I have seen some of the patterns with the false picots only marked which of
course seem to be used at the beginning of a pattern to get the pairs into
the working, but the book I have on my chair at the moment doesn't show any
picots on the pattern itself, just all the picots along the headside of the
working diagram shown with the small circle.
I believe I might have to go back to my days of drawing in pencil following
threads out of the pattern like a road map and see what I come up with. But
once I understand it properly I want to see if I can draw it onto my design
program. I just love to see them ready to print out and looking right. It
just amazes me still the difference from my days of drawing in pencil or pen
dots and lines.
Well I better get back to my dishes.
Sue
Sue <[email protected]> writes
I had one of Elwyn Kenns books to hand and just looked at the last pattern
and of course but looking
through the book I see the working diagrams with the small circles as
mentioned by another arachnean.
From: "Jane Partridge" Ah, click! The picots marked with small circles are
false picots, where you are bringing two pairs into the lace as a picot,
rather than those that occur along the headside and as you say, are not
marked because they are always picots.
I think it is only by experience that you begin to understand why these
are placed as they are, though studying a number of patterns will help
you - with a false picot, you are bringing two pairs in each time - if
they were similar pins in a torchon pattern you would only be bringing one
pair in. There are a number of books with very good diagrams that show how
this works in practice, but the hurdle you are trying to overcome is the
leap from following a pattern and its working diagram to understanding why
the threads need to go a certain way.
Jane Partridge
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