Pattern:
Bobbins: 22 pairs + 4 gimps
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch and twist
twist
cloth stitch
half stitch
cloth stitch and twist
picot
gimp
twist pair
Details:
Bucks Point net (grey)
flower (green and red)
bead (green)
cloth diamond (red)
half stitch diamond (blue)
picots and passives headside (grey)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
There are four gimps, which need a certain amount of care. They all start at the gimp pin (just above the first bead). Since there are four, you could wind two pairs of bobbins with gimp thread and hang them. For the first bead, two gimps go to the left and two to the right. Treat two gimps together as if they are a single gimp - all other threads either go over both or under both, and when you twist these thread pairs after the gimp stitch, it will squash the two gimps together, making them (almost) look like one.
For beads round the flower, two gimps framing the beads to the left, and the other two frame the right beads. Each gimp goes either to the left or right of the bead, and the two framing gimps cross over between beads. Sometimes the beads are next to each other at such an angle that the two gimps need to lie side by side for a bit, and then they are treated as if they are a single gimp - threads going over (or under) both, and subsequent twists squashing them together.
At the end of the flower, the four gimps come together again, the same as they did for the first bead. And so on.
Finish off all the gimps after the last bead (by overlapping them for as much as the last row as you can). This makes all four gimps together, which is a little bulky, but works.
This pattern is a good practise in handing lots of gimps! It is an attractive pattern as well, I think. The flower surrounded by beads always looks good. A contrasting gimp colour to the other threads also looks good.
© Jo Edkins 2016 - return to lace index