I've not seen any book like this, but if I wanted to do something like
this with "joined-up" cursive writing in lace I'd start with a printed
copy of the grid (on good quality paper that will stand up to a lot of
rubbing out & re-doing), write my words onto that in pencil & then
adjust the lines where needed to fit the grid (or - cheating in torchon
- adjust the pinhole positions slightly to adjust the ground to the words).
would probably need to adjust letter widths/spacings to get the upright
lines in the right place for the grid spaces, but if you don't want to
keep rubbing out & re-writing could lay a tracing-paper copy of the grid
over the words and move the "word" layer slightly when the verticals get
out-of-sync with the grid - that method probably works just as well (or
better) using layers in CAD drawing/lace software, but I've never had
enough design time to get to grips with those :-(
It's a lovely idea for a garter, it's perfectly possible to get a gimp
to make a nice flowing text but I don't think I've seen it done in torchon.
Beth
Cheshire, NW England
Jenny wrote:
I am going to design a wedding garter for my daughter's May wedding, but
wanted to use torchon ground with gimp writing words like Love, Hope, Joy.
My problem is that I am not sure how or even if gimp can do cursive writing
- can you direct me to a book, website or person who may have the alphabet
and or words already sorted out?
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