See pattern 431, which has several different types of scallop.
A scallop is a common Torchon headside made of cloth stitch and twist. It has a top half and a bottom half, separated by a "stem" in the middle, where the worker pair workes across all the passive pairs. This scallop is made exactly the same, except there is no stem in the middle.
Click here for an animation of how to make a scallop. I suggest that you do some conventional scallops before trying this variant.
Pattern for this type of scallop:
Diagram showing where the worker pair goes.
The first row takes the worker pair across all pairs in the scallop. Then the lace side pair gets dropped, and a shorter row worked, until there are only two passives in a row. This is half way. The rows then get longer and longer, until the row contains all the passive pairs in the scallop again. That is the final row. I suggest that the first row and the last row have pins in the middle of each stitch, to help shape the scallop, but that is up to you.
© Jo Edkins 2019 - return to lace index