This is a wiggly lace design. Click here for other wiggly patterns.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 11 pairs (2 blue pairs, 9 red pairs)
Style: Torchon
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
twist single pair (grey)
Details:
cloth fan headside (red)
rose ground (green)
how to work wiggly lace
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
This was my first attempt at making wiggly lace. It is simple, as I tried to work out what is happening.
The worker pairs for the fans are a different colour to high-light them. Don't try to make the edge pair that colour as well! That won't work with this pattern
Start working the lace - it's a very simple pattern - and continue until you get to the dark grey line. For my version, I made the worker pairs for the headsides on both sides blue, and the rest of the bobbins brownish red. This means that the two pairs of worker bobbins need a lot more thread wound onto them, of course. There is one less hole on the edge than the inside of the fan, so you should always make the first line of the fan from the point to the inside to the fan, and the second line from the inside to the edge of the fan. This means that the blue worker pair stay as the worker for the next fan without any extra stiches! You do need to make sure that one fan is worked before the other, as one pair of threads is used for both, at their points.
Once you get to the dark grey line, make sure that you have worked all stitches before the line. Then turn the pillow so the next bit of pattern is now downwards. Carry on working. There are a couple of points to notice about crossing the dark grey line. At the outer edge (where two fans are side by side), there will be two pairs to go from one pin to the next. You could do a little plait, if you want, to carry it over the short distance. If your workers are different colours, then make sure that the worker pair end up as the right colour. At the other edge, the inside of the bend as it were, there is only one pair to go from pin to pin - the worker pair. All of the passives have left the fan by this point. This may not be what you're used to when going from one fan to the next, and I admit that there was a fair amount of undoing and redoing before I worked it out myself! The last passive pair will return to the fan almost immediately, after it's worked a rose ground or two. The other point is more conventional. You do NOT work the entire block of 8 rose ground stitches at the same time. You work the first 4, then take the threads into a fan headside, across to the next door fan headside, and then the threads are available for the second half of the black, the remaining 4 rose ground stitches.
Once you reach the next dark grey line, make sure that all stitches are worked up to the line, and turn your pillow back to the original line.
© Jo Edkins 2016 - return to lace index