On Apr 26, 2005, at 9:46, Jenny Brandis wrote:
Hi everyone, just last month as a total novice to bobbin lace, I was making very bad bandages. But this month I feel I have improved.
Indeed you have - took off like a rocket :) Congratulations!
the best encouragement is to see someone else has/is making the same mistakes.
They're not mistakes; they're variations on the pattern... <g>
feel free to offer suggestions on what the next pricking should be.
Now that you're tackling the spiders so nicely, perhaps something with one of the many vatiations of Rose Ground (Virgin Ground, not Honeycomb)? Those two (and the half stitch) seem to be the most troublesome for people in the early stages of lacemania (next stop the tallies <g>), so the sooner one starts practicing them, the sooner the fear of them is gone.
re: the hearts insertion (Aprl 15 and 25)? Indeed, your tension has improved dramatically in 10 days, which improved the look of the lace. But the lace might have looked even better if you'd enlarged the pricking (if using the same thread. Or kept the pricking but used thinner thread) - say, copied it at 105-110%...
I know that at your stage of learning it's easy to assume guilt (if it's wrong, *I* must be at fault), but it's not always, necessarily, so :) Lace will pucker and be difficult to tension when the thread is too thick for it; there's not enough room in between the pins for all the pairs and maneouvers to be "comfortably setting in".
I don't need to tell you to keep going (since you're obviously nicely obsessed already), so I won't <g>
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