Re: [lace] Left handed tricks?

2020-02-28 Thread Jean Leader
I’ve only just caught up with this conversation but if you like diagrams of hitches done right- and left-handed I have some on my website a https://www.jeanleader.net/techniques/hitching.html and also an explanation of why it’s a good idea to wind the thread on the bobbin by turning the

[lace] left handed hitches

2020-02-28 Thread Elizabeth Pass
The talk of problem hitches, left-handed winding, anti-clockwise etc. reminds me of the time that I used teach children on Saturday mornings. (I did it for sixteen and a half years). One girl had great trouble winding clockwise, so I suggested that she look at the head of the bobbin and imagine

Re: [lace] Left handed tricks?

2020-02-28 Thread Elizabeth Pass
The talk of problem hitches, left-handed winding, anti-clockwise etc. reminds me of the time that I used teach children on Saturday mornings. (I did it for sixteen and a half years). One girl had great trouble winding clockwise, so I suggested that she look at the head of the bobbin and