harlequin lace wrote:
I have a tatting pattern that calls for the shoelace
trick, but I have never heard of this, and would like to
make the pattern, Can anyone tell me what the shoelace
trick is and how it is worked?
You swap the positions of the ball thread and the shuttle
thread by working a plain or a purl -- whichever is due next
-- and tightening it by pulling on both threads equally, so
that instead of forming a half stitch, it forms half of a
square knot: a knot like the first step in tying your shoes.
This knot is not counted as part of any stitch, but I
consider it wise to count its *parity*; the work is usually
turned over after a shoelace trick, so that you should start
working the other way: plain-purl if you've been
purl-plaining, and purl-plain if you've been plain-purling.
So if the half-stitch before the shoelace is a purl, and the
first half-stitch after it is also a purl, the shoelace
trick itself should be a plain. (And the other way around.)
--
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