Never done roseground before... Started last night, then quit because I couldn't remember and we had a guest over so it would seem rude to watch a TH-cam video. Then I watched your video again today with my lace board in front of me, and it all worked out perfectly!
Thank you so much for this tutorial, I've been struggling to get my roseground to look right for a couple of days and this has been a total eureka moment for me. Fantastic clear and concise demonstration
Thank you for this. I am combining this with your earlier how to start torchon bookmark (with the fans on the sides) and doing a different Rose ground combination of stitches in each diamond as I go down the bookmark. The top of the bookmark is torchon ground the first 2 fans are cloth stitch the first diamond years the Rose ground you described here with a cloth stretch and twist as the joining stitches and half stitch pin half stitch as the Rose. I plan the next fans to be half stitch with the next diamond having half stitch joining stitches and cloth stitch and twist as the rose. I am making this on a 5 mm greed set diagonally and using DMC Pearl 8 in a pinky red. I have run out of bobbins and so am using laundry pegs to weight each thread. By doing this I have found that bobbins are much better (grin)
This video was so clear. I couldn't understand what rose ground was supposed to look like before, but I feel really ready to give it a go now. I am just beginning bobbin lace and, to be honest, I am struggling terribly. I must have bought 10 books, each one completely different. I am not giving up because I have fallen in love with bobbin lace - even if the feeling doesn't appear to be mutual! I am housebound so not able to find a class so I am on my own in this. The reason I'm writing is that I had a plan...ahem. I thought I would buy a beginners kit that promised to come with instructions. It arrived with a pattern for a strip of lace with an acrylic ruler you could put your finished lace in. The problem was there were no instructions, just the pattern with a diagram. I have no idea how to proceed without instructions. On the diagram there are some squiggles, a colour change and some orientation zig-zags. The pattern has very faint markings that are hard to see. No written instructions, despite this being advertised as perfect for beginners. I have no idea what to do. What means what on the diagram. The vast variations in all the books can't be of any help. I feel really upset and stupid, but I hoped the company who sold me the kit would help. I messaged and explained that I needed some written instructions to help me understand. I have bought quite a lot from the company so I thought they wouldn't mind helping. They haven't replied to my message. I can only interpret that as meaning my need for instructions is so dumb it has insulted them that I've asked. Am I just being stupid? I don't suppose you could throw some light on doing bobbin lace just with a pattern and diagram, but no instructions?
It is disappointing to find a kit that doesn't give you enough to get started. Without seeing the pattern though it's impossible to give you instructions for that patterns, I could guess at what the pattern night be but I could be very wrong. It may be that your email to the company went into junk/spam box and they have missed it. Don't be too discouraged. There are courses available to do online, the lace museum in california runs one that is suitable gor complete beginners - done entirely online through zoom sessions.
@@LouiseWestLace Bless you for taking the time to reply and being so helpful. I feel encouraged for a number of reasons. I didn't want to message the company again in case I had caused offense by asking something blindingly obvious. I will try again. I hadn't even considered online courses. I am from England so I'm not sure how the time business would tally up between York and California, but it has given me an idea and a place to start enquiries. Goodness, I so appreciate your help. I have a feeling that people who love bobbin lace are rather lovely people. I really am most grateful. Sr K x
I came her to ask the same thing as Denise above. I read your comment in another lace channel because as a total beginner I felt exactly like you. I have been relying on YT videos and online library old books to get started. Hope your journey has been successful.
Your instruction is so clear and concise. You make working Torchon easily understandable. Do you know where I can get the pricking as I’d love to make it?
I just replicated it by drawing it up myself on graph paper. VERY simple to do, as it's so regular and geometric. I used cheap 5mm graph paper, and you could then prick through that into card stock to get your pricking - but I just put a layer of adhesive plastic over the paper and then prick it. That means it's water resistant and I can dampen down the finished work with the pins still in place and then let it dry out and "set" overnight. (I use thread about as thin as sewing thread, so my lace needs all the help it can get to keep its shape! It's so frustrating to spend hours on a project and then mess it up when you take out the pins...)
I can't remember where the pattern is from,(I may have just drafted the roseground for the video) but as other comments have made it is reasonably straightforward to draw out the roseground on graph paper.
Thanks again for your time in making yet another helpful video for beginners. I've been learning for the past two years and I would love to move on to a pattern I purchased a while back. I am confident to work all of the stitches in the pattern but am stuck on 'how to start'... I'd like to ask if you would kindly consider making a video on 'How to begin a Hand Fan Pattern' ? I've been searching for a video to no avail. The pattern starts at the bottom corner and Whole Stitch Fans start on the right edge (covers the fan stick) and then the left side of the corner starts working the bottom of the fan in a 4 pair edge. Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated and helpful to no end 🙂 Thanks in advance, Catharine
If you want to email me, I can perhaps give you some pointers, but without seeing the pattern it would be just generalised ideas. Generally they start on the outside edge, and usually most patterns give you a bit of an idea where to start. Drop me an email through my website if you need some help.
When I'm teaching, beginners do a strip sampler, to get the hang of cloth stitch and half stitch, and then learn some combinations with twists. The first bookmark in the four is bookmark with torchon ground, then with spiders, roseground and finally brabant ground.
Never done roseground before... Started last night, then quit because I couldn't remember and we had a guest over so it would seem rude to watch a TH-cam video. Then I watched your video again today with my lace board in front of me, and it all worked out perfectly!
That’s fantastic, so pleased to have helped. Well done.
Great instructions for a visual learner. Wonderful to hear the rhythm of your bobbins bobbing along.
Thanks for the comment, more videos in the planning, just need time to film them. Let me know if there’s anything you want to see.
Thank you so much for this tutorial, I've been struggling to get my roseground to look right for a couple of days and this has been a total eureka moment for me. Fantastic clear and concise demonstration
I tried to learn roseground from a book last night and failed miserably. 🙃 Thank you for this video! I understand now!
Thank you for this. I am combining this with your earlier how to start torchon bookmark (with the fans on the sides) and doing a different Rose ground combination of stitches in each diamond as I go down the bookmark.
The top of the bookmark is torchon ground the first 2 fans are cloth stitch the first diamond years the Rose ground you described here with a cloth stretch and twist as the joining stitches and half stitch pin half stitch as the Rose. I plan the next fans to be half stitch with the next diamond having half stitch joining stitches and cloth stitch and twist as the rose.
I am making this on a 5 mm greed set diagonally and using DMC Pearl 8 in a pinky red. I have run out of bobbins and so am using laundry pegs to weight each thread. By doing this I have found that bobbins are much better (grin)
This video was so clear. I couldn't understand what rose ground was supposed to look like before, but I feel really ready to give it a go now. I am just beginning bobbin lace and, to be honest, I am struggling terribly. I must have bought 10 books, each one completely different. I am not giving up because I have fallen in love with bobbin lace - even if the feeling doesn't appear to be mutual! I am housebound so not able to find a class so I am on my own in this. The reason I'm writing is that I had a plan...ahem. I thought I would buy a beginners kit that promised to come with instructions. It arrived with a pattern for a strip of lace with an acrylic ruler you could put your finished lace in. The problem was there were no instructions, just the pattern with a diagram. I have no idea how to proceed without instructions. On the diagram there are some squiggles, a colour change and some orientation zig-zags. The pattern has very faint markings that are hard to see. No written instructions, despite this being advertised as perfect for beginners. I have no idea what to do. What means what on the diagram. The vast variations in all the books can't be of any help. I feel really upset and stupid, but I hoped the company who sold me the kit would help. I messaged and explained that I needed some written instructions to help me understand. I have bought quite a lot from the company so I thought they wouldn't mind helping. They haven't replied to my message. I can only interpret that as meaning my need for instructions is so dumb it has insulted them that I've asked. Am I just being stupid? I don't suppose you could throw some light on doing bobbin lace just with a pattern and diagram, but no instructions?
It is disappointing to find a kit that doesn't give you enough to get started. Without seeing the pattern though it's impossible to give you instructions for that patterns, I could guess at what the pattern night be but I could be very wrong. It may be that your email to the company went into junk/spam box and they have missed it.
Don't be too discouraged.
There are courses available to do online, the lace museum in california runs one that is suitable gor complete beginners - done entirely online through zoom sessions.
@@LouiseWestLace Bless you for taking the time to reply and being so helpful. I feel encouraged for a number of reasons. I didn't want to message the company again in case I had caused offense by asking something blindingly obvious. I will try again.
I hadn't even considered online courses. I am from England so I'm not sure how the time business would tally up between York and California, but it has given me an idea and a place to start enquiries.
Goodness, I so appreciate your help. I have a feeling that people who love bobbin lace are rather lovely people. I really am most grateful. Sr K x
@@sisterkerry I am just beginning and thought I'd write and see how your Bobbin Lace is coming along. Blessings and Happy Lacing.
I came her to ask the same thing as Denise above. I read your comment in another lace channel because as a total beginner I felt exactly like you. I have been relying on YT videos and online library old books to get started. Hope your journey has been successful.
Your instruction is so clear and concise. You make working Torchon easily understandable. Do you know where I can get the pricking as I’d love to make it?
I just replicated it by drawing it up myself on graph paper. VERY simple to do, as it's so regular and geometric.
I used cheap 5mm graph paper, and you could then prick through that into card stock to get your pricking - but I just put a layer of adhesive plastic over the paper and then prick it. That means it's water resistant and I can dampen down the finished work with the pins still in place and then let it dry out and "set" overnight.
(I use thread about as thin as sewing thread, so my lace needs all the help it can get to keep its shape! It's so frustrating to spend hours on a project and then mess it up when you take out the pins...)
(And yes, her instructions are great, and I've never done roseground before, so a video really helps so much more than a diagram in a book.)
I can't remember where the pattern is from,(I may have just drafted the roseground for the video) but as other comments have made it is reasonably straightforward to draw out the roseground on graph paper.
A nice clear instruction video. You mentioned a 'Book of Stitches' with more ways to do a roseground. Can you give more detail on that?
The book is called "the book of bobbin lace stitches" by Bridget Cook.. that has 16 variations of roseground.
@@LouiseWestLace Thank you!
Are these torchon bookmarks available on your pre-pricked cards? Never mind, just found and ordered them!
Yes they are, available through my website (answered in case anyone else has the same question, thank you for the order)
Thanks again for your time in making yet another helpful video for beginners. I've been learning for the past two years and I would love to move on to a pattern I purchased a while back. I am confident to work all of the stitches in the pattern but am stuck on 'how to start'...
I'd like to ask if you would kindly consider making a video on 'How to begin a Hand Fan Pattern' ? I've been searching for a video to no avail. The pattern starts at the bottom corner and Whole Stitch Fans start on the right edge (covers the fan stick) and then the left side of the corner starts working the bottom of the fan in a 4 pair edge. Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated and helpful to no end 🙂 Thanks in advance, Catharine
If you want to email me, I can perhaps give you some pointers, but without seeing the pattern it would be just generalised ideas. Generally they start on the outside edge, and usually most patterns give you a bit of an idea where to start. Drop me an email through my website if you need some help.
@@LouiseWestLace Thanks so much Louise! I'll be in touch next week with a picture of the pricking. Happy Easter🐣🌸🌷🐇
Is this the very first pattern one should start with as a complete beginner?
When I'm teaching, beginners do a strip sampler, to get the hang of cloth stitch and half stitch, and then learn some combinations with twists. The first bookmark in the four is bookmark with torchon ground, then with spiders, roseground and finally brabant ground.
@@LouiseWestLace thank you for your quick response and advice. Much appreciated. Blessings