On Dec 6, 2004, at 2:17, anneke reijs wrote:
-- To decide where to put a pin, hold, after making the edge stitch, the 2nd
pair along the pattern line.
--The 1st pair is kept perpendicular to the 2nd pair. The place to set the
pin is under the edge stitch, on the line.
Works perfect, on straight as well as on curved lines!
That works as well as my geometry classes (I had a solid, no-pass grade for many years); it's OK, if you're not obsessive :) In my geometry classes, the angle on the "thingie" (what's the English for the device with a 180 degree arch, and a ruler at the bottom? It's not "compass", but I can't recall the right term) could have as much as a 5 degreee "fault", depending on the angle from which you looked at it. That - in itself - was more than "allowedd error" in political statistics, and then you added the error for the pencil line, which was thicker or thinner, depending on what kind of pencil you used, and how sharply you managed to hone the point of it. If the line was thick, it would take up a space of 2 degrees at least, and, depending on the angle of viewing... All my answers were of the "within 15 degree range, x to y") and absolutely unacceptable in a precise branch of thinking (not to mention an absolutist political system <g>)...
In my pursuit of Rosa Libre "side-bars", I've encountered the same problem once again, *despite* having put in all the pin-dots where I think they ought to go... I'm making what I think of as "half-stitch rib" (hst from the pin to the inside, leave the last pair; take the ppr next to it, hst to the pin. Repeat), and have discovered that, to get the best effect (the passives spread out and show the stitch's loveliness, but the workers are tightly twisted on the inside of the hole), the angle between the "new worker" going to the pin from the inside and the pin itself ought to be 90 degrees. But, depending on how my pillow is positioned, and on the angle from which I view the pillow, the desired 90 degree seems to shift like a mirage...
True, I don't have the straight *line* to help me, just a dot (this is a "wrap-around-the-pin" edge, not the "swap-the-workers" one). But, still...
I guess I still have a long row to hoe in the "loosen up a bit, will ya?" department <g>
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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