Thanks. :) I collect projects too, heh, and materials -- I have fabric and threads and beads and some yarn and stuff all stashed away, and that's not even the stuff that's been started or even earmarked for a project. [groan]
My grandmother taught me to knit when I was three (although I didn't learn the pearl stitch till I was six or seven, LOL!) so I've had a lot of practice. I got into knitting lace in my early twenties and didn't do much work with yarn for a while, until a friend at work got pregnant and I did my first baby sweater for her. I like baby sweaters 'cause they work up quickly and I'm more likely to actually finish one while I still have the knitting bug. It doesn't always work [cough] but at least it has a chance. :)
Needle lace is one of the "true" laces, along with bobbin lace and netted lace. If you've never seen it before, my practice piece definitely isn't anything you should get a first impression off of. [wry smile] People who actually know what they're doing produce some absolutely gorgeous stuff using this technique. Another thing I collect is needlework books, and I have quite a few on lace and lacemaking, with photos. :)
Hardanger is counted, right. [nod] You do the surface stitching, then threads in some parts of the pattern, the ones bounded with stitching like the triangles and squared in my piece, are cut away, leaving a sort of network of remaining threads and you do more stitching on those threads and in the open spaces.
I think that's probably why I don't do much needlework -- the stuff I'm interested in tends to be the more intricate and complex techniques, things I can't do while watching TV or whatever. I have to pay attention and count stitches and keep the pattern in my head and/or be referring to the printed pattern regularly, so I need time set aside just for my project, and I don't do that often. :/
My grandmother taught me to knit when I was three (although I didn't learn the pearl stitch till I was six or seven, LOL!) so I've had a lot of practice. I got into knitting lace in my early twenties and didn't do much work with yarn for a while, until a friend at work got pregnant and I did my first baby sweater for her. I like baby sweaters 'cause they work up quickly and I'm more likely to actually finish one while I still have the knitting bug. It doesn't always work [cough] but at least it has a chance. :)
Needle lace is one of the "true" laces, along with bobbin lace and netted lace. If you've never seen it before, my practice piece definitely isn't anything you should get a first impression off of. [wry smile] People who actually know what they're doing produce some absolutely gorgeous stuff using this technique. Another thing I collect is needlework books, and I have quite a few on lace and lacemaking, with photos. :)
Hardanger is counted, right. [nod] You do the surface stitching, then threads in some parts of the pattern, the ones bounded with stitching like the triangles and squared in my piece, are cut away, leaving a sort of network of remaining threads and you do more stitching on those threads and in the open spaces.
I think that's probably why I don't do much needlework -- the stuff I'm interested in tends to be the more intricate and complex techniques, things I can't do while watching TV or whatever. I have to pay attention and count stitches and keep the pattern in my head and/or be referring to the printed pattern regularly, so I need time set aside just for my project, and I don't do that often. :/
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