On 24 Oct 2005, at 00:18, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
I've never heard of the thread myself. Just checked ed 3, and it's not
there, unless it's a case similiar to Finca (everyone refers to it as
"Finca", but it's full name is Presencia Finca Bolilos", so it's under
P's, not under F's)... So I decided to have a go at it from another
angle :)
No it's not there, I've never heard of it!
The pricking uses - mainly - cloth and and half stitch, which are two
of the 3 stitches used also in Cathy Belleville's Chrysanthemum Lace
book. Judging by how open/dense the two tapes are in the photo,
they're about similiar in that respect also. The main difference is
that Chrysanthemum uses linen thread, and the pumpkin project uses
cotton, and the two behave differently (especially depending on
whether there're 2 or more plies in the thread)
So, OK... I measured the pin distance on the pumpkin pricking and it's
about 4mm between pins. That's the distance Cathy recommends for
Moravia linen 40/2 which is shown in Brenda's book as having 22 wraps
per cm. I don't know what crochet threads you have in your stash, but
22 wraps corresponds to various cordonnets 40 in cotton.
However. Judging by the width of the tapes and the number of bobbins
used (in both Chrysanth and the pumpkin), I'd probably "err" on the
side of a slightly thicker thread - say 21 or 20 wraps - especially if
your thread has more than 2 plies (which it's likely to, if made for
crochet); 2 plied thread tends to have better coverage (spreads out
more) than a 3 or 6 ply thread with its tighter twist. Additionally,
cotton thread is usually much more uniform in thicknes than linen with
its thin/thick sequences.
You've looked at it from a slightly different angle to me but came up
with the same answer; something about 20 -22 wraps/cm.
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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