I was able to do 4-5 passes (27 yards, #5) to fill the four bobbins (2 pr) I've also seen another you-tuber and a book "The Bobbin Lace Manuel", winding in the opposite direction? Will it matter with the slip knot...
Thanks for the comment. For everything there is more than one way of doing it! Some people wind in the opposite direction, sometimes because they are left handed, sometimes because that's the way they were taught and maybe their teacher was left handed. The main thing is consistency, and not winding one bobbin one direction and the other in the opposite direction. If you wind the opposite direction then the hitch will need to be in the opposite direction as well, otherwise it is likely to keep slipping. The quantity of thread very much depends on the pattern you are making, but you can replace threads when they run out and it isn't essential (in most cases) to have enough on without joining. Hope that helps.
Thank you. So helpful! Wish i had found your video three projects back. Still, I am just getting ready to do the 3rd exercise in the Torchon Lace Workbook by Bridget M. Cook. Where can i find the spool pins you used to pull thread from when winding bobbins from the pillow?Any suggestions are appreciated.
I often use a divider pin and spike it in your pillow, the reel then spins as you pull the thread off it. Some wood turner's make cotton reel holders that pin to pillow. Possibly Mark Brookes at Tree Carcass Tweaking might be able to help you with one.
I love everything about bobbin lace except winding those damned bobbins! For now I just do sampler bookmarks - great way to practice and still make something somewhat useful - so at least I never have to wind more than 12-18 pairs, but in a 1980s bobbin lace book I took out from the local library I saw a hand-cranked bobbin winder, and now I desperately want one! Finding one second-hand is tricky, though. But it'll happen one day! I got two roller lace-boards and around 400 bobbins, a bag of different linen threads, loads of prickings and a set of different starching liquids for a pittance when I just started out, so surely there's a bobbin-winder out there for me...
Thanks for the comment, great to hear your enthusiasm for lace. I don’t know where you are in the world but relatively inexpensive hand cranked plastic bobbin winders are around in the UK. I have one in my second hand equipment available. Drop me a message through my website if it’s of interest to you.
@@LouiseWestLace I'm in Denmark - so it would probably be cheaper for me to buy one locally than pay import duties... But thank you for the kind offer! (Also, bog-standard Danish bobbins are quite different from yours - tradition and all - so depending on the design it might not even fit.) 2 of my great-grandmothers made lace as a hobby - so I've decided to learn it myself. And I'm actually getting to a stage where I'm kind of... Not great, but not bad, either! Thanks to TH-camrs like you.
Can you please do a video on cloth snitch shapes with a contrasting worker pair, its comes up in a number of floral counter patterns I have, but when I tried it on a sampler but it didn't come out right, Thank you
@@natashajanesilvers3548 thanks. I will do one using my new Swimathon pattern very soon, this one I put a coloured worker in for the splashes, hopefully that will help you. Basically though, I would hang the coloured worker pair on a temporary support pin, before the first pin of the area to be worked and just start working the cloth stitch. I think the main consideration though is colour. When you use a different coloured worker to the passives, you always get a slightly diluted effect, like adding white into mixing paint, and so usually you have to go one shade darker, or brighter, depending on the effect you want. It always pays to play around with a sample first, so see how strong the results will be.
@@LouiseWestLace Thanks, from you're description it sounds like I was on the right path, I may have just messed up in my handling of the first 2 passives (normally the first passive and the worker). I think I'll try a quick sampler tonight; placing the first and last pin between these passive rather than to one side, with I believe is the source of the slanted nature of the cloth snitch that made it seem off.
@@LouiseWestLace TY so much! I am going to try this since the single hitch I had been using keeps coming out and bobbins unwind and sometimes even hit the floor. Yes I am that much of a beginner.
This was straightforward and easy to understand. Thank you for this!
Thank you. This is the first time I’ve heard and seen a clear explanation of making the hitch on the bobbin.
Happy to have helped.
That's awesome. So helpful thank you.
Excellent! I am a beginner and have had trouble with my bobbins unwinding while working. I tried this method, so much better.
Thanks for the comment, happy to have helped.
I love how clearly you explained this! And the close-up view...other winding videos don't have as much detail.
This was so helpful. Thank you
Thank you. I am just starting out with bobbin lace, and was winding it wrong.
Thank you. I have this problem occasionally, so I've saved this for the next time I'm winding bobbins.
I was able to do 4-5 passes (27 yards, #5) to fill the four bobbins (2 pr) I've also seen another you-tuber and a book "The Bobbin Lace Manuel", winding in the opposite direction? Will it matter with the slip knot...
Thanks for the comment. For everything there is more than one way of doing it! Some people wind in the opposite direction, sometimes because they are left handed, sometimes because that's the way they were taught and maybe their teacher was left handed. The main thing is consistency, and not winding one bobbin one direction and the other in the opposite direction.
If you wind the opposite direction then the hitch will need to be in the opposite direction as well, otherwise it is likely to keep slipping.
The quantity of thread very much depends on the pattern you are making, but you can replace threads when they run out and it isn't essential (in most cases) to have enough on without joining. Hope that helps.
Thank you. So helpful! Wish i had found your video three projects back. Still, I am just getting ready to do the 3rd exercise in the
Torchon Lace Workbook by Bridget M. Cook. Where can i find the spool pins you used to pull thread from when winding bobbins from the pillow?Any suggestions are appreciated.
I often use a divider pin and spike it in your pillow, the reel then spins as you pull the thread off it. Some wood turner's make cotton reel holders that pin to pillow. Possibly Mark Brookes at Tree Carcass Tweaking might be able to help you with one.
Thank you very helpfull
I love everything about bobbin lace except winding those damned bobbins!
For now I just do sampler bookmarks - great way to practice and still make something somewhat useful - so at least I never have to wind more than 12-18 pairs, but in a 1980s bobbin lace book I took out from the local library I saw a hand-cranked bobbin winder, and now I desperately want one!
Finding one second-hand is tricky, though. But it'll happen one day! I got two roller lace-boards and around 400 bobbins, a bag of different linen threads, loads of prickings and a set of different starching liquids for a pittance when I just started out, so surely there's a bobbin-winder out there for me...
Thanks for the comment, great to hear your enthusiasm for lace. I don’t know where you are in the world but relatively inexpensive hand cranked plastic bobbin winders are around in the UK. I have one in my second hand equipment available. Drop me a message through my website if it’s of interest to you.
@@LouiseWestLace I'm in Denmark - so it would probably be cheaper for me to buy one locally than pay import duties... But thank you for the kind offer! (Also, bog-standard Danish bobbins are quite different from yours - tradition and all - so depending on the design it might not even fit.)
2 of my great-grandmothers made lace as a hobby - so I've decided to learn it myself. And I'm actually getting to a stage where I'm kind of... Not great, but not bad, either! Thanks to TH-camrs like you.
Can you please do a video on cloth snitch shapes with a contrasting worker pair, its comes up in a number of floral counter patterns I have, but when I tried it on a sampler but it didn't come out right, Thank you
Thanks for the comment. What type of lace are you wanting to put a coloured worker into?
@@LouiseWestLace The patterns are bucks point, thanks for responding
@@natashajanesilvers3548 thanks. I will do one using my new Swimathon pattern very soon, this one I put a coloured worker in for the splashes, hopefully that will help you. Basically though, I would hang the coloured worker pair on a temporary support pin, before the first pin of the area to be worked and just start working the cloth stitch. I think the main consideration though is colour. When you use a different coloured worker to the passives, you always get a slightly diluted effect, like adding white into mixing paint, and so usually you have to go one shade darker, or brighter, depending on the effect you want. It always pays to play around with a sample first, so see how strong the results will be.
@@LouiseWestLace Thanks, from you're description it sounds like I was on the right path, I may have just messed up in my handling of the first 2 passives (normally the first passive and the worker). I think I'll try a quick sampler tonight; placing the first and last pin between these passive rather than to one side, with I believe is the source of the slanted nature of the cloth snitch that made it seem off.
I assume the method where you put the hitch down on the neck is what I would do since my bobbins don't have that little groove in the head?
Yes you can put the hitch on the neck, sometimes this works better if the thread is misbehaving, slipping around the head anyway.
@@LouiseWestLace TY so much! I am going to try this since the single hitch I had been using keeps coming out and bobbins unwind and sometimes even hit the floor. Yes I am that much of a beginner.
@@myrany8407 don't worry, we have all been there. Keep asking questions, it's how you learn and understand it.