This introduces a cloth zigzag.
It is possible to do this lace using a single colour, and it would still look striking. But the colours do make it more obvious what's going on. And anyway, with colours, I think it looks like flowers and leaves!
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Bobbins: 12 pairs (1 green, 2 flower colour, 9 background)
Style: Torchon
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch and twist
cloth stitch
Details:
Torchon ground (grey)
twisted footside (grey)
zigzag (green)
scallop headside (blue with pink workers)
Description:
You start with Torchon ground and twisted footside. Work all the pin holes above the zigzag, but don't use the pinholes actually on the edge. Click here to see how to do the zigzag. You can only do a bit of the zigzag, until the first bend. (Shall we call that the zig?) Then do the scallop headside.
Once the scallop is finished, you can do the "zag" of the zigzag, then a bit of Torchon ground and footside. Then the "zig", and then onto the next scallop.
This pattern has 3 parts, the scallop, the zigzag and the Torchon ground with its footside. Various pairs move from the scallop, through the zigzag, to the ground, and then back again. Before starting the scallop, it is important that you have enough pairs to work it. That is: 2 pairs at the edge, and 4 pairs coming from the zigzag. Similarly, when working the Torchon ground, you start with 2 pairs in the footside, and 4 pairs coming from the zigzag. If you have too few (or too many!) pairs, then you got the zigzag wrong.
Zigzags can be confusing, because every row seems to have different numbers of passives. As a general rule, after each row, check to see if a pair leaves the zigzag, and if another pair joins. There will usually be one of each. However, at the point, a pair joins then immediately leaves, while on the inside opposite the point, no pair joins or leaves. Also, if you look at the close up photo below, you can see that the "zig" is thicker than the "zag" (or possibly the other way round), which means that there are more passives in it. All this sounds confusing! Look at the pattern, and check that every line drawn on it corresponds to a pair joining or leaving the zigzag. If they do, then you should be OK. Possibly...
Close up of the lace, so you can see the working in more detail
© Jo Edkins 2018 - return to lace index