BINGO!! so you give yourself something to tension against. I'm assuming insect pins. That should make things a lot easier. Any other thoughts anyone? Lyn
>Sally wrote: >Ok, it's when you are taking pairs out of the cloth stitch areas and the two >pairs join the ground stitch areas? > >When you take two pairs out of the cloth stitch areas, 1. you take the worker >out through the gimp if there is one and through the ring in double stitch. >2. Then you go back and cloth stitch the two pair right next to the gimp, take >the left hand pair ( assuming the gimp is on the left side of the cloth st >area), and take it out through the gimp and ring to join the old worker pair. >The pair that's left in the cloth stitch area, the pair on the right is now >the worker pair. That's usually where trouble with tensioning occurs. I use >a temporary, unmarked pin to solve that problem. I put it inbetween the two >pairs next to the gimp before I do that cloth stitch between them in step 2.. >This is what Anne Marie does in Bruges. That's not the only solution...let me >know if I'm on the right track! >Sally > Lyn wrote: > Sorry for not being more clear. It's in the cloth stitch areas where > there are decreases that the problem lies. Ground stitch is no problem, it's > CTCT all 4 times, and that locks in anything. Since ring pairs and what I > call pseudo ring pairs at the bottom of a cloth stitch area are always CTCT, > it means tensioning needs to be done before really leaving the cloth stitch > area. > >>Sally wrote >>Or is it in the cloth stitch areas where you are having trouble? When you are >>doing inputs? Or is it when you are taking two pair out of the cloth stitch >>areas? >> Lyn wrote: My problem now is tensioning decreases. Very often, in fact most >>of the time, there is no pair that goes from pin to pin. Waiting to tension >>gets a bit difficult, as the ring pair is clearly designed to lock in the >>tension and position of the cloth stitch pairs, so waiting beyond that would >>end up counter productive. Yet there's got to be a way. Any ideas? "My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." - 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/albums/most-recent
