Sue: I saw the picture of Diane's bookmarks a couple of weeks ago, and she was kind enough to let me know that "Winter" came from Corrie Versluis' book, 's Gravenmoerse 2. I checked with Lacy Susan, who had a copy, and I got it right away. Then came the decision -- all the bookmarks are so nice that I had to make up my mind which one to do first. I absolutely love Diane's "Winter" (which is even prettier than the one in the book) and decided to begin with that one.
Then I realized I didn't know how to handle the colored thread. Thanks to Diane, I now have that information as well, and I'm off to wind bobbins and begin. Thank you again, Diane, for all your help -- I'm grateful to belong to this group, where people are willing to share not only their love of lacemaking, but their techniques for doing it right. Sue, there's been a long discussion about 's Gravenmoerse lately. I love the use of color in these patterns. It's unlike any other lace I've seen (I'm a "plain vanilla" girl and love making lace with white threads). Up till now my only acquaintance with colors in lace has been in Bloemwerk -- red flowers on green stems in a blue pot, for instance. This is entirely different. I hope you'll able to learn more about it from that discussion or from some of the ladies here. Elaine At 03:53 AM 3/25/2006, Sue wrote: >Diane, >What lovely clear instructions, I understook it completely, first >time of reading:-) > >Now I have a question after looking at your bookmarks. What is the >difference which makes that Gravenmoerse lace. The three bookmarks >gorgeous, but what identifies that as Gravenmoerse? I didn't get >time check out the other photos but I shall have another look later. >Thank you for the lovely description of working method. >Sue T in the UK > >>Elaine, >> >>I love "Winter" and have worked it, 2x I think. When >>I got to the point where the colored worker was added >>I hung it on a temporary pin, worked the first pinhole >>of the cloth stitch trail, closed that pin, pulled the >>temp pin and gently pulled the worker until it was >>snug. I just left that extra white pair in the trail >>as a passive pair because you will need it again at >>the end when you throw out the colored thread. >> >>When I got to the end, I just laid the colored pair >>back toward the top of my pillow and let it hang until >>I was done with the piece. I cut the bobbins off >>before I pulled the pins out of the piece. After the >>whole thing was off the pillow I snipped the threads >>close to the work. No knots needed! >> >>You can see mine here at >>http://photos.yahoo.com/drswilliams >>Winter is the red and white bookmark in the first >>photo. >> >>Have fun with it! >> >>Diane Williams > >- >To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: >unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elaine Chock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Woodbridge, VA (south of Washington, DC) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
