I hope everyone enjoys your workshop, Eve. Simple but effective designs.
There is a simpler idea of having just 2 pieces of wire at the top &
bottom.
The ends can be curled up or under but need to be cut longer than the width.
Or the ends can have beads glued onto them.
A braided hanger can be added if a wire loop is not wanted.
Yesterday I helped a friend finish making a little lace heart .
Before pulling out the edge pins I dabbed it with Jana Novak's stiffener
& then dried it with a hair dryer.
Pene
On 11/20/2010 11:17 AM, Eve Morton wrote:
Thank you for the praise Pene. I did make the first few patterns with
the overlap at the bottom but unless I used a thicker wire it didn't
hold the shape at the base. As a tree decoration the join will not be
so obvious as one sees the ornaments further away than close up as the
photo is.
It is a good tip about damping and combing the fringe. It works very
well on cotton threads but metallic threads seem to be more unruly.
However I will try it on the next one that I do. The robin is one of a
series of charted bobbin lace patterns that I have designed for this
year's Christmas workshop for Poole Bobbin Lace Circle. You can see
three more completed designs in Newsletter 171, which can be found on
our website.
http://www.cyberlink.co.uk/pblc/newsletter171.pdf
Eve designer of the robin
Poole, Dorset, UK
On 20/11/2010 08:08, pene piip wrote:
That is a lovely little robin, Pam.
I've seen a robin twice while I've lived here in Tartu.
I think the overlap of the cake wire would look better in the middle at
the bottom, rather than in one corner.
Can you add to the instructions to spray or wet the fringe ends & comb
straight?
I quite often see photos of lovely ornaments or bookmarks where the ends
are all over the place.
Whenever I have a piece of lace that I'm ending in a fringe, I lay it on
a clean tea-towel & after spritzing the ends with water, I then use a
wide tooth comb to straighten the ends.
Then the ends can be trimmed so that they are all the same length.
Well, it snowed here on Thursday & now there are just little piles
everywhere.
Pene in Tartu, Estonia
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