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Working: half stitch pin
This is also known as lattice stitch.
Since half stitch is involved, the pairs of bobbins get split up.
If you work this on a Bucks Point grid, it will give a star-like pattern.
The pattern is similar to Bucks Point net. The pattern's instructions should explain which is being used.
You may be able to work this without pins at all, except at the edges to position the threads. After all, when you work half-stitch diamonds, you do not need internal pins!
This raises the point, what is the difference between this and solid half stitch?
Solid half stitch above and half stitch ground below. See pattern 78.
There are less stitches in half stitch ground, so it looks sparser. If you have a 4 x 4 solid diamond, it has 49 stitches, but an equivalent size of ground only has 16 stitches. Also while both have diagonal threads, the solid area has horizontal threads, and the ground has vertical threads.
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This shows how one thread of each pair of colours moves diagonally and the other thread moves downwards, from one pin to the next.
© Jo Edkins 2016 - return to lace index
