I think Steff has hit the nail on the head here. I don't often use
variegated thread but if I do I choose subtle changes of colour. I
called in to Vivienne of Presencia UK yesterday and was looking at her
display of (colour photocopies of) the lace they sell patterns for.
One was worked with ecru passives and ecru/lilac variegated workers for
the zig-zag trail and it looked very nice.
At Lace Guild Convention a few weeks ago I did a workshop session with
Malvary making coloured Idrijia. We used variegated passives with
solid colour workers, changing the workers to suit the design. On the
pillow it looked a bit bland but when it came off the pillow I was
pleased with it and it's now in a photo frame alongside several dolphin
ornaments in my conservatory.
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/convention2008.htm
(I have finished the flower - will try to get it photographed and
uploaded this weekend!)
On the whole though, I prefer using solid colours. Often lots of them
in the same piece, but so long as you avoid half stitch, there is so
much more control over which colours to choose and how it will work
out.
Brenda
Any hints about using variegated thread successfully? I've been using
some Valdani thread as workers in a piece of Torchon and it's comming
out
in regular stripes - not the effect I wanted at all. Other times I've
used it and the patterns been completely lost and a mess. What's the
trick?
All the pieces that people are pleased with use a variegated thread
with a
small range of colour variation - shades of one colour, or two adjacent
colours on the colour wheel. The types of variegated thread that have
several colours in break up the item visually so that for me the shape
of
the lace itself is lost.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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