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This is a quick and dirty page to put up some images. It will turn into an article eventually.
The class I taught at Darkwood A&S on 7/8/06 used a relatively heavy-medium weight linen that came with a small gingham check pattern which we used as a guide to learning the technique. Here's my first experiment with a relatively fine plain-color linen. The fabric is about 50 threads per inch. I worked the gathering stitches on an imaginary grid of 4x4 threads, picking up 2 threads for the ground stitches and going behind 10 (2+8) for the pattern stitches. Because I'm nearsighted (and slightly crazy) I went ahead and worked this by counting threads rather than marking the pattern. Here's the finished pattern (before gathering) from the right side:
And here's the same thing from the "wrong" side (which actually shows the future pattern more clearly):
Now we draw up the gathering threads and tie them off. This image is a larger scale than the previous ones to show the result more clearly.
Notice that the gathered area is slightly less than 4 inches originally but has gathered down to approximately 3/8 inch. This is an even greater gathering reduction than the 6:1 or 8:1 that I was getting with the medium-weight linen. It's also significantly more than my estimate of the gathering reduction in the S. Thomas Becket alb, although it looks like it might be roughly equivalent to that of the S. Hugh alb.
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