Hearts are similar to diamonds. These are cloth hearts. The red and blue below shows the different colours, rather than being different stitches.
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Bobbins: 12 pairs (one red pair, one blue pair, rest background colour)
Style: Torchon
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch and twist
cloth stitch
Details:
Torchon ground
twisted footside
heart
Description:
When hanging the pins, it is important that the pair of bobbins with red thread, and the pair with blue thread, are hung from the correct pin. That is why most of the pins at the start say '2', because both pairs are the same colour, but one pin says "1 1" in grey and red and the other "1 1" in grey and blue, to show what to hang where.
The twisted footside and the Torchon ground is the same as previous patterns, but you can see that the path of the blue and red threads are marked on the pattern. This includes short spells along the footside. Work the stitches as described, and the threads should follow these paths.
Click here to see how to work a heart, which includes an animation, that you can repeat, or step through. It is similar to a diamond, except that you work the first half, then a bit of the surrounding ground, before you are able to do the second half. The animation goes into more details.
The red and blue threads are the workers for the hearts, and so they will use more thread than the rest of the pairs in this pattern. For a short piece of thread, this does not matter, but if you intend to make a long piece of lace with this pattern, it would be a good idea to wind more thread on the red and blue thread bobbins than the others. If you do not, you risk running out.
In the photos, I have started and ended the lace by taking an edge pair, and working through all other pairs with cloth stitch, then back again. This gives a firm start to the lace. But you don't have to do this!
If you wish, you can work this all the same colour, rather than high-lighting the hearts with different colours.
A larger scale photo so you can see the detail.
© Jo Edkins 2016 - return to lace index