Hello Jane, Leonard and everyone Finally getting around to responding to this. Roseground and its endless variations is a new interest of mine. Whereas I used to be happy with CT the pairs to enter and exit, and CTCT closed pins (Jane's 1, 2, 3, 4), in working a project involving many Torchon fillings I am enjoying trying different rosegrounds. Lately one of my favourites is all-honeycomb: CTT enter and exit, CTT closed pins, for a bubbly, open appearance. A bonus to the honeycomb effect is that the thread tends not to untwist.
Leonard, thank you for the endorsement of the Maidment book. You are right, there is value in it yet and should not be overlooked! Jane, you had asked (some time ago, I'm embarassed to say) what is our favourite combination of roseground stitches. After some thinking about it, as I worked the fillings project, I've decided my favourite of many are those where the pairs enter and leave as true pairs, despite whatever happens to them within the little rose part. It is one way I can tell I've made the thing correctly, even though it is possible to mis-step within and the pairs exit evenly anyway. My least favourite to work are the asymmetric type, rogues that they are. Even so, sometimes that is the effect one wants (asymmetric, not rogue-ish). On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Leonard Bazar <leonard...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > ...For those who like torchon with as wide a variety of stitches as > possible, or just sight of a wide range to make a choice, Maidment's book > takes a lot of > beating. ... the torchon section remains unsurpassed for this variety of > stitches - working the sampler gives you a marvellous piece which works as > a genuine sampler, providing practice, and an opportunity to see what it > looks like.... > > > Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:55:29 +0100 > >From: Jane Partridge > <jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk> > >Subject: [lace] Rose Ground > > > >Just out of interest, what is your favourite combination of stitches for > >Rose Ground? > Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
