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 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.
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.
Did you print from patterns folder on the CD or from the link in the "book" (accessed from index.htm)?
The "correct" size of the pricking is said to be outside diameter 419mm, inside diameter 419mm. I printed from the Patterns folder and it came out as 470mm and 230mm. I also printed from the link in the "book" and that came to 370mm and 190mm in IE and 340mm and 170mm in Safari (wouldn't open in Netscape!).
I've tried looking at the html source, but I know virtually nothing about javascript so can't work out why that happens, and the size adjustment thingy at the bottom of the page didn't work - I think that's something to do with the Mac browsers not supporting it, but there isn't anything to indicate how much to increase or decrease the size by anyway.
The "correct" size pricking is on page 49 of the printed book, but like any other pattern you can adjust the size to suit, just remember to adjust the thread thickness too. For a curved pattern find a section of ground in the middle of the width and estimate from that. On this particular design the outside seems to have been stretched rather more than the inside has been squashed so it might be better to judge your thread size from the area of ground next to the foot-side and veer towards the thicker threads size for that size grid.
Hope I haven't confused you too much Brenda
Is this a distortion in my printer, or maybe in the original? (I have the CD version of the book) Or does the natural shrinkage when removing the pins mean it matches up when you do the final joining? Does the flexibility of the lace mean the fact that there is a "gap" between the start and the finish of the 5th repeat not really matter?
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