What Bev said. I have heard (and call it myself) a ricochet crossing, as the pairs essentially hit and bounce off each other rather than pass through as in the windmill. I use the C-T-T-C *all* the time in plaited lace, as I tend to do the Renaissance age plaited laces.
Chris, aka Kyrstyan - waiting anxiously for the tomatoes to finish ripening before something eats them!! > > Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:33:16 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jennifer McNitt <[email protected]> > Subject: [lace] windmill crossing /w 2 colors question > > I'm working through a plaited lace pattern where I'm attempting two use two > colors as a part of the design. For this part of the design, I'm using 4 > bobbins of one color and 4 of another and I'm using standard windmill > crossings at intersections. What I'm finding though is that after the 4 > pairs > go through the crossing, where the two colors end up is not always where I > would like them to be. There are times though where I would like the > colors > end up on the other side of where they normally would be after the > crossing. > Is there a way to force a flip of the colors that you would get from a > standard windmill? Let me know if you need additional clarification. > Thanks! > > Jen > > - - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:35:53 -0700 > From: bev walker <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [lace] windmill crossing /w 2 colors question > > It sounds like you will have to fudge the pairs into the direction you > want. There is turn stitch, C, T, T, C which with two pairs of > different colours connects the pairs but they do not change places. > That might be suitable to do instead of the windmill crossing, if you > treat each pair of bobbins as a single bobbin. Put a pin between the > two twists of the CTTC if it helps with tension. > > On 9/10/11, Jennifer McNitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there a way to force a flip of the colors that you would get from a > > standard windmill? > > > - -- > 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://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:17:18 +0100 > From: "Jean Nathan" <[email protected]> > Subject: [lace] Thread conundrum > > Peg wrote: > > <Could someone please > point me to a chart of how threads compare? I had a chart > at one time, but > it has disappeared.> > > The best thread chart is the book produced by our own Brenda Paternoster, > available direct from her: > > Threads for Lace, Edition 5 by Brenda Paternoster > > http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/threads/threads.html > > or from Holly Van Sciver in the US: > > http://www.vansciverbobbinlace.com/1Books.html#BobbinLaceManuals > > Brenda adds appendices to each edition on her web page as new threads come > to light. > > Personally I couldn't manage without it. A good example occurred recently > when I was going to demonstrated and decided on a simple piece - a torchon > purse pendant from Susane Thompson's book of the same name. Hadn't got the > thread stated in the pattern, so looked it up in the book and routed around > in my stash until I found an equivalent. Without the book I'd have been > stumped because it was quite a thick thread by lacemaking standards. > > Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK > > - - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 > > ------------------------------ > > End of lace-digest V2010 #445 > ***************************** > > -- Always proactively untwist octagonal hippopotomus pants. Ozy & Millie http://www.ozyandmillie.net/2000/om20000809.html - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
