On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:48:52 -0400, Marcie wrote: >I have begun the process of turning the pricking for Pattern 11 in >Niven's Flanders Lace book (pgs. 52 - 53 in the new edition) into a >rectangular mat and have been going over the diagram vs. my >semi-finished product. While I was at it I noticed that the diagram and >the pricking don't match. Most noticeable is the inner edge of the >corner which has two sets of two pinholes on the pricking but only two >single pinholes on the diagram.
I don't have the Niven book so I can't look at this; what follows is pure speculation. In Flanders there are two ways to work a corner. Flanders is based on a 45 degree grid. The 45 degree diagonal of the corner can either have a line of dots along it, or lie between two lines of dots. To work the diagonal with pinholes along the line, it is necessary to add 2 extra pairs of bobbins, and then having worked around the corner throw out 2 pairs (not the same ones) on the inside edge of the corner. Working the corner where the line of the diagonal does not need any extra bobbins. However, if designing a pattern oneself by fiddling around with photocopies etc, it's much easier to get the diagonal true by using the dots on the line variety. So you have a diagram for one sort of corner but a pricking for the other. You say that you have turned the pricking into a mat. I interpret this to mean that you are making a piece of lace without fabric in the middle so that it has no footside. I've never tried this in Flanders. Logic suggests that if you have pins on your diagonal there are going to be extra threads in the centre, which will need to be left out and used to work the opposite diagonal from the centre outwards. I'm none too sure whether this will be feasible. I think that a mat with a diagonal between 2 lines of pinholes would be easier to work. However I haven't tried any of this, and may be wrong. -- We are Borg of Dyslexia! Resistors are fertile. Prepare to have your ass laminated! Steph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tatting, lace & stitching page <http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm> - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
