Hairpin Lace help please!

Nov 06, 2006 9 Replies
J

I'm trying to make a scarf from two strips of hairpin lace, made from a two colors of fairly chunky yarn. I have linked the two strips togeterher and it looks great -- but how do I keep the outer loops from eventually coming undone? They look like they would eventually just work themselves out of the senter stitch. All the instructions I see for edges involve catching the loops and crocheting an edge, but then you don't have loose loops any more, and that is the look I want. Any suggestions?



As an alternative -- is there a way to create the strips so you only have loops on one side, and the other edge of each strip is solid? Then you could interweave the two strips and have the decorative part in the middle and the edges would just be solid, not loopy, but not require any additional finishing.



Thanks for help you can offer.



--Jackie



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You might could just crochet an edging on the end of the scarf, thereby eliminating the last loop coming loose. You don't have to worry about the beginning coming loose, just the ending. Frances

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M

Have you checked out the tutorial at Stitch Diva

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From what I can see on the site in all their patterns both sides of loops are crocheted.I've done sideways knitting where you don't cast off the last few stitches. You then let them unravel and they form a lovely looped fringe. I find that every now and then some of the stitches slip down but they are easily worked back into place.

One other possibility would be running it along under a sewing machine to hold everything in place.

Good luck

Keep smiling :-)

Marian

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R

Could you crochet along the edge of the center bit, so the loops are fixed in place at their connection point?

Just make the long loop on that side a really short loop instead.

=Tamar

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J

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. I think I'll just knit the strips and unravel the end stitches.

--Jackie

Richard Eney wrote:

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On 5 Nov 2006 18:25:47 -0800, Jackie spun a fine yarn

I've only ever joined my hairpin lace strips with a braid-look process, two from one strip, two from the opposite. Then, my edges, I braid-look process those as well, looping two into the next two.. HTH, Noreen

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Jackie spun a FINE 'yarn':

My explaination was poorly worded, but I did so hope you'd 'get-it'. It makes a nice edge on afghans and vests, so I'd *think* it'd make a really nice edge on a scarf, shrug! ;) Noreen

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