2 years ago I worked a lace garter using my own design, with guttermann silk and it is sitting in my box waiting for the first bride. I loved the look and the feel of it, but have always been a little concerned about whether it would just flop and fold in half at the centre point along the line for the elastic and ribbon gathering. When checking out patterns on the internet recently I bought a new one that just grabbed my attention and I just had to have it, which showed two layers of lace. Once I received the new pattern I ignored the top layer and went on to rework the underlayer changing the heart shape fans for ordinary fans down the outside edges, honeycomb down the centre to take the elastic and ribbon and the rest in torchon grid. My top layer already had heart shape fans and I wanted the contrast. Buying the pattern was a good way of having a lesson in ideas and pattern making:-) I began the strip on a straight line across rather than the offset way with fans, diamonds and other pattern shapes, as there was no obvious places to disguise the threads at the end, thinking that at least I would hide that point by attaching ribbon and flower decoration. Can I ask what other arachnians would have done please?
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