On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:29, Debora Lustgarten wrote:
How did Claire Burkhard (and you) worked the horizontal bars? Could you give us an explanation or point us to a diagram in her book?
It's something she calls a "false plait", though it's not the same kind of "false plait that I know from laces with sewings (twist a pair, sew into the other side, come back making one sewing over the twisted bar for every two twists). What happens here is that a twisted (1 twist only) pair comes from the left and another from the right. They meet in the middle with a whole stitch (CTCT). Then they go on to whatever part is next on the agenda.
This "false plait" is solid only at the point where they meet where they leave work and go back to work the two pairs are parallel and not connected. But, with good tensioning, they get so close together they *look* like a single line.
As for the diagram... There are 3. Two are on page 72 (Würsselmodel mit XX, from p. XIII of Neuw Modelbuch) and one -- further extended, involving two pairs coming from the left and two from the right towards the middle -- is on p.74. I have no trouble understanding the diagram on p.74 and no trouble understanding the upper one on p.72.
But, the lower one on p.72... :( If it were possible, it would hold the two pairs together longer, so would be a better solution. But I can't figure that one out, no-how. It looks like a series of 3 half stitches, not 2. But, if I try making 3 half stitches, they move downwards, not sideways; ie, they separate the two pairs further instead of uniting them. I've tried enlarging the diagram and colouring in the path of one of the pairs. And it doesn't move the way Burkhard's diagram says it should.
So that's a bummer, unless and until someone "out there" can explain to me what it is I'm missing. But, for the moment, I'm quite happy with the effect produced by following the upper diagram.
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