Hello All! While working my Springett edging, I inadvertently "gathered" the
footside while tensioning the passives. Is there a clever way to avoid this?
Or is this an inherent risk when using a roller after the first part of the
lace has been completed? Even after smoothing the lace, my edg
Thank you Adele, Alice & Gon! These are great ideas to help avoid a gathered
footside. I just knew there had to be some clever techniques that I hadn't
thought of. My roller is only about 3" in diameter so I don't have a lot of
space to work with before I must turn the roll. Of course this i
Re. From: Susan hottl...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Working an edging on a roller pillow
This is a small roller pillow so the amount that stays pinned is 1.5 " at
most. I did use a wooden roller for the finished lace & still managed to make
a ruffle! Different bobbins sound lik
My first thought was - 'how much lace are you leaving pinned?' Obviously on
the footside you need to leave as much pinned as possible so that you can't
pull it up.
Next thought - make your footside passive pair an obviously different pair
so that each time you come to it you know. Then you c
This is a small roller pillow so the amount that stays pinned is 1.5 " at most.
I did use a wooden roller for the finished lace & still managed to make a
ruffle! Different bobbins sound like a great idea so I will try that idea
while trying to persuade them into position. Doggone those unruly
Hi Susan:
This happens to me, too, however nice I try to be to my threads. When gathering
happens, I loosen off the footside passive bobbins and secure them high up on
the pillow so the threads are slack. Then I use my pricker to pull the threads
(one by one) backwards up into the work, so I ca
The gathered edge is a common effect on edgings. The passive pairs just lie
straight while the rest of the threads have twists and various weaving actions
that cannot be tensioned quite as compactly. The passive pairs need a
lighter hand with tensioning but it's very hard to so. I usually hav
I need to modify my description of using a change stitch to trade passive and
worker threads. Doing CTTC will change both sets of threads. I like to
change only one at a time when preventing passive threads from being able to
ruffle.. When doing CTC, add a second twist to only the left OR right
While I agree with Alice that changing the passive for a worker occasionally
might help to stop gathering, this is only possible if the lace is all one
colour. Often a different colour passive is used on the footside (perhaps
to match a fan worker), and in these cases it isn't possible to chang
-This is a small roller pillow so the amount that stays pinned is 1.5 " at
most. I did use a wooden roller for the finished lace & still managed to make
a ruffle!
1.5" circumference?! That's 1/2" diameter! You know, you can push the pins
down and leave them in till they come up on the
Please read memos from our experts - so you can learn without huge
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It is disturbing to see anyone trying to manipulate a traditional lace,
and finding that they have problems like the one cited in this discussion.
Everyone trying to inve
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