In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, micki
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Would someone care to explain what a gimp loop is? Or even point to a
>website where it is explained? A search of google has taken me down
>interesting paths, but they were definitely not lacey paths <g>
I first learnt how to do these whilst working one of the patterns in
Elwyn Kenn's Australian Wildflowers book - one of those durrh occasions
- couldn't figure out how she had got the gimp for the leaves to go
where it had, so left it out if I couldn't do it, except for the very
last repeat, when I had accidentally turned back a couple of pages and
found the explanation.....!
Alex Stillwell has also explained it in her Geometric Point Ground book
(there is a connection here - she had apparently been using one of my
patterns as a teaching pattern for loopy gimps and so I'm credited for a
bit of her pattern in chapter 14 - I didn't know about any of this until
I had a phone call from her regarding the book - it is so nice to know
when someone is using your patterns, especially someone as well-
respected - it makes it all worthwhile and needless to say I nearly fell
off my perch!).
When you have a single pin "out of place" for the gimp, they are not
that difficult to work, you soon work out which side to pin the loop,
and how big a loop you need to thread the bobbins through. It is when
you have two or three gimp loops crossing, which is possible, that it
needs a lot of concentration! ("Marguerite", the scalloped version of
the "Hearts and Flowers Snowflake" I did a while back, has places where
three rings interlock, and I did manage it with just one pair of gimps,
just don't ask me to explain or diagram it! - hopefully this pattern
will be in "Lace" in the not too distant future, and I've just ordered a
hexagonal frame for the finished piece of lace concerned.)
--
Jane Partridge
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