Hi De Hi
I am about to make a lace horseshoe and have found on making the last one
that the lace keeps lifting off the pillow when I am going around the bend of
the shoe. Is this happening because I am not angleing my pins properly or is
it normal.
Wendy St Dogmales
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Hi Wendy,
The most probable cause of the horseshoe lifting off the pillow is
that you are tensioning harder as you go around the curve. The
simplest fix is to move the pillow often so that the row you are
working on has the passives coming straight at you. If you can work
a bookmark (straight down) to your satisfaction (regarding the
tension), then moving the pillow will help a lot.
If the passives are bunching up on one side or the other, work the
row, tension the weaver first and set the edge pin and then tension
each passive while maintaining tension on the weaver. Don't start
the next row until you are satisfied with the current row's tension
on the weaver pair and the passives. When the weaver changes
direction around the pin, it is set, almost locked into
position. Changing it later is not really possible.
Tensioning the workers should be a pull to the left or right. Trying
to work at another angle just doesn't come out right. Since every
row around a curve is at a different angle, you need to keep the work
moving so that your tension can produce the effect you want.
Patty
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