This is mundillo, or lace from Panama. Click here for more patterns.
These patterns are large scale, to show where the colours go. Reduce the pattern size, if you wish. There are coloured 'blobs' at the top and bottom of the patterns, showing where which coloured pair starts where (which is very important!) I have put these at both ends, so you can work the pattern either the British way, or the other way round.
Patterns:
Bobbins: 18 pairs (14 white, 1 red, 1 yellow, 1 blue, 1 green)
Style: Torchon
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
twist single pair
Details:
fan headside (various)
Torchon ground (grey + various)
rose ground (pink)
ground diamond (dark grey)
Winkie pin twisted footside (green and various)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
The rose ground filling one of the areas surrounded by coloured pairs is conventional, but may be worked without pins, which gives a different effect. See the introduction for how Panama lace may be worked. I give the pin holes because that is how I would work it!
There are tiny ground diamonds, and larger ones. These are not conventional diamonds. They are merely the pairs from one side crossing over the pairs from the other using cloth stitch. Remember to twist all pairs as they leave the diamond. This is an odd type of diamond - I don't know anywhere that uses it.
Each fan has white passives, a coloured pair, which colours the fan, and a different coloured edge pair. The edge pair from one fan becomes the worker pair of another.
The coloured pairs travel through the pattern as part of the Torchon ground or as either the edge pair or the passive pair in the footside. I've described the footside as Winkie pin twisted footside, but that is not strictly accurate. If the pair coming in is white, then it 'bounces off' the footside in the normal Winkie pin way. If it is coloured, then it swaps surreptitiously with either the passive or the edge pair. It is this swapping over which gets the correct coloured pair to the correct fan. Look at the pattern, and choose the correct pair to go in the correct direction, doing the right thing, or the colours just won't work!
© Jo Edkins 2017 - return to lace index