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Punto in Aria
Nov. 18th, 2005 06:11 pmNo, not a term for kicking butt on the computer. (Although I am still mesmerized by the pretty colors and sound effects).
It's a needle lace technique and it was taught in an EGA class that I recently took. They said they were teaching Reticella (not a pasta!), but we snipped and removed all the ground threads. Since I was sitting with several needle gurus who couldn't help observing that 'technically' we were doing punto in aria, I had to go home and research the terms.
Turns out the gurus were right. Punto in aria - needle in the air. Wow! How neat is that? I used to look at the pictures of "that stuff" years ago and go "you've got to be nuts. Who'd be insane enough to do that?"
Looks like I'm insane. I really like it and I've got my first project piece in the works and I'm at the point where I'm working up my design right now. It's probably over ambitious - I half expect a big knot of thread. I've also decided that given the million and one things I'm trying to do, it must be restricted to lunch time, it's not allowed to have some deadline that eventually turns me into a crazed "up all night" maniac, and I'm going to experiment with linen (even though the Gurus AND the teacher marfled about how the linen is too slubby. I weave so in my world slubby isn't bad, it's just challenging).
Who's Aria are you Punto-ing?
Boring stuff on my other projects: ( Read more... )
It's a needle lace technique and it was taught in an EGA class that I recently took. They said they were teaching Reticella (not a pasta!), but we snipped and removed all the ground threads. Since I was sitting with several needle gurus who couldn't help observing that 'technically' we were doing punto in aria, I had to go home and research the terms.
Turns out the gurus were right. Punto in aria - needle in the air. Wow! How neat is that? I used to look at the pictures of "that stuff" years ago and go "you've got to be nuts. Who'd be insane enough to do that?"
Looks like I'm insane. I really like it and I've got my first project piece in the works and I'm at the point where I'm working up my design right now. It's probably over ambitious - I half expect a big knot of thread. I've also decided that given the million and one things I'm trying to do, it must be restricted to lunch time, it's not allowed to have some deadline that eventually turns me into a crazed "up all night" maniac, and I'm going to experiment with linen (even though the Gurus AND the teacher marfled about how the linen is too slubby. I weave so in my world slubby isn't bad, it's just challenging).
Who's Aria are you Punto-ing?
Boring stuff on my other projects: ( Read more... )
