Help is needed. My great Aunt has asked me to make her a handkerchief with a
lace edge. She wants one with red hearts and scallop white edging.
1) There's a lovely -- and not too dificult -- 21 prs edging with scallops and hearts (and spiders <g>) in the IOLI Bulletin vol 17, #2 (winter '96). It's Doris Southard's re-draft of a Finnish pattern. It is shown as all white, but the hearts can be worked -- with no trouble at all -- in red, as requested. The pattern has corners worked out and, reduced, would make a very nice hankie edging.
You can see the edging I made -- sans corners, and in *black* and red -- on Lori's website:
http://lace.lacefairy.com/Arachne/Pincushions2.html
I don't know where you are ("foggy" not being enough; we're all in the fog, one way or another <g>) but, if you're in US and a member of IOLI, you ought to be able to borrow the issue of the Bulletin from IOLI's library.
2) There's also a nice, "hearty" pattern in Claire Burkhard's "50 New Bobbin Lace Patterns" but, IMO, it's less suitable for a hankie, and might be more difficult to make in 2 different colours, especially on the straight (I've done it in its round version). And, for all it uses only 9 pairs, you'd need to fiddle with the pricking more, to have the hearts on all 4 sides. That book is also available from the IOLI's library, should you chose to try that pattern.
3) The Retournac Museum has a beautiful pattern with "hearts", scallops and corners, where the hearts could also be worked in a different colour. But the "hearts" are a bit too "v-shaped"; they'd need to be "beefed up" -- by changing the pin-dots -- to really look like hearts (I plan to do that, but haven't yet). You can look at the pattern at:
http://www.ville-retournac.fr/musee/anglais/indexang.htm
it's packet #7
4) Corners have been worked out for "Danish Little Heart", but it's a PG lace and if you're a beginner *and* under pressure for time, then perhaps this is not the best time to start learning that, for all it's not a very difficult pattern, as PG goes...
5) Another option would be to find a straight pattern *without* corners, make a bit extra of lace (twice the width for every corner) and gather the extra lace at corners. That's the older way of tackling corners, and very pleasing to the eye, as it's less flat than lace with corners worked out.
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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