Hello All! I am living proof that one can work a beginner Binche pattern & live to tell the tale! A friend in BC suggested pattern 1 in Binche Deel 1 by Bep V R de Vries. With her help & coaching by email, my bookmark is now finished & posted to Arachne Flickr. Thanks to all who have mastered the art of tensioning take ins & take outs without support pins. Your comments are duly noted but in the end, there were just too many challenges for me to manage at once & I succumbed to helper pins. The good news is, once it's off the pillow, no one knows what tricks were used! The unpinned method will be among my goals once I have a better understanding of this lace. The book is B-387 in the IOLI library & a few cute patterns are on my radar: a little peacock, a snail & some Christmas trees. The book will be returned next week in case anyone else wants to give Binche a try. I enlarged the pattern 145% & used Aurifil Mako 50/2 cotton thread. Sincerely, Susan Hottle USA
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