Here's my reply to Lyn - I forgot to add arachne to the address line this morning....
Ok, it's when you are taking pairs out of the cloth stitch areas and the two pairs join the ground stitch areas? When you take two pairs out of the cloth stitch areas, 1. you take the worker out through the gimp if there is one and through the ring in double stitch. 2. Then you go back and cloth stitch the two pair right next to the gimp, take the left hand pair (assuming the gimp is on the left side of the cloth st area), and take it out through the gimp and ring to join the old worker pair. 3. The pair that's left in the cloth stitch area, the pair on the right is now the new worker pair. That's usually where trouble with tensioning occurs. I use a temporary, unmarked pin to solve that problem. I put it inbetween the two pairs next to the gimp before I do that cloth stitch between them in step 2. Place it so the two passive pairs are not displaced and the previous pass of the worker is not displaced either. This is not the only solution...it's the one I use. The tiny holes left behind bother some people. The more complex the design the less noticeable the holes are. I have some Flanders I made 15 years ago and the little holes have disappeared. Sometimes when I'm fussy, I take the temp pin out an inch or so of cloth stitch later and then I tension very carefully, but it's still possible to pull things out of shape at that point. Sally ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 9:09:26 AM Subject: Re: [lace] Tensioning Flanders 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. > >- >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 "My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." - 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
