Ruth wrote: <I'm really "into" Bucks - and frankly, I don't mark the picots at all. Probably because, unless the pattern is an insertion, the picots are always there - this is how the outside row of pinholes on the headside is always worked.>
But if you're not sure of what you're doing in Bucks, as I'm not, then you need all the help you can get from the pricking. I need to have absolutely everything marked, such as a reminder of the picots, which threads along the headside come out and go in for a scalloped edge and the thread paths for honeycomb rings. So I not only draw an enlarged thread path diagram, but also mark some of them on the pricking itself just to make sure I do what I'm supposed to do where I'm supposed to do it. I can almost do torchon with my eyes closed, but it will be a very long time before I can do that with other laces. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
