I don't make lace using stitches but just twists and crosses
I do too! Just as, somehow, I managed to drift from the rh side fooside to lh side one, so did my thinking switched from "cloth stitch" to "CTC" when I wasn't looking <g> I wasn't aware of doing it, until I saw the net in PG described as "half stitch and two twists"; I sat there, in total fog, for a good while before it dawned on me that it was CTTT... :)
I find the CT notation both easier to comprehend and more comprehensive. It bypasses the confusion of the two "whole" stitches (CTC -- in UK, and CTCT -- elsewhere). It allows one to ignore the fact that, in some countries, CTT is called "honecomb" but "roseground" in others, while "rose ground" is sometimes called "virgin ground". It makes tallies "toe the line" (TTC), and the "turning stich/fixing stitch" dilemma (CTTC and CTCTC, respectively) simple to explain. It can be applied to passing the gimp (though I still tend to "lift the left", except when "in Flanders") both the plain, and the "in relief" (raised)...
I know zero about 'puters but it seems to me that C & T are lacemaking's binary language :)
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Tamara P Duvall
Lexington, Virginia, USA
Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
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