Janice wrote: > I have always wound the first yard or whatever measurement I am using onto one bobbin, then pulled off the next yard ot whatever from the spool, cutting it, and started winding up from the cut end onto another bobbin. I have never seen the point of winding it all onto one bobbin and then back again. <
When all you're using is a yard on each bobbin, there really isn't much point in winding it all onto the first bobbin and then pulling it off again to put on the second bobbin... a yard will usually stay reasonably tidy if you just pull it off the spool and cut it. But in the situations where you make long pieces of continuous lace and wanted 3 - 5 yards of thread on each bobbin, the system of winding in all onto the first bobbin and then moving half of it to the second keeps you from fighting the inevitable tangles in the thread that you'd get if you pulled off five yards in a heap. Another time that winding all of your thread on the first bobbin is when you're going to be working a lace which requires lots of take-ins and take-outs, AND your bobbin pairs pretty much stay together. You load the first bobbin and then wind only a bit onto the second bobbin. When the pair is thrown out, the scrap on the second bobbin is tossed away, and you reload the second bobbin from the full first. This keeps you from constantly having to rewind pairs. One obvious example of this is a pair of gimps which may constantly be brought in, used for a motif, and then thrown out. But the same principle applies to pairs of passives that are brought in and thrown out (Floral Bucks, Binche, to name two...) . Clay Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
