I agree with Clay, it is possible to take out all of the pins to move the
lace up the pillow rather than work over a felt mountain or the plastic
foam
discussed in the last week or so.
When I came here to live and found the lace group I noticed that on the
long
upright pillows used here when the ladies reached a point too far down the
pillow to continue working comfortably they would take out all of the pins
and move the pattern up. The they lay the pillow flat on the table or
across their knees and re-pin the lace pin hole by pin hole. I taught
myself to work on an upright pillow using the local chunkier bobbins and
found that moving my lace in this way was not such a nightmare as I thought
it might be. I had always used the felt mountain method on my flat pillow
as that is how my teacher taught me.
The secret of moving lace is to make sure the bobbins are well wrapped up
and the bundle/s of bobbins are securely supported while un-pinning, pin
the
bundle to the pillow, with divider pins, to take the weight. You have to
unpin the bundle from the pillow and take the weight of it in your hand
while moving things up the pillow but once the lace is over the right spot
on the pattern again you can pin the bundle of bobbins securely to the
pillow, leaving some slack thread, and then set about re-pinning the lace
knowing that the bobbins are not going to slip down the pillow and pull on
the threads in the lace to distort it. You must make sure that you put a
pin in every pinhole for a good inch or more back from the where the lace
ends.
Regards
Jenny DeAngelis
Spain.
<<Congratulations on successfully overcoming your disaster! Now that you
have done it, you'll know that it is possible to pull all the pins from
your
work and move it. There are times when that is a good thing to do, and you
don't have to dread it any more.
Clay>>
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