Re: [lace] My I'm Not in Montreal project
At 8:10 PM -0700 7/26/06, bevw wrote: Hi everyone, and many thanks to Irene for proposing the INIM project Some of us have decided to embark on projects 'just because' (we can't be at convention). I'm working a butterfly from Ulrike Löhr's 'Butterfly Moth' book, a title I bought from a lace day, tantalizing, yet (I wondered) when would I get around to using this book? So - choosing a pattern for Irene's proposal got me into the book. I'm having a blast making the best of it, when I'm not able to be at the pillow, I take the book with me to study the various patterns and diagrams (this is not a book for beginners, nor the expert but faint of heart. eek!). I'm giving myself just this week to work at it, as if I was at a class. If it is still on the pillow by Sunday, then it will go in the heap of PIP (Projects in Progress) - or I'll finish it :p Bev, your butterfly is beautiful, and I'm totally amazed at the progress in only 3 days of working it. We formed a small group to work on this pattern, and most of us never even reached this point after several months! (I admit to not even getting so far as to make the pricking yet!) Most of the group have cut the project off their pillows -- it just wasn't fun for them -- and one or two are putting it on temporary hold for now. Perhaps it was a bit too advanced for us at this time. I look forward to seeing your progress by the end of the week. -- Mary, in Baltimore, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] My I'm Not in Montreal project
On 7/28/06, Mary L. Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm (Bev) working a butterfly from Ulrike Löhr's 'Butterfly Moth' book, a (Mary responded) your butterfly is beautiful, and I'm totally amazed at the progress in only 3 days of working it. We formed a small group to Thankyou - It's because I'm Not in Montreal LOL - the convention is over this weekend, and so will be my self-styled class with UL ;) Mary and others contemplating Ulrike's butterfly moth patterns - these are really tricky patterns! Everything you need to know is 'there' - somewhere. For this one, the Aporia crataegi, supposedly 'easy' - I have near me for reference at all times the gimp diagram, the path diagram and the relevant detailed diagrams, plus the colour image in the book. I think now I should also have another copy of the pricking, enlarged, so I can refer to that too. This is an exercise in duplicating an accurate pattern :) Here are a couple of tips: -Experience with Buckspoint and other point ground laces is most useful. -Armed with this knowledge, be prepared for unorthodox but effective techniques as well. (the 'twilling' technqiue that she names - and I call 'twining' - it is familiar to basket weavers, and handweavers - 'new' to bobbin lace - it is a way to cover passives quickly, and the colour of the weaver pairs is dominant). -I don't preprick this sort of pattern. I take a photocopy, cover that with clear light vinyl (not adhesive-backed) and pin to the pillow. I then plunge in, starting at #1, nose to the diagram... -Ulrike's prickings are v. accurate. If you follow the path diagram faithfully, you will use every pinhole. If, like me, you take a diversion that isn't in the diagram, you can still fudge the threads back into a logical path. Maybe the butterfly got into a tangle with the hedge. I haven't put a new picture up yet, but should do so tonight. This afternoon's task was fathoming the path of a secondary weaver pair that nipped in and out of the ground, to do a little bit of shading on the outer wing. Simulataneously, ground pairs needed to be worked, and the gimp needed to be brought out to the edge and back through pairs! It is a very interesting pattern to work. I've used about 40 pairs max. -- Bev in Sooke BC (windy and sunny, on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) blogging lace at www.looonglace.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] My I'm Not in Montreal project
Hi everyone, and many thanks to Irene for proposing the INIM project Some of us have decided to embark on projects 'just because' (we can't be at convention). For me, it is really too bad I couldn't go, because for once there is a major lace event in my own fair land. And it's too far away, waah! oh well, just as fun and rather less expensive for travel and accommo. is my project on the go right now. I'm working a butterfly from Ulrike Löhr's 'Butterfly Moth' book, a title I bought from a lace day, tantalizing, yet (I wondered) when would I get around to using this book? So - choosing a pattern for Irene's proposal got me into the book. I'm having a blast making the best of it, when I'm not able to be at the pillow, I take the book with me to study the various patterns and diagrams (this is not a book for beginners, nor the expert but faint of heart. eek!). I'm giving myself just this week to work at it, as if I was at a class. If it is still on the pillow by Sunday, then it will go in the heap of PIP (Projects in Progress) - or I'll finish it :p The most current project is a scarf, and I have another, a small project, on a travel pillow to take to lace meetings. It is a Bucks edging. 'Oak Apples' in Stott/Cook's 100 Patterns- with more planned (not of the same edging. More 'edgings' planned) to eventually resume the very wide edging I started. For those trippin' along with me, it is the one I put on my blog. I have posted pictures of the butterfly in progress at said blog (url below) -- Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Day Three picture of butterfly lace posted at www.looonglace.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
