[lace] Honeycomb delight
Having looked at the prickings for both Bucks Point and Torchon honeycomb, they are both the same except for the angle of the grid and number of twists which give a totally different appearance to each. I've also made the fan that Mark did, and the description includes honeycomb in the stitches. Those are definitely Torchon honeycomb stitches in the flower shapes between the areas of half stitch triangles worked on a 45 degree grid. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] honeycomb delight...pictures of honeycomb
Lorri, this bookmark I can't remeber where I have seen it garden.webshots.com/photo/1364069967048870129PAVLALhttp:// home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1364069967048870129PAVLAL but when I remember right I have seen such little doilies in a booklet about Point-Ground-Laces from Bridget Cook http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2528539030048870129XzutTKhttp://good - times.webshots.com/photo/2528539030048870129XzutTK Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] honeycomb delight
In Visual Introduction to Bucks Point Lace, page 9, there is a working diagram of a honeycomb ring and shows how the 8 pinholes are worked. Mark's fan has the honeycomb design in it. The designer just ran the gimp differently than we are used to seeing it in Bucks. The pinholes, however, are arranged in a honeycomb style. The fact that he only used one twist is probably more due to the fact that he didn't realize he was working a honeycomb stitch (as he himself has said) and left out the extra twist. :) Debbie in Florida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Honeycomb delight
Debbie wrote: The fact that he only used one twist is probably more due to the fact that he didn't realize he was working a honeycomb stitch Torchon honeycomb can be worked with one or more twists between stitches and with a variety of stitches at the pinholes. I prefer one twist and ctc pin ctc. There are no lace police. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At 02:30 AM 29/08/2008, BarbE wrote: David, that is like asking which child do I like best.. smiles, BarbE BarbE dear - you are allowed to change from day to day :) David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] honeycomb delight (or favorite stitches)
At 03:48 AM 29/08/2008, Clay Blackwell wrote: Apple Blossom fillings? They sound beautiful - but I've never run across those before. More info? Clay, I took that to mean the half stitch chantilly type filling of a flower in point ground. David - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear Friends, Don't you just love doing Honeycomb stitch??? I do. I did a big mob of it today. I just find it so gorgeous with it's tessellating hexagons - not to mention the way it fills whole areas so quickly. Perhaps you have a favourite stitch you'd like to tell us about David in Ballarat Hi All, Yes I love honeycomb. (David, are you working on the Toender again?) To me, it is always SO point ground, although you see it in other laces. too. The first time i worked it in a little Bucks edging, I wrote in ecstasy to the list about all the bubbles on my pillow. And I am definitely in the halfstitch camp. I love half stitch in Chantilly, where it positively scintillates, since the tilt of each bit of half stitch changes. It's kind of the same effect as Thai silk where the warp and the weft are different colors (sometimes called shot silk?). In Chantilly, you add and remove pairs madly to keep the half stitch consistent, instead of letting it inflate and deflate to cover the available territory. But what could keep happy enough to skip meals is Binche snowflakes! sigh.. Patty - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear Patty, Yes I love honeycomb. (David, are you working on the Toender again?) Not yet - just had to whack out a Bucks Point bookmark for a woman at my sister's workplace, and was revelling in the honeycomb. Still have a few months left on the petit point portrait I'm doing before getting back to that Toender. And I am definitely in the halfstitch camp. I love half stitch in Chantilly, where it positively scintillates, since the tilt of each bit of half stitch changes. It's kind of the same effect as Thai silk where the warp and the weft are different colors (sometimes called shot silk?). In Chantilly, you add and remove pairs madly to keep the half stitch consistent, instead of letting it inflate and deflate to cover the available territory. Gorgeous writing - and I couldn't agree more. But what could keep happy enough to skip meals is Binche snowflakes! sigh.. HOWEVER, I have to confess that when I made my Binche doily (the one that looks like it's full of embryos from Syllabus One) the snowflakes drove me crazy. No two were the same and I never did learn or remember anything of that pattern. David - once again trying to get to bed, but you all keep answering :) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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NOW you're talkin'!! ; ) Clay Patty Dowden wrote: But what could keep happy enough to skip meals is Binche snowflakes! sigh.. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] honeycomb delight...pictures of honeycomb
Here are a just two honeycomb stitch examples in our webshots album: Shirley Meier's bookmark has honeycomb rings outlined with a gimp thread around the edge of the bookmark http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1364069967048870129PAVLAL Sue Harvey's mat...honeycomb stitch fills the area around the cloth center of the mat and is decorated with little torchon diamonds, as well as in the rings outlining the honeycomb section and along the picot edge of the mat. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2528539030048870129XzutTK Debbie in Florida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Does anyone know where to find prickings for the 2 pieces mentioned below? Lorri Here are a just two honeycomb stitch examples in our webshots album: Shirley Meier's bookmark has honeycomb rings outlined with a gimp thread around the edge of the bookmark http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1364069967048870129PAVLALhttp:// home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1364069967048870129PAVLAL Sue Harvey's mat...honeycomb stitch fills the area around the cloth center of the mat and is decorated with little torchon diamonds, as well as in the rings outlining the honeycomb section and along the picot edge of the mat. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2528539030048870129XzutTKhttp://good- times.webshots.com/photo/2528539030048870129XzutTK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] honeycomb delight...pictures of honeycomb
Lorri, Shirley's bookmark comes from Stott's Visual Introduction to Bucks Point Lace, page 24, Serpentine. I don't know about Sue's mat. Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know where to find prickings for the 2 pieces mentioned below? Lorri - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Honeycomb delight
Dear Friends, Don't you just love doing Honeycomb stitch??? I do. I did a big mob of it today. I just find it so gorgeous with it's tessellating hexagons - not to mention the way it fills whole areas so quickly. Perhaps you have a favourite stitch you'd like to tell us about David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello David, how amusing after giving a class in design I was so full of energy that I, at least, looked how to work my Czech castle. And what do you think the murals on which the castle still stands but today are deeply in water but I will show the origin, I decided to work in . honeycomb. So we were sister and brother in thoughts today. Greetings Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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My very favourite stitch is half-stitch. I like it that a few pairs can expand to fill a void, and condense at a narrow bit. I like to work it CT, or TC, of a piece and know that the appearance will be the same. I have other favourites, depending on what I'm working on. The star ground is lovely. I could share how to do star ground, if I would find the pattern I was using. When I look up close at honeycomb I always think of tapioca pudding in a nice way...(perhaps it is the frothy appearance) On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:00 AM, David in Ballarat [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Dear Friends, Don't you just love doing Honeycomb stitch??? I do. I did a big mob of it today. I just find it so gorgeous with it's tessellating hexagons - not to mention the way it fills whole areas so quickly. Perhaps you have a favourite stitch you'd like to tell us about David in Ballarat -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bev, pleas, what's tapioca pudding Speaking about favourite stitches - I don't think I have one. I like them all. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At 01:59 AM 29/08/2008, Ilske Thomsen wrote: Bev, pleas, what's tapioca pudding Better move that to chat Bev and give us all your recipe. I wonder how it differs from my Mum's David - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] honeycomb delight (or favorite stitches)
Good topic David!! I enjoy working honeycomb too! When I thought about the question, I immediately thought of two others; Cucumber Footsides; they dress up the edge of a piece of lace so nicely, and it is the easiest tally to make by far, and Apple Blossom fillings...delightful! Picking these two started me thinking about so many others I also enjoy... Thanks for the topic! Debbie in Florida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello Ilske and everyone For a picture, the white one top of the page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapioca_pudding And the connection with honeycomb stitches in lace - that is, with white thread! The spatial effect is large and small holes in a pleasing array. Yes I will post to chat further about the tapioca itself. On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Ilske Thomsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bev, pleas, what's tapioca pudding Speaking about favourite stitches - I don't think I have one. I like them all. -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Honeycomb delight (or favourite stitches)
Debbie wrote: Cucumber Footsides; they dress up the edge of a piece of lace so nicely, and it is the easiest tally to make by far So that's why I've been putting off working the practice piece currently on my pillow. I've made 5 square tallies so far, and have had to remake four of them 5 or 6 times before they stayed square(ish). I find all tallies extremely difficult to make because of arthritis. But I'm determined to finish the sample - however long it takes. :-D Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Apple Blossom fillings? They sound beautiful - but I've never run across those before. More info? Clay M. L. Mouzon wrote: Good topic David!! I enjoy working honeycomb too! When I thought about the question, I immediately thought of two others; Cucumber Footsides; they dress up the edge of a piece of lace so nicely, and it is the easiest tally to make by far, and Apple Blossom fillings...delightful! Picking these two started me thinking about so many others I also enjoy... Thanks for the topic! Debbie in Florida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ok, but I am not on chat Ilske Am 28.08.2008 um 18:12 schrieb David in Ballarat: At 01:59 AM 29/08/2008, Ilske Thomsen wrote: Bev, pleas, what's tapioca pudding Better move that to chat Bev and give us all your recipe. I wonder how it differs from my Mum's David - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Clay! I believe you come across them most often in Honiton lace; the more common name for them being Blossom fillings. At the point where 2 braids cross, you work 4 picots before continuing with the braids. It makes a frilly little crossing, and when an area is full of them, it is so sweet! In the Book of Bobbin Lace Stitches by Bridget Cook and Geraldine Stott, there is an adorable variation called the Torchon Apple Blossom stitch, so I imagine that's why I always call the blossom filling an Apple blossom filling :) Hope all is going well with your visit to your DD! Take care, Debbie Clay Blackwell wrote: Apple Blossom fillings? They sound beautiful - but I've never run across those before. More info? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jean In one of my web walks I saw a photo of a tally aid - it was a elongated triangular piece of plastic with 4 slots in it, one at the rounded off pointed end and the other three evenly spaced over the opposite flat end. I am guessing the idea was to bring your 4 threads through the first slit, separate the threads so that one goes into each of the 3 slots held closest to you with the forth thread doing the weaving between. I have never got around to making one but it has stuck in my mind that it would be doable. What do you think? Jenny Brandis Kununurra, Western Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.brandis.com.au -Original Message- From: Jean Nathan Debbie wrote: Cucumber Footsides; they dress up the edge of a piece of lace so nicely, and it is the easiest tally to make by far So that's why I've been putting off working the practice piece currently on my pillow. I've made 5 square tallies so far, and have had to remake four of them 5 or 6 times before they stayed square(ish). I find all tallies extremely difficult to make because of arthritis. But I'm determined to finish the sample - however long it takes. :-D Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
