Happy New Year to all! I've spent my first day of 2004 making lace so I'm off to a good start. I'm working my way through the Nobecourt/Potin book on Bayeux Lace, Yesterday's Lace for Today, and I've come across a question. How do most of you handle lots of small, separate gimp rings? I've worked with continuous gimp before and I've worked with areas of gimp that I've had to start and end within a piece but I've never worked so many individual rings in a piece before. Do you work these rings with the gimp on a bobbin? I can't imagine how else but even with putting just enough thread onto one bobbin to keep it on it seems to waste a lot of thread. Am I missing something obvious here or is this just the nature of the beast? I've looked in other books to see if it's been addressed but I've not found it in any of my resources. On the up side of learning a new lace I have successfully managed to switch footsides and learned another way to make picots after working primarily Buck's for the last year. Yea! (not that I've worked very difficult patterns or even a lot of it but changing gears every once in awhile is good for me!) Just in case anyone would like to know which pattern I'm working on, it's the second pattern in this book called "honeycomb chain and cut gimp" Well, since we stayed up to ring in the new year last night, it's time to call it quits for tonight. I look forward to hearing your responses when I awake tomorrow morning. Thanks. Dona in Asan, Guam Where America's Day begins.
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