Alice wrote: <Someone commented that they were shown 8 different ways to make a tally. I have seen several, though not eight.>
I think I have seen and tried 4 methods. Anny Noben Slieger showed me this method in 2008 of holding the two bobbins, but I found that when working on my Binche, I was in a very cramped area working long tallies and had trouble holding onto the bobbins, so I reverted back to the Springett way of holding the 3 passives on the pillow and weaving with a longer worker. I used to do them the Cook Russian method, holding 3 bobbins between my fingers and weaving with the other bobbin. This worked well until I learnt the Springett way. I did try doing the ttc method on the pillow but always lost my worker and ended up with a plait :-) I guess there must be a method holding them fingers up on a bolster pillow but have not seen that demonstrated. I wonder what the other 3 tally methods are unless they are referring to squares, rolled, long, crescent or tallies with picots, in which case there are even more than 8. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
