[lace] Couronnes update
Hi All, Just thought I'd give you an update on the Couronne situation at my house! When I wrote before I made about 12-14 rings with all your help and then put them aside. I think one looked pretty good G. Yesterday it was time to face the situation and make the 7 rings I needed for the Battenberg Butterfly. I used the ring stick and made 9 good ones! The first two were smaller than I wanted so the other 7 are a little bigger and rather consistent - a miracle! They really add a lot to the piece and I've lost my fear!! I'll also stop comparing mine to those on the cover of the VA book VBG. Exquisite Gros Point NL that looks like ivory to those who don't have the book. Thank you all so much for your help!! I will work more with the NL technique (on the pattern), I like that too, but it's nice to be able to use the different techniques. And special thanks to Jo (I think) and her website. Seeing what happens with the wrong tension helped a lot! That's what I was doing but yesterday I got the *feel* for couronnes. Off to Harrisburg on Tuesday! Jane in Vermont, USA where it's hot and humid. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Couronnes
Janice asked: how do you add it to your lace? Couronnes (rings) are stitched to the completed lace using just a stab stitch. You can leave a long end, when you finish making the couronne, and have joined upo the last stitch, and then use that long end to stab stitch it in place. I like small holes in the centre of my couronnes, so, instead of using the ring stick, I use the eye end of a tapestry needle - about a # 24, - and start the couronne on that. After the first 2 or 3 stitches, I take it off, and hold it in my fingers - a bit fiddley, but it gets the knots of the stitches on the edge. If you make the whole thing on a ring stick, you may find the knots all sit to one side. I don't know why, but they do! I use the eye end, as then I can get my fine sewing needle into the wrapped stitches more easily. The trace method is the easiest, I think. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
