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