Lovely Jean, the Siesta frame has worked well. Was it difficult to
drill holes through the bars? I've only worked a couple of the
butterflies from Kortelahti's book and found it quite a fiddle opening
out the paper string. The square framed pictures are on my to do list
one day.
Eve
London,
Subject: Re: [lace] Sunflower from 'Lace with Paper Strings'
Lovely Jean, the Siesta frame has worked well. Was it difficult to
drill holes through the bars? I've only worked a couple of the
butterflies from Kortelahti's book and found it quite a fiddle opening
out the paper string
I've just uploaded my sunflower from Eva Kortelahti's 'Lace with Paper
Strings' to my album on Arachne webshots. Shows the mounting very well. The
petals and leaves still need a bit of smoothing, but my fingers have gone on
strike for now. I chose to use yellow for the petals rather than the
Jean,
A very nice framing job! My late mum would have loved your work as
sunflowers were her favorite flower! Great work! Nice to hear of new ideas
for finishing off lace other than in a regular frame. I have a Kortelati
pattern of violets that I've always been meaning to make and now I have a
