Sue wrote: <I'm just starting to work from Edna Sutton's book "Bruges FLower Lace". One of the techniques shown is called "Four-About-The-Pin" edge. Is this the same as a footside?>
Four about the pin is a footside, but it's not worked the same as a torchon footside. If you photocopy and colour in or trace and colour in the threads, you'll see that when you get to the edge, you work a whole stitch and twist (cloth stitch and twist or double stitch, whichever you call it), put a pin under the two pairs, leave the upper (or outside) pair behind, and work with the lower pair as workers. You don't enclose the pin. When you get back to the same side, you repeat the process, and you'll find that the pairs have changed position so what was the worker approaching the edge is left behind and the pair you left the first time becomes the worker pair. So you need two pairs of workers which will alternate. It might help to try it out with different coloured threads, say white passives and one pair of workers in blue and another in red so you can see what's happening. It leaves a series of even holes down the edge, and you make sewings into them in one of several ways to get different effects when you work a filling or another motif which touches the motif already worked. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
