Hello everyone,
I´m a silent reader, because of my not so good English. But I learned so
much from the discussions of the list.
I would like to tell, how I tried Binche the first time.
I was selftaught except of a Flanders class I had the last three years (one
class a year).
So it was neccessary for survival to learn to read the colour diagram.
I had the first Flanders class and practiced for about one year when a
lovely Binche pattern called "Try me!".
As I had no overwiev whether I could master it or not and I don´t like to
give up, I worked with the following tricks.
I made a very big copy of the working diagram and drawed on transparent
paper the parts of the pattern that I hadn´t understand. I tried several
times until the way I had to work through was clear to me. I always drawed
in the order I would also do the lace.
It also needed some time to think about where to start the lace, so that I
could hide the threads unvisibly when I finished the little piece.
Than I make the pricking bigger so that it suits thread linen 40/2 (maybe
this sounds really awful to the ears of experienced lacemakers, but it
worked) to see what direction the pairs are going through the pattern. This
way I also could "see" the mistakes quicker and undo it before going on.
The biggest problem was, when I left one section of the lace to work another
part first. When I then come back, I could not remember, where I exactly
stopped and I had to undo the last stitches. Very time consuming. Here I
learned by time to put an extra copy of the pattern by the side of the lace
and when I leave on section I set some needles where I stopped. Problem
solved.
When I read the trick to use coloured threads for every pair when doing
samples of the different parts of the pattern first, I find it a very good
idea. Thank you Alice!
I was not gone the path of Binche much more but the "test sample" worked
well and I learned many things during this lace.
This time my kids need much of my time and there is not enough to work
through such complex pattern.
In a few years I will fill the "empty-nest-syndrom" with the next "test
sample" in the right thread size ;-)
I hope you can understand my explanation.
Best greetings
Ursula (from Germany, wet and not so warm summer)
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