Hello all Your help would be much appreciated: I have only made Torchon lace and decided to have a go at Bedfordshire. My first problem is that all my right hand picots split, the left ones are great what is causing this please?
Secondly my leaves are turning out like "holly" leaves, is it just practice that will turn then into something wonderful, perhaps I should go back to my Torchon??? Kind regards Paula In sunny windy Suffolk. ==================================================== Dear Paula, Please stick to it! The different new techniques will soon be part of your skill set to be used on other laces you learn as you go along. The technical view of picots is that the pair gets twisted a lot and then the pair is divided over itself to lock the twists in the picot. If you twist and the picot splits, the pair did not get split and the twists evaporated. So the right hand picots are simply not being made in the mirror image of the left hand picots. I learned pointed leaf tallies from Christine Springett. She gave us a beautiful way of thinking about constructing. Start with a triangle that grows from the point, then make a square (with the purpose being to build a straight section in the middle of the leaf) then end with a triangle that tapers to a point. Something akin to this: <[]>. Without the straight section in middle you get a diamond. Without a plan to get a straight section, you get a holly leaf. Simply keep the tension on the outside threads the whole way through the leaf. Altering the tension of the outside threads won't be what allows you shape the leaf. When you tension the weaver, the weaver does not become locked until you weave to the other side and change directions. So watch the shape of the last edge before the edge that you are currently turning. I hope there is something helpful here. Patty - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
