Hi everyone and Tamara There is a way to join trails - I won't try to describe it in detail because I haven't tried it, but in theory you work the last few rows with threads doubled back, a new set of bobbins looped through them (old bobbins thrown out, new bobbins, looped through old threads, old threads still in use) and the bobbins of the adjoining trail looped in at the last row. The thread ends of the first trail can be cut close to the weaving, because they have been doubled (and so end perhaps an inch or less, away from the 'join')- the ends of the adjoining trail are sewn into the cloth work (with needle, not a BL 'sewing')
It is probably as fiddly to do as it is to describe. I saw this in diagram at The Lace Express website - sadly the diagrams are no longer there. I rather think there might be a diagram in Russische (sp?) Kant (more's the pity - I sold my copy). I would think for sure there would be something in Beginning to End. good luck. -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~wt912 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
