I've virtually always ended up with the main angle of work top right to bottom left, whichever side the footside was on [...] Has anyone noticed this, or is it just me being awkward? Can it make a difference to tensioning, or anything else that might matter?
My first 5-metre piece was Torchon, and during the deadly boredom of the last 1.5 metres I amused myself by working the pattern in different sequences to see if it made any difference to the lace. I was quite surprised to see that it did.
The changes were probably only enough for me, and no-one else, to notice, but they were definite. From that learning experience I would say that if you're making a type of lace (like Torchon) in which the lace's regularity is part of its beauty, then whichever way you make a pattern, try to make it the same way with each repeat, working the same amount of each element in the same order.
I used to just work in whatever direction I fancied, often switching back and forth from a 'top right to bottom left' angle to a 'top left to bottom right angle', throwing in the odd 'straight across' just for fun. Now I usually work Old Flanders or sometimes Binche, so I'm just happy to have deciphered the pattern, but if I do a Tonder or Torchon piece for any reason, I do make an effort to follow my own advice and do it the same way each time.
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