. As I have worked down the pattern the card stock worked up off the pillow but the lace itself did not work up the pins. I slanted the edge pins to the side and back so the lace was held tight against the pricking and did not move up the pins. But the pricking card itself moved up the pins.
Hi,
I've been gone for 5 days so am a bit behind in my email reading -- and reading as fast as I can to catch up. I just had to speak up on this subject.
During the various classes I've had over the years, I've been shown two ways of pinning down a pattern that have not been mentioned here.
The first method takes two pins. The first pin is pushed through the pattern into the pillow -- halfway down. Then the top half is bent over so the head is on the cloth pillow cover. The second pin is put perpendicularly to the first with it dipping into and out of the cover on one side of the first pin, then over the pin, and into the cloth cover on the other side of the pin. The second pin keeps the first pin from being able to lift up. A pattern pinned with 4-6-8 of these pin duos will not lift.
Method two takes one pin but needs a slightly flexible pillow cover. Dip the point of the pin in and out of the pillow cover right next to the pattern, and then pin in the edge of the pattern, pushed all the way down. Do this all around the pattern. Thus the pattern is caught under a little fold of the pillow fabric and will keep the pattern from being able to lift.
Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon -- where we are roasting with the rest of the west coast USA.
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