Dear All One further thought on prickings: I am working on/working out a fairly complex Beds pattern, and am at present on version 3.  I have pricked out, from the paper draft, the pinholes for the pattern features and trails, and foot and headside, but on Mrs Underwood's advice, just marked where the veins in the leaf and plaits would go, pricking the holes for the veins and picots on the plaits, as needed and where needed.  This allows some scope for moving plaits slightly to start or finish in a more convenient place, and again, how a leaf is attacked will affect where the vein's pinholes go; there she said to treat an old pricking's pinholes as suggestions, not orders.  This works best, I should think, on traditional card with permanent ink markings and no covering film.  Using permanent ink means a bottle of white typing correction fluid finds a place in my work box... I think this is similar to the Honiton approach, where of course thick card pre-pricked is traditional, to allow the use of a straight needlepin for sewings: the  fillings are often pricked in on the pillow when the surrounding work is completed, to allow the holes to be shifted slightly for ease of working. I think it depends on whether you make lace like a train, following the tracks, a trolley bus, with some scope for deviation, or a car, with the freedom of the road!  I sometimes imitate the (UK, not Dutch) bicycle - ignore the one way street signs, traffic lights, and use the pavements if it suits!
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