Gunnpoint Studios

27/01/2019

Started another small collar using many pairs technique remeniscent of Cluny. I am still figuring things out with using this technique. As I am not using sewing links, the progress is much slower. And the pairs seem to have the mind of their own tryiing to overlap and entangle. I think I should have used a larger pillow to accomodate more pairs.

22/10/2018

Continuing with the old project using 8 pairs of bobbins and sewing technique

06/10/2018

Finished a small teen collar. Threads linnen & cotton.

16/08/2018

16/08/2018

Have almost finished my first collar. The pattern was taken from the book by Belozerova. Just mulling over how to hide the blue pico edge ends.

01/08/2018

While browsing through National Old Lacers bulletin of 1976-77 came across this photo of Russian table cloth. Dimentsions 68"x86" (172cm x 218cm), ecru linen. Was bought in Leningrad in 1936. A little bit of social history. According to the parents of the owner, who purchased it " at that time in Russia it was possible to buy a treasure for virtually nothing". They paid $5 for it. These were the times of great social enaquality and poverty.

04/07/2018

29/06/2018

Did a bit of a work on a pattern I have not worked for a while. It was one of the first patterns that I managed to break up into steps. At the time I did not quite grasped the way of showing the links between the braids and since found another way. So in some places some pin-holes are a bit awkward. But overall it is workable.

24/06/2018

The project that is near completion stage still "sits" on the pillow. Finishing stage is not my favourite stage and I find it at times a bit "scary". This is a Finish that I am not familiar with, when the edge of the braid does not meet its beginning but meets an edge of another braid. I have a video in mind to watch on You tube, but it does not answer all the questions. I do not quite know yet how to deal with the Gimp (rope) yet. Will have to think it over a bit. Most importantly I need to get into the zone "I am gonna do it". Most of the time it happens when I run out of pillows and need a pillow for a new project.

24/06/2018

Well at the moment I am working on 3 projects. The one I working most of the time is a collar from the book by Belozerova. So I decided to take this book as the main teaching materia as it represents several lacemaking centres of Russia. This particula pattern looks quite simple on the technical sided of things. So I decided to spice it up with colour - using a three colour pallete. Using colour has forced me to adopt a slightly different use of stitches in the braid- using colour in this way meant that I would not be able to use the half-stitch and chosing a cloth stich with 2 twisted edge pairs instead of half-stitch meant adapting a different zig-zag width step. That means that I was putting pins as dictated by the braid but stil trying to land on the pin-holes indicated by the pattern. I was very glad when I turned the corner= finished half the collar and started working on the other half

21/04/2018

Well have been working on the pattern where the ends of the braid do not meet. The book explained how to do the finish in the end of the work, but unfortunately was silent on the issue what to do when the braid passes the Start line of the beginnig. There are other ways of starting the braid (when 2 ends do not meet), But in my case it was too late to employ any other methods. So I was stuck. Had do go and look in some other books for answers. One of the suggestion was to link to the Start pin-holes with the worker pair where the pattern permits. The Start pin-holes which were not pick up by the worker pair are linked and picked up by the Edge passive pair. So this was the method to solve my problem. And I was pleased that it turned out so well, considering the fact that my Start pin-holes were tiny. Next time I will make sure that they are big enough for the hook to pass. The first pic shows where I had to stop, and the second one once I have passed the difficult point.

17/04/2018

This project is aimed at combining as many different types of braid as I can come up with and at the same time suitable for this particular design.