Re:[lace] Support pin in Binche cloth areas
I just finished my third or fourth Flanders exercise without support pins and I am not really happy with the cloth areas. I also remember years ago Ulrike Voelker being very emphatic about using support pins in Mechlin cloth. But I don't understand how I am supposed to put pins in that aren't marked on the pricking. I have a terrible eye at any sort of freehand thing in the best of conditions and making lace is not the best of conditions. I love prepricking. It is very relaxing not to worry about making sure my lines are straight. I don't understand why support pins aren't marked on the pricking and prepricked. It doesn't sound at all fun to me to put pins in freehand. I don't understand why Voelker thinks it is no problem. SInce I didn't want to use pins that aren't in the pricking I thought I would attempt Flanders without support pins and hope that tensioning gets easier with practice. So far my tensioning is bad and I am irritated. I mention Flanders even though the subject line says Binche because I believe Binche/Flanders/Mechlin all do cloth stitch in the same way, a very different way from Point Ground/Torchon. Cloth stitch that changes its weaver after every row versus cloth stitch that keeps the same weaver throughout. Julie Shalack Laurel, MD, USA - 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/
Re: [lace] 2017 IOLI convention classes
Brilliant, Jean. You nailed the problem. My web browser was showing me an old version of the IOLI convention class page, one without times. I wonder what causes the browser to use an old version instead of the newest version? If I go to the Arachne archives, I get the newest version. If I go to a news site or a big blog site I get the newest version. But not the IOLI class convention page. I'll try to be aware in the future that this is a thing that can happen. >You need to refresh your browser and/or empty the cache in order to see >the updated pages about the classes Or you should be able to get to the >page with this link Julie Shalack, Laurel MD USA - 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/
Re: [lace] 2017 IOLI convention classes
I've gone to the IOLI website but I don't understand how the convention works. The registration form tells me to sign up for certain times: all day MTRF, AM MTRF, PM MTRF, W half day, W full day. However, the only list of classes that I can see just gives a list of teachers and their subjects without mentioning at what times the classes are offered. Do the teachers just stand in a classroom for 6 hours every day with students randomly wandering in and out, some just showing up for half a day on Wednesday and others staying in one place the whole week? Julie Shalack, Laurel MD USA - 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/
[lace] What was that about Flanders?
The recent posts about Flanders sounded interesting. I only know Bucks Point so I know nothing about adding two pairs at a time to clothwork. What is the name of a book I can get that will teach me Flanders or a similar lace? In English or at worst multi-lingual with English one of the languages. Right now I am working on Rita Thierpondt's Mechlin I packet. I thought Mechlin was in the Flanders family, but so far the ground has only used 2 pairs--Mechlin ice ground--so pairs have been entering and leaving the clothwork one at a time. I'm only on the third exercise, though, so maybe things change in the later exercises. So far it has all been soothingly similar to Bucks Point except that the weaver enters and leaves the clothwork instead of passive pairs and thread have to makresharp right angles when a passive turns into a weaver or vice versa. Oh, and apparently the ground is evil or contagious or something because no pair can go directly from clothwork into ground (or vice versa) so the clothwork is surrounded by a thin ring of guardian non-ground stitches. You'd think a big solid gimp would be enough protection, but, no, gimp and barrier ring are both present. Julie in Laurel MD - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] What was that about Flanders?
The recent posts about Flanders sounded interesting. I only know Bucks Point so I have never see clothwork with more than one pair entering/leaving at a time. What is the name of a book that can teach me Flanders or a similar lace? In English, or at worst multilingual with English being one of the laces. Right now I am working on Rita Thierpondt's Mechlin I packet. I thought Mechlin was in the Flanders family but so far the ground only has two pairs--Mechlin ice ground--so pairs enter and leave the clothwork one pair at a time. I am only on exercise 3, though, so maybe things change in the later exercises. So far Mechlin has been soothingly similar to Bucks Point, except that weavers enter/leave the clothwork during increase/decrease instead of passive pairs, and pairs make sharp right angles when weavers change into passives and vice versa. Oh, and the ground is evil or contagious or something because pairs can't go directly between ground and clothwork so the clothwork is surrounded by a thin protective barrier of non-ground stitches. You would think that the big solid gimp around the clothwork would be protection enough from anything, but, no, the big wuss gimp cowers inside the protective barrier with the rest of the clothwork. Julie in Laurel MD - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] What was that about Flanders?
The recent posts about Flanders sounded interesting. I only know Bucks Point so I know nothing about adding two pairs at a time to clothwork. What is the name of a book I can get that will teach me Flanders or a similar lace? In English or at worst multi-lingual with English one of the languages. Right now I am working on Rita Thierpondt's Mechlin I packet. I thought Mechlin was in the Flanders family, but so far the ground has only used 2 pairs--Mechlin ice ground--so pairs have been entering and leaving the clothwork one at a time. I'm only on the third exercise, though, so maybe things change in the later exercises. So far it has all been soothingly similar to Bucks Point except that the weaver enters and leaves the clothwork instead of passive pairs and thread have to makresharp right angles when a passive turns into a weaver or vice versa. Oh, and apparently the ground is evil or contagious or something because no pair can go directly from clothwork into ground (or vice versa) so the clothwork is surrounded by a thin ring of guardian non-ground stitches. You'd think a big solid gimp would be enough protection, but, no, gimp and barrier ring are both present. Julie in Laurel MD - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
