Hello Susan and everyone Another option for keeping the outgoing weaver pair under tension: make a short, temporary plait with it and a nearby passive. Undo the plait when the pair is needed in its new role as a passive. My preference to that or a temp. pin is to swing the outgoing pair at right angles to the new weaver, tensioning with the next two pairs, the new weaver and its first passive. As Adele mentioned, the threads will tension all in place even without temporary pins. Whatever works, of course!
Definitely practice by doing more Binche! The more familiar you are with it, the easier to manage. Confidence building. My aim was to become somewhat free of the diagram in that I didn't have to keep a mark-up copy. So far so good on the latest project. All the same I'm a fan of the removable arrow stickies for keeping track :) And here is a bobbin minder "hack" - I ran out of sticks-and-elastic on this latest project; I'd seen neat wooden tray-type bobbin holders before, made by the lacemaker who was using them. What would I have on hand instead...I put a wide-ish elastic band around an empty CD jewel-box, and that worked fine. The thin style are best. I make use of cover cloths too, layering small groups of bobbins between cloth instead of using bobbin holders. Risky if using too many bobbins though in case of tangles. HTH in some way lace on Bev On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:13 AM Susan <[email protected]> wrote: > Still wrestling with bobbin management so Iâve ordered more tamers. -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - 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/
