On Jul 25, 2004, at 9:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SueW) wrote:
From the left hand side I have my edge pair and then I take my workers and
work to the right through 11 pairs of passives and made my edge stitch. Then
it says Leave. Next it says to take the next 2 passive pairs, cls Leave.
Continue through 8 more pairs leaving 1 passive pair and edge pair unworked. Do I
take the two passive pairs from the left hand side? What I'm wondering if I
always start the cloth stitch through the passives from the opposite side
where I leave my works.
The short answer is: no, you don't. The long answer, in case you haven't figured it out for yourself from the diagram while waiting for answers...
Make your edge stitch, and leave both the workers and the edge pair on the right hand side.
Now, cloth stitch the passive pairs through one another, in pairs, beginning near the edge stitch you have just completed, that is on the right hand side, and working to the left.
Since there were 11 p. pairs to begin with, the last one will be the odd one, with no pair to make the cloth stitch with (actually, it's best to ignore the edge pairs altogether; think of them as "workers-in-waiting" and all'll be less confusing). So you have 5 crossings (in cloth stitch), and a single passive pair hanging on its lonesome.
Now, leave all the passives alone, and go back to your worker pair (which is on the right hand side). Use *that* worker pair to cloth stitch through all passives to the left, make the edge stitch with the edge/worker-in-waiting pair, leave both pairs alone.
Start making the cloth stitch crossings, again beginning with the two passive pairs closest to the just completed edge stitch, working left to right. You will again have 5 crossings and one single pair but the single one will no longer be on the left; it'll be on the right.
The single pair is always the farthest one from the just completed edge stitch. And it is always the one towards which your workers cloth stitch, and the last one before the next edge stitch.
Note: Because the passive pairs do their "dancing" in every row, Basketweave is a very dense braid; it's hard to tension and doesn't show well, if made on a pattern with the same pin spacing as other braids. For Basketweave, the pins need to be spaced farther apart than usual! If you compare it to the Archways on the previous page, you might notice that, although both braids have the same number of pairs and are the same width, the pins in Arachway are spaced at 2mm while those in Basketweave at 2.5mm. When I first started learning Milanese, I practiced all my braids on the same strip, and Basketweave looked *horrid* :(
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