On Oct 20, 2004, at 0:16, palmhaven (Sylvia) wrote:
I prefer the horseshoe over the ring, because if you don't put the ring on
at the beginning you have to put your bobbins through the ring.
I almost added the same warning to my message... :)
I don't use either "gizmo" (made myself a heavy, hole-in-the-middle work cloth, with a thickly-padded inner ring instead), and while I have the Green Horseshoe one, I've never even seen the "ring-thing" one.
But then... I thought back on the descriptions of the "ring-thing" provided by those who had seen it, and it dawned on me that, indeed, it could be better than the horsehoe. If there are two - different size - "rings" provided in a packet, and if both can be combined to make a - still larger - single ring, that has to mean that neither of the rings is a *permanent* ring. Each has to have the ability to be straightened out into a "line" before being closed into a ring...
If so, then all one has to do is slide the "line" under all the bobbins *before* closing the circle. You don't have to thread the bobbins one-by-one, or even pair-by pair, into a rigidly defined circle, bcause there *is no* rigidly defined circle. OTOH, a tube circle, made up of sections and joins would allow for indefinite expansion (and, as a colateral, for an indefinite number of bobbins to be "confined in comfort") while the capacity of a horsehoe contraption is definitely limited...
I still prefer my work-cloth though; one less contraption on my pillow to keep track of :)
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