On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:20:12 +0200, Michelle wrote: >Has anyone made the piece called Circular Mat With Peas In The Round, on >page 33/34 of Inge Theuerkauf's Tierisch Flandrisch ? > >If so can you tell me which method you used to join the end to the start ? > >I'm thinking of doing this piece, and looking at the photo and the working >diagram it looks to me like the start & join have been done using the >"normal" Torchon type method rather than the more European overlapping & >sewing with a needle way. I would like to do it using the overlapping way >but am wondering if it would work successfully ?
I haven't done this particular piece. However, having discussed the pieces in the book with Inge, and worked other Flanders pieces under her tuition, I can say that it was almost certainly done using the techniques in Ulrike Loehr's book The Beginning of the End. The techniques include diverting pairs to suitable places for joins and tying off using bundles on the reverse. Any Flanders piece can be joined in this way, or in the overlapping way. With a bit of thought about how to start I find that I get much better results by using Ulrike Loehr's methods than I did with overlapping. So I recommend that you buy this book if you don't have it already and give this method a try - do a couple of test samples of Flanders ground and join them first to give you some confidence before starting the real piece. -- Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. Henry Louis Mencken Steph Peters, Manchester, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
