Hope this will help Jane: Doris Southard's first example of rose ground works the simple CT between the four pin diamonds drawn in the pricking.
Isolate your four pairs of bobbins, two pair from the left and two pair from the right above the four pin diamond shape in your pricking. Each pair should already have their required one twist in them. If not, put one in. You then take the left hand pair of bobbins and work CT but you don't put in a pin. Then take the right hand pair of bobbins and work CT, again without a pin. Now take the centre two pairs of bobbins and work CT, pin, CT, with the pin going into the top of the four pin diamond marked on your pricking. Now take the left pair of bobbins and work CT, pin, CT, with the pin going into the left pinhole of the four pin diamond.. Then the right pair of bobbins and work CT, pin, CT, with the pin going into the right pinhole of the four pin diamond.. Next take the centre two pairs of bobbins and work CT, pin CT, with the pin going into the bottom of the four pin diamond. That's the four pin diamond done, but you haven't finished yet ...... Now take the left hand pair of bobbins and work CT but you don't put in a pin. Finally take the right hand pair of bobbins and work CT, again no pin. And that's your first bit of rose ground complete. If you're using Doris Southard's pricking, now move to the other set of four bobbins, isolate them, and do the same thing. Now, when you go on to your next bit of rose ground going down the diagonal, (In Doris Southard's pricking, it is in the middle of her sample strip) and you isolate your four pairs of bobbins for that, you will find that they will already have the "CT without a pin", so you can start on the four pin diamond straight away. In future work, just make sure that when you start a big of rose ground, that both pairs of bobbins have "CT without a pin" before you start the four pin diamond. Noelene in Cold, Cold and still bone dry Cooma. Oh, for some rain! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
