One of the ladies in my weekly lace group made a beds bookmark (not the
thistle one, but the one with the 'August' on page 103 of Barbara
Underwood's "A Bedfordshire Lace Collection") in variegated yellow/orange
thread and manipulated the threads so that each element was in one shade, eg
the wheatear was all pale yellow; the flower-type shapes at the top of what
I think are rosehips almost orange; the rosehips pale; sunflower centres
dark and petals light heads in an almost orange; the sun was dark at the
centre and lightened fairly evenly towards the ends of the sunrays, and so
on.
The thread colours didn't change suddenly as some variegated threads do and
there were fairly long lengths in each coliur. Don't know which thread it
was without asking her. It saved changing threads, but took a lot of trial
and error to get the colours where she wanted them
Really effective.
Jean in Poole, Dorset
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