Romanian Point Lace- How to start a project
Romanian Point Lace doilies are small projects to do whenever you want to work on something small enough to fit in your bag.
To start a project you need:
— a pattern. Yes, you can create one. Or you can buy it from here of course.
— some thread ( original is 100% cotton in cream color ) but you can use any color you like
— a crochet needle to fit your thread (I use RPL 1 mm crochet hook) .
Below is a quarter of a pattern created by me to exemplify different types of cord and fillings in Romanian Point Lace.
If you use other pattern, you need to transfer the project to a piece of cloth ( using carbon paper). The transfer cloth needs to be with 3-4 cm bigger all around than the actual pattern. If you have a ready printed one on cloth , skip this point.
The result will be like this :
Final dimension on this pattern : a square of 18/18 cm .
To do a big Romanian Point Lace project is necessary to transfer entire project to cloth. To do the transfer you need to pin the pattern over carbon paper and after, both of them over the cloth, and start to pass over tracing the pattern with a pen.
My mother borrowed pins from all lady neighbors and we have to count them and made a list in order to return correct number to each one. Funny now but for me, to count so many pins was not. I still hate to transfer big patterns.
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