Hi BJ !
If you have ever had a class with Ulrike Lohr, you know that she encourages
everyone to do what works!! In fact, in her "Beginning of the End", it
seems to me that this is just exactly what she recommends. I used this
technique to start a project in her "Schneeverweht und Durchgedreht",
When Vera Cockuyt taught overlapping and sewing, there didn't seem to be all
that much to learn. You overlap a full repeat so the threads are going exactly
the same in both layers. Then take very thin (that is, much thinner than the
lace threads) thread in a needle and find a place where you c
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:32:48 -0800, Barbara wrote:
>Now my question: For modern lacemakers, is it appropriate to start Flanders
>and Binche as Antje describes--one bobbin at each end of a length of thread,
>so that the center can be hung on a pin--as for example, Bucks is started?
>My thinking is t
At 10:32 AM 2/6/2005, you wrote:
Now my question: For modern lacemakers, is it appropriate to start Flanders
and Binche as Antje describes--one bobbin at each end of a length of thread,
so that the center can be hung on a pin--as for example, Bucks is started?
My thinking is that since I have no id
This brings another question to mind. I know (ok, think!) that the
traditional way to start Flanders and Binche is, as Clay describes, to
bundle single threads/bobbins together in a knot. At the end of the work,
the lace (a handkerchief edging, for example) is overlapped one design
repeat, and then
Clay wrote:
>> Lynn, do you wind each of your bobbins individually and start with a
bundle of threads tied together? That is the traditional continental way to
work.
Hello Clay,
Reading your answer to Lynn, I want to comment that we never work this way
in Spain. I don't know about the rest of the
I am SO sorry for sending the whole history on this thread with my last
reply!! I'll try very hard not to do that again!!
Clay
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> I just can't get how to start a piece of lace so that the top is
> > connected, mine are all loose.
I am taking a wild guess here on Lynn's question about the connected top.
Lynn, do you wind each of your bobbins individually and start with a bundle
of threads tied together? That is the tradi
