I am working a bucks point strip for my garter piece, headside with picots
and footside with the worker left on the outer edge. I like the way it is
looking, and I have been using an extra twist in that pair, but it still
doesn't stay straight. As it is a long piece which will be gathered that
doesn't matter, but does that mean I am pulling the tension too tight? I
used to do just 3 twists on each of the two pairs, but read in one of the
books about the extra twist and have been doing that.
I managed a scan of two of the pattern repeats and am happy with the look,
but as I broke a thread after coming through a gimp, I have begun to be
gentle with it:-(
Sue T, Dorset UK
I was taught that an extra twist on whichever pair was at the foot edge
would counteract the tendency for PG lace to curve.
I wasn't *taught* that -- I seem to have spent half of my lacemaking life
re-inventing the wheel -- but I was happy to see my instincts confirmed
by, I think, Skovgaard. If I make a piece of PG lace which is built on a
circular grid, I don't add that extra twist at the footside; I welcome the
in-curving. But, if the piece is to be straight, I do add a twist to the
inner "worker-in-waiting" and to both inner and outer "resting" workers
for an insertion -- otherwise, the main work tends to bulge a bit.
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