The pattern for our Un-Conference Workshop is from Lace Express 1/01. It's Torchon but has some tricky places, such as passives coming out to the edge and making picots, and 3-pair crossings.
Someone was asking about 3-pair crossings, but the message seems to have disappeared from my email. We found a simple one in a beginning book, I think by Bridgett Cook. I know there are other ways, also. Number pairs 1 to 3. Twist all pairs if they don't have a twist already. Take pair 2 and set it aside so you have only 1 and 3 in front of you. Cross, twist pairs 1 and 3. Then take pair two and lay it in the middle of the stitch you just made. (If there's a pinhole in the middle, pin between the two threads of pair 2.) Twist pair 2 again. Ignoring pair 2, cross and twist pairs 1 and 3. You're done. Tension, and continue your pattern. Back to the pattern.... It took the first day to get the pairs hung on the outside edging of the oval doily, and do one repeat. Today I did three repeats in class, and another at home. I have 21 repeats to go. The pattern is edged in fans with a wide, solid clothstitch area on the outside edge of the fan, made up of five pair. Between the fans is a single picot made with the two outermost passives. Since I chose to use color in those five passives, my picots are pink instead of the basic white of the rest of the edgeing. The center of the doily is Torchon ground with some chevrons in half and cloth stitch, plus some spiders. I plan to use my color in the chevrons so all my chevrons will be clothstitch. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregn - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
