Dear Sally, et al,
Sorry for not being more clear. It's in the cloth stitch areas where
there are decreases that the problem lies. Ground stitch is no problem, it's
CTCT all 4 times, and that locks in anything. Since ring pairs and what I call
pseudo ring pairs at the bottom of a cloth stitch area are always CTCT, it
means tensioning need to be done before really leaving the cloth stitch area.
I was SURE I'd done that message in plain text.
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where I hope the wash dries before the
rain comes.
-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>Sent: May 9, 2012 10:56 AM
>To: Lyn Bailey <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [lace] Tensioning Flanders
>
>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.
>
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