On another list, someone said that Clover makes a thread cutter that can't
possibly be used for anything except cutting thread and, more important,
looks like a pendant.
Make sure that you check with *all* the airlines, going and coming, about
whether they will discard your needles. And don't take the platinum one!
Sigh. Remember when stuff you kept on your person was *less* likely to be
lost or stolen? I do hope we calm down before someone realizes that we
could halve our exposure to terrorism if we kept all our women in windowless
prisons.
I plan to stay home until people realize that it's impossible to hijack an
airplane with a pair of fingernail clippers -- if I can't take a pair of
socks in progress, I won't go!
I'm tatting during the Hunter Safety Course. Partly because I haven't seen
my socks in progress since before we moved and I haven't gotten around to
reeling off and shrinking yarn to start a replacement. (I have the needles
the *other* pair were on.) (#000 -- 1.5mm, to reference another thread.
1.25mm might be better.) Partly because tatting shows less than knitting,
and is easier to drop when I make notes.
I am using an all-plastic Clover shuttle that has a very sharp pick that
could handle thread much finer than the #20 that allows me to take back a
few stitches without taking my mind off the lecture. The sharp point is a
*big* help with untying knots!
I'm working the simple scroll edging, which requires me to carry a ball, but
doesn't take as close attention as a row of rings -- I'm not good at
eyeballing distances, and slightly-irregular picots show *much* less than
irregular spaces. I forgot how many stitches go on the chains, so the
edging is curving, but I plan to put it around a neckline anyway. (I was
kinder planning to put it on the other way up, though.)
This high-quality plastic could do more damage than any of my metal
shuttles, but it doesn't *look* frightening. Also it isn't an heirloom; I
wouldn't mind having it taken away, if they allow me to unwind it and keep
the lace in progress. (And if I had the foresight to put another one in my
checked baggage.)
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Joy Beeson
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