Someone once told me that "a mistake is a pattern", or something along that line. Interesting thought, and I never forgot it.
Anyone else done something similar?
You reminded me of my adventures with a pattern during my trip to England for Arachne 98 conference. I took a travel pillow and had a narrow pattern from a lace magazine to work on it. I was rushed getting it ready, so didn't start it before I left. I wound the bobbins on the plane. In the middle of the first night (fighting jet lag) I was awake, so decided to start the lace. Went through everything but could not find the pricking. Found a thin card on the table with a white space on it and drew out the pattern as I remembered it by making a grid of lines, then adding the pinhole dots. After all this work, I set up my pillow ---- and had no pins! Evidently I left the little container of pins with the pricking on my dining table. At midnight in a strange hotel in a strange town, there was no way to manufacture pin substitutes.
I gave up the whole project and went back to bed. The travel pillow was shipped home in the first box I sent off. (Note -- I had planned to buy pins at Springett's lace fair before the conference so did not have my normal supplies with me. I never did that again -- usually take more than I need.)
Anyway, when I got home and compared my drawn pattern to the original, it was slightly different, so I had inadvertently made a new pattern. Hmmmm....one of these days I should work that pattern to see what it would really look like. <G>
Happy lacing,
Alice in Oregon -- where it's way below freezing, and the 'storm of the century' is supposed to be on it's way.
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