Re: [lace] Tatting
The particular pattern I am going to attempt is from the be stitched.com site talled Tatted Beaded Ornament. A gorgeous green tatted rings, then loops of chain between the 2nd round of pattern. Thread size 30 DMC cebelia thread and size 11 beads for anyone interested in that level of detail. It says on that row to put a large number of beads on the shuttle thread and obviously pushing of enough of the beads for each loop, which are between a single ring each time they have used 16 beads per loop. This particular piece lays over a christmas bauble. I am now off to continue on and maybe finish off a first biggish piece for me, a bookmark which is going to become a bracelet for my great granddaughter. Thanks for your reply which I will add to my notes for the future. At last I can see a future in tatting which I have never managed before. Quite proud of managing it at last. Feels good. Sue T On 8/2/13 8:23 AM, Sue wrote: If I choose to work a tatting pattern which has beans in without, do I replace each bead with a double stitch? (this particular one I am looking at is a string of beads in place of the chain loop between rings. Depends on the pattern, and on how the bead is attached. Some, just ignore the instructions to add beads, some replace the bead with a picot. Here, where you are replacing a string of beads with a chain, compare the size of a double stitch with the size of the bead you're not putting in, and calculate how many ds you need. In most of my patterns, the chain loops have the same number of ds as the chains. Statement made without checking; Could be half the number -- it's been years since I burrowed down to the simple edging in my go-bag. Chain loops can vary quite a lot without forcing the edge to curl. I'm wondering how the second thread is carried to the other end of the string of beads -- or, alternatively, where you are getting the second thread to make a chain loop. If only one thread is available, you can work small rings nose-to-tail with the thread carried behind. http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/~joybeeson/TAT/TATEX03.HTM Another expedient used in pre-chain patterns is to pick up a hook and crochet a chain. Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy - 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/
Re: [lace] Tatting
On 8/2/13 8:23 AM, Sue wrote: If I choose to work a tatting pattern which has beans in without, do I replace each bead with a double stitch? (this particular one I am looking at is a string of beads in place of the chain loop between rings. Depends on the pattern, and on how the bead is attached. Some, just ignore the instructions to add beads, some replace the bead with a picot. Here, where you are replacing a string of beads with a chain, compare the size of a double stitch with the size of the bead you're not putting in, and calculate how many ds you need. In most of my patterns, the chain loops have the same number of ds as the chains. Statement made without checking; Could be half the number -- it's been years since I burrowed down to the simple edging in my go-bag. Chain loops can vary quite a lot without forcing the edge to curl. I'm wondering how the second thread is carried to the other end of the string of beads -- or, alternatively, where you are getting the second thread to make a chain loop. If only one thread is available, you can work small rings nose-to-tail with the thread carried behind. http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/~joybeeson/TAT/TATEX03.HTM Another expedient used in pre-chain patterns is to pick up a hook and crochet a chain. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - 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/
[lace] New from www.lacecurator.info
New at www.LaceCurator.info An article on the Alencon needle lacce ground in Collecting Lace. Updates to previously published articles: Another piece of cutwork Alencon has surfaced, as well as another fragment of the Art Nouveau fan leaf. Come visit! - 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/
Re: [lace] Old lace magazines
On 7/29/13 2:23 PM, Miriam Gidron wrote: I . . . was wondering what you are doing with [old lace magazines]. If an old magazine is still interesting to those who haven't read it, I put it into one of the magazine racks at the emergency-room waiting room. People waiting there frequently didn't have time to pack something to read. But this is a very small town and the hospital isn't very far out of my way. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - 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/
[lace] Lace Magazine
I just got my Lace Magazine in the mail and all I can say WOW...I love that magazine. In the center is a pattern that my brainwaves in circuit excitement. It is a huge Milanse Dragon...let me type that again...a HUGE MILANESE DRAGON...I love it WOW...and then there was the peek for this year's Christmas bobbin...WOW again...Then there is the pictures of some of the entries for the Contast competition. WOW again...so much eye candy my eyes are open in big wonder like Sponge Bobs eyes are all the time...heheChristeine Hough's Flower Point De Gaze Leaf is very pretty though I don't know how to do Point De Gaze...but it is great eye candy...Then there is Bedfordshire Mat and oh my...did I type there is a HUGE MILANESE DRAGON in the center of this month's magazine. Gee I love My LACE magazineyou want it ...you will have to pry it from my cold very cold dead hands...LOL...okay back to lurking kinda and enjoying my magazine. Wind To Thy Wings, Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com http://celticdreamweaver.com/ http://celticdreamweave.blogspot.com/ Nata 616 - 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/
[lace] Oh I got so excited I forgot
to ask my big question...the Dragon pattern called for Coats and Clark size 50. I am wondering if I can use Guttermann silk instead. Anybody know out there in Lacingland? Wind To Thy Wings, Sherry celticdreamwe...@yahoo.com http://celticdreamweaver.com/ http://celticdreamweave.blogspot.com/ Nata 616 - 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/
