I've got about a dozen fan patterns from various sources and they vary
- a few are full semi- circles but most are a little less.
I've made two lace fans, one is a Bridget Cook design for the small
plastic sticks that Springetts used to sell, that pattern is about 2
degrees short of 180. The other was for my daughter's wedding and
definitely was less than 180 degrees - adapted an existing pattern
which fitted both inner and outer diameters of the sticks that I had
but I took a small section out to match the number of sticks.
Brenda
On 14 Aug 2006, at 00:34, Alice Howell wrote:
The leaf isn't usually a full semi-circle, its a
bit
less.
I disagree.
The *finished* fan isn't a semi-circle, but the
pattern IS. I just checked two books to confirm this.
The leaf starts out a full semi-circle. It is gluing
it to the sticks and pleating that uses up some of the
length, as well as a bit of shrinkage when unpinning.
Brenda
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