Hello Dee
You have to get the outer circumference AND the inner circumference the
same as your fan sticks, as well as being the right depth/width.
Enlarging/reducing will alter both the circumferences and the width.
Stretching a circular pricking on one direction only will turn it into
an elipse.
Your teacher is right; if the pattern does not fit your sticks you will
have to draw your own. You could just re-draw the Henk Hardeman
pattern onto a polar grid of the right size. Re-drawing existing
patterns is the first step towards designing your own anyway. There's
an excellent source of polar grids on Jo Falkink's website:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/grid-round-EN.html
Brenda
On 17 Jan 2006, at 14:03, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
However, when I join the pieces of the leaf together, I find that the
outer circumference is too great, so I reduced it to 80% of the
original, and now the shape fits beautifully - BUT of course, the
width has also reduced, and it is no longer wide enough.
I thought I had solved it by scanning the reduced pattern into Word,
and then stretching it, but this also alters each piece of pattern so
that when it is joined up again, the pieces do not make a complete
semi-circle. As it is on a polar grid, and the holes when reduced are
very close together at the bottom, it is not possible to simply add
more holes and continue the pattern to fit the sticks.
My lace teacher tells me that there is nothing I can do about it, and
that I will have to design my own! I am still hoping that I may be
able to use this pattern, as it is really perfect. Can anyone help,
please?
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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