Elaine, does that mean the stitches are similar to the torchon grounds, rosegrounds and honeycomb stitches, but they look closer together and more colourful?
Most of my lace has been in white, anoccasional piece and some of the sample pieces in ecru. I do do some little things in colour though, braid laces of bells, did a dolphin once, butterfly, dragonfly, that kind of thing but fairly thick Coton Perle threads for them. At the moment I am at the very beginnings of learning Milanese braids and I must say that part of the attraction was the style and the colours. I have loved the geometric laces and have quite a number on my walls now, but to be able to do something more stylistic is now a desire to try. I do not have any artistic talent for drawing, but have a few ideas of my own I might try later on. Good luck with your choices, enjoy Sue T 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 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
