Itâs off the pillow and I am on the whole very pleased with it. Itâs in a free-standing comet-shaped metal frame (also sold by the online shop where I got the pattern). I laid it down on black velvet to get contrast for all the threads in it and have uploaded more photos to Flickr for anyone who is interested.
And for those who like to know such things the threads used were 1 spool each of linen 40/2. Colors given below are for Moravia linen 0011 pink/brown, 0012 deep red ,0016 purple, 0020 light blue, 0022, blue, 0034 white, 0035 light yellow, 0037 mustard-yellow, 0038 orange / yellow, 0043 flesh, 0045 cream, 0046 light yellow-brown, 0047 yellow-brown, 0048 brown, 0049 reddish brown, 0052 light sage green, 0053 light yellow-green, 0054 mid yellow-green, 0055 apple green, 0056 mushroom white ; Moravia gold 60/2; Shantung Yaspee SY_715, SY-723, Suri Alpaca 1001 white, clear nylon thread for mounting and the time taken was 117 hours 15 minutes. Sue suebabbs...@gmail.com http://babbsandbaobabs.blogspot.com/ - 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/
