On Jan 9, 2006, at 21:15, Clay Blackwell wrote:
Wel l l l.... the thing with Honiton is that it is not a continuous
lace!
It does not HAVE a headside or a footside. Or am I missing something
here?
Probably only my "severe lack of geometrical imaginaton" <g>
For me, continuous and not makes no difference at all... If there's a
"bulge" on one side (with either picots or turn-around-the-pin) and a
"straight line" (sewing edge or turn- around-the- pin) on the other
side, the first one, automatically, becomes "headside" and the second
"footside" in my two-cell, geometrically-impaired mind.... Since that's
a situation which can be found in Honiton (petals on the outside, a
neat and orderly ribbon on the inside of a flower), to me the direction
of work (and, consequently, the side of foot/head) enters the equation
the moment I look at the pattern.
The same's true of Russian Tape lace, which -- theoretically -- ought
to be very easy to turn around and work whichever way one feels most
comfortable with. And it is, _as long as_ there are no pesky arrows
which tell you where to start and how to move through the pattern :)
The moment there are arrows, I'm lost, if they move in the wrong
direction...
Alice wrote:
One way to practice doing headside/footside on both
sides is to make bookmarks with the same edging on
both sides. Thus, you can practice edges, picots,
turn stitches, pin under 4, or whatever type of stitch
both to the right and the left.
I have very little trouble working, say, a bookmark which has "bulges"
(headsides) on both sides or one that's, essentially, an insertion.
True, my picots come out a tad better when made on the right than when
made on the left, but it's not an overwhelming difficulty to work both
sides the same. The difficulty is in working two sides differently
_and_ swimming upstream as regards a diagram...
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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