In message 2f5a46be-db9a-4b79-8414-b57d8d6f8...@duckles.co.uk, Sue
Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk writes
Hello Ilske
Can I please ask. what is LS?? Whole Stitch WS and Half Stitch HS
I understand, but LS?? whole stitch with twists??
CT is half stitch, and I think everyone agrees on that
In a message dated 28/03/2010 09:46:42 GMT Daylight Time,
jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk writes:
CTCT is whole stitch (confused yet?), whole stitch twist, cloth stitch
twist - I haven't come across linen stitch twist.
And you most likely won't as linen stitch is the continental version of
When I first learned BL linen stitch and whole stitch were interchangeable.
CT was half stitch
CTC was linen stitch or cloth stitch or whole stitch
CTCT was double half stitch
Double half stitch made. sense, but whole stitch for CTC seemed most illogical.
When I started teaching I made sure I
Jacquie wrote:
As far as I know it is only the UK lacemakers who insist on using cloth
and
whole stitch as synonymous terms. Elsewhere there is a clear distinction
between cloth/linen stitch and whole stitch, which as it's name suggests
is
two half stitches - also very logical and surely
A reason for calling cloth stitch whole stitch could be derived from the
naming of plain weave fabric as whole cloth, to which, in bobbin lace, the
CTC is equivalent in appearance. Obscure?
I use the alpha code (CTC), not names, where possible.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Brenda Paternoster
Perhaps we could solve the problem by just calling the stitches:
cee tee or tee cee
cee tee cee
cee tee cee tee
etc.
Lorelei
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Perhaps we could solve the problem by just calling the stitches:
cee tee or tee cee
cee tee cee
cee tee cee tee
etc
Chaos all around, Brenda.
Think about Workers, Weavers, Walkers, Leaders and Runners -- All the same
thing!!! :)
I too, learned Whole stitch (for cloth stitch,) and double half stitch (for
cloth twist) when I started lace making.
Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz
lizl...@bigpond.com
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The *chaos stitch* was the topic of interest to a number of the ladies and I
was asked
to bring some questions to the 'arachne table'.
First now, am I correct in my recall, was the stitch thus - bringing the
worker across the passives like this:
HS,WS,HS and then on the return 'trip'
