Dear Arachnids
At a Honiton workshop I attended I was working on a particular technique and
asked my tutor Lauretta Clark if the section was OK (fully knowing that it
could have been better). She said 'Can you live with it?'. Of course I remade
that section. Now I've let the cat out of the bag and
I usually try to write on the back of the pricking all relevant information,
no of bobbins, threads, any pitfalls or errors (nobody is infallible even
pattern designers) and sometimes whether I thought it would look better in
thicker/finer threads and lastly if it was a gift for someone to avoid
gi
Dear Lesley
Your mistake in using a wrong stitch or wrong ground is a very common one.
There are some traditional indicators used to help with this problem, or you
can devise your own. I had problems making sure which was which in a circular
design in a recent book of mine. I wasted two pieces be
Ahh! OK but these are single mistakes not repeated ones!!!
Karen in Malta
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Tamara P Duvall
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:38 AM
To: Lace Arachne
Subject: [lace] Mistakes (was: Lace joining)
On Jan 13
On Jan 13, 2007, at 6:32, Karen wrote:
Don't ever forget - any one of you - that mistakes in lace are only
proof
that it has been hand-made.
Not always :) I remember looking at a piece of lovely Chantilly edging
once with a friend. We were trying to determine whether it was hand- or
machine
These little "differences" just shows that the lace is handmade, not machine
produced!!!
Minor "Indiscretions" are not just allowable - they are a necessity! (Well,
that is my excuse, anyway! )
from Liz in Melbourne, Oz,
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