I have a question over people's sewing out habits. I am mostly finished with
Claudine Beuvain's Carton Cle de Sol (musical clef) and have used the tactic
of sewing out from one patch of ground, across my torchon outline and re-sew
in to use the thread in the other type of ground. Is bad technique just to
save thread and the hassle of sewing back through my piece? I thought that as
its behind the piece it shouldn't show too much. Does anyone else use this
approach or is it a better practice to sew out and restart afresh?
Intrigued in soggy Ireland
Rhiannon
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Dear Rhiannon,
It's lacer's choice! If you are happy with the result, go for
it! And you have a lot of lace history on your side. One of the
classic identification clues between Flemish and Milanese tape lace
is that the Flemish lacers worked the ground the way you did and the
Italians generally did not.
Patty
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