Hi Jocelyn: I can’t recall any books that mention a ghost pillow, a voodoo board, or the concept under any other name. It is something that was suggested to me as I was floundering around in Old Flanders, but whether it’s an old idea or something fairly recent I couldn’t say. When I use it, I pin an enlarged copy of my thread diagram to a cork board, and every time I put a pin in the lace, I put a pin through the same pinhole on my cork board. I use drawing pins - the short ones with the big round heads - and I just use enough pins so the most current rows have pins on my cork board. I can see, right away, exactly where I am and which pinholes I have worked.
There are a lot of people who use the Post-It Note arrows, one arrow to a pinhole. That would work just as well, I think, and it eliminates the need for a surface to pin into. But I’ve never tried it so I can’t really comment. I haven’t yet needed to do any colour coding on my thread diagrams. Adele West Vancouver, BC > On Sep 14, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Jocelyn Froese <jocelyn.froe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I looked up ghost pillow and nothing surfaced. Is this term in any > instruction book? Perhaps a photo would be helpful. > I do colour codes on an enlarged diagram of the pricking on my pillow. This > seems to help. It's only for the tricky parts, esp when there's a forest of > many pins and best not to undo rows of finished work. Does anyone else do > this? > Thanks, > Jocelyn in Winnipeg, central Canada. - 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/
