I'm making the Love in a Mist bookmark from the Stott Bobbin Lace Manual.
The book is suddenly very popular, especially the bookmarks :)
My fan threads
seem to be getting pushed to the outside of the fan, rather than evening
spaced. I'm trying to coax them evenly across the fan but am not having
very much success. Its there a trick or technique I'm missing?
Correct tensioning comes with practice. But, if your fan passives are being pushed to the outside, you're already miles ahead; usually, they want to pull to the inside, along the straight line <g>
Cloth stitch fans are actually quite difficult to tension evenly. What I used to do was tension hard the first half of the fan (to get the pairs out towards the outer pins) and very gently for the second half (to maintain the curve, and prevent the straight line). But, as I said, my problem was the opposite of yours... :)
One thing which I think *might* help is having more twists on the workers at the pins -- both the inner and the outer ones. T 3 (instead of 2 shown in the book), pull the bobbins of the pair apart (to set the twists), put the pin in, and work back. The twists will reset themselves more evenly and the pinhole will look neater. But, also, the extra twist requires extra space -- it'll push the passive pairs closer together.
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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