On Aug 30, 2008, at 21:19, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
Helen - a raised tally in the centre? - Oh! what a great idea - I
must try
that!
(Naughty girl for giving me the idea!! - you know I will have to give
it a
go!! Must go and find a pattern to try that!!! :))
Second the
The Practical Skills book - page 103 shows a cloth stitch centre, where the
Honiton Blossom ground has a hole in the centre - the centre threads each have
one twist on them which makes the hole.
It is a very pretty filling.
Helen - a raised tally in the centre? - Oh! what a great idea - I must tr
Yes, Maxine - that is a bobbin winder. My Grandmother had a nice one like
that in England, many years ago. (before I started making lace, though, - so I
suppose it was thrown away when she died.).
The word "crochet" does not belong there!!! the word "Lace" does belong
there!!!
Hooray - s
Debbie wrote:
< The fact that he only used one twist is probably more due to the fact that
he didn't realize he was working a honeycomb stitch >
Torchon honeycomb can be worked with one or more twists between stitches and
with a variety of stitches at the pinholes. I prefer one twist and ctc p
In Visual Introduction to Bucks Point Lace, page 9, there is a working
diagram of a honeycomb ring and shows how the 8 pinholes are worked.
Mark's fan has the honeycomb design in it. The designer just ran the
gimp differently than we are used to seeing it in Bucks. The pinholes,
however, are
Janice,
sorry but I am wondering that you told us this
It is usually surrounded
by a gimp which makes it look like round holes.
I have a few pattern were it is like this but mostly the honeycomb is
without gimp.
Looking throgh the book from Br. Cook "The Bobbin Lace Stitches" I am
very aston
Janice,
as far as I know normaly, if one work a gimp around the honeycomb, it
is outside of all six pinholes. But as a variation you can do in
another way but it gives a totaly new view. And it is not nice to work.
Ilske
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Lorri,
this bookmark I can't remeber where I have seen it
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but when I remember right I have seen such little doilies in a booklet
about Point-Ground-Laces from Bridget Cook
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Having looked at the prickings for both Bucks Point and Torchon honeycomb,
they are both the same except for the angle of the grid and number of twists
which give a totally different appearance to each.
I've also made the fan that Mark did, and the description includes
"honeycomb" in the stitc
