[lace] Bucks corners (was Lassen)

2019-06-18 Thread Leonard Bazar
Dear Nancy I suspect there is a misunderstanding.  In her 'The Technique of Bucks Point Lace' p.75 Pam Nottingham states that: 'In the past very few patterns had corners as lace was worked by the length round a pillow. most of the corners for the narrow, traditional edgings have been designed wit

Re: [lace] bucks corners

2010-03-21 Thread bev walker
That's it, innit? - at several feet away, who will notice ;) To anyone looking for the webshots, click the tiny url below. Back up to the arachne homepage and bookmark it if you like. On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Sue wrote: > Now that it is off the pillow and looking at it as a whole rat

Re: [lace] bucks corners

2010-03-21 Thread Sue
Fresh day, fresh eyes and some good photos from DH. There are some tiny issues with the inner edge, I always struggle to work out which pair swaps around within the footside edge at the corner and he got a great pic which shows me that very well, not the actual last inside pairs, but the ones

Re: [lace] bucks corners

2010-03-20 Thread bev walker
Hello Sue and everyone Can you explain the problem further? because it looks fine to me. The photo is here: *http://tinyurl.com/ykxcp3e* On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Sue wrote: > > Today I completed the full square and am fairly content with it, generally > the pattern is very pretty. > But

[lace] bucks corners

2010-03-20 Thread Sue
Two months ago I started work on one of Alex Stillwells bucks pieces. I wanted a hanky edge and this appealed to my senses very well. I bought the right thread prepared the pattern and the bobbins and began work. During the first side I had 3 separate threads shred and your comments were re