Thanks for your kind words Bobbi. I am very proud of my Miss Channers Mat
and it hangs in my lounge in a very nice frame.
I learned a lot when doing it. Sandra Straughair from the UK helped me
get started but I had only done the first inch or so when she returned home
and I was on my own then with only the picture of the original mat for
guidance.
What I learned by studying the picture, trying to see how it was done, is
that in Floral Bucks point today we try our utmost to make the passives run
vertically and the weavers to run horizontally to make the weaving as even
as possible, but in the original the weaving runs every-which-way. The
overall effect is impressive but the fine work is not. After a lot of
thought I decided to do my own thing and try to get it a even as possible.
It probably needed a lot more throwing out of pairs and bringing them in
again than the original, and a lot of unpicking of various elements and
redoing them as much as half-a-dozen times. There are parts of it that I am
not 100% happy with but could not face doing it over again.
At the end I counted the bobbins I had used and it was 350, many of them
used over and over again.
Best wishes to anyone who does it. It is worth all the work and is an
education in itself. You will never be scared of a piece of Floral Bucks
again.
Janis Savage
in Honeydew, South Africa, where summer seems to have made a reappearance
after a very wet February.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberta S Donnelly" <bobbil...@juno.com>
To: <rhiannonm...@hotmail.co.uk>
Cc: <lace@arachne.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] Re Miss Channer goes Chantilly
I've just checked my folder on Miss Channer's Mat and I have a note from
Dec. 2004. The lace maker is:
Janis Savage
t/a The Lace Place
South Africa
lacem...@mweb.co.za
Attached to the note is a picture of her finished piece. Which I confess
is
fantastic! I kept the note as inspiration for when I get around to doing
it.
David, I'm waiting to keep a photo of your finished piece too! ;-) What
do you
figure? Next week? ;-)
Take care and talk to you soon!
bobbi
~*~
Do not meddle
in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy,
and taste good with ketchup.
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