Thanks for sharing your experience, Tania. To sooth sore fingers, and with the widely spaced pins in your pattern, you could use the glass-topped pins sold for sewing silk. Clover is one brand, the pins are sometimes sold in multicolours, all white or all red, etc. These pins are fine enough for lacemaking, and easier on the fingertips. If the lace I'm making is too fine for these pins, and the slender stainless steel pins are giving me grief, I end up placing the pins by grasping what I can of the shank and easing them into place (in other words avoiding poking the tip). I have tried adhesive pads on the fingertips, which hinder more than they help.
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