Lost in Translation - Julia E. Sanders errata

Wonderful!!! Yes, the end is in sight!

Just finished the first round of the 24 outer motifs. I am planning on doing the next two rounds and leaving the final rounds as the last thing I do.

I have come to a new problem, however. I am down to my last two balls of thread. It might be enough, but I am not sure. I have found some on ebay, so I should be fine. Plus side, I weighed the last ball, one oz, and can use that to figure out how much thread is in this. But I have a question. How much do you increase your estimate to allow for ends and unusable thread?

I don't know about for thread, but I know in laying floor tiles you allow 10% for waste (cuts to make tiles fit and for broken tiles).

Looking at the pile of clipped threads from the bedspread I'm crocheting, I'd say about 8-1o% is a good bet. But for tatting, it might be just a bit less, because we can tat down to a very, very short thread before we have to add more.

I was thinking about 10% given short threads and long tails. Thanks for the tip!

Boredom and impatience has gotten the better of me. I am working on both the last insertion row and the final set of 24 motifs at sorta the same time. I have a second ball of white and a second ready shuttle. This is gonna take some time!

I am doing these in reverse of how I will write them down because counting them is darn near impossible from the "photo."

Meanwhile, in honor of tomorrow's total eclipse, my husband is going to send a partially complete motif to the edge of space on a stratospheric balloon for cameras to see the eclipse.

This tea cloth has gone everywhere!

Its really wonderful that your husband is caught up in the project, and not just watching it unfold. What a story to tell the next generations! " Did you hear the one about when .... the house was overturned...and out came a doily?"

And here is that ridiculously complex corner which, shock, is not included in the directions.

It starts after a cloverleaf of 3xR3-3-3-3-3-3, then a ch of the same. Then a single ring joined like the previous ones, then ch3+3 and another cloverleaf as above, but join the first picot of the cloverleaf to the last picot of the previous ring. Finally, Ch 3+3-3-3-3-3, joining to that same picot.

My next step will be the curvy top and then back down the circular motifs. At the corners, join the last single rings together and then flip the cloverleaf which will join to the previous row... Or rather, what WILL be the previous row, once I finish it and do the counts.

Another milestone!

@wodentoad, you might as well be designing bits and pieces of this thing from scratch! I can't begin to tell you how much I have appreciated seeing your progress on this thing over the years. So many things have happened in that time besides the tea cloth that it seems like you have made us all part of your life. And now a bit of it is actually going into the upper reaches of the stratosphere as well. Judy is right. There are many many stories connected with this tea cloth. I hope you've been writing them all down. You'll have a book to pass along with it. A couple of generations from now some new bride who has received this as one of her wedding gifts will page through the accompanying book and shake her head in disbelief. "Wow! Great Grandma Erin was so talented. She made up the best stories." So be sure to document the stories with photos. What a treasure.

Heh, thanks. My plan is to print out parts of this forum, along with all the pics and pattern notes plus probably diagrams, though I have not yet mastered that art form.

Wow! I hope you'll get the camera & the bit of teacloth back from the stratosphere! And that you'll post some pictures here for us.

Sad story, the lace only made it up to 19,000 feet due to a failure of an emergency system. But it was recovered. I will try again another time.

Even 19.000 feet is a good ways off the ground! And even epic fails - not that this is epic - things just didn't go according to plan - anyway, even fails tell their own stories.

Ah, well. Unless people pack lace for ascents to Mt. Everest, that's still probably the altitude record for a bit of lace. How high were you hoping for it to go?

Most balloons go between 60,000 and 120,000 feet. It has been up in a plane at 30,000, so that is not the highest it has gone. Next balloon! Space lace will rise... Or else I need to make a friend with an astronaut.

I wonder... I have envelopes, stamps, and you guys are from around the world. Perhaps some lateral travel? Might be something fun to add to the final project.

Well, if you want to build a list of cities, states, countries, etc., and the shipping/mailing cost isn't too high, Put me on the list. I would accept and after a quick look, post it on to the next person, or do a quick return to you.

I'm interested, too - though I hope the lace won't arrive at a particularly busy time...

I have 24 final pieces. They could easily fit into an envelope so even international post would not be high. Think we can find 24 interesting or pretty places to send them?

My email address is my username at gmail if you want to join. I will plan to send them out around Halloween to give people time to respond. And hopefully have them back by... April?

I'm willing to participate, Erin. You are brave, though. Things sometimes go missing in the mail.

Bah, no worries! If it gets lost in the mail, that means that I'll make more of them, and then there will be more lace in the world. I suppose I should work on the second and third rows of those so they are almost complete.

Okay, I'm in! Just sent you an e-mail.

Here's a thought. Just send one. The first person on your list receives the lace and takes a photo of it somewhere special in their area, then mails it on to the next one who does the same. We can email the photos to you so you can keep track of where it is. You can also email mailing instructions to us as the lace makes it's way around the world, so there's not a list of names and addresses traveling around the world with the lace. Kind of like the kids used to mail their Flat Stanley's around the world. That way, if the lace does go missing in the mail, you've only lost one motif. Just a thought.

I agree with Lynn.... that would be a wonderful idea!
I remember when Mom was a snowbird in Mesa, the neighbor had a plastic lawn coyotes... one spring as people were heading out to visit families for the summer one of the coyotes came up missing..... they started receiving photos in the mail of that coyote visiting places all over the country..... I don't know if they ever found out who he hitched a ride with, but that fall he found his way back home with a hat & a new set of duds!