Backfill: Pattern 2, Cotton

Note: This post originally appeared in September, 2015.  I'm backfilling missing posts from mu hard copy project documentation.  The content of the post has not been altered from the original.  - AR/JC

Separating the first section from the next to delineate where I start to experiment

I did a little thread diagram to try and show what I was attempting.  I had no historical evidence to back up this choice – I just wanted to see if the end result would look better.  I sent a copy of this to the local lacemaking laurel, whose brain I was picking, to get her thoughts.  Answer I got back was to try it.  ‘Just play’.

The shape is getting better, but can still improve. This is a good construction shot showing the altered picot – taking bobbins from the upper curve instead of from the bottom leg

Shape 1 vs. Shape 2 Teardrop looks better on version 2.

Things I don’t like about this picot style: leaving the inner bobbin pair alone, while the outer pair twists around the pin leaves an unsightly gap when the pins are removed.
I decided to re-run the cotton piece using demonstrating with the double picot style I used exclusively on pattern 1.  I also threw in a simple loop picot to experiment, to see if I liked the difference.

Re-run of cotton sample - simple loop picot to the left; double twisted picot to the right.

Both cotton samples. The top piece shows the twisted picot style, experiments in bobbin placement for the teardrop shape. The bottom piece shows the simple loop picot and double twisted picot with consistent placement of the bobbins for the teardrop shape.