Organised yes but oh, so slow.  I wonder if this lacemaker uses all those divider pins when she's not doing a video for the benefit of an audience.  If you watch people working on a bolster pillow,  either held horizontally or vertically,  they don't fuss with a pin for every pair.  If you had lots of bobbins you couldn't do that anyway. Â
They pin bobbins out of the way in bundles, and lift/drop them down a few pairs at a time. Because half stitch is worked twist, cross,  it is quite quick to sort off the next group of bobbins needed as they are all hanging untwisted in more or less the right order. They get no more jumbled than when you have lots of pairs flat on a pillow.  The speed at which they are able to make the stitches more than outweighs the time spent sorting.  What they are strict with themselves about is to keep all the leashes the same length; this keeps the bobbins in order better and makes it much easier to move the bobbins around each other,  both when sorting and when working. Sent from Samsung tablet -------- Original message -------- >From Jill Hawkins <[email protected]> Date: 03/12/2013 11:13 (GMT+00:00) To 'lace Arachne' <[email protected]>,Agnes Boddington <[email protected]> Subject Re: [lace] organisation Thanks for sharing this Agnes. I looked at some other videos she has posted on youtube, and the lacemaker uses the same system in each of them to keep her bobbins organised. Very nice! It 'almost' makes me want to give the tombolo technique a go! Jill, in cloudy Milton Keynes, Bucks > On 29 November 2013 at 19:36 Agnes Boddington <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Talk about being organized on your lace pillow. Have a look at this lace > maker: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYJVgKyj470&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL22B > 1A50D49D0F648 - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
