Gentle Spiders,
First, a big "thank you" to everyone who responded -- on list and
privately. Obviously, I should have avoided using the term "whole
stitch" and stuck simply to the description of the ground: CTCT, p,
CTCT. I'm very much aware of the reigning confusion regarding that
stitch (CTCT) and its names (whole, double, whole-and-twist) :)
But I thought that, perhaps, the ground did have a name that everyone
agreed on; afterall, the CT (or TC) is called "half stitch"
everywhere...
On Dec 16, 2007, at 17:45, Adele Shaak wrote:
Tamara wrote:
So here goes a question: What do you call a ground which is
constructed
as follows:
Whole Stitch (CTCT, or TCTC), Pin, Whole Stitch...
And Bev replied:
I call it CTCT, pin, CTCT ground ... ;)\
I'm with Bev. And I've had at least one teacher who also describes her
patterns with C and T rather than defining stitches.
I agree too, in general, which is why, whenever I use a term -- half
stitch, cloth stitch, honecomb stitch, whole stitch -- I always follow
it up with a breakdown into the C and T terms, to clarify. But not
everyone does, so you have to know the other names as well.
For myself, I switched to "cloth stitch" from the "whole stitch" for
the CTC sequence (I learnt lacemaking from an Oz book, which used
English terms), when my 11yr old asked: "why do you call a two-movement
stitch a 'half-stitch' and a three-movement one a 'whole stitch'? It's
mathematically incorrect". Since he was a math genius, I accepted his
pronouncement and the CTCT sequence became the 'whole' :)
And, still later, I switched to using the C and T terms for everything;
the ground in Point Ground is CTTT, not 'half stitch and two twists'.
But that's when I'm working on my pillow and counting to myself. When I
talk to other people, I try to use the language they might be familiar
with and many people do remember names better than sequences,
especially *long* sequences (I'm among those. Probably one of the
reasons I never could get the hang of the binary system of writing
numbers).
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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