This could be used as a Christmas tree decoration. Click here for more Christmas decorations.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 17 pairs (15 pale blue, 2 glow-in-the-dark)
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
twist pair
Details:
Bucks Point net (grey)
cloth strip (red and blue)
footside without passives (grey)
hexagonal mat
how to finish
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace. The workers in the strips are glow-in-the-dark threads. The red areas are conventional strips. The blue areas have one of the glow in the dark pairs work to the middle, then back to the edge through all pairs. There are six rows of this (back and forth counting as two rows), and the worker pair ends where it starts relative to the other pairs. Most of the pinholes of the blue area do not belong to these six holes. Instead, they belong to the normal working of the sixth before or after, either the net, or the start of end of the strips.
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 start.
Click here for how to finish an edge. Remember to leave the first two rows of pins in the pattern in place, and push them up to their heads. Remove other pins to reuse at the end as usual. You will find that if you don't, the threads will catch on the pins as you turn the pillow.
You turn the pillow after each sixth.
Click here for how to work a hexagonal mat. Click here for how to finish a mat.
Here is the effect in the dark:
© Jo Edkins 2018 - return to lace index