On Sep 2, 2008, at 0:14, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
I presume you mean like the piece you offered us in IOLI Bulletin.
Yup. Much easier than rolled tallies...
Most enjoyable to see how your mind works! :))
Please keep these wonderful pieces coming.
Thanks and I will. Though can't promise to have an earth-shattering
discovery (or even a sudden "ilumination") every 3 months :)
Tamara, - if you want to use up the old thread - can't you just put
that it
was made with XXX thread, and YYY would be a good substitute?
*Theoretically*, I could. But, when I was just starting (and my stash
wasn't so large yet as to threaten to burst the house at the seams, so
I was less reluctant to add to it), I found it very frustrating, when a
pattern recommended a thread and it was no longer available to me. I
didn't trust myself to substitute threads (or change the size of the
pattern to suuit the ones I had), because I didn't have any instincts
about the possible results. If someone is paying me a compliment of
working on my pattern, I'd as soon spare them the frustration I
remember so vividly.
Also, I don't feel comfortable saying "I used X thread, but you can use
Y instead" without making sure it's true. To make sure it's true, I'd
have to make one sample each in both threads (unless I've worked with
thread Y before and know how it'll behave). It's less effort to make
the sample *only* in thread Y; I'm lazy enough not to want to make
twice what can be made once :)
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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