Hi Lyn, I don't quite understand your problem - are you working 4 pairs at a time? When you are doing the ground stitch, are arranging your 4 pairs, double stitching in the middle, half stitching on one side, half stitching on the other, pin, double in the middle?
Or is it in the cloth stitch areas where you are having trouble? When you are doing inputs? Or is it when you are taking two pair out of the cloth stitch areas? Sally Farmington New Mexico ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyn Bailey" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:32:31 AM Subject: [lace] Tensioning Flanders I���ve been making Flanders, using Barbara Corbet���s book, which I highly recommend, satisfied customer, etc., since last September. I have now bitten off more than I can reasonably chew by tackling # XI in Kumiko Nakazaki���s first volume of Flanders lace patterns. Tensioning increases is relatively straightforward. Wait until you have a thread going from a pin to a pin, and then tension the purely verticals as always, and those pairs which make a turn carefully. My problem now is tensioning decreases. Very often, in fact most of the time, there is no pair that goes from pin to pin. Waiting to tension gets a bit difficult, as the ring pair is clearly designed to lock in the tension and position of the cloth stitch pairs, so waiting beyond that would end up counter productive. Yet there���s got to be a way. Any ideas? Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where my antique roses can be smelled a hundred feet away, and it���s just beginning. - 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 - 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
