I think, too, that crochet gives you lots of freedom to create just from the end of the hook right where you are, and you don't have to plan it all out ahead of time. You can decide to put in extra stitches or skip a couple if things are getting tight. You can stop at any moment and stick in a bobble, or tie off your thread and just begin again someplace else. You can turn around and go backwards or you can slip stitch further down the row. That immediacy lets you be really creative if you want to be, and it makes it comparatively easy to shape your crochet into something that looks like something else, even without a lot of training. So an amateur who has done enough crochet to understand the possibilities can just take a look at some other kind of lace and say "I'm going to do that in crochet" and turn out a reasonable replica. So - it's portable, it's cheap to do, it allows for great creativity - no wonder people use it to create so many different looks.
And you can pull out your mistakes *really* easily ;-) Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) On 2013-08-24, at 11:25 AM, Elizabeth Kurella wrote: > New at www.LaceCurator.info is crocheted Maltese lace. > > It seems to me that crocheting lacemakers are more likely than any other > lacemakers to produce crocheted variations of many other lacemaking > techniques. I‚ve seen crocheted Cluny, reticella, point plat, Gros Point, > Battenberg, filet and others. > > Anyone care to share thoughts on why? What‚s the most innovative imitation > you‚ve seen? > > Come visit www.LaceCurator.info and share. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
