Jean Barret wrote:
At the recent Harrogate Lace Day near here, Sandy Woods was the speaker and put out a small display of her work. I have seen some of it before, (The big 'S for Serpent" on the cover of the second Milanese book by Pat Read is hers) Some of you may have seen her own book on colour in lace. But I was struck that her method of working and the way in which she guides the movement of each and every thread so that the colours blend 'just so' seem to be very rigid. There is no latitude or room to develop or do your own thing.
Hi Jean,
I have pored over Sandi's book and still have not even attempted one of her designs. What it has given me is the freedom to manipulate colors for my own devious purposes. I liked her tricks and simply generalized them. In as complicated a procedure as she follows, in order to produce a book at all, she can't just give guidelines. A lot of lacemakers want to be absolutely sure they have it right. I, on the other hand, seldom work anything exactly the way it was designed. I doubt that Sandi is quite so rigid when working her own designs. But when she has to translate them for others to reproduce, then she has to be exact. Being more of a "teach me to fish" sort, I just don't take the rules quite so literally. But if what I want to do is manipulate colors (and I LOVE colors) then she has given me a lot of new tricks.
I just uploaded the flamingo that Janice Blair contributed to the latest IOLI to the Arachne webshots page. Instead of using variagated pinks like Janice did, I used 4 colors of Sulky and Sulky metallic pinks in the flamingo colors I wanted to use after inspecting some pictures of flamingos on the net. Sandi's work is part of what gave me the freedom to make my own interpretation.
Isn't it interesting how our reactions to Sandi's work can be so unlike!
Patty Dowden
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