Pattern 234 is similar to this, as a mat.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 17 pairs
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch and twist
twist
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
picot
Details:
cloth footside (grey)
zigzags (red)
honeycomb (blue)
trail (red)
picots and passives headside (grey)
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!
In England, in May, the cow parsley flowers by the side of the country roads. 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 a lace featuring it. There are the regular white flowers (which are holes in the lace) above a mess of leaves. I must admit that all those leaves are quite challenging. I had to undo bits of the lace several times!
I have since been told that the proper Queen Anne's Lace is a wild carrot rather than cow parsley. See below:
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