On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:15, Carol Adkinson wrote:
the tutor also told me that, when the leaves are
done 'in hand' it is more difficult to keep to a symmetrical shape, as
one
tends to favour one side, so the leaves turn out fatter on one side.
I
didn't try the method for long enough to find out, as I went for the
'pillow' method - but I do wonder how true that is!
I never made any leaf tallies "in hand" (at least, not any
_successfull_ ones <g>), so can't say about those. But, when I first
started teaching myself, I used -- I think -- the method that Clay
described: tension the worker, upwards, once, afer a full pass (back
and forth). And, even though my tallies were made "on the pillow", the
bulge was definitely there. When I switched to the "TTC tension, TTC
tension" method (ie tension the worker, upwards, at both sides and in
the middle), the bulge was reduced somewhat, but I can still detect it.
Needless to say, my tallies -- like my political views -- bulge towards
the left :)
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Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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