How to use workers and gimps in bobbin lace
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2021
- A video showing how to use workers in both cloth stitch and half stitch, explaining the difference between workers and passives for beginners. Also shows how to use a thick gimp thread to outline a shape in bobbin lace.
That's the best explanation I've had about workers. Thank you.
Pleased it’s helped. Let me know if there’s anything else you want to see on a video. Thanks.
When I tried gimp for the first time, it was in pairs and they formed circles that crossed back and forth. My tension was way too tight and the circles became ovals! 🤣 I think I was tensioning the gimp the same as the smaller threads. I tend to hang onto the bobbins for dear life! I think that is something all beginners probably have trouble with. I love how you taught me to "stroke" the hanging bobbins. That has made a BIG difference in my tension! Thank you, Louise! Now I want to try the gimp again. Have you ever heard of gimp being called a "bumblebee"?
So pleased that has helped you. Very often it’s just little tips that help improve things the most. One of the huge benefits of seeing things v reading about it.
No I’ve heard a gimp being called a bumblebee, where in the world is it known as that?
Maybe it's something lost in translation! The French word for gimp, I think, is bourdon, which translates to bumblebee. Is it just a coincidence that you have a bumblebee trim on your pillow? 😆
@@ritad673 that's really interesting. My pillow trim is a coincidence 🤔
Gracias
That was lovely. Just got to persuade myself to get back into it. How many pieces of lace do you have on the go?
It varies, I’ve got a couple of travel pillows with long projects on, (that’s the two pieces in this video) another very big piece of Russian, but I don’t work on that very often, and just starting pieces for the Legacy of lace project... I’m often designing and working samples too.
I wish you had continued around with the gimp. I can't picture how the gimp comes down the pattern.
The gimp follows the line that is marked on the pattern, sometimes when you look at a pattern you don’t quite follow it but it becomes clearer when you actually put the bobbins on the pillow. Alternatively, have a copy of the pattern, and using a pencil, follow the line to see where it goes, abit like the childhood puzzles of following the line to reach a destination. This particular pattern the gimp is quite clear, the gimp goes around the shape and then back up to the top of the next one where it crosses with the other bobbin of the gimp pair. Hope that helps.