Letters are made of lines, some slanting but a lot are horizontal or vertical (straight across or up and down). Lace designs like slanting, but don't like vertical or horizontal lines. Torchon lace has a limit to how wide you can make it, as well. All this makes letters a challenge!
Here, I have the letters out of 'pixels' which are small diamonds. You can work these in half stitch or cloth stitch as you please.
My first attempt at designing letters made them read vertically, as letters tend to be taller than they are wide. That made some letters look very odd! This second version has the letters the 'proper' way up. This allows the letters to be variable width, so the trickier letters can have more room. This version requires 26 pairs, of which 22 pairs are used for the letters.
© Jo Edkins 2017 - return to lace index