Thanks for that fresh perspective!!
When I first started knitting, (back in the dark ages...), everything
was written out. Granted, a short form had been adopted, so that K
stood for knit and P stood for purl... but it was always written out.
Then... drum roll... I discovered lace! And so for years, my knitting
(or what was left of it) sat idle in an out-of-the way place. When I
re-discovered it a few years ago, the earth had rotated many degrees,
and charts had come into play!!! I took to them like a duck to water!!!
Which is why now... I have a hard time plodding through the written out
instructions of old lacemaker's patterns like these. Thank goodness for
diagrams and charts!!!
I guess this just proves that I'm a newbie after all!
Clay
On 3/3/2011 7:43 PM, Helen Bell wrote:
I have a few old torchon patterns that are numbered (probably from princess
pillows at some point in time?) and one is for a piece that's about 6" wide
that I've always wanted to try. I think it has about 800 pinholes in one
repeat :-)
The numbering can be quite handy at first when starting the pattern, until
you get into the flow of the piece - especially if you haven't done torchon
for a while and are coming back to it for a change :-)
Cheers,
Helen, soggy Duvall, WA
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