Lorelei & Patty, I agree with what Lorelei has said, and Patty--you listed all the pattern sources I've completely fallen in love with! I'm certainly no expert, not having had time to work very many of them yet, but I've found some of the older Binche/Old Flanders patterns to be as complicated as modern Binche in the thread paths through some of the more complicatedly shaped cloth-stitch areas. I guess the overall sense of complexity is partly based on whether snowballs come easily or hard.
The one thing I would add is that I found snowballs coming much more easily to me after working a sampler of short lengths of a number of the grounds from Michael Guisiana's book Binche II. (I think it's II--I don't have my books with me.) It was also fun to be able eventually to whip through them in each little length, then tackle a new complexity. Enjoy! Nancy Connecticut, USA, where the sun is shining in spite of the weather forecasters :-) ________________________________ From: Patricia M. Dowden <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, May 3, 2011 2:26:48 AM Subject: Re: [lace] learning Binche So much lace, so little time! Patty Lorelei, welcome to the world of Binche. .... - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
