See pattern 54, which has several different types of scallop.
A scallop is a common Torchon headside made of cloth stitch and twist. A cloth scallop is exactly the same, only worked in cloth stitch.
Click here for an animation of how to make a scallop. I suggest that you do some conventional scallops (using cloth stitch and twist) before trying this variant.
When working a cloth scallop, the main difference is the treatment of the edge pins. For a conventional scallop, I suggest that the first (and last) row of the scallop is worked as half stitch, pin, half stitch rather than cloth stich and twist (without a pin). Two half stitches are in fact exactly the same as cloth stich and twist, so it can be considered as a "cloth stich and twist with a pin in the middle"! The point of this is to frame the scallop securely, as the pairs entering (or leaving) the scallop come from other parts of the lace, and these edge pins make sure the threads enter the scallop at the right angle. However, for a cloth scallop, you cannot do the same as two half stitches do not make a cloth stitch.
There are several possibilities. The easiest is to leave these pins out altogether! Or you can put the pin in the middle of the cloth stitch, as cross, twist both, pin, cross. The last method is to put the pin under the pair before it enters the scallop at all (or to put the pin between the threads of the pair, again before it enters the scallop.
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