Hello Fellow Spiders, Akiko from Japan gave me my first bobbin holders - she cuts old pantyhose/tights/stockings(or whatever else you may call them) into 6mm wide strips and uses the "yarn" created in this manner. Her tension is a little looser than mine, so the ones she has given me are better than the ones I made for myself and my earliest ones were a little lumpy before I got better at cutting the stockings into a uniform width strip. They are perfect for Belgian style bobbins (and a great way to use up the coloured stockings that were trendy in the seventies when I was several sizes smaller than now) As an added nicety, after the foundation chain, the trebles/ double crochet / half trebles (whatever "long" stitch you are using) are done into the BACK of the foundation chain so the strips look the same from both sides and don't have a "front" and "back". Commercial knitting nylon is 20mm wide, sheds from its cut edges and is not as elastic.
Christine J (Sydney, Australia) - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
