What I have done a few times is to machine stitch around the lines of
the needlelace pattern without any thread in the machine. Granted
sometimes it is more difficult to find the same hole coming back up but
that is just as much a problem without the machine punched holes anyway.
Eve
Poole, Dorset, UK
On 09/01/2011 17:50, Jane Partridge wrote:
I never pre-prick for
needlelace, as the chances of coming back up through three layers of
calico into the same hole in the pattern without taking an age to do are
very slim. You would need quite a large hole pricked to ensure the
calico doesn't close up on you between pricking and couching, even
without the possible movement of the fabric layers. (Calico in the UK
is, I believe, called muslin in the US - our muslin is a much finer,
coarser woven cloth).
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