I took a class in Advanced Beds with Holly Van Sciver at the IOLI convention. Of course I chose a rather complicated cuff (and finished a good half inch). The interesting point in this is that I don't have a working diagram and I don't have a picture of the finished lace.
Having worked some Binche pieces with precise working diagrams complete with color code where I could know absolutely where every pair should go, the Beds (without a net!) has been a very liberating experience, kind of like the Twilight Zone, I control the vertical, I control the horizontal and where the threads go and when to add them and when to throw them out. (Maybe I am just a control freak in disguise.) It's been a real different experience.
So I have achieved a good measure of independence, which is what I was looking for primarily and my piece will look progressively better as I get better control (there's that control thing again.) There are six leaves from end to end of the piece. The first one is considerably less dense and more "winkie pin" than the succeeding ones, which are fuller in the Honiton cloth work tradition. One thing that concerns me is that I have been so flagrantly adding and throwing out pairs that there is a veritable river of ends to do something with eventually. I suspect that I have not been making decisions in the traditional way.
Contemplatively Patty Dowden
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