I agree that you cannot always leave the pins in if working a narrow edging on a roller pillow. For that reason, I changed to a block pillow. But I do think that thread sets in its position in lace. If you come to your lace one morning, and find that you made a mistake the previous day, and take it back to that mistake, you will find that the threads have developed a kink round the pins, and have "set" into that place. They will soon take up their new position, however.
Whether the appearance of the lace is improved by the pins being left in for 24 hours, or not, I do not know. But it can do no harm, when it is possible. When knitting has to be undone, and the yarn used for something else, it must be skeined, damped and hung up, weighted to straighten out the kinks resulting from thevpreviousvknitted stitches. Kathleen Sent from my iPad > On 18 Jul 2015, at 14:01, Malvary Cole <malva...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > Kathleen wrote ........The pin question isn't the sort of thing that is > taught - except that I was told always to leave pins in for 24 hours, to > allow the thread to"set" in place. > > I would make a couple of points - this is a question which crops up from time > to time and usually generates lots of response. > > First of all if working on a length of lace on a roller pillow (and less so > on a block pillow depending on the size of both the block and the lace), pins > do not stay in the lace for 24 hours, probably an hour or two if you are > sitting at a long session of lacemaking. Pins get taken from the back and > put in at the front. > > Secondly - lace isn't jelly, it doesn't need to set. > > Thirdly - I agree that if I'm making a bookmark or motif I leave the pairs in > round the edges - lace does shrink back a bit when the pins are taken out, so > it makes more sense to take out the edges at the same time. > > Malvary in Ottawa, Canada where we have heat warnings for the weekend - high > temperatures, but even higher humidity. > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
