Louise, I also spent many hours doing this with pencil and sometimes
coloured marker pens to follow the route of the work. I am sure it has
helped me a lot.
I was given some patterns with no pictures to see how it might be worked
(and now I notice I can visualise things well from the pictures of lace
made, also seeing any other ways I might do little parts of it. Sometimes
just seeing the pattern only with minimal information is hard for me to
visualise anything about the lace.
Sue T
Alice wrote:
what set me down the path of printing off small bits of pattern and
checking the route of the working threads like you might follow a road map.
Louise wrote
When I started lace almost 20 years ago,
One of the things my mentor recommended was to make an enlarged copy of the
pricking and "Work the lace with a pencil" drawing lines from dot to dot in
the order one would work from pinhole to pinhole.
I still do this sometimes, especially with floral Bucks where there is no
"right way" to work it.
It is much easier to rub out a pencil line then to retro-lace. I recommend
this to beginner lacemakers, especially those who are more pictorial than
word oriented.
Louise in Central Virginia
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