> Everyone else here who's a beginner seems to be making torchon. Do > most people start on torchon and am I slightly odd for starting with > Beds? OTOH, I did buy a torchon book from eBay at the beginning of > the summer, but none of the patterns have jumped out at me as > "must-makes", unlike a couple of the patterns in the Beds book I've > got, so it's probably a good thing.
======================================================================== Well, I started by working through Rosemary Shepherd's beginners book and it suited me fine. Until I had to join an end to the beginning. Yikes! I bolted from Torchon as fast as I could because I couldn't make a decent ending. So I wandered all over the place into Beds and Bucks and Milanese and Flanders where I dove into Flanders and came out immediately into Binche. Very American. Torchon, while being very regular on that nice 45 degree grid, is also very open. Everything I did wrong in the joins stuck out like a sore thumb. Eventually, under Ulrike Loehr, I learned to master the skills of joining lace. So now that I have been "around the world", so to speak, I am discovering the joys of Torchon. So I am STILL a newbie at Torchon. Keeps me humble. Patty - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
