Craft with Jenny Brandis

February/March 2008

It has been a while since I have updated this area as my lace making has been on the back burner.

I have however been considering design ideas. One of which is that often when designing you want to 'fill a hole' of so many dots with an element. Thinking about this made me go back to my reference material and I have decided to do a couple of 'desiging bookmarks'.

So far they are just at the pricking stage as I now need to actually make them up into lace. However, if you would like to have a go too I offer them here for you to download.

Although these are designed on Lace2000 I have converted the files to PDF's so you will need Acrobat Reader to read and print them.

The grid is 1/10 inch diagonal so any thread with a Wrap Per Centremetre (wpc) of 28 - 40 will do. The higher the number, the more open the lace effect. I used Venus tatting thread in the first sample and feel it should have been a finer thread used as the cloth stitch blocks have puckered a little. The second sample used Finca 40 in black with a ecru reel of unknown cotton.

I am thinking that the fans and trails can be varied to give a different look to the samples.

Have a go and let me see what yours turned out like !

I have been having a go at making a 360 degree panorama of photos from the local lookout - Kelly's Knob. Check it out here.