Not as crucial for needlelace patterns as for bobbin lace of course, as no
two students will have the same tension to their stitches anyway. When
writing my book Needleace Designs & Techniques I asked a Dutch student of
mine to work one of the Hollie Point samples and she suggested that it would
be helpful to give the exact number of stitches required for the foundation
row. I explained to her that I could not do this as it would be highly
unlikely that every reader would produce work to the exact tension of my own
but need to adjust the number of stitches worked, according to their
individual tension. All they need to do is either work more or fewer
stitches as required, Not possible of course for the bobbin laces and the
pattern/pricking needs be the same size as the original!
Catherine Barley
UK
Catherine Barley Needlelace
www.catherinebarley.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonard Bazar" <leonard...@yahoo.com>
To: <lace@arachne.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 8:55 AM
Subject: [lace] Printing out patterns
Dear All
Brenda has noted what can be a problem. Could I ask those producing
patterns
to be printed out somehow or other to include a scale, just a line marked
with
a cm or inch (or both) so that we can check if all is well, or adjust if
necessary. I attended a workshop given by Cathy Barley, the pattern being
sent
by e mail attachment, which I duly printed out, and thought - I know she
produces beautiful fine work, but surely not this fine, so had another
copy
sent, with a scale...she does!! But there seriously can be problems with
this,
and I have seen people caught out by the 95 or 100 pc being considered
full
size by Adobe and others.
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