Hello Tess and everyone Tess! this little video is fantastic *and* useful, thank you and your friends :)) I have seen the first 5 and a half minutes - on dialup, it took nearly an hour and a half to download that (what we do in the cause of lacemaking...), and I stupidly clicked something that disconnected my pc from the line - so I did watch your epic as far as the part 'having a pin might help...' ;)
I like watching how others make leaf-tallies - I like the little fillip you do with the twist-twist motion grasping the bobbins with your outer fingers and turning the wrist over. I tried it with a handy leaf-in-waiting, could manage the movement with my right hand, but not the left, where my hand wanted to do as usual (for me), and kind of slide the bobbins around each other with my little finger and thumb. For the record, I was using a mixed breed of bobbins - but all the same weight and heft. 3 were spangled, one was not. They are not small bobbins though - I think *I* would have trouble doing the rolling motion with small English midlands. Time passes, and I had an appointment in town, took my netbook with me and handily parked in a WiFi hotspot, then I could watch the entire video, thank you again so much! Alas we can't save from YouTube (I don't think?) and I thought I might film the sequence on screen with my digital camera, but I'd seen enough to appreciate how you make your tallies ;) What I'm working on perfecting now are the curved tallies with 3 picots on the outer curve side. So far I can get a neatly curved leaf, or neatly made picots, but not both... -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:48 PM, tess parrish <tess1...@aol.com> wrote: > > Anyway, what's done is done, and I hope that this will clear up some of the > confusion which inevitably occurs when one is trying to explain a process > without visual aids. The link to YouTube is: < > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPezWMox5-M> I hope you find it useful. > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
