Hi Ann, I am just a tid puzzled. I can see that you could have different size pinholes either edge depending on how you work, but I don't see how the holes can be *too small*. The threads should be lying snugly round the pin, with the worker making a loop and the passive a straight line on the inside of the pin, so a D on the right and the base of a d on the left.
As I don't see how you can make the loop smaller than the pin, from your description it sounds to me as if the holes on the left are the ones that are correct, and the ones on the right are too big. If the ones on the left look too small to you, are you using the right size pins for the thickness of your thread? Make sure that the twists on the workers are evenly placed, not both one side or other of the pin. Separate the bobbins to move the twists back if needed, or I have seen it recommended that you twist once, pin then twist again, but this will only help if you make sure that the first twist moves back close to the work. Usually the problem is that the twists sit where they fancy until the next stitch nudges up to them at which point they shuffle back a bit, but don't actually retreat round the pin quite enough. This will apply whether you put them on one a time or both together :-) If you opt for a bigger pin but want very tidy loops, do an extra twist so the twists fill the size of the loop. Experiment to get this right for your thread/pin combination. The most likely cause of uneven size holes that I can think of is that when you pull up after the stitch you aren't pulling in exactly the same direction on each side. You should tension the workers horizontally in the direction they are going, and the edge passives vertically and against the pin you have just placed. However if you do this at even slightly different angles each side, this can affect the way the threads lie. I do place the pin with different hands each side, but the other way round to Leonard's post. I use my left hand on the right to pin with, because my right hand on the right is holding the worker out the way to pin up under it, and vice versa. My spare hand reaches for the pin as the active hand is twisting and lifting the worker. However, so long as the angle of the pin is consistently out a little and back a little, and the same each side, I don't think the hand placing it should make a difference, but anything is worth taking into account. Jacquie in Lincolshire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
