Jacqui wrote: <As someone else said, the Bucks ground is supported by the leading thread in each row and direction (if you work it correctly) so uneven ground pin holes are not crucial. If you are unhappy about the thought of not using them at all, use them but take them out a lot earlier than you normally would; perhaps only two or three rows on. (But I do mean just the ground pins, not the catch pins or footside pins or any catch pins alongside the pattern itself.) This will then allow the supporting thread to do it's work unimpeded by uneven pin spacing.> Not wanting to totally redraft a large bucks pricking due to a wobbly ground, I scanned it into my Paintshop Pro instead of my Lace 2000, and I used the straight line tool to draw thin diagonal lines from the footside to the fancy head in both directions, putting my pins in where the lines intersected. My pricking looked a bit odd but it worked well enough to get fairly straight lines of ground. Scanning a pricking into Lace 2000 gives you a background on which to base your truing up but the hard work is up to you, and I am always the one for the easy path so I can get on with working the lace. I have tried to work without pins in the past but am never confident that I might not miss a row. I like the idea of taking the pins out fairly quickly to achieve an straighter ground. Thanks for the tip. Janice
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