[...] the Grimwood book "Starting Needlepoint Lace".
[...] I've been cutting the basting thread on the back, therefore I've been trying closely woven fabrics to baste the pattern to so that the basting threads don't sink in. Grimwood suggests cutting the threads between the two pieces of backing fabric.
Does anybody do it that way? I'd think the basting threads would be pretty
short to find and pull out of the cordonette.
I've never done any NL, so this might not apply, but...
When I was a child and my Mother used to make all my clothes, she always explained what she did and why. We didn't have those "toothy" wheels and the marks-wash-away paper to mark the seam lines. What my Mother used to do to, say, mark identical bust darts on both sides, was to baste -- not too tightly -- through both pieces of fabric, then cut the basting thread between them. That left bits of thread on both pieces for long enough to pin for fitting. You had to be careful when cutting the pieces apart, because the bits tended to just pull out and disappear, but it wouldn't be a problem in your case -- you *want* to get rid of the basting thread, right?
I should think that, in that case, the only worry would be *the first stitch* you need to cut -- that would be the only one that holds the two pieces of fabric close together. Once that's cut, the space between the two pieces of fabric is wider, because it's no longer anchored as tightly.
Just guessing... As I said, basting in NL may be different than in clothes making.
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