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Bobbins: 12 pairs
Style: Torchon
Stitches:
twist pair
half stitch
cloth stitch and twist
Details:
Torchon ground (grey)
rose ground (pink)
fan headside (red)
Description: This is a similar pattern to Scallops and roses with fans instead of scallops.
Rose ground is a more complicated ground than Torchon ground or double Torchon ground. Each unit of rose ground needs four pairs (rather than two) and four stitches (rather than one). This sounds involved, and the complete explanation can sound long-winded, but it's not too bad, once you work out what is going on. Each unit (shall we call it a rose?) has four pins, which are conventional Torchon ground - that is: half stitch, pin, half stitch. However, at the start of the rose, you do two cross-overs. The left two pairs are worked in a cloth stitch and twist (without any pin), so are the two right pairs. At the end of the rose, you do two more cross-overs. This frames the rose. One complication is that once you have done the cross-overs at the end of a rose, you don't have to do them again at the start of the next, because they've already crossed! The lines on the pattern show where the pairs should go. The most common mistake in rose ground is to leave out a cross-over. I have done that several times!
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