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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 11:27am on 11/07/2007
Are you likely to finish the "dancers" lace?

If you aren't (and I know what it's like: for me, the minute I take a knitting project off the needles they're on--because I need those particular needles for something else--and slide the half-done piece onto waste yarn, I know realistically that I'm not going to come back to it however good my intentions), why not seize it as the first diving-into-the-sea-of-design project? Fix it on fabric as you described, but permanently and on something big and good to work on, then extend the dancers using different techniques and materials, making it the centre of some wonderful experiment. Add macrame. Add fibre optics (those lamps are way cool: I want to knit something like that--now!).

Your lace teacher would hate this, of course.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:32am on 11/07/2007
I could do that!

But I'd like to keep the option of completing it, maybe as a sampler, maybe as a practice piece to try out going round corners. I'm still very much a learner. There are some parts of the piece I'm pleased with, I got a nice swirly effect on the lady dancer's dress. There's nothing to stop me working on the lace while it's fixed to fabric, though I should probably use a contrasting colour to stop myself going blind.

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