I learned picot-making from -- of
all people -- Doreen Wright, and I would certainly have been too scared to
fail!) I do make them, as Tamara says, with five twists before and two
afterward. There is just this one other thing, which Doreen stressed
mightily: after placing the pin, you must be sure to pull both threads down
TOGETHER at once; then do the 2 final twists.
I too learned the secret of making good double picots from Doreen Wright.
Make the twists and both loops with the threads LOOSE around the pin and then pull/wiggle them together at the same time so that the twists go around the whole picot and don't leave rabbits ears.
A larger pin will make larger picots but as Tamara says it's a real chore to have two different sizes of pins in use at one time.
BTW I do 5 initial twists for the usual PG thickness cottons such as Tanne 50, but only 3 twists if I'm using a thicker thread such as Tanne 30, and don't even think about making double picots with double spun cottons such as Cordonnet or "tatting cotton" as the twists won't snuggle up together properly. For those threads it's always a knotted picot.
Brenda
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