Funnily enough, Noelene, I was looking at that pattern again only a few days ago! I do like it, and will get round to it one day......if only I live long enough!
I don't think I ever told you, but a couple of months after I sent you the corrected version of that pattern, I had an email from an English lace teacher who's a friend of mine. She attached a copy of the same pattern which she'd corrected for one of her students - and again articulated the sort of grumbles you and I had about mistakes in printed patterns. The Bucks pattern I'm working on at present differs from both the working diagram and the photograph of the worked piece - can only assume that the pattern which was actually printed was a first draft which was amended when the author discovered (just like I have!) that some of her gimp movements are absolutely and completely impossible!!! Regards, Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) --- W & N Lafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are the lace police listening? > > I've just started a Torchon edge (Sorensen's Seashore again, Ruth) in Moravia > linen - I had one reel of aqua, not enough for the whole thing, so I've made > the > headside fans white (sea shells on the seashore?). > > Typical effort, wound up, rushed into it, and wouldn't you know it, > absolutely > nothing suitable (thick enough) for the two single gimps (I figured I'd need > Perle 5 for effect). So I would up pairs of bobbins with Perle 8 in > aqua, and instead of passing the threads over the gimp, I passed the linen > threads through the pair of Perle 5's and gave the gimps a twist (a la > Russian > tape lace). > > I am mightily impressed by the result. Is this technique often used in > Torchon > for the gimp? I personally think it looks a lot better, especially when > working > in colour. I remember the first time I did a gimp (as a learning exercise) > and > used purple gimp with white workers and couldn't see a thing. This way the > colour would really stand out. > > Noelene in Cooma, where it is oppressive, expecting a summer > storm. Bring on the rain! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings Send your love online with Yahoo! Greetings - FREE! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
