I can't remember when I first used a 'ghost pillow', or where the idea came from. I think it was when I made Binche, so maybe it was Anne-Marie in Bruges. I certainly didn't use it when I started making Bucks point- I don't think Margery Carted would have approved! But I could have found it useful in the latest piece of Bucks I have made - but the pattern didn't have a working diagram anyway!
Kathleen In a chilly Berkshire, UK Sent from my iPad > On 15 Sep 2017, at 03:40, Adele Shaak <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
