Hi Everyone - Especially Sandi Woods & Brenda Paternoster I've been perusing (drooling over) my copy of Sandi Woods' "Alphabet Inspirations" for a week or two now and want to say to all that "Inspirations" is a perfect part of the title. I want to "do" all the patterns in the book and further have been inspired to think * Can I combine the I & G (my brother - Ian Graham - is 50 in January) * Can I mix P & C (Paul & Christine get married later this month) * And ... and .. and That's just the inspiration from the letters. When you do the perception shift to see how parts of letters are used to create other designs - the ideas just multiply (sadly time does not expand to fit the lace ideas available!) To get to my query! The book suggests Pipers silks - 90/2 & 80/3 etc as the correct threads for the prickings as printed. In Sandi's earlier book - Special Effects in Bobbin Lace - the pricking guides say that if you use the Piper's threads you should use the prickings at 100% (ie the same as the Inspirations). This is also the guide for Madeira tanne 50 & Gutermann silk thread. Brenda's book says that the Pipers silks recommended have 27-30 threads/cm but that Madeira 50 has 39. Madeira 30 has 29 threads/cm in Brenda's book but Sandi's "Special Effects" suggest a pricking enlargement to 105% if tanne 30 is used. My question is Are the silk threads "squashier" when used in bobbin lace so that the extra threads can squeeze themselves into the space or have I totally misunderstood Brenda's work! I thought that where were 99 wraps per cm in Yarn "A" and the pricking said use yarn "B", if yarn B was within a reasonable number of "wraps" of A it would work and that otherwise you had an adjustment fact or to apply based on 99 X A/B (or 99 X A2/B2 ? - please answer this one too, someone, again!). Viv
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