My question however is as a left hander, I want the worker bobbin to be in the left hand and that affects how I tension. I have used the #3 bobbin as the weaver instead of the #2 bobbin - is this ok? Should I try to turn right handed at this stage in my life?
Whatever works ;) I don't carry the worker/weaver bobbin in the same hand. It is passed back and forth from hand to hand, or rather sent back and forth, I work palms down and after making many many leaves (not at all once - just many, over the years) my fingers have developed their own shorthand. I use all the fingers at one point or another in a kind of pressing-away movement. I saw that on Christine Springett's video. I decided that it would be helpful to know how to make a leaf starting with any of the 4 bobbins, so for a while I was starting with #1 as the weaver, then #2, and so on, to see if it made any difference. Not really :) One thing to try if your leaves aren't as nice as you'd like if you are working on a cookie pillow - shorten the tethers to just 3 or 4 inches, and the weaver/worker somewhat longer. There bobbins can be tensioned quite wide apart, and because the tethers are short, there is more control. HTH ;) -- Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) blogging lace and a few leaves at www.looonglace.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
