My ninepin edge on a little Beds medallion is getting twisted... I.e. all of the ends sticking out are rotating in the same direction.
Hi Weronika,
I know exactly what you're talking about. Mine did the same thing when I was first learning Bedfordshire lace, but it didn't last long. Though I'm not sure exactly what I did to stop the picots from twisting around. I just had all my Bedfordshire lace out for a class and the picots stopped twisting around after only two pieces. I have a huge pile of Beds, I just really enjoy making it and it goes fast if you can learn to deal with winding lots of bobbins. I've made wide collars in a month working lace only an hour or two a day at most.
Anyway, I think that eventually I learned to do the plaits and picots of the ninepin edges keeping the bobbins always laying straight down from whichever picot I last worked. That means turning the pillow dramatically and having room in all directions. Also, I'm very careful to plait down until the picot pinhole is just showing. Not beyond it, and not too far above it.
I know that now I make a whole section of ninepin edge as soon as I have the bobbins available, work back to the trail again, put in a pin, temporary plait, and then set the bobbins aside to work elsewhere. I do the same with pointed and square tallies. I work them early on, as soon as I have the bobbins available, put in a pin and temporary plait around it until the tallies are secure.
I have found that the temporary plaits don't use up a lot of time doing and undoing, and being able to make tallies while there's room improves the quality of the tallies so much. And the time spent on a few temporary plaits means I'm able to put the tally bobbins on a bobbin holder and can literally toss them well back onto the pile of other bobbins waiting to be used. That gives me a lot more room to see what I'm currently working on, and that saves really a lot of time.
Sally Schoenberg Anchorage Alaska
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My ninepin edge on a little Beds medallion is getting twisted... I.e. all of the ends sticking out are rotating in the same direction. Is that a common problem? Will it go away if I iron it or something?
Weronika
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