Sorry for my ignorance, but what the heck is a voodoo board?
Sally wrote:
>For the first third, I had to rely completely on a voodoo board. For the second
>third, I only had to put some of the pins in the voodoo board, and then I was
>able to throw the voodoo >board in the trash. The
My voodoo board (great name, never heard it called that before) was a
hugely enlarged copy of the pricking, nice and easy to see what went
where.
Margery.
margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Herts, UK
I call mine a voodoo board, too!
The first time I used one, I was doing what I now think was a fairly simple
Old Flanders pattern. I couldnât follow the pattern just by looking at it.
In fact, even once I had the board I still had problems, because I was so
confused that I would get lost during
>Margery writes: My voodoo board (great name, never heard it called that
>before)
I cannot lay claim to having named the voodoo board. The first time I heard it
called thus was in an arachne email from an Australian lacemaker, whom I cannot
now name. I didn't think to save th
A voodoo board is a copy of the diagram pinned to a sheet of foam. Each time
you put a pin in the lace you're working, you put one in the corresponding
pinhole in the diagram. A lot of people use this technique to keep up with
where they are in laces that have so many pins set so
bout them perhaps. I made one of the fans. It took me a year.
I needed a voodoo
board for the first 1/3 of the piece, needed to put some of the pins onto the
voodoo board for another
1/3, and then was able to toss the voodoo board in the trash for the last
third. These are patterns
your
I make a good amount of Binche, and I originally used a "voodoo board". Now I
prefer circling the pinhole marks on the diagram with a small pencil circle,
and sometimes I lightly draw a swirly circle or an asterisk at a special
stitch, like the next stitch to-do when I'm putt
a voodoo board. For the second third,
I only had to put some of the pins in the voodoo board, and then I was able to
throw the voodoo board in the trash. The last third I worked with just the
diagram. It took me a year to make the fan.
They are not Flanders, but they are something your friend
Nancy, I agree that it is always good to work without a crutch, and some
laces simply don't need such a device, but when one is stretching one's
ability, sometimes to the limit, a voodoo pillow might also add magic to
the effort. Some Val, certainly, I don't know about Mechlin, b
might have been
done with pins only on the edges, and thread tension or twists defining the
design. I marvel that people centuries ago made this pattern without the
detailed diagram I'm using.
I would have been lost without my version of a voodoo board to keep my place.
And four repeats
I used an oblong piece about letter size 1" thick polystyrene from a packing
box for my voodoo board. I bound the edges with duct tape so that none of the
little beads would escape. I have been using it for years, first as a pricking
board and now to put my enlarged diagrams on for Binch
Hi Jane and Arachne:
> It's interesting to read the different ways different people tackle the
problem, and I'm sitting here wondering how many who regularly use the ghost
pillow/voodoo board method were self taught?
I was originally self-taught, though I have had many different
Bev
I think it will be a while before I can work Binche without a voodoo board.
For now, it IS helping me keep my place.
Lorelei
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> we call this a voodoo board, it's a useful tool for anyone staring
> any lace
> jenny barron
> Scotland
When I was new to lace I fell in love with a Skansk knipling pattern.
Unlike every Skan pattern I've found in books so far, it was a
relatively wide piece (maybe
Thanks Lyn. I also use a spare bit of polystyrene, which will now be
elevated to the status of ghost pillow or voodoo pillow!
But I like your idea of using different pins for different things, and will
definitely incorporate that idea!
Sue from Montelimar, France, where autumn has definitely
I use one also, for Flanders & Binche. I couldn't do those complex designs
without one. And losing track of where I am is the primary reason. Like
Nancy, I like to call it the "voodoo board". I think of it as murdering the
design invented by a wicked sorcerer. And who is going
this a voodoo board, it's a useful tool for anyone staring any lace
jenny barron
Scotland
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this a voodoo board, it's a useful tool for anyone starting any lace
jenny barron
Scotland
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Re voodoo boards, Clay wrote:
> A lot of people use this technique to keep up with where they are in laces
that have so many pins set so close together.
And some of us use it because we are so completely lost in a complicated
pattern that we can't see where we are from stitch to s
Hi,
Here in Adelaide, South Australia we call these boards our 'voodoo'
boards - when the going gets tough, stick in a pin. :-)
Cheers,
Shirley T. - winter is still raging here and won't let Spring come
visit us just yet. :-(
Our thoughts and prayers are with those suffer
inspiration for cutting
paper snowflakes. (In my family, we call them the "voodoo snowflakes",
since it seems like every time I hang up my snowflake strings, it snows
madly!)
Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA
alwen at i2k dot com
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dd is that I like calling it a voodoo board--you stick pins in it, huh?
get it? oh well, _I_ think it's funny...
Nancy
normally from Connecticut USA, but wandering somewhere in Italy right now,
marveling at Etruscans
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Lyn Bailey
wrote:
> I donât know al
In my initial Binche class it was suggested to use the sticky arrows. Hated
them! It is so much easier to pull a pin out of the foam and quickly move it
than it is to get an arrow off of paper and repositioned. Also i use a bunch of
pins and there would not be room for all arrows. Since most of
re: News from Germany
Many thanks for posting this information about a certain person (if only one
could be sure that voodoo dolls worked!). Please keep us posted if you hear
anything further about this internet lace shop. I'm deeply saddened about
this whole shocking affair, it sounds
best, not just
"slavishly" following directions--showing that using a diagram is not
contradictory to understanding the lace.
Someone (Lorelei?) called her
ghost pillow a "voodoo board", a term that ever since I've been enjoying using
as I stick pins in it!
Nancy
Connec
For most laces, some sort of diagram is usually sufficient to know where you
are without further markings or pins. With the fine thread and confusion of
Binche, or more complicated Flanders at least, that is not always the case. I
began with sticking arrows, but pins in a cork board wins hands do
87, and my eyes may not be
up to making lace. It is a very helpful thing. I began using a ghost
pillow when I used post-it arrows to point to where I was in a Flanders
handkerchief which was way above my skill level. It was the only way I
could keep track of things.
A ghost pillow/voodoo b
Totally yes, can always make another diagram.
...and arrows! Vive la difference! I prefer them for Binche, as it takes me
as long to fumble around with pins and a board as it does to do same at the
lace pillow. For me the arrows are faster! I make a copy on heavy card-type
computer paper of the dia
complicated lace with many bobbins, Mechlin is the one I
cannot work without marking nearly every pin on my voodoo-board.
lucky not to make lace for living..
Eva from Haltern, Germany,
where spring has come and I can make lace at the veranda
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Hi Jocelyn:
I can’t recall any books that mention a ghost pillow, a voodoo board, or the
concept under any other name. It is something that was suggested to me as I was
floundering around in Old Flanders, but whether it’s an old idea or something
fairly recent I couldn’t say. When I use it, I
re I can get :p )
I use what someone called a voodoo board to pin where I am, the diagram-copy
on a piece of styro, or if the styro isn't available, I just pin into a
double layer of paper and *as well* I use Clay's tip of removeable arrows in
several colours to locate where I need t
encounter, some of the
Antwerp laces are at least as good (if not better) a grounding in the
*mindset* necessary to do Binche. The biggest problem might be that
there are fewer pins in the Antwerp laces, so a voodoo board/ghost
pillow would be less useful in keeping track of where you are. (
But I could have found it useful in the
latest piece of Bucks I have made - but the pattern didn't have a working
diagram anyway!
Kathleen
In a chilly Berkshire, UK
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> On 15 Sep 2017, at 03:40, Adele Shaak wrote:
>
> Hi Jocelyn:
>
> I can’t recall any book
It's interesting to read the different ways different people tackle the
problem, and I'm sitting here wondering how many who regularly use the ghost
pillow/voodoo board method were self taught? It is something I haven't used, in
the "something to stick pins into" versio
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