[lace] needlelace question

[Elizabeth Ligeti]

Sorry, Lenore, not to answer your question sooner. I have been away for the
last 3 days, and I only get the digest, - and have only just reached the
question.

I always lay my trace thread (cordonet) in one colour for the whole piece, and
I usually work out beforehand how I can lay the whole design with one
continuous double thread.  I don't like separate threads for sections, as they
give a thicker bit where they overlap at the finish, and I think that a
continuous trace is stringer in the long run.,  Everywhere is linked one
thread between the other two, wherever the lines touch or cross.

Plan, on a copy of the pattern, which stitches you want to do in which
section, and also mark the direction of the stitches - dot in the first row or
2, as the "grain line" gives a different look to a piece.  (If you have the
IOLI Bulletin, look at the photo of a leaf in Devon's article.)

When you start the Cordonette, work the "back" section first, and work towards
the "front".  By that I mean work the furthest leg first, as the body will be
in front of that leg, etc.  The beak may be in front of the head, so work the
cordonette around the head, before working the beak.  Have a look at the Guild
of Needlelaces site, and the Ducks challenge, and find my Duck, and I think
you will see what I mean.  His head and neck feathers section is in front of
the next body section, so the body was worked first, and the head and neck
second, so the knots of the buttonhole stitches lays over the previous
section, and it looks "in front". This will give your work a more 3D look.

As you say - there is a lot of thinking to be done with needlelace - but isn't
it worthwhile when you see the finished piece?!!

Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz.
lizl...@bigpond.com

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