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Diane, If you turn a tablet two turns forward, you have basically turned it upside down. The side that was on the top, now is on the bottom. If you turn a tablet two turns backward, the same thing happens, but the opposite end rotates through the front position, and shows its threads. It still ends up upside down. So at the end of two picks, both packs of tablets should be in the same "upside down" position, and thus ready to switch tablets from pack to pack. Does that make sense? You can only switch tablets from one pack to the other when they are in the same position. The shuttle shows up on the same side of the band every other turn, which also makes it a useful indicator. Each pack travels two forward and two backward, in order to make the threads of a single color come up on the top. The background pack is moving B-B-F-F while the pattern pack is moving F-F-B-B. When you switch tablets from one pack to another, they go through an entire rotation to synch with the new pack. If a tablet was moving B-B-F-F, it will move B-B-F-F*F-F-B-B, with the switch from the one packet to the other occurring at the *. If you think it would be helpful to call and "weave through" this on the phone, let me know and I'll send you my number privately. Michael __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Send private reply to Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
