I’ve made great progress this week on my lace panel – it’s
interesting how some weeks you put in loads of work but have little to show for
it whereas in others you seem to steam ahead! This week I’ve been applying the
new digitally printed photographs onto the net base. I’ve never used digitally
printed images before and I naively assumed that as the images I’d supplied were
perfect rectangles the printed versions would be too. I hadn’t accounted for
the fact that obviously the material must move slightly in the printing process
so I’ve had to tweak some of them a bit. Luckily I had already decided to add a
small strip of lace to the top and base of each image to neaten it, and to run
a scalloped lace right along the edge of each net panel to mirror the scalloped
edge of the original. These edges of lace have allowed me to straighten up the
photographic prints by hiding some areas so they are now roughly rectangular
again. However, despite the technical problems, machine stitching the lace to
the images and net has been very quick and I’m pleased with the results, so I
feel I can have a break over Christmas!
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