Hi Patty !
My name is Clay and I am a recovering picot strangler. It
was only this past spring that I took Betty Ann Rice aside
at a Lace Day and begged her to help me! After a 15 minute
lesson, my picots are beautiful - in Tonder, Binche,
Torchon, and Bucks. I have to say that they make me
OK, I'm going to admit to my lazy way of doing picots, which I think
may be the Binche type as Michael Giusiana taught this method to me.
I simply twist 7 times, put my pin under both threads at the same
time and loop them around before placing the pin (same type of
movement as done for
At 05:35 AM 12/16/2003, you wrote:
I use two threads, twist five times, scoop the outside
thread by starting with the pin on the side of the thread
facing the lace, so that when you put it in the pinhole the
thread is clockwise and the bobbin end is the under thread.
Leave the first thread
From: Patricia Dowden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do you all make nice graceful picots? Single thread, double thread,
Flanders? Would a larger pin make a better picot? Sigh . . .
Some people do use a larger (sometimes, much larger) pin, or two pins.
Robin P.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Would those who reply to this email please reply to the list so that some of the
rest of us can benefit? Or Patti, would you forward responses to me?
Thanks! Mary in Ann Arbor
Quoting Patricia Dowden [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dear Spiders,
How do you all make nice graceful picots? Single thread,
