I recently shared a video on how to make the traditional edging often called "Hen & Chicks". This made me think that it would be nice to have a corner for this edging.
The simplest way would be just to remove one lower ring on the corner and that will make it "bend" around the corner. But I don't like the "empty" corner that this creates. I prefer to have more on the corner rather than less.
So I made a little corner doodle to test the idea...
Let's tat it and see.
I quite like the size of it but not sure about the empty space in the middle...
What if I remove the tiny rings...
would that be better?
Hmmm, the corner gets more rounded.
Maybe I want to keep the bigger corner
but fill the space?
Then it looks like this:
Here the three corners together:
I unintentionally made one too many picots in the centre ring...
but now I wonder, should I remove it or keep it?
This is often how I design. As you can see, I don't have a perfect foolproof method! I'll do some sketches of ideas, then make several testing samples, sometimes cut the samples and re-arrange them until I'm happy with the design.
In this case I think I prefer the last option, the bolder corner with the empty space filled in with the extra ring in the centre.
Thoughts?
I'm sure other people have come up with their own version of a corner for this vintage edging and it would be nice to see other solutions as I'm sure there are many!
I'll write up this version of Hen & Chicks in the next blogpost if anyone is interested. I made the rings smaller than the version I had in one of my vintage books as I thought it would look better for a handkerchief edging.
Best wishes,
Frivole
