Hi Julie
Not sure how big your "extra large" pins are, but have you tried using
the berry-headed ones - with thick-ish thread (eg no. 40 linen - your
scarf yarn is probably a lot thicker than that) I use those for picots
where I am putting a lot of twists round the pin, makes a nice big picot
and the pin can take really firm tugging to tension the thread so the
picot sits nicely.
You need big, strong pins for your thick scarf yarn otherwise they will
bend when you need to tension the yarn firmly...
Beth
In Cheshire, NW England
On 28/10/15 16:07, [email protected] wrote:
I wonder if I should use one twist when putting the weaver around the
pin instead of two twists? Holly sold me some extra large pins, but she
still seemed dubious about their size. I don't know why she is dubious;
I don't know what happens if torchon pins are too small. But I wonder
whether the reason the thread feels resistant going around the weaver
pin is not that the pricking is small but rather that the pins are so
small that it hard to fit two twists inwhen circling around the pin.
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