Pattern:
Bobbins: 9 pairs + 2 gimps
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch and twist
twist
cloth stitch
picot
gimp (pink)
plait (blue)
Details:
butterfly
Bucks Point net (grey)
honeycomb (green)
trail headside (blue)
picot headside (grey) - on other edge
cloth stitch (red)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
Instead of a footside, the edge on the right has picots round the pins.
The antennae of the butterflies are a different colour to the rest of the workers (the gimps are different again, of course). They are the passives in the trail headside (without picots) until near the body of the butterfly. Then they are plaited to reach the head. The pin in the middle of this part is just to shape the antennae. The pin doesn't go between the pairs, instead the plait goes outside it. When these pairs reach the head of the butterfly, then one pair becomes the worker pair of the cloth stitch making up the body. This is only two rows of cloth stitch.
The gimps surround the wings of the butterfly. The trickiest part is between the wings. The gimp passes through a pair doing honeycomb, round a pin, then back through the same pair. That gimp also needs to be included as part of the cloth stitch making the body. The other gimp also has to be included as part of the body, but here it passes through two pairs to provide the top curve of the top wing.
The other pairs do the Bucks Point net and the honeycomb. Before entering the cloth stitch of the body, all relevant pairs need to do honeycomb stitches along the top of the body. Once the cloth stitch is over, they also need to do honeycomb stitches afterwards as well.
Close up of the lace, so you can see the working in more detail
© Jo Edkins 2019 - return to lace index