Re: [lace] Fanleaves
Hello Dee Yes it is easy to use - just open http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/grid-round-EN.html and click on the 'draw' button. That will download a small file called bpwGrid.jar to your computer. Then just play about altering the number of repeats, number of dots per repeat, headside diameter, footside diameter, etc. and click 'draw' each time. There's also the option of having two different grids together so that the inner part has less dots per circle than the outer part (that's the density change box). Once you get familiar with the grid drawing program you should be able to look at the Henk Hardeman pattern (or any other) count up how many repeats in a full circle and how many dots per repeat, measure the inside and outside diameters of the required leaf and then generate a suitable grid to print off and then draw (by hand!) over it. This seems to be a suitable time to repeat what I've often said - NEVER start on a big fan project without being sure that the pattern will fit the sticks, and NEVER start working a fan leaf before you have the sticks! Brenda On 17 Jan 2006, at 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much, Brenda. I will try that site, and see how I get on. Is it easy to get grids from that site? I am not very experienced on the computer! It is a lovely pattern, though, and I do not want to give up on it. Thanks again for the help. Dee - Original Message - From: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lace Arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Fanleaves Hello Dee You have to get the outer circumference AND the inner circumference the same as your fan sticks, as well as being the right depth/width. Enlarging/reducing will alter both the circumferences and the width. Stretching a circular pricking on one direction only will turn it into an elipse. Your teacher is right; if the pattern does not fit your sticks you will have to draw your own. You could just re-draw the Henk Hardeman pattern onto a polar grid of the right size. Re-drawing existing patterns is the first step towards designing your own anyway. There's an excellent source of polar grids on Jo Falkink's website: http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/grid-round-EN.html Brenda On 17 Jan 2006, at 14:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I join the pieces of the leaf together, I find that the outer circumference is too great, so I reduced it to 80% of the original, and now the shape fits beautifully - BUT of course, the width has also reduced, and it is no longer wide enough. I thought I had solved it by scanning the reduced pattern into Word, and then stretching it, but this also alters each piece of pattern so that when it is joined up again, the pieces do not make a complete semi-circle. As it is on a polar grid, and the holes when reduced are very close together at the bottom, it is not possible to simply add more holes and continue the pattern to fit the sticks. My lace teacher tells me that there is nothing I can do about it, and that I will have to design my own! I am still hoping that I may be able to use this pattern, as it is really perfect. Can anyone help, please? Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Fanleaves
I have been lucky enough to buy two sets of beautiful bone fansticks one of which dates from 1890, and the other smaller one from 1910. The fanleaves were completely shredded, and I have removed them. I am now looking for a pattern to make new fanleaves for them, and thought I had been so lucky to get a copy of Henk Hardeman's Torchon Lace Patterns as there is one in there. It needs exactly the right number of fansticks for the larger of the two sets I have, and on measuring the width of the leaf, it is exactly right. However, when I join the pieces of the leaf together, I find that the outer circumference is too great, so I reduced it to 80% of the original, and now the shape fits beautifully - BUT of course, the width has also reduced, and it is no longer wide enough. I thought I had solved it by scanning the reduced pattern into Word, and then stretching it, but this also alters each piece of pattern so that when it is joined up again, the pieces do not make a complete semi-circle. As it is on a polar grid, and the holes when reduced are very close together at the bottom, it is not possible to simply add more holes and continue the pattern to fit the sticks. My lace teacher tells me that there is nothing I can do about it, and that I will have to design my own! I am still hoping that I may be able to use this pattern, as it is really perfect. Can anyone help, please? Also, does anyone know where I can buy polar grid paper to design my own fanleaves? Thank you. Dee Palin Gloucestershire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Fanleaves
Hello Dee, First of all congratulations, you are lucky in finding so interesting fan sticks. Perhaps I can make a redrawn of the fanleaves for you if you send me the pattern privately together with the measures that fit the new fans ticks. Best regards Carolina. Barcelona. Spain. -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego Witch Stitch Lace I and II available [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been lucky enough to buy two sets of beautiful bone fansticks one of which dates from 1890, and the other smaller one from 1910. The My lace teacher tells me that there is nothing I can do about it, and that I will have to design my own! I am still hoping that I may be able to use this pattern, as it is really perfect. Can anyone help, please? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Fanleaves
Hello Dee You have to get the outer circumference AND the inner circumference the same as your fan sticks, as well as being the right depth/width. Enlarging/reducing will alter both the circumferences and the width. Stretching a circular pricking on one direction only will turn it into an elipse. Your teacher is right; if the pattern does not fit your sticks you will have to draw your own. You could just re-draw the Henk Hardeman pattern onto a polar grid of the right size. Re-drawing existing patterns is the first step towards designing your own anyway. There's an excellent source of polar grids on Jo Falkink's website: http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/grid-round-EN.html Brenda On 17 Jan 2006, at 14:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I join the pieces of the leaf together, I find that the outer circumference is too great, so I reduced it to 80% of the original, and now the shape fits beautifully - BUT of course, the width has also reduced, and it is no longer wide enough. I thought I had solved it by scanning the reduced pattern into Word, and then stretching it, but this also alters each piece of pattern so that when it is joined up again, the pieces do not make a complete semi-circle. As it is on a polar grid, and the holes when reduced are very close together at the bottom, it is not possible to simply add more holes and continue the pattern to fit the sticks. My lace teacher tells me that there is nothing I can do about it, and that I will have to design my own! I am still hoping that I may be able to use this pattern, as it is really perfect. Can anyone help, please? Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
