Thanks to the great article by and about Chris Parsons, bobbin maker, in the
recent Lace Magazine from the Lace Guild in the UK, I was led to his website
and his fascinating videos of creating bobbins. Thought that some of you might
appreciate having this page pointed out:
http://www.lace-bobbins
Following Bev's advice, I saved the photo of the pricking to a file. When I
printed it, it was correct according to Jean's measurements of Gil's pricking.
Lucky & saved a trip to the copy shop. Doesn't always happen that way. Thanks
again to all who lent a hand! Sincerely, Susan
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Thank you Jean! I wondered if this was your work as I just finished perusing
some back issues of "Lace" where you wrote several articles that involved lace
with plaits & picots. Now I can measure, get the ratio & increase the size
accordingly. Perfect! Thanks again. Sincerely, Susan Hottle,
Thank you Helene & Bev! Clearly I'm not qualified to use my printer! My
printer only prints 8.5x11 so I'm sunk there. Will try to import the picture
as Bev has suggested. My printout resulted in a bracelet 10.6cm/4-3/16" from
top pin to last pin. My wrist is slightly bigger. The main reaso
On 21 Aug 2015, at 17:48, Susan wrote:
> Hello All! Size matters! When I printed out this cute pattern from the Lace
> Guild UK website, it doesn't seem like it is the correct scale. Can anyone
> tell me the correct length
Susan,
I added the bracelet pattern to the Lace Guild website and h
Hello Susan and everyone
I bit - went to the pattern page (here for those curious -
https://www.laceguild.org/ylm/bracelet.html )
Right clicked the pricking, selected copy image and pasted it into my
picture viewer, printed as is and it was the length of our letter-size
paper, bigger around than m
Hi Susan,
Just checked the pattern on the Lace Guild Website. It says to
measure your wrist and then add more repeats as necessary.
Also, since A4 paper is a European size try printing it on Legal size
paper which is larger than A4.
On 8/21/15, Susan wrote:
> Hello All! Size matters! When I
Hello All! Size matters! When I printed out this cute pattern from the Lace
Guild UK website, it doesn't seem like it is the correct scale. Can anyone
tell me the correct length--either from A to the last crossing or from the top
edge pin to the last edge pin--cm or inches? It looks like I n
