Then you will graduate to the patterns with nothing but a pricking and there will be
nothing to stop you!
<VBG> Speak for yourself... :) Depends a bit on the lace but, in general, the *very first thing* I do when presented with nothing but a pricking is to enlarge it greatly and start drawing a diagram of it. I've been down too many "dark alleys", where the *same pricking* seemed to communicate *different ideas of interpretation* to me, resulting in very confused lace (and it's no good saying "nobody will notice"; I know it's there, and that's enough to bug me)...
It makes no difference whether it's my own pattern or someone else's; before I work it, I draw an approximation of the diagram -- as I *think* the threads will go. Then I work on the pillow and, if my guesses prove to be wrong, I add the changes to the diagram.
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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