I, too, found it impossible while using East Midlands bobbins. But I
could do it using Continental bobbins - they're just that much
thicker and easier to grab while your hand's contorted!
On 2 Jun 2008, at 17:45, Tess Parrish wrote:
Now for the hard part--which the lacemakers in Brioude can do without
a hitch: When you are ready to make the double twist on the right, you
turn your right hand over, still holding those outer bobbins firmly
between those outer fingers, pick up the right hand bobbin between
your second and third fingers and flip the double twist. What they do
in Brioude is to pick up that right bobbin with thumb and forefinger.
This is impossible, if you ask me, but they can do it. The left side,
for some reason, is much easier to do. It's that right hand that just
doesn't bend that far.
Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site:
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot
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