21 Pawprint Heart
I only managed to make the first draft of this little heart before I ran out of time. See my Blog for updates. I set myself what I thought was a realistic time schedule to make one heart a day. This hadn't taked into account making the videos, blog posts, pattern sheets, rewinding bobbins and posting to facebook. I will post a better version, but by that time, this one will have been shared and folks won't know that I can make a better pawprint!
The plaits are more suited to the 6cm size than the 4cm size where they bunched up too much. I would use single threads, and add extra threads for the ovals at the pin while working them.
I worked from left to right, starting the left oval and, where it needed to make a kiss stitch with the next one, I paused the first one and started the second and so on. The worker was used to connect to the outside ovals by twisting a few times, being taken into the oval worker at the pin, then returning to the edge.
I would have like to try a fluffy yarn on the outside of the edge to give this little heart a fluffy look. Maybe an eyelash yarn, or tinsel yarn would have worked? I will add the photo to this post when I have made one.
Please do experiment with your own ideas on these patterns, and also please post your results, whatever they are, on my Facebook page, I love to see how other lacemakers alter and improve these little offerings!
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