16. Snowflake Heart
Silver sparkle thread is used throughout this little snowflake heart design. Each pair of Gutermann Silver glitter poly thread is worked alongside a white cotton pair. This helps to reduce the risk of warping when the pins are removed from finished piece due to the elastic nature of some of the polyester/ metallic type threads.
The outer edge picots were made with two pairs around the pin. I used glass head pins because they are slightly thicker than my lace pins and make a better shape picot hole. The picots were made into the existing pinholes which meant I didn't need as many passives so I used white/glitter/white passives and started with a false picot to work in both directions. If you want to keep the full width border, simply place the picot pins a little bit outside of the existing pins. The workers are also a white/glitter pair combination
Each of the six snowflake points are sewed through the center sequin and thrown out when they reach the the opposite edge. It sometimes helps to push a crochet hook or similar through the sequin hole at the start just to widen it a little when using thicker, or more threads than usual.
The small legs are made using the trail to carry the threads along with the passives between making their windmill join with the longer legs. This join caa be made by swapping one pair from each plait, but be careful that there are still 2 sparkle and two white pairs per plait.
Picot dots are placed evenly along the plaits in the center filling, if you can't make them, simply miss them out. You can use thicker threads for the six main legs instead. Put in as many picots as you can but be careful that they are tensioned along the plait so the legs don't buckle when the pins are taken out.
A .pdf is available on my Lesley's Lace fb page under the Files tab
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