Helen wrote:

lace?  hmmmm

Apart from moving my pillow from one place where it's in the way to 
another, I haven't touched it since Christmas time!  I've been so 
busy this year with university stuff and kayaking that I haven't 
found the time to sit at my pillow at all :-/  It doesn't help that 
the pattern that's on there (a small Beds round thing) is almost 
finished and all I've got to do is end it all off, which I absolutely
hate! :o)

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My goodness Helen,

The only thing that caught my eye in your last sentence was "end it
all".   I'm awake now!  LOL!!!  I know what you mean, about ending Beds,
and Torchon, too, for that matter.  I entirely skipped Beds and Torchon
as a newbie because I couldn't make a clean ending.  I hate those lumps
and bumps.  Now that I know how to end properly, it isn't such a chore.


I subscribe to Ulrike's methods.  See her "Beginning of the End".  The
number one technique is to not make loops as if to make a sewing.  You
have to make a loop to make a sewing because you have to keep going.
But at the end, make sure the pair you are tying off has the right
number of twists, take the left thread and wind off a long enough thread
to comfortably tie knots with.  Now cut the left thread.  Instead of
taking a loop, just bring the end of the left thread through the
pinhole, tie a knot and repeat with the next pinhole.

Patty Dowden

Santa Clara, California.  Lucky me, my home and my office are in the
same postal code.  In a place where lots of people commute for longer
than an hour each way, I am 5 minutes from work.

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