Re: [lace] Hitches

2007-09-03 Thread Lisa McClure
Speaking as a lefty, if you wind your bobbins the "wrong way", you need to be sure to also do your hitches the "wrong way". Then all works just as well as if you had done everything the right way. Lisa in Arizona I still haven't got round to analyzing my hitch yet. However, I do know fro

[lace] to contact Pat of Roseground

2007-09-03 Thread bevw
Hi everyone Pat sent me this message and I hereby forward it to the list: "David & I have been away on holiday - - during our time away, we have discovered there has been problems with my e-mail. We cannot find out who has been in touch with me and speaking with an Indian call centre has not rea

Re: [lace] Hitches

2007-09-03 Thread David in Ballarat
Dear Alison, I still haven't got round to analyzing my hitch yet. However, I do know from various students I've had, that if you'[ve wound your bobbins the wrong way, the hitch will not hold at all. Now, I'm only assuming that I wind my bobbins the same way as everyone else, but to check, if

[lace] Hitches

2007-09-03 Thread Gray, Alison J
Hi everyone All the talk about hitches on bobbins reminded me of when I was teaching my daughter and some of her friends to make lace some years ago. I discovered that one of the girls always wound her bobbins in the opposite way to me and the others (winding towards herself, rather than away).