[lace] Circular grids

2004-03-18 Thread W N Lafferty
Thanks to all for help sorting out the number of repeats on the Jane Atkinson circular edge I am attempting. I found the circular grid much harder to work than I expected. After struggling for a day or so, I worked backwards and undid all 52 pairs, hung the pairs of bobbins on a bobbin tree to

Re: [lace] Circular Grids

2004-03-04 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Noelene I have both the printed book and the CD. It's the best book on lace design around. Your query has had me intrigued and I've just spent a pleasant couple of hours trying to figure out what goes on in the CD. Has anyone ever worked Pattern No. 40 from Pattern Design for Torchon

[lace] Circular Grids

2004-03-04 Thread W N Lafferty
Brenda writes: The print-out of the pattern may be about one fifth of a circle but you can only actually use one full repeat per print-out and you need *NINE* repeats to make the full circle. I've just tried it and although there was a tiny bit of distortion it's quite useable. Thanks for

[lace] Circular Grids

2004-03-03 Thread W N Lafferty
Has anyone ever worked Pattern No. 40 from Pattern Design for Torchon Lace by Jane Atkinson? It's a circular edging. The pattern is one-fifth of a circle, but when I printed it out onto thin cardboard and checked that it would form a circle, I came up about 1 inch short on the 5th repeat. Is