[lace] French Fans

2004-04-11 Thread Carole Lassak
I've paraphrased Tamara's French fans instructions to tell you how I was taught to work these. >>On the outside: pin, make however-many twists (I like 3 for my "turns", but that's a personal preference, and not something that my many books support ) with the worker pair. Work to the inside through

[lace] French Fans

2004-04-09 Thread Jo Christodoulides
Hello Folks, I'm usually a lurker, but I'd like to start a bobbin lace pattern which has, what they call French Fans on the outside. The only trouble is, I've never learned how to make French Fans. There are 10 pin holes on the outside of the fan and 4 on the inside. It's a Biggins pattern (a