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From: "Janice Blair"
Subject: [lace] New Website
. I watched every video and
one I would like to see is of you making the Point de Gaze netting. I
know you
say "practice" is the only way to achieve a good result, but I would love
to see
your technique. I have never seen it taught and would appreciate it if
you
could do a video of it. I am sure I am not alone. Also could you tell us
what
you use for your base. You mention graph paper, but it not something I am
familiar with in the US, does anyone know of an equivalent? Maybe I missed
that
detail in my haste to see everything.
Good morning Janice
Please don't all dash out and buy graph paper in an attempt to maintain an
even tension with your background net for Point de Gaze, as I think if you
read the paragraph again you will see that I DO NOT use it myself but am
amused to read that some workers do! It's a question of tension and judging
this by eye - this will only improve with practice! Musicians, athletes
etc. all practice for many hours every day - "Rome was not built in a day".
You may have been confused when reading about the progress of my version of
the Californian Poppies project, where I have used graph paper to draft out
the grid formation for the Point de Gaze grid filling used. One couldn't
possibly do this by eye and it would look dreadful if the threads were not
accurately spaced.
As for the video, I will have a go at it, but as you will have seen from the
short one on my site, it is not an easy task to perform. I did try to put a
second one on but it was too long and wouldn't allow me to download it, and
I'm not savvy enough to know how to overcome this. It will be a few weeks
before I get around to it, as the web site has taken up a great deal of my
time and I have nothing 'on the go' at the moment that I can demonstrate how
I work the net, so please be patient.
Catherine Barley
Henley-on-Thames
UK (On a beautuful sunny Spring morning and without that awful Siberian type
wind that we've had for the last three weeks)!
Catherine Barley Needlelace
www.catherinebarley.com
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