Make a separate piece, about 1.5 motifs long, undo the join you just made, and patch it in. You will have 2 finished joins instead of just one, but otherwise it will be easier to make it look nice than trying to work in the threads you’ve already cut off.
Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > On Feb 13, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Rick & Sharon Whiteley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Remember the problem picots? I’ve spent hours pinning it all out, the lace > looks beautiful. I’m on the final couple of inches and disaster has struck. > I had wrongly assumed that the pricking was of a quarter of the edging. It > wasn’t. I am a whole motif short on one side ..and that after having made > an almost invisible join. The way I see it I have two options, neither is > going to be perfect. One is to try and stretch the short side out as far I > can and shrink the long side ..about an inch and a quarter. The other, which > I’m horrified even thinking about given my almost perfect join, is to unpick > about three inches, join in new threads, and lace in the missing length ..that > could take days. I feel absolutely sick because I have to say I had done a > darn good job up until now. What would you do? Any opinions would be > gratefully accepted. Sharon on dark, soggy Vancouver Island (matches my > current mood) - 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/
