Dear Susan,
Happy Memorial Day to you. btw, those shoes are gorgeous. Picots can be
tricky little guys. I finally began to make satisfactory ones after a class
on Bucks with Alex Stillwell. She said 7 twists, and then the secret, which
is to have absolutely no tension on either thread until you are ready to
tension at the end. That seemed to do the trick, and eliminated almost all
bunny ears.
Susan wrote:
Picots & I have a rocky relationship & yesterday was more of the same.
What could be causing my "failure to launch"?? Armed with Practical Skills,
I used five twists to make a right handed twisted picot. Several repeats
later, out come the pins & voila, two loops at each picot! Somehow they are
not locking themselves together as shown in the diagrams. Before I
aggravate myself with another strip, could someone lend a hand with advice?
As to thread, I didn't have DMC so used Anchor.
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA where it is almost perfect weather for
the first grilling of the season. I just found out that this is the day
Americans wear poppies. This is the day we remember our war dead.
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