On Aug 10, 2004, at 15:08, Helen Bell wrote:
It sounds like you're making a picot
Nope; she's not; this is a 5-pair pattern, "baby" in more ways than one :) What she has is, more or less, an equivalent of a winkie-pin edge. It's just that there's right much distance to cover between that pin and the next, so the pair is twisted 5 times (rather than the customary 1-3 times).
On Aug 10, 2004, at 18:05, Eileen Lee wrote:
As I am also working through the Southard book, I found Tamara's reply to this question helpful.
This leads me to ask, are there any other errors or omissions in the book?
A bit depends on the edition you have. The original edition, apparently, had quite a few. Mine, which is the Dover paperback one (green cover) is almost "cleaned up"; very few errors remain. But still too much for me to type them all out right now. Much better, if you get to a particular pattern and wonder, write me, and I'll check then if it's "clean" or not (and, if not, will tell you what should be there). OK? Though, if you'll be having lessons at The Lace Museum (congratulations, BTW!), your teacher ought to be able to "straighten you out".
On Aug 10, 2004, at 7:14, Lydia Mae wrote:
[...] it is weird to me to go AROUND the pin.� I wasn't sure if the meant to go ALL the way around the pin.�
That's what tripped Helen into thinking it might be a picot; *there*, your thread/threads *do* go all the way around, forming a *closed* circle... But here, if you look at the photo of the finished lace, there's no circle - only an arc. Which "stands" with one leg on the "WT 4-5", before the pin, and the other leg on the "WT" after the pin. The pin only holds it open at the top, making sure that all the arcs have something to tension against, and so are the same size.
The thread is coming around pin #3...so I guess I wrap it 360 degrees around the pin?
Not *quite*; more like 270. 360 would get you back where you'd started; here, about a quarter of that pie is missing... :) In a more regular situation, where a worker is actually weaving through a pair or two before being pinned and returning, the "wrap" is closer, but still not 360; the worker goes above the pin and comes back below - the pin's thickness takes a few degrees off the perfect circle.
If you've done lesson 2 (Brussels Edging)... The pair (worker) traversing, through two (or more) pairs (passives) in a zig-zag, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, etc... Is, essentially, doing the same thing as the one in Baby Heather :) It jut *looks* different, because the blocks "WT 3-4, #1, WT" keep the arc spread wide open...
Sorry, Lydia, to be answering a private question in public, but I'm really pressed for time, so it seemed reasonable to squish all messages regarding Southard's book into one response...
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