See pattern 524.
A scallop is a common Torchon headside made of cloth stitch and twist. It has a top half and a bottom half, separated by a "stem" in the middle, where the worker pair workes across all the passive pairs. This headside is a elongated scallop. The left and right part are like a normal scallop, but the middle keeps the width the same, without making the shape wider or narrower.
Click here for an animation of how to make a scallop. I suggest that you do some conventional scallops before trying this variant.
Pattern for this type of scallop:
Diagram showing where the worker pair goes.
This worked in cloth stitch and twist throughout. Warning - if you use the same workers throughout, they use a lot of thread!
I thought that these fishtails looks like trees, so tried putting a single fishtail into a pattern. But there's a problem! Where the outer pairs of the fishtail enter the fishtail, there are two pairs, not one. It doesn't happen with continuous fishtail, because they are next to each other, not the lace. To get a single fishtail, you need to take two pairs across the fishtail as passives. I did this by treating them as a single pair. When the worker pair crosses them, they are worked in cloth stitch (rather than cloth stitch and twist), then after, the workers are twisted, and the two passives are worked in half stitch (to stop them separating).
See pattern 530.
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