Dear Karisse, Clay and others,
Since you're working with Midlands bobbins, you're in luck! The easiest
way to keep your pillow tidy is to go out to your nearest craft or knitting
shop and buy a bunch of stitch holders
There's an even better way which works in a similar fashion. Got to your
Hi everyon
I have had trouble with the lace lifting, but not the pattern lifting
except when placing a flat card on a curved (i.e. cookie) pillow top -
there are a couple of things I usually do, might be worth considering:
I use a workcloth with a hole cut in the middle, to place the bobbins
Hi David -
I'm assuming, when you say plastic, that you're talking about a wire hanger
that is encased in plastic?
Clay
Clay Blackwell
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From: David Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There's an even better way which works in a similar fashion. Got to your
At 08:44 AM 7/22/2004, you wrote:
. As I
have worked down the pattern the card stock worked up off the pillow but the
lace itself did not work up the pins. I slanted the edge pins to the side
and back so the lace was held tight against the pricking and did not move up
the pins. But the pricking
At 1:05 AM +0100 7/23/04, Jane Partridge wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karisse Moore
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But the pricking card itself moved up the pins.
This actually is the problem of having so many pins close to each other
- in Torchon, where the pins are more widely spaced, the
I seem to have a different problem, that of the lace moving up the
pins when I do Bucks point. My pricking stays flat (working on a 24
cookie pillow currently), but the lace has lifted maybe 4-5
millimeters (a bit less than 1/4 inch) off the surface of the
pricking. I do place the edge pins
My dear friends I am so glad you are there to correct and inform. I am
working on a rectangle bucks point pattern that is about 4X6 inches. I have
it on a relatively flat cookie pillow. I didn't have any wrinkles in the
pattern to pin out on the edges when I put the pattern on the pillow. As I
Have you pinned down the pricking? When I pin down the corners (and longer
sides, if necessary), the pattern can't ride up because the pins are holding
it down. They're pushed all the way down flush with the pillow, so the
threads won't catch on them.
Robin P.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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From: Karisse Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 7/22/2004 11:45:12 AM
Subject: [lace] Pattern lifting
My dear friends I am so glad you are there to correct and inform. I am
working on a rectangle bucks point pattern that is about 4X6 inches. I
have
Schoenberg
Anchorage Alaska
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From: Panza, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Arachne (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:56 AM
Subject: RE: [lace] Pattern lifting
Have you pinned down the pricking? When I pin down the corners (and
longer
sides
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:38:08 -0400, Clay wrote:
I've not worked with 300 bobbins at a time, but I can tell you how to tame
your bobbins when you have more than can be accomodated at one time on your
pillow...
Since you're working with Midlands bobbins, you're in luck! The easiest
way to keep
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karisse Moore
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But the pricking card itself moved up the pins.
This actually is the problem of having so many pins close to each other
- in Torchon, where the pins are more widely spaced, the problem is one
of the lace rising up the pins. With
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