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Hi @Searedyellowtail, many thanks for your comments. In terms of using a crochet hook for sewings this is included in beginners video #8. if you look at the timings that are in the text with the video it is the central join bit that you need. I show 4 different sewing tools and demonstrate with 3 of them. the sewings shouwn should be ok for Russian lace as you won't have a full footside edge to look at whether you do side or top sewing.

@@Susan-Lace-Beads This is fantastic, thank you kindly!

@b-witchmom 2030 many thanks for taking the time to leave such kind comments. Glad your stripes turned out fine, I had a student last night in class who had one stripe and two waves ... turns out the first stitch in the column after setting up was half stitch pin half stitch not cloth stitch pin cloth stitch. Looked interesting but not as intended but the lack of stripes showed the error which is as the pattern was intended to do

@b-witchmom2030 thank you so much for taking the time to leave such kind comments. So glad you are learning our wonderful craft with the help of my videos, my in person students love them too!

I’m very got plans for more, next full video will have corners, a central join and sewings in it, may be s very short challenge pattern in between with no instructions (as it’s all been in previous videos, I’m still thinking it through for video)

@@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

@@Susan-Lace-Beads Oh my gosh thank you so very much for the detailed explanation. This will help a ton!

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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.

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.

Thank you, this was the method I was taught in Brugge at the Kantcentrum, it does look really neat when worked

Thank you for your kind comments Marina!

I live making lace as well.