I’ve created beading and lacemaking videos for my students (and others). Most of my videos are on unlisted playlists connected with courses I still teach, there are a few videos/playlists visible currently.
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This is probably going to sound like a very silly question but here goes. I learned what little I do know of bobbin lace from a Spanish course I found online and the thread they use is nearly impossible to get here in the US. I end up ordering either from the UK or Spain and in either case the shipping ends up costing more than the thread it is so high. This Aurifil though I can easily get in the US. What is the grid size that corresponds to these 2 Aurifil threads? I can then redraw the patterns for the course to fit the thread I can get.
@@myrany8407 not a silly question at all, thread changes and pattern scaling is a common question! The grid size I use for the Aurifil 28/2 is 2mm. I use the 12 as a contrast thread rather than a main thread so haven’t resized patterns for it but there is a way of working out resizing in an out of print book called Threads for Lace by Brenda Paternoster and that is to do a straight ratio of the number of threads per cm. So take a strip of card or similar, mark a cm division and wrap the thread side by side counting the number of times you wrap, repeat a number of times and take the average. If you have the Spanish thread you could work this out, the book said Aurifil 12 is 18 w/cm, the 28/2 is 26 w/cm and the 50/2 is 40 w/cm, the ratio of the two gives you the percentage increase or decrease to use on a photocopier (or your printer if you can scan and print). I once had a Spanish lady come to class, she learnt as a child in Spain before moving to the UK, she decided to relearn from scratch given the bobbins and pillows are handled so differently in the work (the stitch formation is the same). Hope this helps
olá. Sou iniciante, e seu vídeo foi perfeito! Adorei o marcador de livros, mas estava imaginando como fazer a parte final, e sua ideia foi ótima! deu um acabamento elegante e firme. Adorei! Muito obrigada. 🥰🌻🌻🌻
I learnt bobbin lace over 20 years ago with a good teacher. You are however, far better than she was. Your use of colour to show the flow of the bobbins is an excellent idea of teaching beginners but also a great idea for someone like me who has been away from it for a few years. Life has caused this but when circumstances change I intend to return to it. Thank you for your videos. Do you do other types of lace?
Many thanks for your kind comments @julieagara much appreciated. I've been making lace for 40 years so have made a number of different types of lace. The standard course I teach in person now I call BHT (Belgian Honiton and Torchon), Belgian includes Brugge Flower, Chrysanthemum lace, Flanders and Binche. I'm based in the North West of England so Cheshire/Merseyside area. Have a look at my website to see some of what I've worked (susanroberts.info)
Hi @pixiecora2212, for a complete beginner most people start by learning to work rows of cloth stitch and half stitch. However I am aware that some people have been started off with ground stitches (so dots on the pattern and only dots). If you wanted you could try my Tartan pattern which is just worked in one stitch throughout. It's not there at the moment but there will be a second pattern that I call Stripey which is another ground stitch pattern (Tartan and Stripey us the same pricking - the card with the holes in it). I'm hoping to get this recorded and posted on line in the next month and then it would be the pattern your comment is one as the next pattern I use with beginners.
Ms. Roberts. You must be some sort of teacher in your everyday life and I’d assume science or math but maybe I’m wrong. I am a teacher and MAN-O-MAN are these lessons helpful. I teach fine arts and your approach is the same way I would approach teaching a musical score. I love the diagrams and now it really really makes sense to me. I definitely will be writing for the patterns and will watch these lessons as my summer hobby study. Please, please keep doing them in this fashion. My goal is to do handkerchief edging and then figure out how to sew it onto the linen. I’m excited to see what will becoming next.
Hello @Charlesowens2578, Many thanks for your very kind comments! You are sort of right, I am a Maths graduate but my main job is programme management not teaching. I have "taught" though since I was 15. If you look at my website (susanroberts.info) my lace story is on there. I have a teaching qualification to teach post-16/adults (I would have been too frustrated teaching in a school where I had to teach a certain way). Lace and music/Maths come up a lot together, I'm not musical. When I started teaching lace I used to explain things with diagrams when I got to more complicated laces. Outside of the UK diagrams are used a lot more, when I saw Torchon beginners being taught alongside diagrams in Brugge I pulled this through to my beginners lace and started teaching in this format over 20 years ago. I love the way a diagram can explain! There will be more videos on patterns to come and some other tip videos. Best wishes Susan
I learnt in the 1980’s too, initially self taught as school wouldn’t give permission for us to attend night school while studying. Went to my first class/group in 1988
@sued.5698 many thanks for taking the time to write feedback, much appreciated, I’m planning to record videos for some of the other patterns I use with beginners in the next couple of months
My Brugge flower videos are more about techniques rather than specific patterns. All the features in the patterns are things you will find in Brugge flower patterns, the pieces I use in the videos are from a range of different sources. The videos were originally created to back up face to face teaching and go alongside written notes. Books include TECHNIQUE OF BRUGES FLOWER LACE by Veronica Sorenson and J. Rombach-De Kievid, which is in English (I recommend to students if they want a book), all copies now are second hand. Kant magazine also has occasional patterns as do some of the Kantcentrum Special Kant publications.
I really love this video - bobbin lace has always intrigued me, but it is also giving me great ASMR 😂 the sound of the bobbins clacking together is so relaxing
