I just finished my third or fourth Flanders exercise without support pins and I am not really happy with the cloth areas. I also remember years ago Ulrike Voelker being very emphatic about using support pins in Mechlin cloth.
But I don't understand how I am supposed to put pins in that aren't marked on the pricking. I have a terrible eye at any sort of freehand thing in the best of conditions and making lace is not the best of conditions. I love prepricking. It is very relaxing not to worry about making sure my lines are straight. I don't understand why support pins aren't marked on the pricking and prepricked. It doesn't sound at all fun to me to put pins in freehand. I don't understand why Voelker thinks it is no problem. SInce I didn't want to use pins that aren't in the pricking I thought I would attempt Flanders without support pins and hope that tensioning gets easier with practice. So far my tensioning is bad and I am irritated. I mention Flanders even though the subject line says Binche because I believe Binche/Flanders/Mechlin all do cloth stitch in the same way, a very different way from Point Ground/Torchon. Cloth stitch that changes its weaver after every row versus cloth stitch that keeps the same weaver throughout. Julie Shalack Laurel, MD, USA - 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/
