I've got about a dozen fan patterns from various sources and they vary
- a few are full semi- circles but most are a little less.
I've made two lace fans, one is a Bridget Cook design for the small
plastic sticks that Springetts used to sell, that pattern is about 2
degrees short of 180. The
> The leaf isn't usually a full semi-circle, its a
bit
> less.
I disagree.
The *finished* fan isn't a semi-circle, but the
pattern IS. I just checked two books to confirm this.
The leaf starts out a full semi-circle. It is gluing
it to the sticks and pleating that uses up some of the
length,
In a message dated 8/13/06 2:29:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> What I think might be a good idea too, at some time before I
> make it, is to try working a small leaf piece and see if I like it before
> working a whole fan and being unsatisfied with it. Worth the extr
Hello Sue
I thought I had heard about it shrinking once off the pins and taking
that into account, so I will store all this information to help guide
me through the process. What I think might be a good idea too, at
some time before I make it, is to try working a small leaf piece and
see if
Hello Sue
If you can get the silk leaf off in one (or not too many) piece use it
as the template for your lace leaf. If that's not possible you'll have
to calculate the size by measuring the sticks.
Two concentric circles with centre at the pivot of the sticks.
Outer circle just slightly wid
Jo, I totally agree with you. The lace should be designed so that
there is a stick at the same place in each pattern repeat.
I remember hearing Christine Springett talking about fans some time ago
and she said that white and pale coloured lace fans should be mounted
onto dark coloured sticks,
http://www.kloeppelinfo.de/1024/HTML/index.html
-> meine galerie
shows a circulair mat that would be perfect for a fan.
I've seen too many fans with repeats that don't match the fan sticks. The
beautifull lace then gets destroyed by the too visible and distracting
sticks. In my oppinion the stic
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I found some fans complete with (Torchon afaik) patterns here:
http://www.langendorfkloeppel.de/prodeut/produkt/faecher_d.htm
Too bad I just began lacing - one of those would be a nice Xmas
present for my mother. Has to wait another year or two, I guess ;-)
I you need a translation of the de
Just another quick comment. The fans in Louise
Colgans's Fan book are sized to fit John Aebi's small
fan sticks.
The fans come with two extra of the small interior
sticks, just in case you break one, so don't think you
have to use all of them. Fit the pattern of your lace
with the placement of t
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From: Alice Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I suggest you go to Lacefairy on the web. She has
> four sources listed with the one in the USA being John
> Aebi of Indiana. He does not have a webpage that I
> can find, but there is an email address listed.
He makes lovely
I suggest you go to Lacefairy on the web. She has
four sources listed with the one in the USA being John
Aebi of Indiana. He does not have a webpage that I
can find, but there is an email address listed.
Lacefairy also has 2 sources in England and one in
Ireland.
I know fansticks are made in Sp
Alice said:
> Word of warningget your fan sticks FIRST, and size
> your pattern to fit. There's many a fan leaf waiting
> for the right size sticks.
OK, right, that makes perfect sense. I have a beautiful Bucks pattern for a
fan that I'd really love to do. How do I go about getting fan stick
Alice,
I notice that you don't mention pulling out hair time. ;-)
In my own case, I don't really want it to finish up fast -- why in the world
would I do lacemaking if that were the case. But I do love making fans, and
every one has been worth the effort!
What's a Witch Stitch?
Carolyn
>
> As long as you don't look at a lovely miniature fan
> and think for one single
> moment "Oh, that won't take long since it's so
> small"!!! That definitely
> doesn't work!
You will note that my previous message did not give a
reference to 'time'. I only said it was possible to
make a fan -- sa
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Alice
> Howell
> Sure you can! Many people have. Fans come in many
> sizes
As long as you don't look at a lovely miniature fan and think for one single
moment "Oh, that won't take long since it's so sma
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And then you start to
> think: . . . could I make a
> lace fan? . . . possibly finish it in my lifetime? .
> . . hmmm. . .
Sure you can! Many people have. Fans come in many
sizes. It doesn't have to be the biggest size. And
fans are made in many styles of lace
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