Re: [lace] Binche progress report
Big Laugh! Those Binche corners are killers! When I work a handkerchief, I expect to have to work five corners!! So when I started the last handkerchief I did, I started just before the corner! And wouldn't you know... it was perfect! The problem was, I hadn't given myself enough lace at the beginning to do a decent join, so had to work five corners anyway!! Lesson learned... Clay On 5/17/2011 4:34 PM, Lorelei Halley wrote: Last night I worked the 2nd corner. Half way finished!!! I think I got all the threads going in the right direction for the 2nd corner. (We won't talk about the first corner.) Lorelei - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Binche progress report
But Clay, tell yourself as I would - it was fun to do the five corners! I'm doing a five-cornered Binche hanky also! It is Cinderella Story from the Bobijntne! 4 folder by Fumie Kanai. Of interest to Binche workers, I've enlarged the pattern at 125% and using E.C. 70/2 instead of the 100/2. I used to use arrows and special pins to mark my place on the lace and the diagram but I can find my way now by comparing my lace to the diagram. (go me - it was a long learning curve there...) I count pairs to keep track, and how easy it is to forget to count a ring pair; how those ring pairs move around! Good luck Lorelei ;) On 5/17/11, Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net wrote: Big Laugh! Those Binche corners are killers! When I work a handkerchief, I expect to have to work five corners!! So when I started the last handkerchief I did, I started just before the corner! And wouldn't you know... it was perfect! The problem was, I hadn't given myself enough lace at the beginning to do a decent join, so had to work five corners anyway!! Lesson learned... Clay On 5/17/2011 4:34 PM, Lorelei Halley wrote: Last night I worked the 2nd corner. Half way finished!!! -- Bev (approaching corner #2 of the Binche hanky) in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Binche progress report
Well, not only was it fun, but when the piece had been joined, I had this perfect little corner scrap! I stuck it in my purse calendar, and now when someone says, you make what?, I can show them. And I don't even mind that they touch it! I consider it a privileged ambassador to our art... more people have seen this than anything else I've made, and it isn't even the good stuff (only because it's a scrap...) but in terms of beautiful lace - WOW! Clay On 5/17/2011 5:27 PM, bev walker wrote: But Clay, tell yourself as I would - it was fun to do the five corners! I'm doing a five-cornered Binche hanky also! It is Cinderella Story from the Bobijntne! 4 folder by Fumie Kanai. Of interest to Binche workers, I've enlarged the pattern at 125% and using E.C. 70/2 instead of the 100/2. I used to use arrows and special pins to mark my place on the lace and the diagram but I can find my way now by comparing my lace to the diagram. (go me - it was a long learning curve there...) I count pairs to keep track, and how easy it is to forget to count a ring pair; how those ring pairs move around! Good luck Lorelei ;) On 5/17/11, Clay Blackwellclayblackw...@comcast.net wrote: Big Laugh! Those Binche corners are killers! When I work a handkerchief, I expect to have to work five corners!! So when I started the last handkerchief I did, I started just before the corner! And wouldn't you know... it was perfect! The problem was, I hadn't given myself enough lace at the beginning to do a decent join, so had to work five corners anyway!! Lesson learned... Clay On 5/17/2011 4:34 PM, Lorelei Halley wrote: Last night I worked the 2nd corner. Half way finished!!! - 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
