Point Fusion

 In May I attended my first online class which was originally scheduled for Chicago in June.  It was a lace design class with Pierre Fouché.  We did a lot of doodling on a 4 sheets of grid that we attached.  We were learning to repeat motifs and join them in all possible ways.  

For my inspiration for designs, I chose a piece of freezer paper that I had used as a drop cloth when I was applying spots of ink to fabric a couple years ago.  

Then I chose some parts and arranged them in a circular format that had been suggested for this class.  We were working with a grid that is well-suited for hexagons.

This was the basis for 3 designs.

The first has large and small snowflakes (or spiders) within the hexagons.   

The second has long narrow hexagons within the regular hexagons.  

The third is based on Mechlin ground.  The shared sides of hexagons are CTTPCTT at both pins.  

Another assignment was to try making a design using different stitches to provide the shading.  

My sample used a pear.  Here's the pear on the pillow in process.  

Here's the finished pear.