Hello hello I'm just so pleased with myself. I'm actually making progress with Valenciennes. It has been part of my planned learning sequence for a long time, but I've avoided it because I just couldn't work that ground without pins. So I finally actually read the text of Annick Staes' booklet on Val. She has some very clear tips on how to tension the ground threads as you work, and her suggestions really do work, and solved my problem. I actually made a piece of ground which isn't going every which way, but in neat rows like it is supposed to! And I also made a little edging strip that is not too bad. The plan is to get to Michael Giusiana's Val piece in his first Binche book. I'm actually on the way to being able to do it. Ye Hah! Lorelei
PS. I just went through the process of renaming some of the files on my website, in the hopes of getting Bing and Yahoo to find those pages. But now some of the search words on Google go to dead ends. If this happens when you look at any of my pages, just go to the home page and then all the navigation will work. It will take a few days for google to find the new file names. The Val strip is at http://lynxlace.com/learning%20bobbinlace.html under learning Val #135. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
