Ulrike Voelker also says that there are other reasons that the pricking
gets kinks or buckles. She advises not using a card that is extremely
stiff, and also be careful about how you're placing the pins. The
headside and footside pins (or edge pins, if not an edging), should be
tilted *slightly* outward, while the rest of the pins should be as
straight as possible. And the main culprit, she says, is that we park
our bobbins to the side (where else?) which makes our threads pull to
the side causing the lace to rise and the pricking to buckle. Instead,
we should place a temporary pin off to the side, but toward you, so that
the threads must come down in a straighter line before moving off to the
side.
Clay
On 4/9/2010 12:49 PM, Sue Babbs wrote:
Ulrike Loehr (I've forgotten her married name) cuts her blue plastic
film bigger than the pricking and uses that to secure the pricking to
the pillow. I don't find that this works well if you have a piece on
the pillow for a long time, but then you can pin through the film
only, and this pin tends to press in below the level of the pricking
Sue Babbs
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