Re: [lace] Niven Flanders Pattern 11 Observation and Question

2003-09-01 Thread Ruth Budge
At the risk of being shot down for advertising, I'll say: I use Lace 2000. To me, having tried the others, I find this the easiest to use - because of the amount of lacemaker input, it's the nearest thing, in my opinion, to the traditional way of doing things, by hand. Imagine the computer

RE: [lace] Niven Flanders Pattern 11 Observation and Question

2003-08-30 Thread Marcie Greer
Sorry if I mislead using the term mat. All I am doing is making a rectangle out of a pricking for a corner (using CorelDraw 10). It will have a fabric inset in the center. It has both a wavy footside and headside. You say that you have turned the pricking into a mat. On looking more closely at

Re: [lace] Niven Flanders Pattern 11 Observation and Question

2003-08-29 Thread Lorelei Halley
Marcie I haven't got that far in Niven yet, but I looked at the book. What I would do is just omit one of the dots on the pricking, and just treat it as a printing press stutter. That seems the simplest solution. Treating it as a two point exchange would require a ring pair, which there isn't.

Re: [lace] Niven Flanders Pattern 11 Observation and Question

2003-08-29 Thread Steph Peters
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:48:52 -0400, Marcie wrote: I have begun the process of turning the pricking for Pattern 11 in Niven's Flanders Lace book (pgs. 52 - 53 in the new edition) into a rectangular mat and have been going over the diagram vs. my semi-finished product. While I was at it I noticed