[lace] question - braids (plaits?)

2004-04-21 Thread Weronika Patena
Hello everyone, Yet another beginner's question. Thank you all for being so patient and helpful with me. I tried to make a braid (also called a plait, I think - anyway, what I mean is when you take two pairs and just CTCTCTCT... straight without pins, to get a neat thin braid). I failed

Re: [lace] question - braids (plaits?)

2004-04-21 Thread Alice Howell
At 05:32 PM 4/21/2004, you wrote: I tried to make a braid... Even if I pull it up after every CTCT, it comes back down when I work on the next one, and then when I try to pull the next one up the whole thing becomes a nasty irregular knot. Hi, Don't despair. It will come. When doing a

RE: [lace] question - braids (plaits?)

2004-04-21 Thread Patricia Dowden
Weronika wrote: I tried to make a braid (also called a plait, I think - anyway, what I mean is when you take two pairs and just CTCTCTCT... straight without pins, to get a neat thin braid). I failed miserably. Even if I pull it up after every CTCT, it comes back down when I work on the next