Pattern 60 is similar to this, as a simple strip.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 19 pairs (2 passive pairs dark green, 17 mid green)
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch and twist
twist
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
picot
Details:
cloth zigzags (red)
honeycomb (green)
trail (grey)
picots and passives headside (grey)
hexagonal mat
how to finish
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace. There is only one headside, but it combines a trail (which varies the number of passives) with picots, so you may need to read both explanations!
The start is along a diagonal, so one pair starts at each pin, and two at the edge. Above, I have marked the position of the false pins.
Click here for how to work a hexagonal mat. Click here for how to finish a mat.
The cloth zigzags have an extra pinhole at the point. If you start working the zigzags to the right, then this extra hole will keep both sides of the leaves the same width. You can ignore the extra hole if you prefer.
The passives in the headside are a darker green to the rest, to frame the lace. This is optional.
In England, in May, the cow parsley flowers. This is rather an ugly name for a beautiful flower. It's an umbellifer, with clusters of tiny white flowers in regular patterns, in a domed shape. An alternate name is Queen Anne's lace, so I couldn't resist trying to design lace featuring it. The mat shows the regular white flowers (which are holes in the lace) above a mess of leaves.
I have since been told that the proper Queen Anne's Lace is a wild carrot, see below:
© Jo Edkins 2017 - return to lace index