Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Measured

I worked the one on the left eyeballing the bare spaces. On the second one I used a piece of folded paper to measure them:
Worth the slightly longer time taken? I don't think so. It might be necessary for longer bare spaces, but with this length it wasn't too difficult to get them consistent.

12 comments:

  1. I admire your ability to eyeball the length! I would have to use the paper. When I eyeball the length, each piece gets a little bit longer and soon it is out of control!

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  2. I like to eyeball when I can too. There is a couple in the book that you just got to measure. I love these patterns and the single threads showing. You work is beautiful!

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  3. Folded paper! Now that's very clever. It looks like it would be very easy to use, I think motif on the right looks somewhat better than the one on the left. Worth it?

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  4. I usually eyeball lengths, too. I don't often do bare spaces though. Your motifs look good.

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  5. I try to eyeball the length do prefer that to having something getting in the way while I measure the lengths. Both motifs are lovely
    Margaret

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  6. You did fabulous on both!!! :)

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  7. The "bare thread space tool" is also nice for lots of bare thread space motifs.

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  8. I'd eyeball too - just like I do with picots. I've never seen the point of gauges - not in the past 60 years although I did use one once and it slowed me down so much it got boring!!!

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  9. They look fabulous!
    I have never had enough patience to make these sort of "gauged" motifs.

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  10. I like to eyeball when I can. I find that I cannot always work well with a gauge so lots of room for improvement for me. Your folded paper gauge is a great idea too bad it slowed you down.

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  11. What did I tell you? You see, you are getting the hang of it - fast!

    Love what you are doing. Brilliant to just work through the book. Plus, unlike our tatting friend Maureen, I love bare threads!

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