This pattern will only work with the right sized sticks. Please read Introduction to making a fan.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 26 pairs + 2 pairs of gold for the gimps
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
half stitch and twist
twist pair
gimp (pink)
overhand knot
gimp
Details:
solid cloth stitch (red)
Bucks Point net (grey)
Bucks Point honeycomb (grey)
diamond (red)
making a fan
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
The left two pairs and the right two pairs are white. The rest use a gleamy thread. Any gimps are a pair of gold threads (rather than a single gimp). This was to provide a good contrast to the gleamy threads, but not to have too thick a thread, which might affect the folding up of the fan.
The piece is started with two rows of cloth stitch, using a white pair, and is finished the same way. With the strips of cloth stitch down the sides, this frames each panel. The side cloth stitch strips also help with gluing the panel onto the stitcks. The panel is finished off with overhand knots.
One of the gold pairs which make the gimps is used as the workers for the diamond in the centre (which, of course, turns it gold). The other gold pair is the central passive pair of the diamond. Since these gold pairs are supposed to be gimps, acting outside the normal grid, this means that there are more passives than normal in the diamond. This does not matter.
© Jo Edkins 2017 - return to lace index