filling stitch

2012-01-10T12:30:00.000-07:00

This stitch is similar to an English whirl but not exactly the same.

Part 2: Video Leaf filling stitch RPL

2012-01-10T08:30:00.000-07:00

This filling is good for oval shapes.

Part 1: Video Fagoting for crescent shapes RPL : 1500 post

2012-01-10T06:00:00.000-07:00

This is a fagoting stitch that works well for crescent shapes. Meaning shapes that are larger on one side than the other.

On a total side note this is my 1500 post on my blog wow just noticed that. I also want to say thank you to all those that commented on my last post it means a lot to me. For some looking at the stats below and reading all the nice comments on the last post tell me there are nice people who come and visit often most just don't have much to say. thank you

Update states as of 6 am today

VISITS

Total 802,082 Wonder how long till that reads a million that is amazing to me
Average Per Day 485
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Last Hour 22
Today 87
This Week 3,396

PAGE VIEWS
Total 1,489,664 WOW almost 1 1/2 million
Average Per Day 876
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Last Hour 37
Today 132
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Rant I had to get this out

2012-01-08T22:41:00.002-07:00

I had a comment posted onto what use to be my yoyo tutorial post that sort of set off a bad taste in my mouth. The tutorial was removed because I am under contract with Annie's Attic to have it removed because they purchased it to help me make a book and the person was mad that they couldn't get their freebee. For those who follow my blog and know I love to make tutorials for people I have over 102 of them thus far. I really would like some feed back on this. Sorry my rant is below for those who have been kind to me in the past and leave nice messages Thank You! You are much appreciated!

Here is what the person wrote

Anonymous said...: so sad when this happens. I won't buy from Annies attic because they are closing down the free distribution of patterns in this way. Please don't let your copy right go ladies. Commercialisation of old time arts and crafts is too much!; Sunday, January 08, 2012 7:33:00 PM

To anonymous.

You are free to feel that way. You are welcome to boycott Annie's Attic and my blog. Please move off the grid it will save the rest of us a lot of grief and you will be much happier. But in doing that I hope you have the knowledge and skills how to make your own thread to weave your own clothes, grow your own food build a house and so on. Commercialism = commerce = barter and trading of ideas and goods. You better be 100% self sufficient with out any one else.

But for me Annie's Attic was a major blessing for my family has had some hard times the last few years that I have not posted on here too personal. Having people buy a book that had several patterns that I never would have made otherwise (helped us greatly financial).   So no one would have had those patterns if Annie's Attic had not commissioned a book. Which the sale of paid for bills and my family had food on the table, lots of medical expenses paid and so on. I understand people wanting free things but I also understand artisans needing to feed their families and for the need for them to be paid for their hard earned skills. This didn't take anything away from anyone the tutorial plus the now patterns that Annie's requested are still available in book and PDF formats and there is more variety for those who can only follow patterns and can not make things up on the fly. It is a blessing not the opposite. There are plenty of free things on my blog that people are very grateful for but in all honesty that is me being nice to people I don't know which isn't always the most beneficial for my family. Same is true for other artisans we love to share our work we do it for the love of it and a lot of times we don't get paid ( most of the time) but it is nice to get appreciated, and thanks and paid every now and again too (far to far apart).

With out commercialism of old time arts most of them would be dead the Internet , books and their publishing companies will take our art to new audiences is absolutely a blessing. My goal when I started this blog was to write a book (I have a hard time writing and being concise and clear scared to death of writing actually). But I wanted to be commercial and leave some legacy for my children that they could see and hold. I have written an entire book had a chapter in another edited two other books and been in quiet a number of magazines/emags and in over sea newspapers. I don't see that commercialism has hurt my family it has made my family stronger and brought me out of that shell. It has brought more people to my blog because they now know of me and it because of those other mediums and they come here and find more info and are surprised by all the free things. I have an entire year of free tutorials that are happening on this blog that I am currently in production of. I have over lots of patterns for free on ravelry and you are complaining about 9 patterns that would never have existed if it wasn't for Annie’s Attic that and 1 free tutorial when I have over 100 free on here. REALLY!!!   Because your comment makes me want to remove everything that is free on my blog and on ravelry because you sound so ungrateful and a cheapskate who wants everything with out paying for anything.

You do realize that almost every tutorial on my blog has some where between 30 and 90 hours to make from making the item, making pdfs, drafting patterns, to photographing, editing photos, writing up a tutorial and doing lay out so let say I have 100 tutorial on here that is 3000 to 9000 hours of my time (closer to the later and that doesn't even cover the other 1000+ posts on here that are information too and take hours to do as well that takes more thousands of hours). You seem to think you have a right to have for free without even a thank you and you are to afraid to even write your real name you write anonymous.

I get paid to teach classes the tutorials on here take more time than teaching a class because I have to write them all out instead of just explaining which is fast. Then take photos which takes forever instead of just making the item. You should pay me for this free knowledge that I have spent many years learning and paying for. I have taken classes so I could learn from little old ladies in their homes dying arts because I can't find information any where else or buying books that are rare and hard to find in different languages and trying to decipher what I see in these old images to figure out how to make the items I see. Well that money sure is not in my pocket so I can put food on the table feeding my family. It was and is me sharing my love of what I do with those that are grateful for it and want to learn and don't know where to begin to find information. It is also so that when my children grow up if anything happens to me they can still have the knowledge in my head and carry on what I know and love. I am fine with that copyright going to Annie's Attic I want to make more books too it was fun and I enjoyed it.

Ladies if you can feed your family and work from home and be a full time mom go to all the school events and take care of the kids when they are sick by all means give up a copyright or two or more.

I am open minded and let the above comment be published.   I want people to understand with out commercialism on some things a lot of the old arts would die real quick. Books are long lived I have books in my home that are over 100 years old they have survived a long time and I still love them they are the knowledge of generations before me that thought enough to put their knowledge into a book and put it for sale. I wasn't even alive when they wrote them but I buy them old and used and enjoy and love them and learn much from them.

Knowledge gained free is usually worth what you paid for it NOTHING!!! Knowledge you have to earn or work for or even pay for is valued and passed on and down for generations to come.

Sorry I posted this on Sunday as I do not like to post on Sunday (especially a rant) but this just bothered me too much.

Feed back wanted and I am grateful for it.

Thank you for your time I appreciate all of you
much love

Wendy "Sunshine" Harbaugh

I just don't feel like I am "Sunshine" today
Nickname I was given in high school becasue I brought a little ray of sunshine into all my friends lives and so they started calling me that. I feel like I brought a dark cloud today.

Jan. RPLAL round doiley tutorial

2012-01-07T12:02:00.000-07:00

For all those doing the January RPLA I let you have the first week of the month to recover from holidays and to get your pattern transferred to the fabric, cord made and basted and all the joinings of the cord done this includes the joining on the side of cords too. Hint: the other two patterns tutorials will follow in short order so you better have them ready as they will be up soon. Soon being in the next 2 weeks. As it does take a little while to do the filling stitches and I want to complete each one before I go to the next. In that way you can see what the finished item looks like. Well at least see what it looks like in the colors that I have chosen. Please feel free to add your finished piece to the ravelry group or the group on flickr I so hope to see many wonderful works from all of you.

On to the tutorials

Sorry I did not have my husbands camera when I was doing this and my camera was being a little weird on focusing so here we go. I plan on going back today and doing a video hopefully that will be clearer but ti is a gray day so I may have to wait a day or two. That will be in a separate post

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Master RPLAL list for 2012

2012-01-07T07:14:00.000-07:00

Notice the new header. That is a hint of some of the future RPLAL that will happen this year. I see January, February, June, October and November and just some I am doing for me and not the tutorials. There are others for those months that I have not shown yet but the entire year is planned. I may add more as the year goes on but this is how i t stands so far.

I am hoping having this be the first post of the first month in 2012 will make it easy for people to find it for future reference.

This is the main post for the series of tutorial I will be doing all year long. I will update it after every new post and add the links. And there will be photos added so you can have a visual reference on the right side of the post of what each project looks like.
Terms

RPL: Romanian Point Lace
RPLAL: Romanian Point Lace along meaning a lot of people are working on this at the same time and there are forums to ask your questions on as well as here
solid: no fabric in the middle all filling stitches and cord.
tile: means it is square probably and will work well for making larger items by making many of them and tiling them together like granny squares

If I do not write solid on a doily it means it has a fabric center for you to embroider on and I will not be going over that area as that is for you to decide what you want to do there. Here is the list for the next 12 months and what will be taught.

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The Glass tour (Holdman Studios)

2011-12-30T09:25:00.000-07:00

I didn't take as many photos as I wanted to because this is a working studio and some projects are hush hush until they are mounted in place in their prospective buildings. But it was so neat to see stain glass windows that will placed in LDS temples and other buildings too before they get placed there. So lovely and so many pieces they are amazing works of art all of them.

Chainmaille bracelets

2011-12-28T06:40:00.000-07:00

Remember a while back I went to visit my sister in law and she and I played with chain mail. While visiting I made a belt for her husband. She was making some other chainmaille bracelets at that time for her mother-in- law and another sister-in- law. She said I could post these so I am I think she did a great job and she took pretty good photos too. She did such a good job I wanted to post these here. Hard to believe a bunch of jump rings and some crystals can make those but so cool.

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T01:01:00.000-07:00

Hope your day is filled with love and family

Joining two cord ends togehter in RPL

2011-12-24T05:30:00.000-07:00

Here is a tutorial of how to join two ends of Romanian point lace to each other. Usually this is best to happen in a spot where you will be making the join above another cord so it is more invisible from the front of the lace.

Part 3 filling stitches holly berry ornament

2011-12-21T16:25:00.000-07:00

So here is the final tutorial on the holly berry ornaments and embellishments. This one is the one I did that had the beads on the berry.

Here I am using it at a hat pin but you could pin it on a jacket or purse or any place else you would like a little holiday cheer.
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just playing

2011-12-19T06:04:00.004-07:00

I had a child Christmas performance to go to last week Friday and during that performance I made "an ornament" at least that is what the author calls the pattern .

But to me unless you have one humongous tree this is way to big for an ornament. On Sunday two of my daughters had holly berry hair-clip to wear to church. I didn't have time to finish the third ( it would take several hours) but I saw that triangle /coaster/ doily / ornament/ thing sitting where I had been working on it. I thought you know might make an interesting hat/headband.

Part 2: 5 filling stitches for RPL Stitches

2011-12-17T14:41:00.001-07:00

This is the filling stitches for the second holly berry leaf.

We will be using the design below that you can download now if you have not already.

Part 1: 3 filling stitches for RPL & Removing the lace

2011-12-14T21:36:00.000-07:00

For the next few days on here I will be posting about doing needle filling stitches in Romanian Point Lace. These stitches can be used in other types of needle lace as well such as tennerrife lace, batternberg, Retticella and other point laces like drawn thread work ...and so on. I am showing here a few ideas for these little motifs to be used as hair and tree ornaments, Embellishments for Christmas socks and clothes ie little girls dress or sweaters you can make it a pin and wear it on a winter hat or purse or a simply decorate a gift box (as one of the above ie make it a pin or hair clip or ornament then use it as a tag so the recipient gets a pretty gift then they can wear the item too). Please read on if you want to learn how to make these stitches and add them to your RPL.

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Unraveling cord & sewing to another cord / video tutorial

2011-12-13T11:53:00.000-07:00

Here is ruffly a 6 min video I put together to help the two Romanian point lace groups that I admin on Ravelry and Flickr. I am hoping this will help other people here too that read my blog. Since there is not much information in English about this type of lace. I hope to be able to make a pretty good data base here for people to reference instead of doing what I had to do it.

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Basting RPL

2011-12-12T19:44:00.001-07:00

On to the basting of a cord to the pattern template
supplies

pattern
cord
rings/ flowers/ leaves what ever is applicable for embellishments
contrasting color thread (to cord and other element embellishments) for basting
sharp needle to use with basting thread

Start off by threading needle and adding a knot to the end of the thread (the thread doesn't needle to be doubled up).

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3 ring berries for Dec RPL

2011-12-10T18:45:00.000-07:00

I have had a busy week of concert practice and performances and office party and too much stuff . Now back to the tutorial I promised for the holly berry December RPLAL (Romanian point lace along). Making the set of 3 ring berries theses are three simple versions but of course you could always do the bullion grapes from the link at the bottom of the last post about rings.

For this tutorial I an using size 1/2 inch rings size 10 steel hook and size 10 crochet thread and the beads are a size 10 as well. and 24 stitches per ring
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Transferring pattern for RPL

2011-12-05T11:35:00.001-07:00

There are several ways to transfer a pattern if you have an ink jet printer you can buy transfer paper at your local office supply store and just iron it on to the fabric. If you have a light table ( or window) you can just trace it. Makes the arm tired on the window and the pin has to be held at an odd angle so the ink doesn't run out.
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RPLAL 2011 holly berry ornament December

2011-12-05T00:01:00.000-07:00

My family has decided to make a few ornaments for the holidays. My oldest daughter and I have drafted patterns together again to be able to share with my blog readers so if you would like to join my family in making ornaments please do and add your finished work to the RPL group on flicker or ravelry.
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