This is connected to pattern 300.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 25 pairs + 1 gimp
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch and twist
twist
cloth stitch
half stitch
cloth stitch and twist
picot
gimp
twist pair
Details:
Bucks Point net (grey)
star and dot ground (dark grey and green)
cloth footside (grey)
trail (red)
picots and passives headside (grey and red)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
Headside is picots and passives headside with variable passives, like a trail. The number of passives varies from one to three.
The green areas are not normal honeycomb (hence the name of this pattern!) It is what I call 'star and dot' ground. Honeycomb is a pattern of hexagons and triangles. These do make stars (see pattern 106 which uses kat stitch rather than honeycomb, but the pattern is the same). However, the stars disappear into each other and can be hard to detect. I saw a ground which seemed to separate the stars by inserting other stitches. That was on a Torchon grid, so the stars were not apparent. I've moved it to a Bucks Point grid. I'm not too sure that the stars show that well, even with the extra stitches! In a way, what is most interesting thing about this pattern is the shape made by the gimp.
The headside is a trail, picking up extra pairs or discarding them according to the requirements of the pattern. There are four passive pairs at the narrowest part of the lace (so five pairs in all, including the worker pair), and two passive pairs at the widest part. You use the same worker pair throughout the trail. This worker pair also makes all the picots, so wind lots of thread on these bobbins! (If you run out of thread, you can surreptitiously swap one of the passive pairs with the workers.) The worker pair usually makes a picot at the edge, crosses the passive pairs, round a pin by the inside of the trail, then crosses back again for the next picot. However, something different happens in the part of the headside between the 'lumps'. Here I suggest that you don't do a picot every time at the edge, to stop making more picots in this dip, and less in the others. In the diagram below, the dip inside the 'lump' is on the left, and the dip between the 'lumps' on the right:
Where you don't do a picot at the edge, just take the worker pair round a pin. Between the 'lumps' is also different because the worker pair makes a stitch with a pair coming in from the lace which does not join the trail. This is a half stitch and twist, so the worker pair returns to the trail, while the other pair crosses the gimp to return to the Bucks Point net.
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