I have been perusing Google.es for books and pages on Hinojosa and numerical
laces. I have found some wonderful pictures and sites.
Thereare two books that have piqued my curiosity...
Encaje Numerico Sevillano by Isabel de Olmedo Fernandez
Encaje Numerico Extremeno en la Garriga from the Assiacio
Is Erica in Christchurch, New Zealand still on Arachne? I'd like to get in
touch with her, and lost her email address in a recent computer crash.
One of my local friends has just come up with a good idea - plan to start a
new piece of lace on New Year's Day, something big that you would do a
Or perhaps some of us would be better occupied restarting a piece which has
been on a pillow for a number of years - for me that is The Guardian Angel,
one of Eeva-Liisa's pictures.
Mary Carey
Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
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Hello All! Finally after many months of good intentions, I dragged out the
Honiton pillow to find a partially completed leaf. Now--where was I when I
abandoned this project more than a year ago? Good question! After consulting
my hand written notes that are now Greek to me, plus several
From early December, I do not start any new pieces of lace until most
of my projects from the previous year are finished, freeing up bobbins
and pillows. Then I spend January planning the next year's projects and
preparing prickings etc, by Australia Day I've usually started most of
my new
The quick answer - yes. In flat Honiton sewings are usually made into
the 'edge' (vertical) bar of the stitch you are sewing into. In raised
work, you need to sew into the side (horizontal) bars or you lose the
raised effect of the rib. This means that when you need to do a back
stitch on that
Susan
Sue Thompson, in her book INTRODUCTION TO HONITON LACE, does show a aewing
done into a sidebar. And I remember being told that using both the top and
bottom sidebar of any pinhole for sewings would allow you to turn a curve more
fluently. But I don't remember who I heard that from. I took
