I do agree with you, Robin. I've spent a day demonstrating with someone working a piece of tape, with half a dozen pairs of bobbins - it was so fiddly that the visitors just couldn't see what on earth the lacemaker was doing.
On the other hand, I happened to have a piece of Bucks on the pillow - with long rows of ground.....a perfect opportunity for showing the pattern underneath the bobbins, demonstrating a stitch, pin, drop one pair, pick up another in the row - and work down the entire row in a similar way. My pattern also fitted what most visitors thought of as "real" lace. I'm always very selective about which part of a pattern I use for demonstration purposes - as I mentioned, in the Bucks piece, all I did all day was work long rows of ground - I wasn't fiddling with the flowers on the headside....I kept the demo simple. Ruth (Sydney, Australia) -----Original Message----- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of robinl...@socal.rr.com Sent: Thursday, 5 December 2013 5:43 PM To: Arachne Subject: Re: [lace] Freehand Lace with 6 pairs or less This is not necessarily so. I've started using a wider torchon pattern (50+ pairs) for demonstration and I've had great reactions...... - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
