Re: [lace] Re Fan in Flanders lace

2013-08-16 Thread Adele Shaak
Re voodoo boards, Clay wrote: > A lot of people use this technique to keep up with where they are in laces that have so many pins set so close together. And some of us use it because we are so completely lost in a complicated pattern that we can't see where we are from stitch to stitch! I wouldn'

Voodoo board (was RE: [lace] Re Fan in Flanders lace)

2013-08-16 Thread Margery Allcock
My voodoo board (great name, never heard it called that before) was a hugely enlarged copy of the pricking, nice and easy to see what went where. Margery. margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Herts, UK > -Origina

[lace] Tatting help needed again - thanks

2013-08-16 Thread Gray, Alison J
Hi Thanks for all your suggestions about tatting books and threads, and Jane Partridge's suggestion that I looked at the Arachne archive for replies from last time I asked this question. Interestingly three different people suggested the same book, so I think I shall try and get that one. And Br

Re: [lace] Re Fan in Flanders lace

2013-08-16 Thread Clay Blackwell
A voodoo board is a copy of the diagram pinned to a sheet of foam. Each time you put a pin in the lace you're working, you put one in the corresponding pinhole in the diagram. A lot of people use this technique to keep up with where they are in laces that have so many pins set so close togethe

Re: [lace] Re Fan in Flanders lace

2013-08-16 Thread Jill Hawkins
Sorry for my ignorance, but what the heck is a voodoo board? Sally wrote: >For the first third, I had to rely completely on a voodoo board. For the second >third, I only had to put some of the pins in the voodoo board, and then I was >able to throw the voodoo >board in the trash. The last third I