Hello All! Today I wanted to share some tidbits about my adventures making Schneeberger lace, once again proving how little I know & how grateful I am for the help I receive! My lace group is working to complete a group project (a lace seascape) & my contribution was to Sashiko quilt the batik background & to make several versions of Lia's wave-like edging. It is week #45 & posted on Gon's site, I think perhaps 2015 or 2014. I started working on this over the winter & quickly found I had forgotten how to start the strip. My notes from a previous Schneeberger workshop with Susanne Sardella were in another state so I contacted her. Susanne very kindly sent her notes via email & suggested that I purchase or borrow a copy of Lia's book. Unfortunately, it is OOP but I was able to find a copy in the IOLI library. Fast forward, between Susanne's notes & Lia's book, I have made a variety of wave strips at this point. Mercifully, the last one looks better (to my eye) than th! e previous ones! Along the way, the Schneeberg join, where the worker pair exchanges with the left plait pair, was difficult for me to control. It looked wonky to me until I changed the way I made that stitch. My solution was to work the workers to the next pinhole, plait the pairs to the same pinhole, place the pin & simply loop the workers around the pin to meet the plait pair before making the stitch, finally tensioning. Why this works for me, I can't answer but there was definitely an improvement in my ability to tension the join by placing the pin before making that stitch. For me, this a "lacemaker's choice" technique because I'm sure it's not something the experts would advocate. I wanted to share, in case it helps someone else struggling to create a nice edge on the plait side. I posted a photo to Flickr showing my progress from the not-so-good red sample to my last effort on the top. It certainly proves the value of working a pattern more than one or two ti! mes! Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA
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